Trauma Dissolution Procedure

This powerful procedure is powerful because it uses the four basic powers of intelligence -- attention, intention, memory, and imagination -- in so thoroughgoing a way.

The Trauma Dissolution Procedure is not a mental-analytical procedure, nor does it require a distinct memory or a "right answer" to surface at each step. The mere reading (or statement) of the words of instruction to oneself, at each step, calls up whatever feeling (not mental meaning) resides in subconscious memory (as in a Rorschach test); filling-out the content with each of the four faculties of intelligence in the combinations given surfaces the material and provokes conscious integration and some measure of release. You are likely to remember all kinds of buried things, but that is not a requirement for effectiveness, only a secondary sign that the procedure is working.

Specifically refrain from filtering for "correctness"; take what comes (or the absence of anything coming up) and move to the next step, even if it seems wrong. This guideline applies particularly to the three-part steps, which defy the conceptual mind. Do not cut corners; be deliberate.

You may find it difficult, at some point, to keep your mind on the instructions. This difficulty is a sign of the intended dissolution caused by this procedure.

Use of The Gold Key Release, where indicated, cleans things up, further.

My experience is that more-or-less intense "burn-off" in the day or days that follow is likely, as untouched content surfaces, keenly felt, in the context of release that the procedure sets up. In my own experience of doing the procedure on my own childhood, the burn-off lasted for about six days. It was intense, but the change that followed has been very substantial and lasting, to this day.

No assessment of the value of this procedure is valid without having gone through it, at least once.

DEFINITIONS:

• cringing: shrinking into oneself, withdrawal, avoidance
• incapacitation: "losing your head", immobilization, losing your capacities
• relief: a feeling of having come back to life
• wholesomeness: feeling whole; well-being; having all ones faculties; "playing with a full deck"

STEPS

1. Set-Up Procedure: Cringing
2. Set-Up Procedure: Incapacitation
3. Set-Up Procedure: Trauma Incident/Person
4. The Gold Key Release on Resultant Feeling
5. Set-Up Procedure: Relief
6. Set-Up Procedure: Wholesomeness
7. Set-Up Procedure: Trauma Incident/Person
8. The Gold Key Release on Resultant Feeling
9. Polishing Alternations
10. Crystal Crown Procedure

1. Cringing

1. Cringing, attended to
2. Cringing, remembered
3. Remembering cringing, attended to
4. Attending to cringing, remembered
5. Cringing, remembered
6. Cringing, intended
7. Intending cringing, remembered
8. Remembering cringing, intended
9. Cringing, intended
10. Cringing, imagined
11. Imagining cringing, intended
12. Intending cringing, imagined
13. Cringing, imagined
14. Cringing, attended to
15. Attending to cringing, imagined
16. Imagining cringing, attended to
17. Cringing, attended to
18. Cringing, intended
19. Intending cringing, attended to
20. Attending to cringing, intended
21. Intending cringing, attended to, intended
22. Attending to cringing, intended, attended to
23. Cringing, remembered
24. Cringing, imagined
25. Imagining cringing, remembered
26. Remembering cringing, imagined
27. Imagining cringing, remembered, imagined
28. Remembering cringing, imagined, remembered

2.  Incapacitation

1. Incapacitation, attended to
2. Incapacitation, remembered
3. Remembering Incapacitation, attended to
4. Attending to Incapacitation, remembered
5. Incapacitation, remembered
6. Incapacitation, intended
7. Intending Incapacitation, remembered
8. Remembering Incapacitation, intended
9. Incapacitation, intended
10. Incapacitation, imagined
11. Imagining Incapacitation, intended
12. Intending Incapacitation, imagined
13. Incapacitation, imagined
14. Incapacitation, attended to
15. Attending to Incapacitation, imagined
16. Imagining Incapacitation, attended to
17. Incapacitation, attended to
18. Incapacitation, intended
19. Intending Incapacitation, attended to
20. Attending to Incapacitation, intended
21. Intending Incapacitation, attended to, intended
22. Attending to Incapacitation, intended, attended to
23. Incapacitation, remembered
24. Incapacitation, imagined
25. Imagining Incapacitation, remembered
26. Remembering Incapacitation, imagined
27. Imagining Incapacitation, remembered, imagined
28. Remembering Incapacitation, imagined, remembered

3. Trauma Incident/Person
(Replace "[ . . . ]", below, with your item.)

1. [ . . . ], attended to
2. [ . . . ], remembered
3. Remembering [ . . . ], attended to
4. Attending to [ . . . ], remembered
5. [ . . . ], remembered
6. [ . . . ], intended
7. Intending [ . . . ], remembered
8. Remembering [ . . . ], intended
9. [ . . . ], intended
10. [ . . . ], imagined
11. Imagining [ . . . ], intended
12. Intending [ . . . ], imagined
13. [ . . . ], imagined
14. [ . . . ], attended to
15. Attending to [ . . . ], imagined
16. Imagining [ . . . ], attended to
17. [ . . . ], attended to
18. [ . . . ], intended
19. Intending [ . . . ], attended to
20. Attending to [ . . . ], intended
21. Intending [ . . . ], attended to, intended
22. Attending to [ . . . ], intended, attended to
23. [ . . . ], remembered
24. [ . . . ], imagined
25. Imagining [ . . . ], remembered
26. Remembering [ . . . ], imagined
27. Imagining [ . . . ], remembered, imagined
28. Remembering [ . . . ], imagined, remembered

4. Run The Gold Key Release on the feeling left after 1-3, above.

5. Relief

1. Attending to Relief
2. Imagining Relief
3. Imagining Attending to Relief
4. Attending to Imagining Relief
5. Imagining Relief
6. Intending Relief
7. Intending Imagining Relief
8. Imagining Intending Relief
9. Intending Relief
10. Remembering Relief
11. Remembering Intending Relief
12. Intending Remembering Relief
13. Remembering Relief
14. Attending to Relief
15. Attending to Remembering Relief
16. Remembering Attending to Relief
17. Attending to Relief
18. Intending Relief
19. Intending Attending to Relief
20. Attending to Intending Relief
21. Intending Attending to Intending Relief
22. Attending to Intending Attending to Relief
23. Imagining Relief
24. Remembering Relief
25. Remembering Imagining Relief
26. Imagining Remembering Relief
27. Remembering Imagining Remembering Relief
28. Imagining Remembering Imagining Relief

6. Wholesomeness

1. Attending to Wholesomeness
2. Imagining Wholesomeness
3. Imagining Attending to Wholesomeness
4. Attending to Imagining Wholesomeness
5. Imagining Wholesomeness
6. Intending Wholesomeness
7. Intending Imagining Wholesomeness
8. Imagining Intending Wholesomeness
9. Intending Wholesomeness
10. Remembering Wholesomeness
11. Remembering Intending Wholesomeness
12. Intending Remembering Wholesomeness
13. Remembering Wholesomeness
14. Attending to Wholesomeness
15. Attending to Remembering Wholesomeness
16. Remembering Attending to Wholesomeness
17. Attending to Wholesomeness
18. Intending Wholesomeness
19. Intending Attending to Wholesomeness
20. Attending to Intending Wholesomeness
21. Intending Attending to Intending Wholesomeness
22. Attending to Intending Attending to Wholesomeness
23. Imagining Wholesomeness
24. Remembering Wholesomeness
25. Remembering Imagining Wholesomeness
26. Imagining Remembering Wholesomeness
27. Remembering Imagining Remembering Wholesomeness
28. Imagining Remembering Imagining Wholesomeness

7. Trauma Incident/Person Set-Up Procedure
(Replace "[ . . . ]", below, with your item.)

You will find that the preceding steps have prepared you, in this step, to generate a wholesome experience of how the traumatic incident should or might have gone.

1. Attending to [ . . . ]
2. Imagining [ . . . ]
3. Imagining Attending to [ . . . ]
4. Attending to Imagining [ . . . ]
5. Imagining [ . . . ]
6. Intending [ . . . ]
7. Intending Imagining [ . . . ]
8. Imagining Intending [ . . . ]
9. Intending [ . . . ]
10. Remembering [ . . . ]
11. Remembering Intending [ . . . ]
12. Intending Remembering [ . . . ]
13. Remembering [ . . . ]
14. Attending to [ . . . ]
15. Attending to Remembering [ . . . ]
16. Remembering Attending to [ . . . ]
17. Attending to [ . . . ]
18. Intending [ . . . ]
19. Intending Attending to [ . . . ]
20. Attending to Intending [ . . . ]
21. Intending Attending to Intending [ . . . ]
22. Attending to Intending Attending to [ . . . ]
23. Imagining [ . . . ]
24. Remembering [ . . . ]
25. Remembering Imagining [ . . . ]
26. Imagining Remembering [ . . . ]
27. Remembering Imagining Remembering [ . . . ]
28. Imagining Remembering Imagining [ . . . ]

8. Run The Gold Key Release on the feeling left after 5-7, above.

9. Polishing Alternations (optional, but try, once)

Refusing refusing [ . . . ]
Intending intending [ . . . ]

Refusing intending [ . . . ]
Intending refusing [ . . . ]

I advise a Crystal Crown Procedure as final polishing step.

COMMENTARY ON THE THEORY OF TRAUMA and THIS PROCEDURE

The theory of trauma advanced by Bessel van der Kolk in The Body Keeps the Score, holds that trauma entails the formation of memories that are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain without corresponding organization ordinarily provided by the left hemisphere. Thus, memories exist without context or the mental organization that would allow them to be remembered, processed, and intelligently integrated. They exist as dissociated fragments that influence life from a hidden place, occasionally surfacing in an elusive way.

What is missing, in that situation, is integrity among the four faculties of intelligence -- attention, intention, memory, and imagination (expectation). One or more are suppressed or incapacitated in the mood of the cringe response. In addition, the sense of healthy function has been lost in a kind of amnesia that corresponds to the sensory-motor amnesia (SMA) described by Thomas Hanna in his book, Somatics | ReAwakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health; I have titled this condition, Attentional-Intentional Amnesia. This condition might be termed, "incapacitation".

Thus, this procedure covers the bases of transformation of trauma, from cringing and incapacitation to relief and wholesomeness.

What's left, at this point, is to test it, in yourself.

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