A Theory and Treatment of Your Personality. Garry Flint
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memory of the trauma will further traumatize the Main Personality. It may think there will be more inner conflicts among parts or that the strong parts will not listen to wee baby parts. The next step is to help parts that have reasons for not wanting treatment. In Chapter 3, you will learn how to resolve these barriers.
The primary reasons for not wanting treatment
There are many reasons for not wanting treatment or for not wanting to join with the Main Personality. The rationale for removing these barriers will be presented in detail in Chapter 3. Except for pain, these objections are all beliefs held by the parts. One can bring about change in barriers by using the desire or need for more satisfaction or happiness and less pain as an incentive for agreeing to change and accepting the therapist’s explanations. Wanting more satisfaction and less pain is the primary incentive to get parts to communicate when they don’t want to talk to the therapist. I use this incentive to get parts to want treatment and to join with the Main Personality. It is interesting to note that the objective of getting more satisfaction and less pain is the apparent goal used by the Basic Neurostructure for assembling groups or collages of active memories to run the body.
Treating intense fear or pain
Treating pain can cause problems. After several years of being creative, with many ploys to safely treat massive pain associated with parts, I found a simple solution. This simple, easy treatment strategy works safely and, in most cases, painlessly, to treat the trauma memories of amnesic and dissociative parts as well as other trauma memories — even those with extreme pain. The subconscious orchestrates the treatment process and the trauma part cooperates by following directions. Treating extreme pain is done with a fixed rate of treatment. For example, if the Main Personality can just barely feel 100 units of pain, then the subconscious can treat five or fewer units of pain in each treatment. Then, the Main Personality would not feel any pain during the treatment. The subconscious can adjust the amount of pain treated (the treatment rate) in the treatment plan for each part until no parts on the Treatment Team are fearful. Planning treatment in this way both prevents the flooding of emotions by the trauma part being treated and the triggering and flooding of any other part into the Active Experience. All parts will be safe and usually feel no pain. However, one more precaution must be taken.
Since activating five units of pain destabilizes the trauma part, successive treatments could increasingly destabilize the part and cause flooding of emotions into the Active Experience. A destabilized trauma memory is like a word on the tip of your tongue — it’s ready to flood and become conscious. With a word on the tip of your tongue, you look for triggers to get the memory of the word to flood into your thoughts. With trauma memories, we look for ways to prevent the flooding. To prevent gradual destabilizing of trauma memories and eventual flooding, a planned rest period between each treatment allows the trauma part to relax or rest until it is stable before the next treatment. The rest period is adjustable and is in the treatment plan. This strategy using the treat-rest-treat-rest-treat-rest pattern effectively ensures the trauma part will not destabilize and flood emotions into the Active Experience during the treatment process.
Joining with the Main Personality
The treatment process gradually replaces all the painful emotional memories (connected with the trauma part) with neutral to positive emotions. After replacing the trauma pain and strengthening positive behaviors of the part with positive emotions, the treated part can join with the Main Personality. All memories appear to have unique neural structures to which memories associate or attach. Joining or integrating the trauma part and the Main Personality involves the parts exchanging memories with each other. In other words, the trauma part and Main Personality exchange memory associations until their neural structures have identical memories associated with them.
When the exchange of memories is complete, the Main Personality and the trauma part have identical memories and can both run the body with no conflict. The Main Personality and the trauma part continue to have their own unique neural structures. They each experience good and painful body sensations and emotions. They will experience less pain because, with their combined knowledge, they will be able to avoid pain more effectively. If someone was yelling at you and was about to hit you in the face, the combined knowledge of parts could lead you out of the situation and to avoid more intense pain. The structures will feel some negative emotions, but in most cases, the outside world causes the negative emotions, unless an active untreated part or a painful memory or behavior causes some pain. All parts would work together to get more satisfaction and to avoid pain. All joined parts will be in total agreement when running the body and there will be no conflicts.
Teaching the subconscious how to treat issues
When all the parts say they want the subconscious to learn how to treat trauma from the inside, you must ask a demanding question. The point of the question is to contact any parts that are uncomfortable or afraid about the subconscious learning how to treat trauma. Problem-Solving these fearful parts will eventually get all parts to want treatment. When there are no objections to teaching the subconscious the treatment procedure, the subconscious learns the treatment procedure in a brief metaphor. After giving the metaphor, you ask the subconscious to treat a previously identified simple phobia or belief.
Treating a test issue
Treating the test issue will assess whether the subconscious has learned how to diagnose and treat painful memories. The patient will usually feel the treatment process in his or her brain or feel the pain of the issue gradually decrease to zero or to a fitting level. Usually, patients feel both experiences. This experience proves to the person or reader that the subconscious now knows how to treat trauma and emotional pain.
The Treatment Process
Summary of the treatment process
A summary of the entire treatment process is presented in Figure 2-1. The content of the memory includes “the movie” consisting of sensory experiences and all other massive neural activity, such as perceptual distortion; organ, eye, and muscle activity; and drug effects, that took place during the trauma. The stars represent traumatic Emotion Memories attached to the neural activity in the content of the traumatic memory. We know this is true because, after treating the trauma, the content of the memory (the movie) usually remains unchanged — or expanded with more detail or accuracy. The subconscious orchestrates the treatment process using a treatment plan and safely replaces the negative emotions (the stars) with the present positive or neutral emotions (the hearts). During the treatment process, the patient notices the pain of the traumatic memory gradually decreasing. After the issue is treated, there is no pain associated with the traumatic memory, unless there is some protective value to having emotions — as, for example, with a height phobia.
More information is given to the subconscious to help the treatment process. This information involves fields that are allegedly useful during treatment. The subconscious is told that the use of the bioelectric field created by the heart and information gained through field receptors in skin cells can help the treatment process. In addition, there appears to be some primitive, positive “energy” available from the brainstem and a field from the pineal gland that help treatment. I don’t have any formal scientific evidence that these fields are useful in the treatment process. However, most of my patients’ subconsciouses confirm that these suggestions are useful in the treatment process.
Barriers and disorganization
Treating parts and other bothersome issues can now begin, but not without some potential barriers to treatment. Any extra activity in the Active Experience causes a barrier. There are a number of causes for the extra activity. Prebirth parts that respond instead of the subconscious, parts that demand treatment, or parts that want treatment at the same time can cause the activity. Often, parts can wake up and interfere with the therapist’s communication