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Enhancement
Ability Enhancement Curriculum
Applied Metapsychology is the whole subject that encompasses Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), Life Stress Reduction (LSR), and the Ability Enhancement Viewing Curriculum (AE).
TIR and LSR are remedial in that they remedy unwanted conditions. Ability Enhancement techniques are used to facilitate the viewer’s personal growth and development of potential.
The subjects of the Curriculum could be likened to the work done building a house. Once the foundation is correctly established by a TIR/LSR program the framing can occur. As each subsequent section is added, the building becomes more functional and aesthetic.
The length of time required to address any section below is based on a client’s individual needs.
(quotations marked by an asterisk * are excerpted from “Beyond Psychology - An introduction to Metapsychology” 4th Edition by Frank A. Gerbode M.D. and are used by permission)
The Help Section
“Before the viewer is ready to embark on major actions that can provide permanent case change, it is crucial for him/her to handle any charge on the issues of help and control that may be affecting him/her in the here and now.”*
Some feel that they don’t need any help, they can do everything alone; while others seem to be hardwired to only help others and neglect themselves. Whatever the case, we all need help from time to time and in order to feel worthy of that help, we should be willing when needed to help others, or for that matter accept help from others. When the charge on this subject is addressed, a person is ready to dig in and truly help themself.
The Memory Enhancement Section
“The purpose of Memory Enhancement is to help viewers recover the ability to contact the past easily.”*
Simply put, difficulties living in the now can most often be traced to charged difficulties from the past. The ability to recall times from the past is the next ability necessary to reclaim.
“Memory Enhancement deals with non-traumatic incidents. The next four sections handle relatively light areas of charge—disturbances, not heavy traumas. They go one layer deeper into the Net. Once a viewer has established contact (in the Help Section) with her present, and (in Memory Enhancement) with her past, the next thing for her to do is to work on improving her contact with other people by addressing charge on the subject of communication.”*
The Net refers to the Traumatic Network which is described in the General TIR section below.
“A person can begin to resolve problems when—and only when—s/he can communicate. Even if the viewer knows what the solution to a problem is, s/he generally cannot implement that solution without communicating with others. Most problems are best resolved by effective and thorough communication. Hence we address communication issues before addressing problems. It is important to deal with problems, because being fixed in a problem greatly inhibits future gain.”*
“When a person cannot forgive and achieve a reconciliation with self or others after certain misdeeds have occurred, the result is guilt and hostility.”*
Those feelings usually cause a person to withdraw from the harmed or harming party, making their personal world smaller. When the charge is addressed, one can expand back into life.
“People who are unable to communicate, to resolve problems, and thus to avoid committing misdeeds are more or less continually upset in life.”*
This section removes the burden of bearing those past upsets.
Once the above abilities have been reclaimed, it’s time to address the charged incidents that the lack of those abilities helped create. This section will address the subconscious storage unit known as the Traumatic Network or the Net. The Net could be described as a protective mechanism whereby incidents too uncomfortable to confront are hidden. It is not a perfect mechanism however as when hidden incidents are triggered, they tend to leak out and reappear in the now.
“The first step of moving closer to the core is to handle some of the root incidents on which the disturbances are based, i.e., to handle deep-seated traumatic incidents. We have seen that TIR can be used as a remedial action to handle charge contained in recent or already activated incidents. This is called Remedial TIR and forms part of Life Stress Reduction. But after completing Remedial TIR, there may still remain traumatic incidents and sequences that are not currently activated but that nevertheless tie up intention units and could be activated at any time. When located and handled with General TIR, these are discharged and are no longer there to be activated in the future.”*
“Up to this point, the viewer has been mainly dealing with “force”—uncomfortable feelings and disturbances that have been triggered. Having handled a great deal of force at this point, s/he is better able to tackle significance without becoming embroiled in force. So s/he is ready to straighten out his/her belief system, i.e., concepts and facts.
The viewer, like anyone else, is of the opinion that what s/he believes is right. Otherwise, s/he wouldn’t believe it. But s/he can be righter. Wrongnesses can be caused by misconceptions, false information, or fixed ideas. This section addresses all three.”*
Most people are aware of confirmation bias, the phenomena of viewing the world through our personal set of known data and biases. What if those filters could be more finely tuned and thereby have better interactions with the people, places, and things in our lives?
Exploration
Although the seven sections that make up the Curriculum produce major noticeable gains in the quality of life, they could be regarded as just a setup for the real work of handling issues at the core of the Net—core identities, and goals.
After the viewer has addressed various categories of disturbances, discharged a number of traumatic incidents, and handled some fixed ideas, s/he is ready to proceed to handle a deeper layer of the Net—the layer, quite close to self, that has to do with identity and purposes. One approach is to use a technique called “Unstacking” to deal with elements called “stacks” that seem to lie at the very core of the Net (Nichols and Gerbode, 2010). These are sets of deep-seated but conflicting purposes and identities. Unstacking identifies the basic identities and purposes in which a person is fixed and enables him/her to move out of them, as well as discharging the opposing identities and purposes. When all such fixed identities and purposes are discharged, one is free to simply be oneself and to pursue one’s true purposes.
Individuation Technique
As I have mentioned before, in becoming more aware, many viewers experience what they regard as attached beings or sub-personalities in and surrounding them and their body, with which they may have confused themselves. This technique is intended to help the viewer individuate self from these other identities that are not self.
There is a hierarchy of identities that a person uses to achieve their various goals in life. Some sub-identities that were originally created for some purpose by may become split off or “disowned” by the viewer and may appear to be operating somewhat independently. The approach to these sub-identities is opposite to that used in the Individuation Technique: it is directed toward re-integrating these sub-personalities into the main one. Both this technique and the previous one help to clarify the issue of identity, the Individuation Technique by helping the viewer recognize what is not self, the handling of sub-personalities by recognizing what is self.
Everything that has been done up to this point could be regarded as a preparation for this higher work.
(the section above was excerpted from “Beyond Psychology - An introduction to Metapsychology” 4th Edition by Frank A. Gerbode M.D. and are used by permission)
