processing that occurs within their own psyches. Often clients choose to seek counseling because their processing of data has become dysfunctional at some level resulting, in part, from the focus of attention being almost exclusively upon secondary learning systems and very little on the primary learning system. The primary learning system, which | call “light-bound reality,” is the inner world of the psyche, and the source of intuitive and sensate information. The secondary learning system is the source of information from the outer world, including social and cultural influences. I call it “time-bound reality.” For many clients the primary learning system has been a forbidden forest, unexplored and misunderstood. Con- sequently, there is a tendency to avoid or reject information from that source. Information is more readily accepted from the secondary learning system, which is perceived as more “real.” The bias toward external sources of information leads to inadequate processing of the data which is received. There- fore, one of the greatest challenges for the therapist and client is to establish an effective working environment within the client's internal processing system—one that integrates infor- mation from both the primary and secondary learning systems. This whole-brain-mind method helps to focus conscious attention on one’s innate learning abilities, and serves to open up internal communication with primary learning system
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material. The newly incorporated method provides a founda- tion for the client’s further development. Once conscious, coherent information processing is established, a greater exploration of the primary learning system can be undertaken. © 1991 The Monroe Institute Route 1, Box 175, Faber, VA 22938-9749 804/361-1252 --- PAGE 2 (OCR) --- HEMI-SYNC JOURNAL METHODOLOGY In the primary learning system one encounters emotion and memories from the unconscious years of development, zero to ten years of age, and intuitive and sensate input relative to present-day development. To begin, I ask the client to record in a journal all emotional and memory input, as well as any intuitive and sensate material such as dreams, visions, or fantasies. Using the journal, the two of us then spend an hour anda half a week sorting through what has been remembered, recorded, and pertains to that week of the client’s life. This method serves a) to educate the client to his/her own system of processing data; b) to differentiate emotional response from intuitive, felt- feeling response; c) to begin a conscious observation of archetypal behavior, i.e., how data has been conceptualized and organized within the psyche; d) to foster an understanding of personal archetypal behavior as a link to universal archetypal behavior; e) to encourage the client’s individuating process. NEW CLIENT SYMPTOMS: REPORTED AND OBSERVED Often I find that new clients
a) live in an agitated state; they have forgotten or are not consciously aware of a relaxed mental state. The typical methods of evoking relaxation are sexual activity, alcohol, drugs, food, and sleep; b) view their lives through a body consciousness, an emo- tional consciousness, or through many of the other forms that cultural, rational consciousness takes; c) lack conscious experience of their own dreams, visions, active imagination, or creative visualization; d) feel that the state of “mind awake/body asleep” has no value. Most often, when it occurs for them, it is viewed as a lack of sleep; e) perceive the use of intuition or objective consciousness as too assertive, controlling, illegal, or a weird state of mind not to be trusted; f) have avery low tolerance for the higher vibratory levels that conscious attention can induce. HEMI-SYNC MODALITY The Hemi-Sync tape that | initially use in my work with clients is The Way of Hemi-Sync. I prefer this tape as it requires no explanation, guides the listener step-by-step through an experience, and gives information and instruction simply and easily. INTRODUCTION OF HEMI-SYNC INTO THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS Generally I will introduce a client to Hemi-Sync when there is a call for reduction of stress and anxiety. After an initial, and often lengthy, discussion of relaxation methods, I ask the client whether s/he has used any kind of sound techniques, and if s/he would be interested in trying one for