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
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each pulled away, being afraid of injuring his tender skin by hugging him. At eighteen months old, the age of highest separation anxiety, he was too young to handle this “rejection.” Reexperiencing this allowed him to make rapid progress on many rejection-related issues in his current life, and released him from the burden of lack of self- confidence, as he began to fulfill his potential. . it has been deeply satisfying to have a new tool which seems so safe and effective. The clarity and usefulness of his altered state within the first “hypnotic” session is in marked contrast to my experience using conventional hypnosis with similar goals. Usually such quality work during hypnosis occurs after more than ten sessions, if ever, and then not as easily. A final example also points out the powerful entrainment effects of Hemi-Sync. Beth was a bright, hard-driving, middle manager who was being severely hampered at her job by budgetary and political pressures. She had been in therapy two months and was using Wave I at home. Beth came to a session very angry and distressed. She wanted to enter a meditative state and get answers to questions, but she was too upset. So we talked of all the work pressures and feelings that she was having. Ten minutes before the end of the session, I suggested that she could simply take a breath, close her eyes, relax, go to Focus 12, and get high-quality answers to her concerns. | then fed her five
questions which were relevant to the meaning of her situation. Beth obtained immediate answers which she and I both felt were profound and perfectly on target. This gave her a sense of a quantum leap in control and expanded her definition of self. Therapeutic alliance was deepened. She saw how she could employ the same technique during the agonizing parts of her business day and left with renewed purpose and confidence. Asa therapist, it has been deeply satisfying to havea new tool which seems so safe and effective. It has helped me be a better therapist. My confidence and enjoyment in my work have increased. Neither clients nor therapists enjoy wallowing in the negativity of the discovery phase of therapy, and often feel little bit lostas to how to implement changes rapidly and effectively once desired changes are targeted. Hemi-Sync tapes can help many shorten the unpleasant and uncertain phases of therapy, leaving more time and resources for growth, for discovery and celebration of one’s worth, and for increas- ing one’s contribution to the world. Hemi-Sync is truly a twenty- first-century tool. It allows a smooth integration of technology with compassion and clinical skill. Because Hemi-Sync requires no belief system other than “we are more than our physical bodies,” it can be incorporated into most schools of therapy, be it ego-analytic, existential, humanistic, or behavioral, enhancing rather than straining the modality. It answers