ers work themselves into an aggressive state for peak performance. I suggested using Strong-Quick with the image of pulling powerful energy up from the earth and then becoming a conduit for that energy. Both weightlifters reported being able to lift more weight than their best performance using steroids. They also reported an increase of smoothness and felt they had less potential for injury. T have used Lungs: Repair & Maintenance with five asthmatic children and adults with excellent success. For example, one woman had difficulty climbing a short flight of stairs and was using her inhaler approximately six times per day. Within three weeks she was swimming a third of a mile per day and using her inhaler only twice per week. This gain remained consistent over a one-year period. l use Empathizing, Speak Up, Let Go, and Off-Loading with marital situations including spouse abuse, sexual dysfunction, and marital communication problems. These tapes have worked very well. Abusers report rapid anger control. Clinical alliance deepens rapidly with these men who are usually hard to treat due to shame, skepticism, and their need for control. Many mensuffering from impotency and/or premature ejaculation have become more assertive and less performance pressured within three weeks of using these tapes as an adjunct to therapy. What has been most impressive to me in these contexts is that these strategies are effective even when the spouse refuses to join the client for therapy
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(which often happens in abuse and sexual dysfunction situations). When couples are seen together, I suggest they use the above Functions before dealing with each other in session. The improve- ment in communication is striking. There is more listening, less accusation and defensiveness, and higher-quality problem resolution. Ihave had moderate success with sleep problems, agoraphobia, and eating disorders using the Hemi-Sync tapes, and very little success with chronic back and headache pain. The most widely useful tapes for psychotherapy, in my experience, are Let Go and Off-Load- ing. They reduce fear and resistance, and allow more rapid softening of long-held negative thought patterns. --- PAGE 6 (OCR) --- HEMI-SYNC JOURNAL The tapes have worked well with the majority of clients in my practice, including some usually difficult groups such as the resistant teenager, the passive/dependent, the obsessive, the psychosomatic, and the sociopathic. I have encountered the most resistance to trying the tapes from Vietnam combat veterans, paranoid personalities, and the “yes but” psychosomatizers. Of course, any client’s reluctance is wholeheartedly respected; however, quickly clarifying a client's resis- tance can be very useful therapeutically. Both weighilifters reported being able to lift more weight than their best performance. . . T have not tried any tapes with schizophrenics and manic-de- pressives, but would feel comfortable doing so if they were not
experiencing a psychotic episode, and therapeutic trust was func- tioning well. T have also been privileged to do some fascinating work with growth-oriented clients, using the tapes of the GATEWAY EXPERI- ENCE Wave I and Wave IT. Accessing the total self and achieving age regression are facilitated greatly. For example, Pete was a young man with tremendous potential who had been badly burned as a toddler. He had the impression that his own clumsiness had resulted in the accident. His parents divorced shortly thereafter and the family was reluctant to talk about the event. He wanted to reexperience that burn to find out just what had really happened. After a week of using the GATEWAY EXPERIENCE tapes, Pete used their format to achieve a Focus 12 relaxed state in the office. It was then suggested that he was completely free of time, that he was at the center of a huge wheel, and that he could go to any time period he wished by simply traveling down a spoke of the wheel. He immediately went to the burn episode, reexperienced it with tolerable distress, clearly and in great detail, and discovered many surprising and useful things, including that he was not at fault even through clumsiness. To help achieve closure at the end of the session, I guided him to the return to his family after his hospitalization, figuring that it would be a joyful reunion. However, he became the most distressed he had been during the session. As he ran to greet his relatives, they