Trey Lotz Class VIII Auditor

I would like to write a little bit about the relationship between a being and his time track, particularly as regards to the accumulation of traumatic experiences that he has experienced.

As a being accumulates experience, the experience is placed in the context of time and is, to that degree, understood. The time track has along it various decisions that have been made that shape the course of future experience. For example, now I am going to go to college, now I am going to work as a salesman, now I am going to stop working as a salesman, etc etc. This could be understood as the being putting in place an operating basis which continues until it is stopped, and a new one started. In that way the mind is like a computer running an operating system. You can’t run a new operating system until the old one has been deleted. These kinds of programs are known to the person, and are things that the person can change his mind about fairly easily. These are not the things that cause a person trouble.

When experience is too chaotic, painful, or disturbing, it is not understood at the time it happens, but is filed away to be sorted out later. It is important experience because it occurred at a time when survival was threatened, but it is also hard to confront because the stored experience also contains the pain, confusion or upset that made it difficult to deal with in the first place. Embedded in these difficult experiences are also decisions which shape future reactions, but these decisions are not normally accessible to the person so they are difficult to counteract, even when one is aware of the self defeating behavior and emotions being generated that may be ruining the person.

Discharging these experiences requires a safe space and a supportive format where one can contact the content of these painful experiences and become fully aware of their content, including any decisions that were part of the original incident. Often these decisions and evaluations are true and correct, but only for that particular period of time. The problem comes when these reactions become automatic and generalized to all, or most of life. Discharging an incident allows you to become aware of what was decided and why it was decided. One then is able to reevaluate these ideas as to their actual survival value. One is then free to accept, discard, or change that decision, or make a new one based on a better understanding of things.

All freedom is freedom of choice.

So often people’s lives are defined by what they are avoiding, what they can’t confront, and what they can’t do. Traumatic experience tends to generalize, and the bad experiences one has had can eventually end up coloring large portions of life in a negative way. People become fearful, angry, griefy, sneaky, cynical, etc etc as a fixed response to the environment. That response was appropriate at one time, but becomes generalized and is inappropriate thereafter. The emotional reactions that the person chronically experiences have, as its source, some experiences that are partially or fully unknown to the person, and are based on experiences that the person has never fully come to terms with.

Discharging these traumatic experiences has as its goal restoring the ability to confront the harmful force, pain, loss and upset contained in these incidents. You don’t have to rub out all negative experiences, you only have to be able to fully confront them. Once you can fully confront painful experiences, you are no longer bothered by or controlled by painful experiences.

The confront of pain is the make break point of any being. Those that can confront pain have freedom of choice. Those that cannot confront pain are controlled by it. They also end up being controlled by things that remind them of painful things, things that might be painful, etc etc.

It’s an old truism that those that are afraid to die, are afraid to live.

Any and all therapies that deal with getting rid of emotions and reactions that the person doesn’t want deals with this exact mechanism, no matter what terms are used to describe it. The common denominator of all therapies that actually help people is that they use communication to put the person at cause over these factors. The common denominator of all destructive therapies is that they use force, drugs, or hypnotism to put the person further at effect.

Differences in the effectiveness of various therapies relate directly to the accuracy of the theory behind the therapy, and the skill and intention of the person applying it.

Trey Lotz