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The first extremely useful technique I would like to introduce is a method of increasing conscious - unconscious communications quickly, to be better able to visualise, and to be able to generate representations quickly and at will.

This technique is:

Image Streaming

Here is a message from the inventor of Image Streaming, Win Wenger, as to where to go to learn this technique and how and when it originated: 

A Short Version Of Basic Imagine Streaming

*Summary of the process from: The Einstein Factor

The procedure of Image Streaming is deceptively simple. You sit back in a comfortable chair, close your eyes, and describe aloud the flow of mental images through your mind. Three factors are absolutely crucial. I call them the 

Three Commandments of Image Streaming:

1. You must describe the images *aloud*, either to another person or to a tape recorder. Describing them silently will defeat the purpose of the exercise.

2. You must use *all five senses* in your descriptions. If you see a snow-covered mountain, for example, don't just describe how it looks. Describe its taste, its texture, its smell, and the sound of the wind howling across the peak.

3. Phrase all your descriptions in the *present tense*.

Tips on image streaming for beginners:

Close your eyes and describe out loud anything you can *see*. To begin with, this may just be sparkly bits now and then, swirls, a colour going by, that kind of thing. If you have sincere trouble with getting the process going at all, use an after image from a bright light to start you off on this first step.

Keep describing out loud what you see, this aspect is vitally important to engage certain parts of your neurology. Do this for about five minutes at a time, then stop. Do not censor what you *see* to begin with, and do not try to control it. Do not be disappointed if at first all you get are vague impressions; this process improves immeasurably with very little practise.

Later on in the process, you can use it for problem solving and a great many other things besides; and it has been said that doing this on a regular basis makes you smarter and opens up whole new channels of communication within your own neurology. 

Grovian Metaphor Therapy

Named after it's originator, David Grove, this is a very interesting and complex way of working with client generated metaphors to firstly find, then undo deeply repressed traumatic memories.

There are two aspects of GMT which are of great help to Sanctuary processes.

1. GMT Metaphor Elicitation

The first is GMT's simple and straightforward elicitation of metaphor from a feeling, problem, blockage, illness or sensation which is easy to do and proceeds like this:

"If this x (pain, problem, feeling, challenge, limitation, blockage) had a colour, what would it be?"

"If this x had a shape, what shape would it be?"

To clarify the image, the first two attributes are now repeated:

"So it is blue, and triangular, and ..." then we ask about the next attribute, such as weight, size, or location if appropriate.* 

(*At this point, you can also enquire as to if x had an emotional component, what would it be? if you are working with EFT et al). 

If a metaphorical description has still not been found and you still only have a blue, triangular, huge, dense and heavy *something*, you use the repeating of the attributes as before but this time, add the question, "And what else can you tell me about it?" which tends to elicit more and more information until eventually a metaphor appears: "Well it's like, stuck in the ground, and huge, like a really big sword made of blue steel ..."

As PS interventions can take things from there, the rest of the complex process is not applicable for duplication here; for serious students of therapeutic metaphor, this is a very interesting and ideosyncratic process I would recommend.

Now to the second and even more useful aspect of GMT which revolves around the moving forward in time of "stuck" metaphorical or even real situations by simply asking the question:

2. "And What Happens Next?"

This is profoundly simple yet also profoundly useful with any stuck situation, even with situations that seem to involve absolute endings, such as a character's death. Pushing it on with "And what happens next?" (and even what happens next is worm fodder and decomposition) EVOLVES the problem beyond the fearful states EVENTUALLY if you force enough time to pass.

What happens next? after the worm fodder stage? The body becomes one with the earth and dissolves. What happens next? Parts of it are absorbed by other life forms and are integrated into their living systems and if you wish, you can take this to the end of time and back again, which entirely changes the perception of the original event by taking it beyond a threshold state which *seemed to be the end*.

Patsy | Acquire Project Sanctuary | The Gift | 

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