Now, lead the client to associate into the screen where he blanked out the movie. He leaves the projection booth and enter his body in the

theater seat. Then have him enter the movie and associate into the image

that appears on the screen. Have him associate into the image of himself at the end of the movie after he survived the trauma and came out OK.

Guide them carefully and graciously. Use your language carefully.

8. Direct him in running the same movie backwards, in color and associated. “You have seen movies run backwards, haven't you?” Once you get a yes, make sure he associates into the movie, and invite him to see everything in color. “Now run that same movie backwards and real fast. Do it in one or two seconds.” You can anchor them to a sound as you say, “Whiiisssshhh.” By watching his eyes, you will know when he runs the movie backwards and how fast he did it.

9. Repeat the Process. The client now repeats steps seven through eight until the kinesthetic disappears. If you desire, they can repeat the process until the image disappears as well. Make sure he does not go to the end of the movie associated⎯ that will re-install the phobia or trauma. After he has run it backwards say, “Now, clear your screen. Put yourself back at the end of the movie. Go straight to the end of the movie.

Just imagine yourself at the end when you were OK. See what you saw and hear what you heard. Now, run the same movie backwards in color.

Repeat until it disappears.

Figure 7:1

Visual-Kinesthetic Dissociation Pattern (Fast Phobia Cure)

Watch the movie

Projection Booth

Watch Yourself

Movie Screen

Theater

10. Test & Future Pace by seeing if the client can access the phobic state. See if their non-verbal response matches his earlier state of the phobia or trauma. You may say, “Imagine walking into that situation right now.” Or, if you know the content, express it more explicitly. For a phobia of water, say, “Imagine walking out into a swimming pool into deeper and deeper water.” If any phobic response reveals itself, check out how accurately he followed the procedures and re-run the phobia cure making sure he follows the exact procedures.

Other Editing Tools

From the double dissociation position of the projection booth you can do more than rewind, you can do numerous other things to change your submodalities.

You can make other choices as well. From there you can program your brain to process the film in ways to give you a greater range of perspectives and reframes on the memory.

1. Associate into a resourceful memory. Recall the memory of a time in the past when you felt creative, confident, courageous, powerful, etc, from the past. See what you saw at that time. Now turn up the brightness on that memory. When you are fully associated into this resourceful state⎯

bring into that scene the negative stimulus (dog, spider) that you fear, or the traumatic memory, and merge the two memories until they integrate and you see yourself handling the situation with your resources.

2. Alter your sound track. Re-process the way you hear yourself and others talk. How would you want to make your voice different? Or the voice of someone else? What qualities would make the memory less intense? What voice would you like to have heard? Install an internal voice to help you through this situation.

3. Add tonal qualities to the soundtrack that make it better. Take an unpleasant memory and put some nice loud circus music behind it. Watch the movie of it again; how do you feel? Put circus music to other memories of anger and annoyance.

3. Apply your spiritual faith. If in your spiritual belief system you can bring in your heavenly Father, a loving heavenly Father, etc, then split your screen and see through the eye of your faith your Guardian Angel hovering over the earthly scene of your memory. See and hear your Angel caring and loving you. Perhaps you hear, “I am with you.” “I will help you.” See Jesus touch you with his healing hand.

4. Symbolically code the memory. For instance, you might want to make the people in your memory transparent. Color them according to how you think/feel about them. Draw a line around the three-dimensional people in

your memory, make them two-dimensional and color them according to your evaluation of them.

5. Humorize your memory. Since laughter gives us a great distancing skill, use your humor so that you can laugh this emotional pain off. How far in the future do you need to transport yourself before you can look back on a memory and laugh at it? What difference lies between a memory you can laugh at and one that you can't? Do you see yourself in one, but not in the other? Do you have one coded as a snap-shot and the other as a movie?

What difference lies in color, size, brightness? Imagine the hurtful person talking like Donald Duck? Turn your opponent into a caricature cartoon character with exaggerated lips, eyes, head, hands, etc.

Time-Lining Your Fear/Phobia

Originally developed by Tad James and presented in his book along with Wyatt Woodsmall, (Time Line Therapy™ and the Basis of Personality), the Time Line Therapy™ model provides an effective tool for reframing fear. Michael and I later expanded this model in Adventures with Time Lines (1997). The Time Lining model describes both structurally and graphically how one can easily dissociate from his or her fears and discover meta-level resources adequate to bring to bear on the problem and totally reframe the problem. Below you will find the basic steps. Though it is more effective to have someone walk you through this procedure, you can do it on yourself.

Time Lining Summarized

1. Discover the Root Cause: Ask the client, “If you knew the root cause of