Age Regression - Motivation Hypnosis

Age Regression (in this Life!) Treating the Cause/Extinguishing the Symptoms: Theory, Techniques,Case Histories and Video Demonstration©

Hypnovations: Clinical Hypnosis Education & Training Programs, June 1-3, 2012 Burlington, Vermont Maureen Finnerty Turner, RN-BC, LMHC, LCSW ASCH Approved Consultant

Welcome! Introduction of Faculty and Colleagues

–Purpose for Attendance –Heterogeneity of Clinicians • Variety of disciplines • Hypnosis knowledge base and Experience

–Goal Setting • Professional/ASCH Learning Contract • Personal

Behavioral Goals 1. Be able to conduct effective age regression techniques to identify the causal (imprinting) belief of the subset of behavioral and psychological symptoms of focus in a minimum of 80% of Clinical Hypnosis patients/clients at the first application of Turner’s Somatic – Affect Bridge technique.

Behavioral Goals 2. To be able to reframe behavioral and psychological symptoms as “purposeful” psycho-somatic indicators of an unconscious belief system that can be treated with Age Regression Techniques in a minimum of 80% of patient/client appropriate cases*, i.e., instead of focusing on the management of symptoms- use symptoms to lead to the cause of the symptoms. * This does not apply to the screened out medically complicated or organically - involved cases.

Behavioral Goals 3. To be able to induce and depth test for a somnambulism trance state in a minimu% m of 80% (i.e., 8/10) of all Clinical Hypnosis patients/clients at the first induction using Turner’s teachings of advance hypnotic induction and deepening techniqques

Behavioral Goals 4. To be able to effectively resource, update, and “lift” limiting causal (imprinted) beliefs and, therefore, effect the subset of symptoms with reduction/extinction in 80% of Clinical Hypnosis patients/clients using Turner’s Rescue Mission Techniques at first application to imprinted beliefs with the treatment paradigm of patient/client as “rescuer” and clinician as coach/guide and resourcing therapist.

Theoretical Objective: Changing Paradigms: To Challenge and re-frame: • Psychoanalytic history • Roles and relationship of the hypnotherapist and patient/client to teacher, investigator,and detectives • The construct of the unconscious mind including: – cause and effect analysis – memory – “False Memory Syndrome” and – memory storage and retrieval

Changing Paradigms: • To Involve the Individual (Patient/Client) in the direction, priority setting, and pace of the Age Regression Therapy • To partner with the Individual as coach and actively teach and re-enforce self- hypnosis, self-healing, and self-soothing techniques such as anchoring and positive self-talk.

Age Regression Age Regression: Any technique that connects present beliefs and behavior to the past and past to the present and encourages insight. Historic Perspective: The practice of Age Regression has had a long and tumultuous past that is intertwined with the History of Trance States (labeled “Hypnosis,”by James Braid in 1841), the concepts of an Unconscious and Conscious Mind, the understandings and theories on Memory - its storage and validity, and the present Brain Imaging and Neurological Scientific validation. It is time to revisit and review our beliefs and interface them with new information about the efficacy and healing power of Clinical Hypnosis Age Regression and the efficacy of deep trance states.

History of Trance States • Pre-historic and primitive cultures have long used rhythmic chanting, strained fixation and repetitive drumming to enter into trance states. Inducing trance for healing is associated with the Hindus of ancient India taking their sick to sleep temples to be cured by suggestions, as was the case in ancient Egypt and Greece. Iba Sina Avicenna (9801037),a Persian psychologist and physician was the first to make a distinction between sleep and trance state.

Unconscious – Ancient to Present • Pre-historically and cross-culturally, there has been the idea that outside influences have an effect on thinking and behavior, such as: the historic “causeeffect” beliefs of superstition, temptation, divine intervention,inspiration and roles of gods influencing motives and action across cultures. The Hindu texts known as the Vedas referred to unconscious aspects of mentality between 2500 and 600 BC. • Paracelsus is credited as first to address the unconscious aspect of cognition and is often regarded as beginning modern scientific psychology (Harms, E.,1967). • Freud is most often associated with differentiating the conscious mind (ego) and the unconscious mind as consisting of the instincts (Id) and the Superego. The unconscious mind was used to explain neurosis.

Unconscious Mind – Ancient to Present Freud’s concepts have long been under considerable research scrutiny and debate. The Freudian unconscious mind appears to have now been preempted with the advent of brain-imaging allowing us to study the workings of the brain as never before. At issue is the degree to which cognitive processing happens outside the scope of cognitive awareness and how our senses trigger and influence our cognitions and behavior. Cognitive research has revealed that automatically, and clearly outside of conscious awareness, individuals register and acquire more information than they can experience through their conscious thoughts (Augusto, L.M., 2010). Presently, the Unconscious mind is thought to be about 90% of the mind’s activity and Conscious, about 10 %.

Brief History of Age Regression Using Hypnosis Age Regression: Any technique that connects present beliefs and behavior to the past and past to the present and encourages insight. Age Regression Techniques have ancient roots in oral history, superstitions, religions, and are most often purposeful in keeping order in the social structure: “You reap what you sow!” “Your past will come back and haunt you!” “You’ll pay for your sins!” Historically, the “insight” is likely to be shame, guilt, and fear– ridden. Less-likely, is one viewed as “deserving good” and more likely - discounted to having “good luck” or a “lucky day!”

Age Regression and Clinical Hypnosis The earliest semblance of directed Age Regression appeared to be discovered by Marquis de Puysegur, a disciple of Mesmer in the 18th century. He is now being credited with one of the early “pre-scientific discovers of Hypnosis” and could be rightfully called “the father of Age Regression.”

In 1784, at the age of 33 years, the Marquis de Puysegur discovered how to lead a client in to a deep trance state he called “magnetic somnambulism,” by using relaxation and calming techniques. The term “somnambulism” is still widely used among hypnotherapists today in reference to a deep hypnotic trance state.

First - Deep Trance (Somnambulism) • The Marquis de Puysegur was able to describe three cardinal features of this deep trance state or somnambulism; these were: • Concentration of the senses on the operator • Acceptance of suggestion from the therapist • Amnesia for events in a trance Instead of having his patients silent like Mesmer, he would let them talk and have a dialogue with them, and as a result, he focused his attention on what happened to people in deep trance state.

“While the patient was in a deep magnetic sleep, the patient was asked (by de Puysegur) to establish his/her own diagnosis …and the form of his treatment . . .He was also asked to predict the development of his treatment: when he would recover, when the attacks would occur, etc. Thus was produced a kind of psychodrama in which the patient caused the magnetist to play a part in a series of successive catharses.” (Chertok, 1981)

• De Puysegur developed a set of principles: – Convulsions were not necessary (contrary to Mesmer). – The “magnetist” needed to listen to the person seeking relief – Often the patient had to re-experience painful feelings (Age Regression) – Sessions had to be of regular frequency and duration – The Magnetist had to be neutral to the patient – Symptoms might return temporarily.

Freud and Age Regression • By the end of the 19th century, the effect of “prior events” on behavior was of great interest to many doctors, writers, and philosophers which included Sigmund Freud. In his efforts to decipher the meanings of hysterical symptoms and other neglected mental phenomena that seemed beyond conscious control (such as dreams and slips of the tongue), Freud moved further and further away from his neurological training: “The hysterical attack corresponds to a memory from a patient’s life.” (Freud, 1895).

• Freud became committed to the idea that apparently meaningless behaviors actually expressed unconscious conflict. He developed techniques for determining what the behaviors might mean. His beliefs were that sexual conflict lay at the root (of hysteria.) Freud has a peculiar tendency to smuggle sexual significance into all possible and impossible dream contents. Zeitschrift fur Psychologie, 1901

By 1909,Freud claimed to denounce hypnotism for “Free Association” and instead called for interpretation (by the analyst) of the seemingly random thoughts of free association. (Freud, 1909) and promoted the analyst as the creator of conditions in which patients could grasp the significance of their symptoms using PsychoAnalysis and thereby free themselves from illness. Yet as many theorists are reflecting that Freud was simply inducing a lighter trance than was used by his predecessors and “that patients were in continually varying states of trance as the free associate on the couch.” (Rossi, 1988).

This light form of hypnosis requires much more time for patient and psychoanalyst – traditionally 5 times a week, was much more lucrative for the analyst and then and now, affordable only to the wealthy. It was a definitive transfer of the interpretation of the symptoms and troubling behavior from the psychoanalyst to the patient – very different from the patient-empowered treatment method of de Puysegur.

Hypnotic-Based Age Regression Therapies • Magnetic Somnambulism – Marquis de Puysegur • Psychoanalysis – Sigmund Freud, MD • Gestalt Therapy– Fritz Perls, MD – Informal hypnosis/Parts representing the whole • Psychodrama Therapy – Jacob & Zerka Moreno – Informal hypnosis/Therapeutic drama • Psychomotor Therapy – Al & Diane Pesso – Informal hypnosis/Therapeutic drama • Ego State Therapy – Helen & John Watkins – Formal Hypnosis/ Ego states and Parts Therapy

• Ideomotor Response – Cheek & Ewin – Formal Hypnosis/Directive Age Regression

• EMDR – Bandler, Grinder, Shapiro – Informal Hypnosis/Directive Age Regression

Why Age Regression in Induced Clinical Hypnosis? •Allows for tapping directly into the Unconscious Mind • Best facilitates identification and circumstances of cause (s) and resultant beliefs and triggers. •Provides direct access to the imprinted belief and ability to “rescue” the abreacted part “stuck back in time” •Enables the older self to provide “new information” to “update” and “free” encoded beliefs and “rescue” the “entrapped frozen part” which changes behavior or reaction. • The belief change work in Clinical Hypnosis directs the treatment, cure, and healing.

Unconscious/Conscious Mind - Revisited • The mind is a network of the brain – not a location. • The unconscious mind represents about 90% of the Mind’s activity (i.e., Conscious mind = about 10% ). • The unconscious mind stores according to category by all the 5 senses and chronologically with the most recent usually being the most accessible. • The unconscious tends to be very literal, primitive and protective especially re. fear. • The conscious mind is hundreds of milliseconds behind the unconscious processes. • It is the conscious mind that is being hypnotized in order to have direct access to the unconscious mind

How Does Hypnotic Age Regression Work? • Hypnosis may be regarded as controlled dissociation and may facilitate both the recovery and working through of traumatic memories. • Given that memories are stored according to mind state – hypnosis helps the hypnotic self to travel back in time to the first “imprinting or encoding” event where the cause-effect belief was first “imprinted or encoded”. • Change the Belief - - Change the Perceptions - Change the Behavior/Feelings!

What About Memories? • Once an event is perceived, it is recorded in memory. This seems universally true at all ages. Unaided, conscious recall of an event may be inhibited or enhanced by many factors, including: time, emotional involvement and reinforcement and reenforcement. (Yager, E., 2009)

Memories - continued • Discomforting or traumatic events tend to be the most difficult to recall. • Recall of an event can also be blocked by a conscious belief that it cannot be remembered, or by an unconscious protective influence. • Memory aided by hypnosis may not be effective in evading such blocks, depending upon many factors, including the responsiveness of the subject to hypnosis, the skill of the guide, and severity of the experiences involved.

Pseudo-memories • It is essential that anyone utilizing regressive phenomena exercise all possible precautions (use forensic protocol) to avoid the “recall” of events that did not actually happen or events that are the product of the subject’s imagination • The occurrence of such pseudo-memories can be avoided by careful wording of the suggestions used to elicit the memories, such as: “What was he wearing?” instead of – “Was he wearing a jacket?”

Avoiding Pseudo - Memories • A clinician’s suggestions should specifically relate to the objective of the search, avoiding implications for expected responses and avoiding any demand for response. • As has been conclusively demonstrated by Pettinati (1988) and others. Memories retrieved during the trance state tend to be strongly perceived by the subject as real and actual, sometimes in the face of evidence to the contrary.

Avoiding Pseudo-memories: • Such memories have the potential of serious consequences, both to the patient and to the therapist, if subsequently acted upon by the patient as though they are real and actual. (Yager,E., 2009) • This is why Turner recommends utilizing the Somatic -Affect Bridge and regressing to the Imprinting event first – it has been encapsulated! Allowing the patient to tell their story – thus, avoiding the interrogating techniques which has threatened to compromise hypnosis in the past.

Hypnosis is No More Distorting Than Other Retrieval Methods When hypnosis is used properly, there is no evidence to suggest that it is any more likely to contaminate memory than any other properly used memory retrieval technique. Nonhypnotic variables have been shown to produce significant memory contaminations.

Hypnosis when used properly, does not appear to make a unique contribution to the memory contamination process (Hammond, 2004).

False Memory Syndrome Foundation The False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) was founded in 1992 as an advocacy organization for people claiming to be falsely accused of sexual abuse. The founders and Executive Directors, Peter and Pamela Freyd are psychiatrists who were publicly exposed by their own daughter- Jennifer Freyd (Professor of Psychology) of child abuse and rape. The FMSF originated the terms ‘false memory syndrome’ and ‘recovered memory therapy.’ Neither term is acknowledged by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but are included in public advisory guidelines relating to mental health.

There is No False Memory Syndrome False Memory Syndrome did not evolve from clinical studies, but instead it is based on the alleged accounts of parents claiming to be falsely accused of sexual abuse with no evidence to the contrary. The FMSF has been criticized for misrepresenting themselves, the science of memory, selectively quoting the science of memory, protecting child abusers and encouraging a societal denial of the existence of child sexual abuse. (Wikipedia.org, 2011). The Board Members regularly are paid “expert witnesses “ as part of the defense teams for people accused of child abuse and other crimes.

Hypnosis Age Regression Targeted A major target of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation has been the practice of Age Regression in Hypnosis because it allows suppressed and repressed traumatic memories to surface, thereby increasing the risk of more child abuse court cases against the perpetrators. Their negative public relations campaign has successfully caused most states in the US hold that a person who has been hypnotized cannot testify in court about anything remembered during or after hypnosis.

Meanwhile, testimony is allowed for individuals who are convicted pedaphiles, schizophrenic, narcoleptic, drug and alcohol addicted and sexual and physical abusers. These laws need to be reversed!

Hypnosis Consent Form • (Please see the Sample Informed Consent Document Recommended in Appendix A, Clinical Hypnosis and Memory: Guidelines For Clinicians and For Forensic Hypnosis, (Hammond, 2004).

More on Memory Storage • Traumas are stored according to category • There can be cross-category storage, ie. fear & sadness for the same event – but one is primary. • The events are stored chronic logically – “from womb to tomb.” (The earliest childhood memories in US tend to cluster around 40 months and nearer to 60 months in China) Smith, 2005). • A baby develops a sense of mind other than its own at about 18 months (Eliot, 2000). Turner and Ewin have documented statements of Shame trauma as early as intra-utero (especially for unplanned pregnancies and being the “wrong sex!”) recalled by a number of patients/clients in the hypnotic state. (Turner,2008 & Ewin, 2010).

More on Memory Storage • Highly traumatic events can become available in Clinical Hypnosis, such as trauma in-utero and sexual abuse during infancy. The Unconscious Mind can describe or physically replicate the event in trance as if, it were happening now (re-vivication or abreaction) or as if, the patient were a bystander watching and sensing the event (hypermnesia), which is the posture Turner prefers to encourage – re-injury is avoided.

• The neuroscientists find that the amygdala seems particularly involved in aggression, fear, anxiety, and worry. The amygdala is closely connected to the frontal lobes which manage impulsivity, long-term planning, discrimination and fine judgment, and goal setting. There are more connections from the limbic system up into the cortex than in the reverse direction, and there are more connections from the frontal lobes into the amygdala than from any other part of the brain. (Smith, 2004).

THE CIRCUITS OF THE BODY'S ALARM SYSTEM

Amygdala: Trojan Mouse of Motivation • The Amygdala is part of the limbic system located in the Mid-brain, which coordinates survival responses and is responsible for emotional arousal and memory. The amygdala has been described as “the Trojan mouse of motivation: Upon this small site, all else depends. It plays a powerful part in labeling or tagging an experience as significant. Once an experience has been tagged, we respond thereafter in very different ways (Smith, 2004). • In other words, – it (the cause/effect) becomes an Imprinted Belief and we therefore respond accordingly!

Imprinting the Fear Response in the Mind/Body • Prefrontal Brain – perceives the environment • Amygdala in Midbrain – links perceptions to emotions – it is now considered center of the fear process if deemed dangerous- the event is “encoded” by the amygdala and any subsequent perception of the same or likeness will trigger a similar emotional response automatically ( unconsciously).

Beliefs Control Biology (Lipton,B, 2008) • A trauma is “encoded” through a process of neuropeptide activity that encases the event in total with all of its senses including immediate prior trauma events that are now associated as the cause. ( Lipton, B., 2008) • The “prior trauma events” can be up to 15 minutes prior to the trauma happening - this can include laughing and having fun, snow falling, a cold temperature –just prior to the dog bite, accident, or news of death, etc.- the prior events and post events up to 15 minutes after the event can, and often do, become “triggers” to the mind/body emotional responses. This encasement is not unlike the “swelling” providing “protection” surrounding a physical trauma.(Turner,M., 2010)

“There is only one way to change beliefswith new information!”

• The “encoded trauma” is then stored in the lateral nucleus periaqueductal gray region (seat of immobility) of the midbrain. There is only one way in to change the belief(s) of the encoded trauma - that is with new information. • Turner has identified that the “new information” has to be deemed creditable by the “encased part” and be delivered by a believable, trusted source. She recommends “in deep trance, utilizing age regression techniques, that the individual in hypnosis be coached to be that “believable” source and become the “rescuer” to “lift the imprint” and the triggers. She calls this the “Rescue Mission” (2001).

Intelligent Cells • Mind and body become one as neuropeptides chemically communicate emotions, thought, and beliefs to cells. The “mobile brain” translates intelligent information from one system to another – profoundly influencing how we respond to and experience our world. (Pert,C.,1997)

Intelligent Systems • It is now become more and more accepted by neuroscientists that emotions are “the result of multiple brain and body systems that are distributed over the whole person” and that “we cannot separate emotion from cognition or cognition from the body” (Ratey,J. 2001)

Emotions Stored In The Body • “Intelligent Cells” appears to be a new frontier. “Intelligent cells” are for real and often appear to “cluster.” • For years – physical symptoms have been ascribed a “stress” response such as colds, stomach aches, ulcers, colitis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, migraine headaches –without an adequate explanation of “why.” Utilizing hypnosis – the “whys and wherefores” are unfolding.

The Intelligent Body: Where do we store memory feelings in our body ? Turner (2009,2011) has asked over 1000 individuals in trance: Negative feelings: • Forehead = Fear of Safety • Eyes = Sadness • Jaw = Anger • Chest = Fear or Anger - Heavy and Heart Pounding Fast (Flight/Fight Response) Sadness = heavy hearted • Upper Abdomen = Shame appears to be stored separate from guilt. Shame has a public aspect to it – “imagined or real” people viewing an embarrassing event. It can include “what if” my parents knew and is further complicated if it is “a secret” and/or held from intra-uterine - childhood.

• Upper Abdomen = Low Self - Worthiness tied in with Shame and “feels heavy.” • Lower Abdomen = Low Self-Esteem/ Deservingness (tied in with Guilt and Low self-worth and stored in Lower Abdomen • Pelvic area, Vagina/Penis = Sexual & Tied in with other fear storage connections • *** When one’s face, hands, or legs are part of the feeling – it is likely the individual will go right to the specific imprint event.

Positive Feelings: • Heart felt = joy and can be a full-body response • Light Chest = happy • Back of throat = “giggling place.” Both positive and negative feelings tend to be stored in separate clusters An “all over” body sensation is usually an Infant Memory. This information has compiled by Maureen Turner as a result of over 12,000 Age Regressions using the Somatic-Affect Bridge Technique and asking “where” the feeling or urge “lived” in the head and body (2010).

The Making of a Fear Response Imprint /Memory • Since most imprints occur in

childhood – the child is dependent upon the adult or older child to define the danger and response. Children believe what they are told, and in danger – do what they are told.

Beliefs make sense • Beliefs provide for protection and mastery over one’s environment. The belief dictates the behavior accordingly – “if this, then that.” • Once beliefs are encoded, so is the habitual response (physical and emotional response).

Mind/Body Example: • Anxiety – a mind/body fear response to a perception of danger. • This response becomes the “default (or ‘automatic’ or ‘unconscious’) response” to the danger stimuli - until and when - new information is sufficient to change the response.

First Mind/Body Response to Fear • Normal Freeze – stop, turn toward the source of threat, assess if in danger or safe – within .10 seconds (Amygdala) and decides to Fight, Flight, or Fright (Abnormal Freeze) within an average of .25 seconds • Fight = Anxiety Reaction • Flight = Anxiety Reaction • Fright/Freeze = Panic/Phobic Reaction/Dissociation

Fright/Freeze Response • Fright (Abnormal Freeze/Dissociation) – inhibition of action (tonic immobility) meaning resigned acceptance of this new, unpleasant situation. This may enhance survival and is therefore adaptive when there is no perceived possibility of escaping/ winning a fight.

Dissociation= Abnormal Freeze Response • Acknowledging that the Abnormal Freeze Response is “one and the same” as the phenomenon labeled “dissociation” is critical in the understanding needed by the clinician to “undo” the dissociation or “abnormal Freeze Response” which can happens within .25 seconds of the assessment of the frightening experience, automatically. If it is the first time of the frightening experience – an imprint is created – taking in up to the first 15 minutes before and after the “fright” and a new belief is set with a dissociative response.

Freeze, Fight, Flight, Fright, Faint • Faint – Feeling faint and fainting. Most associated with the BloodInjection-Injury Type Specific phobia (BIITS phobia/ “Vaso-vagal Episode”) which may have a genetic base. (Bracha et all, 2004; Bracha, 2003)

Conscious or Unconscious Memory? Because most imprints/beliefs (positive and negative) are “set” by the time a child is five, many “first imprinting” experience are not available to the “conscious memory.” Most people can re-call major events and some minor details easily from age 4 or 5 years old. In hypnosis, it is not unusual for the “unconscious” to have memory from in utero. (Example: A failed abortion attempt with knitting needles memory captured on video with patient re-experiencing fear response in hypnosis).

Hypnosis: Beliefs,Emotions,Behavior Change • Most basic beliefs are established by the time a child is 5 years old.

• Basic beliefs (positive and negative) are “cause-effect” in outcome.

The Making of a Fear Response Imprint • Since most imprints occur in

childhood – the child is dependent upon the adult or older child to define the danger and response. Children believe what they are told, and in danger – do what they are told.

Treating the Cause and Extinguishing the Symptoms Most often the first Imprinting Cause of Symptoms is a Fear Response to a real or perceived danger: (Turner, 2010) Fear Response » A little fear = Nervousness

» More fear = Anxiousness » Much More fear = Panic » Much, Much, More fear = Freeze (Dissociation) » Much, Much, More fearful and/or Genetically Vulnerable = Faint

Triggers are Associated with The Belief Cause and Effect • Given that the Neuropeptides encode the imprint with events up to 15 minutes prior and after the trauma - any sound, vision, smell, taste, feeling can be associated with the “bad thing that happened” and be a warning sign or trigger, even if experienced vicariously through a movie, hearsay, or imagined. • If a child was triggered frequently by parents yelling and fighting, for ex., a Generalized Anxiety Disorder or constant anticipatory fear can result.

Only New Information can be transmitted to the Lateral Nucleus • Only new information is able to penetrate the encoded fortress of the Lateral Nucleus which is protecting the traumatic event and that part of the ego state that is trapped in there. (Very important to note, it is truly trapped and this is why just “talk therapy” often does not work. Turner finds that it usually takes a deep hypnotic state (ie. Somnambulism) to reach these beliefs stored in the “seat of immobility.” • Turner has developed a technique to creditably deliver “new information” to re-code the event to past history

Trauma =Trigger – Trauma event memory is stored in the lateral nucleus – therefore, all information from the outside world is screened for trauma event triggers before it even gets to the amygdala – If the lateral nucleus is “triggered” – this is communicated to the amygdala which then interprets what level of fear (anxiety reaction) to effect. – Once triggered, the encased, encoded “traumatized part” has no knowege past the imprinting event – it is “stuck in trauma!”

Let’s re-visit: “There is only one way to change beliefs- with new information!”

• The “encoded trauma” is then stored in the lateral nucleus periaqueductal gray region (seat of immobility) of the midbrain. There is only one way in to change the belief(s) of the encoded trauma - that is with new information. • Turner has identified that the “new information” has to be deemed creditable by the “encased part” and be delivered by a believable, trusted source. She recommends “in deep trance, utilizing age regression techniques, that the individual in hypnosis be coached to be that “believable” source and become the “rescuer” to “lift the imprint” and the triggers. She calls this the “Rescue Mission” (2001).

Turner’s Rescue Mission • The individual must trust the “messenger of the new information” ie. “rescuer”, or they will not trust the new information, i.e. “that was then, this is now!”) • Any subsequent event that reminds the lateral nucleus of the original “encoded” event is stored in the same or near-by file and can be freed at the same time (Turner, 2010).

Imprints and Their Counterparts • Once identifying the imprinting event and bringing current information to the traumatized part (not unlike finding a WWII Vet on a remote island who thinks the war is still going on), the mind/body connections begin to free up and and feel “free!” However, it is very rare for an imprint to be alone in storage – Turner’s Rescue Mission includes a summoning of any and all parts that know just what the imprinted part “felt like.” Typically, at least 8-10 “parts of similar circumstances” gather and are easily released having witnessed the update given to the initial imprinted part. The symptoms are often eradicated with this imprint and counterpart release.

De-Coding, Un-coding, then Changing Beliefs • By providing new information to the encoded belief – enables change to the belief system which changes the response. New information can be real or imagined: – using teaching metaphors that match, – imagining a future progression (when a negative behavior is no longer a problem), – giving direct suggestions which address the belief (s), emotion, and behavior (s). – employing Turner’s Rescue Mission Techniques to ensure the belief system is updated to the present reality

How do you tell the Imprint Part from a Related Fragment Part? • Turner has asked hundreds of patients – “what does she/he look like?” “feel like?” • If it is the Imprint (i.e., Dissociated at Fright) – it will be an In-time Abreacted “Re-vivication” or as seen, felt as viewed and felt as the older self in deep trance describes it in “hypermnesia” as an informed by-stander who knows the players, which house/apt. the event has just occurred. In either form, neither will recognize the older self or have any sense of future beyond the trauma.

The Related Fragment Parts will Know You! If in age regressing, the stored part of the event that “pops up” recognizes the patient or “knows he/she grew up” – do not discard – release the discovered Related Fragment Part using Turner’s Rescue Mission Technique – and utilize to go to a younger part – the same session or the next, depending upon the time available.

Peeling Away at the Layers of Belief Clusters • Turner has found in over 1000 cases to date that there often is more than one imprint affecting belief and behavior and it appears to have a layered effect. A stutterer, for instance, may have started the “stutter” as a result of a fearful situation that also had a “embarassing” aspect to it and imprinted Shame as a result, along with a Fear. Turner would do a separate “Rescue” each of those imprints, typically using a session for each one.

OCD as Layered Trauma Cluster Imprints Experiencing a house fire as a child, could have imprints of Fear, Sadness, and Anger, for instance. She has treated a number of OCD cases successfully that have needed to have several layers of imprints removed. The ObsessiveCompulsive behavior was reduced immediately after the first imprint was disconnected as was it with the 2nd and 3rd imprint disconnect. The OCD is typically extinct by the 4th or 5th treatment.

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An Overview of Age Regression Techniques

Affect Bridge Calendar Technique Library Technique Time Machine Ideomotor Signaling EMDR Meeting Room Technique Adapted (Turner, 2011) • Somatic-Affect Bridge (Turner, 2001) • Rescue Mission/Belief Change/Parts Integration (Turner, 1996, 2010,2011, 12)

Hypnotic Methods of Facilitating Age Regression (to Imprint) Include: • Affect Bridge – using a “feeling” to get to cause Age-old method – often will regress to a fragment not “imprint.” • Calendar Technique – using time, date, event – Very effective to search for “anniversary reactions.” • Library Technique – imagine “library of your mind” and imagine you can find a book on ______ • Time Machine – “imagine traveling back in time” • Ideomotor Signaling – Deep trance/psychosomatic 7 questions to elucidate “imprint” and re-vivication • EMDR – Light trance eye movement – re-vivication

Turner Preferred Techniques: • Meeting Room Technique Adapted (2010): Inviting all parts with an opinion – pro, against, neutral – to a large table with patient at head and others on Left, Right, and other end of table Very Helpful to Assess extent of resistance • Somatic-Affect Bridge (Turner, 2001) Using Mind and body to regress to “first time” – most efficient and effective means to find the Imprint • Rescue Mission/Belief Change/Parts Integration Most efficient for healing and re-integration (Turner, 1996, 2010,2011, 12)

Cross-Age, Gender, Cultural Pattern of Imprinting Behavior and Rescue In the past 17 years of practicing Clinical Hypnosis, Turner has utilized the Rescue Mission Technique in over 13,000 sessions with over 1200 male and female individuals of 23 different languages of origin to date. The youngest patient was 9 yrs. old and oldest so far was 85 and about 60% were females and 40% males, The responses are reliable and predictable.

Clinical Hypnosis – Changes in Paradigms l Clinical Hypnotherapist as Diagnostician – no longer just treating symptoms. l Patient/Client as colleague on the team l Clinician and Patient/Client attaining an appropriate “Working understanding” of: – the new Brain research on Mind/Body – Unconscious and Conscious Minds – Belief Change = Behavior Change

Identifying Contra-Indications for conducting Age regression Situations such as: • Thought Disorders • Inadequate ego strength • Medically impaired Patients • Where an abreaction might pose risk to health • Without permission of the Patient and, • When there is no adequate time to be reviewed.

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