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.OK, that's the same choice point as the congruent "I don't know"that we talked about earlier.Ask her to guess, make it up, lie, fantasize;it doesn't matter.Actually, age regression is a very easy phenomenon.We said "Goback through time." She had very little conscious idea what we meantby that, but she responded quite easily to it.Man: What specifically were you seeing on her face?The same response that she originally demonstrated when we askedher about the feelings of the phobia.I watched her age regress until Isaw a very intense example of it.There was a patch of yellow on hercheek.There was whiteness around the eyes and the side of the face.There was some kind of scrunching of her chin.There was an increasein moisture on her skin, especially on the bridge of her nose.When thatbecame intensified, I said "Now look at an image, that image there."If you tell people to go back through time and they frown, that's alsoa cue.And you might try something tricky like saying "Well, goforward in time." "Go through time, jump back in aroundtime." Anything.It doesn't matter.The specific words you use arewholly irrelevant as long as you get the response you want.Another way to think about it is that everybody a phobia knowsthe feelings of the phobia.They have a fragment of the experience, sothey can get the rest by overlap.How do you find your car keys whenyou want to go to the store and you don't know where they are?Woman: I start feeling around through my pockets.Man: I go through the house and look.Man: I search my mind, going back to try to visualize where theyare. 122Woman: I shake my purse so I can hear them.OK.If all else fails, you can go back to the front door and walk inagain.Now, if you think about the responses we just got, those includethe three main representational systems.If you have any fragment ofany experience, you can have it all by overlap.She had the feelingshere.The feelings, once anchored, stabilized her state of consciousness.Everything that she accessed as she closed her eyes and went back inher personal history had that set of feelings in common, guaranteeingthat whatever picture she selected would be in the class called phobicexperiences.I used the same principle to help her have a complete focused visualimage of herself at a younger age.At first she had only a picture ofherself, but no context.I ask her what color shoes she is wearing.Ipresuppose that she can see her feet and her shoes, and that she can seecolors.She accepts the presupposition; she says Since she cansee the shoes, then obviously, can see what they are ontop of, the surface she's standing on.I request that.When she gets thesurface, it blends into walls and into trees, or whatever the rest of theimage was.It's a very easy overlap, or intersection, technique thatallows me to assist her in recovering the image by constructing portionsof it, a little at a time.Man: What's the difference between this technique and systematicdesensitization?About six months.That's the major difference, which is a veryexpensive difference.My understanding is that it's straight condition-ing.We have simply associated a new set of feelings, namelycompetence and strength, with the auditory and visualThere is another very important difference.We are picking a specificset of feelings and associating it, instead of just trying to wipe out theset that is there.The people that I've observed do desensitization areusually trying to eliminate a certain kind of behavior rather thanreplacing it with something which is a positive response.They are thekind of people who answer "Not bad" when you ask "How are youfeeling?"We claim that every piece of behavior has a positive function.It's thebest choice a person has in context.It was far better for Tammy to bephobic about bridges than it was to have no program at all.If you dosystematic desensitization, and you don't replace the "negative"behavioral pattern with something positive, it takes a long timebecause the person will fight.It's their only That's why it takes 123six months, because a person has to randomly put something else in itsplace.Man: There is a replacement, though, with relaxation.Sometimes it's done that way, but relaxation is not the resource thateveryone is going to need in a phobic situation.If you're driving acrossa bridge, you don't want to become relaxed suddenly.If somebody is ina situation in which they need to cope and you give them feelings ofrelaxation, they may not cope! There may be real, genuine dangers inthat situation, so one of two things will happen: either the symptomwill come back later because it's protective, or the person will get hurt.We got a very strong anchor for confidence and for the resources thatshe has as an adult woman.We used that; we did not use relaxation.She was very alert during this process.Desensitization was animportant step, in that people were able to cure phobias with it.I thinkthat it just needs to be dressed up a little bit.Instead of using relaxationand associating it with everything, try associating other things besidesrelaxation.There are much more powerful resources in people.There is nothing that we have offered you so far, nor is thereanything we will offer you during the rest of this seminar or in anadvanced workshop, that isn't already in someone's behaviorsomewhere.What we've done as modelers is to figure out what theessential elements are, and what is unnecessary.Every therapy hasdissociation.Every therapy has the kinds of sorting techniques we'reusing here, whether it's chairs or knee anchors or words.What is usefulto have in every therapy is some way of doing all that: some way ofsorting, some way of dissociating, some way of integrating.The namesyou use are wholly irrelevant, and most are alsoirrelevant.There's really nothing that different between what we didand what gestalt people do by taking people back through time.TApeople do a process called They are all very, very similar.We looked at all those different processes and tried to find out whatthe essential elements were, and what was extra and unnecessary.Thenwe streamlined it to try to find something that works systematically.Idon't think there's anything wrong with desensitization, except thatsometimes it doesn't work.That's because there are a lot of things thatare extra, and some things that are essential are not always there.Somepeople who do desensitization also add the necessary resourcesunconsciously.But when they teach somebody else to do it, they don'tteach that, because it's not in their consciousness.Our function asmodelers is to sort those things out. 124The other thing is that I don't know what kind of desensitization youare referring to specifically.Some use meters and machines.I am a farmore sophisticated mechanism than any set of machines.Iuse really sophisticated sensory apparatus and internal responses as away of amplifying or diminishing certain parts of the response that Iam receiving.That's part of what makes one-trial learning possible inthe kind of work we've been doing here with anchoring.Man: What if a client is unable to use visual imagery?It is not essential that people visualize to be able to do the phobiaprocess, because the same formal pattern can be done auditorily orThe pattern of this technique does not requirevisualization.We wanted to use all systems as a demonstration.Wedon't need to do it with all systems.You could also first take a littletime to teach the person how to visualize, using overlap.Woman: Could you do this process without touching?Sure, you can use a tonal anchor or a visual anchor.You can do itwithout touching.However, I would recommend that you do it withtouching.Kinesthetics is an irresistible anchoring system.Whensomebody is touched, they feel it.When you make a visual sign atsomeone, they may look away or close their eyes [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]