Part 1. Tell me the first thing that pops up...

 "Did your family celebrate birthdays and have birthday cakes?

 If YES: I want you to go back to the earliest birthday you can remember. Focus on the cake's candles,

If NO: Go back to as early an age as you can remember, and, using your fingers, show me how many years old you are on this date in your mind."
 
 

"From this point, up until the first day of first grade, did anything happen to you that you wish had never happened to you?"

 If NO, please read through part 2 and then skip to Part 4.

 Part 2. I need a garbage can around here...

 "I want you to stop for a moment and clear your mind. Now, I want you to imagine a white room, with white walls, a white ceiling with florescent lighting, and a garbage can bolted to the painted-white concrete floor. On the wall is a big RED button. As you lift the lid and look inside the garbage can, the can is clean. Go to the wall and press the red button, and then come back and look in the can. Look, a trap at the bottom of the can opens and now you see that the can is actually a tube that is wide enough for you to enter, if you ever wanted to, and there is a ladder down to a room under this one, and that it is also well lit, and will always be this way.

 "Garbage cans are mostly sold for only one purpose--to throw garbage away. A garbage can is not a Jack-in-the-box. It is not a Pandora's Box. Once something goes in, it can no longer hurt you. Only you can choose to go in and look at it again.

"Did you know that you can throw memories away. You are an adult now, and you have the power to choose what memories you want to keep, and what memories you want to throw away.

 Part 3: The Garbage

 "Now, without going there, I want you to tell me what happened that you wish had never happened to you. You will have no fear, and no pain. Just tell me what happened. I want you to find yourself watching TV, and on the TV is a videotape of what happened. I want to you tell me what is happening, but you are not there. You are just telling me what happened..."

 From this point, through each event, the narrative will be steered to the point and purpose of determining what happened, and then one of three paths to resolve:

 IF THE PATIENT IS A VICTIM...

 1: Place the entire event in the garbage can and choose to not remember it.

 2: Place the entire event in the garbage can and then choose to replay the event with people, places and things that the subject would have liked to have happened instead. For example:

 In case of a rape where any pleasure was attained by the well functioning sexual organs, asking for the person to, in their current age and mind, pick a person that they wouldn't mind having experimented with sex at that age, under painless and consenting circumstances. The imagination would play it out, and the new, though false, memory will replace the event forever after in the decision making agenda for similar events.

 3: Simply remember the event anew, with total clarity, and now with the mind of an adult, change the way they want to have their decision making process to respond to this type of event.

 IF THE PATIENT IS THE CRIMINAL...

 1: Ask patient to think through each step and to tell you, without emotion, the reasoning they had for each action and decision.

 (A) If the Actions were without remorse, ask the patient to go back to the first time they felt that they could do something to others and live with this feeling, and to replay the event, telling you about every step.

 Now, ask them to replay the event (again) that they are about to create, but only in their mind with themselves being the victim. Suggest that, at any time, they feel like victimizing someone, they will be victimizing themselves, and if they feel like hurting someone else, they will begin hurting themselves

 {Negative Reinforcement:} You may want to use negative reinforcement and suggest that this feeling, if it occurs in the future, will make the patient sick to the stomach and vomit, which will remind them that whatever they do to others, they do to themselves (invoked "instant karma").

 (B) If the actions were with remorse, the patient will be asked to tell why he defied his own feelings, and then suggested that his feelings are stronger than his emotions, and he will be in charge of his capacities.

In either case, the patient must be strongly advised that his actions will cause his permanent removal from society if he will not listen to the needs of society.

 Part 4: Running the loop.

 For each of the following questions, if the answer is YES, Go (sub) back to Chapter 3, and then Return to the next question in the order below.

 "What is the last grade of school you attended? From the first day of first grade, up to the last day of that grade, did anything happen to you that you wish had never happened?"

 "From the last day of school up to you turned 21..."

 "From your 21st Birthday until you were arrested for ___(Fill In This Blank)___..."

 "From then until now..."

 Part 5: Rebuilding the past with plastic...

 By now, our patient has relived his entire life in the course of about one hour. (S)he may be weak and drained from the ordeal. Now is the best time to make positive suggestions to bind all that has been learned, and to contract a mental agreement that will begin to take a permanent shape in the "ego system" of the subject.

 "I want you to clear your mind. Take a deep breath and relax. Clear your mind and relax.

"You know, when you get angry, it only hurts you until you share your anger with someone else. What I want to offer you is instead of getting angry at someone, you choose to not feel anything for them. Instead of bitterness and hate, you feel numb and reserved. Instead of wanting to hit things, you just sadly walk away, shaking your head and wondering why they are so unworthy of your love.

 "You see, that's the key. Your body wants love, it needs it, and when it can't get what it needs, it has turned on anger and hate as ways to force someone to react to you. But their reactions don't make up for love, and so the problem persists.

 "You are going to have to walk a new path in your life. It is a strange new path of self-discovery, and you need some tools with you. First off, you need a place to put your feelings down. Some people use their computers, and others use a pad of paper or a diary.

 "There are three steps on this path, but it's like the first step is a mile from the next, and you are walking slowly, not jogging nor running. While you are on the first step, I need you to write down everything you have ever wanted to try to do. If you want to go hiking, fishing, learn to sew, learn to act, whatever. Write it all down, and know that the list is always, for the rest of your life, going to get things added to it. You are always going to have something to look forward to doing that you have never done.

 "While making the list, begin trying some of the things that you have wanted to do. Sure, it's not likely you can take a trip around the world, but you can actually try to walk around the river. There are trails and footpaths everywhere. In this process, learn to KNOW yourself."

 "After about six months to a year, you may go up the next step. become aware of what skills you have, what you know how to do, and what you enjoy. Do these things more and more often, so that they become a part of who you are, so when you think about 'Who Am I?' you can add these skills to that list. Come to expect these of yourself, and love yourself for your experiences. If you try something that was consenting and legal, and you were very unhappy that it turned out much worse than you had imagined, please never let yourself feel guilty about it. Remember that there are people who have never taken the risks that you have, and you have learned something that they will forever be too frightened to discover. Learn to be YOU and learn to LOVE yourself.

 "In about two to ten years, you reach the next step, which, by the way, is not the last step, for you will find yourself using these three steps, over and over, all your life. Once you have become what you are, now is the best time to make changes. If there is something that you do that bothers you, now is certainly the best time to decide to change yourself. As long as you like yourself now, you will have an easier time changing yourself."

 Part 6: Mix me a Happiness with lime...

 Note: You need to get something a person can squeeze in the palm of their hand. I have used cigarette lighters, pens, pencils, markers, and other small, firm plastic objects.

 "Clear your mind. I am handing you something for your right hand and I want you to squeeze it as you need it. This is happiness. As you squeeze this, you find yourself feeling happier and happier. Do you like this feeling?"

I have never had anyone answer NO. If you do, please let me know...

 "You know, you are in such control, you don't need to squeeze this, you can just squeeze your fist. Does that feel good?

{Answer is YES or nodded head}

 "You know, you are in such control, you don't even need to squeeze your hand. All you have to do is WANT to feel happy. And you can volume it up as high as you want. Do you see? You don't need to earn happiness, nor buy anything. All you have to do is to want to feel happy.

 Part 7: A quick look at the whole person.

 "You know what a volume switch looks like, the type that rotate around? I want you to see, in your mind, a board that had a hundred or so of these volume controls. Each one of them have an arrow on the knob, and they each have settings from 0 to 10. Each knob has a label on it that says a different emotion. Many of the knobs are unlabeled, but will be if you feel a new emotion. Hate, love, fear, happiness, greed, hurt, excited, happy and any other word you choose. You are standing above this board, which is at your waist level in front of you. Just at you eye level is a video screen. On the screen is a picture of yourself. I want you to tell me what each knob is labeled, and what it is set to at this moment."

 "Why do they have these setting? You remember when I told you to turn off the negative feelings like hate and anger? I want you to turn them off now, and as you do, you feel the relief and release of the hurting. Turn off all the negative emotions you choose."

 "Now, next to the video screen is an UP button and a DOWN button. The buttons don't signify anything about people, but they let you sort through your memories of faces of people that you know and as the faces change, the settings on the volume knobs change automatically to what you feel about each person."

 You, as the practitioner, may wish to have the next persons be the victims (if you are doing such work), friends, family, or just to have the patient tell you who's face came up next when (s)he pressed the up or down button. You may wish to replay Part 7 as needed, and in the future.

 Part 8: A light at the end of the tunnel

 "I want you to remember everything I have said, and I want you to not remember things that you do not wish to remember. From now on, if you are faced in a situation that might make you angry, take a step back, take a deep breath, and relax for a moment. See if it is really worth getting angry. If it is, shift this energy from anger to just getting you and your loved ones safely out of the situation, if possible, and if not, to use the energy to pay more attention to the situation. Maintain control of your emotional energy, and you will become stronger when you really need it.

 "I want all of these memories to be left here in the subconscious. When you wake up, all I want you to remember is that you feel good, that life is good, and that, somehow, you are going to live to the fullest no matter what you must do. Even if you are in jail for now, you will look at what opportunities are available and latch onto them. You will find it easier to change and to learn."

 "Clear your mind. I suggest that you feel like you have been asleep for a week, that you feel like you are completely rested, and that you are happy, for no other reason than that you want to be happy.

 "When I count from three to one, you will wake up and be fully awake, and not remember anything that we covered, except that it was useful and that you will remember what you need when you need it, but today, right now, you don't need to worry about it."

 "Okay. Take a deep breath. Three...two...one...wake up."

 Epilogue: Out in the great wide open...

 What's next? Give it a week and then make a call to the family or work and see if anyone has noticed any changes. Usually, it will take about a month, but the changes that they want to make will become a part of them on a life-time basis. For that, you don't get immediate results, but stronger, subtler changes that last and last.