*Step 0* - Setting Up a Session
- Do everything you can to control distractions and to put order and calm into the environment.
(Get any bystanders to remain silent and give you room to work.)
- Attend to any physical first-aid needed.
(If the person is awake and aware, find out if medical attention is desired and from where, respecting the right of refusal, right of choice and of informed consent. If the person is not coherent and there is an injury or severe illness evident, seek available medical attention on their behalf and manage the environment and do what you can to help the person until medical assistance arrives.)
- Give any Assists that may be appropriate.
(Contact Assist, Touch Assist, Locational Assist, etc.)
- Establish the most comfortable and distraction-free session environment that you can.
(If this is being done over a distance, help the person to establish the best session environment possible at their location.)
(Get any bystanders to remain silent and give you room to work.)
- Attend to any physical first-aid needed.
(If the person is awake and aware, find out if medical attention is desired and from where, respecting the right of refusal, right of choice and of informed consent. If the person is not coherent and there is an injury or severe illness evident, seek available medical attention on their behalf and manage the environment and do what you can to help the person until medical assistance arrives.)
- Give any Assists that may be appropriate.
(Contact Assist, Touch Assist, Locational Assist, etc.)
- Establish the most comfortable and distraction-free session environment that you can.
(If this is being done over a distance, help the person to establish the best session environment possible at their location.)
*Step 1* - Starting a Session (Non-Professional Model Session)
IF YOU ARE ALONE AND CANNOT GET ANOTHER TO HELP YOU -
YOU MAY SIMPLY READ AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS GIVEN
- see if you can find paper and pen/pencil and a quiet, comfortable place to work
(use this preferred method to get your thoughts transmitted to the physical universe - this greatly assists the process in working, and you won't need to say the answers - just write them out)
- if you cannot write down your answers - if it feels right to you and you prefer it, and there is no one else around, say the answers to the questions aloud - to the screen or to the wall
(the point is to create an outward flow of answers)
- if it doesn't feel right to say answers aloud and/or you are in a public place, say the answers silently to yourself
(all this may be done as a last resort, but it still works - do this until you feel relief, but in any case, try to get a session done by another when you can)
- adapt this Model Session using common sense to follow the guidelines given, and tell yourself "Start" and "End" of session, as well as granting yourself "Beingness" with good acknowledgements and Care
------BUT IF YOU ARE ALONE AND IT IS AN EMERGENCY, GO AHEAD AND START WORK ON THE "DROP RECOVERY" QUESTIONS NOW, AND REFER BACK TO THIS PAGE WHEN YOU ARE READY TO CONTINUE, OR IF YOU RUN INTO ANY QUESTIONS AS TO WHAT TO DO------
If you can:
GET SOMEONE YOU TRUST TO HELP YOU BY CONDUCTING A SESSION FOR YOU, WHERE POSSIBLE
The person conducting a session is called an Auditor ("LISTENER") and simply listens to answers and originations, and acknowledges them. THIS PERSON STARTS AND ENDS THE SESSION AND KEEPS IT ON TRACK (which helps the person being audited, to feel safe and to FOCUS WITHOUT DISTRACTION).
Whether you are doing this procedure alone or with another, the value of a FORMAL, STRUCTURED SESSION (with a distinct START and END) IS IMPORTANT for two reasons:
*FOCUS* -and- *KEEPING YOUR SESSION - INNER WORK - SEPARATE FROM EVERYDAY LIVING*
(this is a conscious and willing separation that you make, which helps you to get on with your life when you are -not- in session)
0. Choose the best available, distraction-free environment for the session and take reasonable, friendly steps to prevent any interruptions (others in the area, phones, computers, etc. - a "we're in session" sign on the door or folded paper on the table might be appropriate in some cases). Have the person seated or positioned comfortably.
*The person should ideally be well-fed and well-rested, but if that cannot be immediately taken care of and this is an emergency situation and the person is visibly upset and wants a session, you would go ahead and address the most serious issue available and keep the session short*
1. Have the questions and directions available to read from, take a deep breath and focus your attention on helping this person to the best of your ability.
2. Tell the person that you are about to begin a session in order to hear about their difficulties. Ask if there is any reason not to start and if there is some other problem, take care of anything needed the best you can.
3. Look the person in the eye and give a sincere and distinct -
"START OF SESSION" -or- "THIS IS THE SESSION"
4. Tell the person:
"I'm going to ask you some questions to get you to tell me about your difficulty. Is there anything you'd like to tell me before I ask the first question on the list?"
(the person may go right into telling you their difficulty - if so, just listen to what they are saying attentively and acknowledge them appropriately when they have finished talking)
Once you have become accustomed to Model Session, for anyone who has already had a few sessions and knows what a session is, you may use a shortened version of your opening:
"Is There Anything You Would Like to Take Up Before We Start/(Resume) Our (Next) Process?"
5. Go on with the questions in the order that they appear on the list:
"Okay, here is the first question/(or process)..."
6. Keep the session space safe and interruptions to an absolute minimum (phones should be off) and finish the process you are working on before you end the session. Use "Start of Break" and "End of Break" to keep up the agreement to be in session to focus on the inner work, any time a restroom break is needed or nourishment is needed. This is also protocol for a distance session at any time a call or internet connection is interrupted. If this happens, the person getting session should touch and let go of things in the environment, if resuming any interrupted session is not possible. If this is not satisfactory to calm the mind, one should take a walk if possible, in order to look at large masses in the environment and extrovert attention.
*Important* - if a distance session or any other session is interrupted, leaving the person without an auditor, the person should FIND SOMETHING COMFORTABLY REAL (see step 11) enough times to stabilize in present time.
7. Be sure to acknowledge the person for answers, and really acknowledge the person's realizations, originations and successes. Letting a person know they are heard is what makes auditing produce relief from mental stress and help them on the road to self-determinism and personal happiness.
8. Keep the session focus on the work at hand, gently getting the person back on topic if things wander too far off the subject. Keep the session environment comfortable and listen carefully to and respond, to any concerns the person may have or any personal things they may care to share. This is part of helping the person on an immediate basis, while other concerns can be noted down for later handling. Get the person back on the process and stay on it as long as necessary to its completion.
9. A process is complete when a person experiences a sense of relief/release - sometimes laughter, and is almost always accompanied by some realization about the subject, about self or about life. You don't want to end a process before it is complete, but you certainly do not want to keep a process going that has already reached completion. This drives the person back into the same area which was being sorted out and stabilized satisfactorily. A process can bring up uncomfortable feelings and feel difficult and "heavy." This is normal and good, because it means there is material there to be discharged. But if this only gets worse and you have already suspected the process was completed earlier, it's a good idea to ask the person, "Did Anything Occur On This Process?"
If the answer is no, keep going as long as necessary to bring the process to a happy conclusion, but never force the person. Try a couple of times to continue because they may need your encouragement to keep on facing what the process is about. But if you detect a protest, you may have inadvertently gone past a release point. Professional auditors ask, "Have We Bypassed a Release Point On This Process?" in those instances and you can, too, but realize that if the person is in heavy protest and cannot locate and tell you about where the process completed (when they spot the exact moment - you will both know because there will be visible relief and then you can acknowledge the process is complete), then if you are without advanced training and an e-meter to guide, you may need to simply indicate to the person, "It Seems We May Have Bypassed a Release Point On This Process" and give the person the choice, "Are You Interested in Continuing This Process, Or Does It Seem Like We Need to Do Some Havingness and End the Session?"
Let them talk about it and they may be able to establish to their satisfaction what is going on with them. In non-authoritarian, FreeScientology auditing, this is one of those times you consult the person for willingness to continue and if they are not, you will go to Havingness and end the session and start a new session later, asking the same question about it, "Are You Now Interested in Continuing the Process ___('wording of process')___?" and only if they are not now interested do you need to end off the auditing session, and get professional help to straighten out the missed release or to find out by correction list whatever else may be going on.
10. Completing a process means you can end the session if you have been at it a long time -or- anytime you see a major win and Very Good Indicators such as uncontrollable laughter, or a "Wow! I feel like I'm floating," or any similar indication of a huge release, you end off the session right there with the final statement, and encourage the person to take a walk or enjoy an activity of their own choosing (they may be in a state of enthusiasm towards a goal). Otherwise, if you have more time remaining, go on to the next process. If in doubt, it's okay to consult with the person over whether it's a good time to end off or if they want to keep going, but otherwise use your best judgement and be a good, firm guide encouraging the person forward. The auditor makes the session and runs good control, and this maximizes the attention a person can devote to running these processes.
*Failed Session* - If you ever get to a point where nothing is working, the person does not want to go on, and you do not know what to do using a correction list to find the unknown difficulty (assuming you have also asked the person to tell you what is wrong, and it's still not resolving), then say something like, "We're Going to Need to End the Session For Now. Would You Like to Run a Havingness Process Before We End the Session?" and proceed according to what the person is willing to do.
11. Havingness Process (Stabilize the Person in Present Time)
When you need to end a session or you have run some processes and the person is doing very well, you have a choice of two very successful routines to transition the person out of the subjective mind and back to the objective world smoothly. These are:
Find Something Comfortably Real
or
Look Around Here and Find Something You Could Have
and these are run repetitively, acknowledging the person when they have done so, until they are bright and alert or have had yet another realization about things. When this is complete, you may proceed to the final stage of ending the session.
12. "We Are Going to Be Ending Session Shortly. Is There Anything You Would Care to Say or Ask Before I End the Session?" Note down what the person says, giving good acknowledgements, and when the person as said all, state firmly and cheerfully, "END OF SESSION."
Important Note: If you are dealing with someone who has been tortured or subjected to MK-Ultra mind-control, heavy abuse or institutional abuse, it is important to get them journaling on their own before they are engaged in any communication therapy (as outlined more thoroughly in in the book by Cathy O'Brien called "A Time to Heal "). Use your judgment and their interest after they have journaled all that they can remember, before going on to these spiritual healing processes.