Using Process Healing to Contact Your Subconscious Mind

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Question: How do you teach yourself or others to communicate with the subconscious?

Answer: When using Process Healing method, the person is taught about the developing personality and our memory. It uses a learning theory model in which all behavior is assumed to be stored in memory as memory structures. The person is educated about the following: Our memory has millions of memory structures from before birth to now. A trauma memory structure has emotions associated with the memory structure. Creating parts, treating parts and memory structures are explained. After treatment (the hurt is removed), the memories of the memory structures are combined with the main personality so both parts, with different memory structures, have identical memories.

How to communicate with the subconscious? In Chapter 2 of the Theory and Treatment of Your Personality, there is a script that is close to what I say to patients when I introduce process healing to them. Seemingly, just reading through the script does not have enough impact to teach some readers to access their subconscious, or to teach others to contact their subconsciouses. Either the complexity of the personality or problemsolving is a problem.

So lets try this. Read and record the bold instructions from page 29 to the top third of page 33. That script is all I say to get patients to the point where I try to communicate with their subconscious. Play the tape while playing the person and answering the questions. Then play it experiencing it as if you explaining the personality to the person and getting the person to the point where you can try to communicate with the subconscious. Often, at this point, the subconscious will respond.

If you like problemsolving, this is where the fun begins. Sometimes there are compartmentalized parts (personality parts) that are created during birth, by loud noises, medical trauma, or abuse of some kind. Often, the parts are afraid to let you talk to the subconscious. This is where you start problemsolving to identify the barriers because of considerations they have about treatment and joining the treatment team.

In Chapter 3, on page 75, is a list of the 16 barriers that I have found over the years. I have reordered the first 8 of these considerations in the order I’ve found most often when working with people.

•   Fear of dying
•   Fear of losing knowledge, wisdom, and understanding of life
•  The pain is too great to be treated safely
•  Doesn’t want to join the treatment team
•  The part likes to run the body
•   A prebirth part interfering with communication with the subconscious
•  The part just awakened
•  The treated and integrated memory will retraumatize the main personality

When you find that a part has a consideration, you reframe the consideration so it removes it as a barrier. A reframe is a statement that removes the threat or changes the context of the issue. The reframes for all the barriers are given word for word in Section 5.3. They most always work. Sometimes, a part has 2 or 3 considerations. If you find this, you problemsolve and use the fitting reframe to resolve each consideration.

Now continue recording from the question, “Can I talk with your subconscious?” to the bottom of page 36. As above, play the tape as if you are the person and answer the questions the therapist asks. Then play it again while taking the role as the therapist to experience educating a person about the personality model and taking part in the problemsolving process. I hope that this will give you the experience of the education process and problemsolving so you can do it with you or others.

In addition to the chapters Dr. Flint provided in the links above, new reformatted versions (with color coded terms and titles) are now available here.