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Another fine article from Ivy magazine: http://www.ivymag.org/cyberivy/PtsPer.htm
You can subscribe to Ivy at this location: http://www.ivymag.org/cyberivy/index.htm How to gain more freedom (PTS-Handling) by Per Schioettz, "Class IX". This approach has worked in actual application many 100 times. See also the study on PTS-ness <http://www.ivymag.org/cyberivy/PtsJohn.htm> by John McMaster. (This is a temporary page. We are still working on retrieving the drawings from old file formats.) I often heard the expression "Free me from (this)" and "Free me from (that)". If there really are a lot of things in a persons daily life he wants to be free from then he is guaranteed not a happy person. Freedom is not freedom FROM this or that or a whole lot of things. Freedom ought to be freedom TO do or be or have what you want. Opinions and facts In relationships persons often express an OPINION about another person. The other person might take this opinion as a fact and thereby loose some of his freedom because the opinion was a limiting opinion. (Ex.: "It's dangerous to travel"). (Fact, one definition, there are several: A fact is something, which can be proven to exist by visual evidence. Opinion: Something, which might or might not be based on a fact). Suppression If dad tells Peter "You are quite stupid", and Peter somehow or other buys this, and later knowingly or unknowingly acts upon this, by, for instance, not taking the education he wants, then we are talking about suppression, and Peter has lost some of the freedom he could have, at least in choosing education. Everybody is daily bombarded with others opinion about this, that and the other. We love to give good advice, and every time we connect to others opinions and act accordingly (as if it was facts), which means we do not follow our own ideas, or listen a bit to ourselves, then we loose something of ourselves and get weaker and smaller and less ourselves. People who actively work on enforcing their own opinions onto others could be called suppressive, but the person having opinions forced onto him is the one who makes himself smaller, no one else can. The suppressive has a misunderstood. He thinks that freedom is a quantity and therefore he has to keep others down in order to get the freedom himself. Freedom is a quality - please !! Integrity Integrity means wholeness, all of it - without things missing, a condition where nothing has been removed is corrupted or damaged. If a person has undamaged integrity then he hasn't given away any of himself. He exists in his wholeness as himself. If he compromises with his own honesty, his own wishes and perception of himself, then he looses integrity. If he adopts others opinions about himself (unexamined) then he has given something of himself away. You could say that he has shrunk, he has become less himself. Loss of identity Some people live to a high degree for others and by other people's opinions causing their own personality to disappear. The more he obeys others opinions, commands and orders and take onto himself others characteristics, behavior patterns ideas and thoughts, the less free he will be and the more he looses his integrity. He will listen less and less to his own inner dialog, his intuition and feelings. This will eventually end up in self-denial, self-hatred and self-defeating and then again in less freedom. We all do, or have done this to a greater or lesser degree depending on who the other person is. Ethics and philosophy Everyone has an ethical philosophy, which they live by. It's their guidelines for what is OK to do in life. It could be "I will not engage in shoplifting" or "I'm OK and have my right to be here". These are more or less known to the person consciously. Suppression or loss of integrity and thus freedom is a result of lack of ethical philosophical codex. If the ethical codex contains: "I will listen to others opinions and then carefully consider if they shall be mine too", then you have a chance to not blindly accept others commands, opinions, perceptions etc., and loose integrity and freedom. Yours or mine? If you want personal enhancement by, for instance, personal development or therapy etc. etc., then it is extremely important that you are very sure that it is your own ideas, thoughts, behavior patterns etc. that you start handling. If it really is others opinions and ideas, which you have taken on, then it's a waste of time. Yours If you find something which is not your own, but something you have been persuaded to think by others or have borrowed from others, then it is actually possible to cut the connection to these things again. If Peter feels suppressed by his fathers who says: "You are quite stupid", then that is the father's opinion, not Peters. He must therefore CUT the connection to that opinion and realize that it is not his and "send it back to the father" right here and now. Note carefully that he doesn't cut the connection to his father, which would violate the universal solvent: Communication !! Mine There could be considered a small danger here, namely if you disconnect from something which IS your own. Then you will never get it handled as you believe it isn't yours and have disconnected from it. Why handle others stuff? But this very small danger is not difficult to get around as long as you get a little practice in this. Procedure (for self or clients) First you must realize which persons, places or situations etc. you feel made you make yourself smaller. For each of them in turn, you write down all the different ideas, thoughts, behavior patterns, commands, unethical actions, opinions etc. etc., picked up from that terminal or in that situation. Then in your own universe(s) you actually CUT the connection to these items, realizing it's not yours and seeing whose it is at the same time. I you come across something you have already disconnected from earlier, just acknowledge that. Finally you sign this "document" that you have actually disconnected from these things. The whole action can take some hours or weeks or months depending on the clients case shape, but it is extremely important to do it very early in for instance, a life repair, if not first. Why? When all this is done you ought to find out what has been missing on the written or unwritten ethical codex, which caused that you allowed your integrity to become lesser. Write it down as an addition to you ethical codex. If this is kept in times to come (eternal now's) then it will act as a guarantee that you never again will allow your freedom to be lessened or taken away. (codex a book, also a book of scriptures or laws.) Example Here is an example of a handling Peter did regarding is father. It's a very ordinary example from a situation, which is very common: I, Peter Hansen, do hereby cut the connection to my fathers: 1. Invalidation by saying I am stupid. 2. Bad talk to my friends about me 3. Attempt to decide: My education How to spend MY money With whom I can date My hairdo Which books I should read When to go to bed 4. Lack of communication I realize that these are my fathers and not my characteristics Signed Peter Hansen Addition to my ethical codex: It's my right to decide about my own life. Signed Peter Hansen When this is done for all items you should experience more freedom like a growth as a person, again depending on state of case. The most incredible results have occurred with this handling, including the "suppressors" friendly approach to the client. If there is no change or not a lot of growth, then there are still unhandled items or you have disconnected from, Something which is yours. The ability to "disconnect" can be very low in the beginning. Don't fret. It picks up pretty quick and in the end the client will stay de-PTSed with constant expanding freedom as THE result. Is this difficult? If it turns out to be hard to handle this way, then another approach is needed first. What has happened is that the client has to a very large degree got his own personality mingled into others that it's not possible to find head or tail in any of them. He can't see what is his or daddy's. In this case, again depending on the case level, objective processes might be called for or other handling by case study. But it's in my experience very darned few that do not respond to this handling. More freedom If all this has been handled and everything not ones own is gone, and the feeling of more freedom is there, then it's time to look at things one wants' enhanced which are ones own. But don't be surprised if you never see the client again. He might expand his freedom forever... Freedom to.... The new freedom should be used for doing new things to be better and to expand interest areas in life. "Free me from..." is only valid when it's not ones own stuff one wants to be free from. Your own mental garbage heap is you own responsibility and you are the only one who can handle it. For cases in better shape I have used one more little action. I have, in the above example asked Peter to write down: "How is the real Peter...". This has almost always ended up in line charge galore and then tears of joy. Note: I do not use a meter of any kind for these handlings. It complicates things and it's my opinion that if you can't get behind the clients shirt and feel, using yourself as a meter, then don't even try. In one case I had to get the meter out and null a list of ("SP") items, which kept growing. That's it ! Have fun !
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