“Instructing the inner mind for neurological repair or renewal”
by Graham Morris

Some 4 years ago I was reading an article in Anchor Point magazine (December 1998, pp 3-6) that was entitled ‘Thought Pattern Management ~ Instructing the inner mind for neurological repair or renewal’.
I recall thinking when I finished reading: “If this is true, it will be revolutionary”. And it was a big if.

Within minutes of reading the article, there was a knock on the door and there, paying a social visit, was my old friend and fellow NLPer, Mary.
She noticed the Anchor Point magazine, which was open at the TPM page on the table and asked me about it. I repeated the comment above and she then told me she was due to go into hospital to deal with a problem of excessive and distressing menstrual bleeding and she asked me to take her through a TPM process to deal with it.
My response was that I’d only just read the article but she persisted.
So, with the article in one hand, I initiated a mild trance induction and asked to speak to the Head Plumber along with a few other ‘parts’. I noticed a raising of the Process Arm* and realised there was a difficulty or an objection and so I asked to speak to the Creative Manager and gave an instruction to work with the Head Plumber to make any special tools that might be needed in order to complete the job – it emerged that special plumbing tools were required. They were made on the spot.

An instruction was given to the unconscious mind to stop the bleeding within the next 36 hours. It stopped with 2 hours to go and the hospital’s considered opinion was that she had experienced a ‘spontaneous recovery’.
I have been involved with practising and training TPM ever since and when clients go back to their medical professionals the most common reason by far given to explain the apparent miraculous recovery is ‘spontaneous recovery’.

Thought Pattern Management (TPM) was developed by Robert Fletcher of Utah, USA over a period of many years and is now © Robert Fletcher.
Some of the sources of the development of TPM include: Robert’s more than 25 years’ experience of working with deaf-blind children; his NLP training in Salt Lake City; and more specifically, the Parts Negotiation Model from NLP Practitioner Training.
The ideas of parts as used in NLP was described by Bandler and Grinder in their book “The Structure of Magic Volume 2” (1976).
TPM can be described as a highly sophisticated development of this Parts Model and especially Parts Negotiation.

What kind of conditions can be resolved using TPM?

Stroke recovery, eyesight correction, blood pressure, cancers (lung, liver, breast, prostate), hearing difficulties, depression, manic depression, ME, MS, Alzheimer’s, compulsive disorders, psoriasis, tinnitus, Attention Deficit Disorder, back problems, addiction, chronic pain, auto immune system problems and much more.

Thought Pattern Management

The main purpose of TPM© is to establish communication links with the various levels of the mind to the extent that a therapist or teacher or even the conscious self can communicate needs and wants to any of the other levels of mind and through mutual agreement bring about positive changes within the working systems of either mind or body.

TPM is not a set of medical processes. Nor is it a set of psychological or therapeutic processes although it can be used to accomplish many of the same ends desired through medical and psychological fields of endeavour. TPM is the study and use of new techniques to educate and communicate with all levels of the mind in order to bring about change within the mind and the body.

TPM differs from NLP in that NLP mainly manipulates content while TPM manipulates process. The two models go hand in hand and may use many of the same tools but TPM has a slightly different emphasis.
Through TPM we ask the mind to make its own changes, setting up its own ecology as it proceeds. Negative responses and abreactions are extremely rare in TPM.

Since the mind runs the functions of the brain and body, when change is made within the mind, corresponding changes occur within the body. As mental pathways are cleared many emotional and psychological problems simply go away. They cease producing the negative symptoms of illness.

Through the principles and techniques of TPM, the mind/body connection becomes immediately evident. Every thought in the mind has a corresponding body response. Every movement of the body causes a corresponding response in the mind. One does not function independently of the other. This interplay of action and reaction follows set patterns developed over the lifetime of the individual. No two people have exactly the same interactive patterns. They are as individual as fingerprints. Fortunately there are similarities in these patterns and this allows us to generalise the communication processes needed to bring about desired change.

For the purposes of simplification, the brain and the mind have been separated. The brain is part of the physical apparatus through which the mind operates. It comprises cells, molecules, atoms and sub atomic parts as well as chemical and electrical functions. The mind is the operator of the brain and the body. The mind is composed of the intelligence that runs the functions of the physical apparatus.
The brain can be divided into parts and functions. The mind can be divided into levels. Whether the divisions are accurate or not is not important. The terms are simply communication devices for transferring ideas from one person to another and so long as each accepts the terminology, that is enough.

Some of the Presuppositions of TPM – TPM is © Robert Fletcher

The mind has infinite capacity to organise and reorganise itself.

The mind and body are obedient to the conscious will, when communicated with properly. The client or practitioner can give the unconscious mind assignments to complete and expect it to carry out the assignments.

All body parts have positive functions.

Each mind function has a basic positive intention.
These Controller Parts have intelligence and choice ~ this choice is both conscious and unconscious; furthermore, this choice exists at a molecular level.

Deep within the genetic make up of the person is a blueprint of all bodily functions as they are supposed to work for each stage of human development through life.

Any function that occurred at any point of human development can be re-activated by the controlling part of that function.

Whenever you suggest something to the mind, whether it is real or imaginary, your mind creates a model of it in order to understand it.

The mind will accept whatever metaphor we give it and will arrange thought processes to match the metaphor. So, if the mind is given The Head Electrician in charge of all electrical activity in the brain, the nervous system and the body, the mind will find or create such a part.

A part’s capabilities are presupposed by the represented name.
Some typical parts include: The Head Electrician, The Head Chemist, The Lymphatic System Manager, The Creative Manager, The Head Plumber, The Janitor (USA), The Quality Control Manager.
Thus we can give parts permission to test, report, renew or repair.
The TPM Practitioner communicates with these parts as if they were people

Within TPM we work with the Conscious, Unconscious, Subconscious and Structural Minds.

Here is an outline of the basic processes of TPM:

• Take a Silent Emotional History
• Train the unconscious mind to re-evaluate a single negative memory ~ use ratchet anchoring
• Initiate Wide Awake Trance
• Carry out a Comprehensive Memory Clean-Up*
• Use the Engineer Metaphor Model to carry out repair/renewal as desired

*The Comprehensive Memory Clean-Up is a process where the negative or unresourceful or bad emotional charge to every memory you have ever had in your life is permanently removed; only the positive learning remains. During this process the positive learning is reaffirmed and the ‘bad’, ‘unresourceful’ feelings are sent to the far side of the planet Pluto, where they are recycled into something useful.

Outline of a TPM intervention ~ high blood pressure

Peter had a history of high blood pressure, requiring medication and daily checking of blood pressure. We first investigated whether there was a family history of high blood pressure and there was not.
( If there had been such a history, it would have been necessary to do some TPM Time Travel and go back however many generations to find the original cause ).
Standard NLP processes then followed; viz Well-Formed Outcome, Secondary Gains, etc.

All statements are “ I am going to ask your unconscious mind”; ie: the client’s unconscious mind is never asked directly, leaving the unconscious in a permanent state of anticipation and readiness.

There then followed a Comprehensive Memory Clean Up, as with all TPM clients (I have occasionally ‘inadvertently’ cleared up the presenting problem using this process).
Next was a Trance Induction to bring about a Wide Awake Trance which could not be simpler. All you say is this: “Close your eyes”.
All questions and statements are addressed to “your unconscious mind” which is interpreted as “you are unconscious ~ mind/obey”.
This is strengthened by using a TPM ‘I lead – you follow’ process.
We then presupposed that Peter’s unconscious mind contained a genetic record that had a blueprint of his neurology and also a record of the current condition and he was directed to go and find it and note the differences, especially the difference that made the difference.
Peter’s unconscious mind was told to follow my instructions consistent with his highest moral, ethical and spiritual values. (The mind will go and look for them).

The ‘Staff Team’ was then assembled and in this case comprised:
The Lymphatic System Manager
The Creative Manager
The Quality Control Manager
The Head Chemist and Plumber (The Head Chemist is also instructed to create unique designer medication)
The Barometric Pressure Manager
The Liver Function Manager
The Energy Flow Manager

He was told “In a moment I am going to borrow your arm”. The client’s arm is what drives the process as you say “I’m going to borrow your arm and I’m going to ask your unconscious mind to lower it only as rapidly as it completes this process”.
Note that come what may, the arm will definitely lower – gravity alone will ensure this.

If the client’s conscious mind gets in the way – you know this if the arm lowers in one smooth movement, in which case, simply say “That was your conscious mind, the instruction is to your Unconscious mind” and raise the arm again. You can also simply raise the other arm and give it another task to complete, usually filling the body with light* so as to remove any metaphorical dark spots or shade. If the conscious mind still gets in the way, giving it an instruction to list every word they know in chronological order is usually sufficient.

Now the whole process is set up, you simply wait for the arm/s to lower with small jerky movements.

Using the ideomotor signal you have already set up ( I use the client’s thumb), we then set a time frame for complete recovery and also for reducing/stopping medication.

Peter’s blood pressure dropped 30 points overnight and was normal after a period of 3 weeks.

Light* metaphor: throughout history and across cultures there has been and is a correlation between darkness (generally bad) and light (generally good).
The Light metaphor is extremely useful in ensuring that the unconscious mind does a complete and thorough job. Again you use the client’s arm to drive the process, which is:
“I want you to imagine a light entering the top of your head and I’m going to ask your unconscious mind to assist in this process as the light fills your brain, every fold and every crease. When you enter a dark room and switch on the light, the darkness just goes – it disappears”.
Then instruct the light to enter each internal organ, bringing light wherever it goes; then the limbs and skin.

This is similar to the TPM Brainwashing Procedure©, where the client unzips the top of their head, takes their brain out and gives it a good wash; steps into the shower and allows the water to clean the inside of their body before putting the brain back in and zipping up the head. Works great with children!

Other powerful TPM procedures include:
Identity/Values/Beliefs Alignment; Meta Programmes Realignment and Hierarchical Structuring; Forgiveness Pattern; TPM applications in education – using these assisted my son in securing 8 As and 2 Bs in recent GCSE examinations; Addiction removal; chronic pain; Internal Dialogue as Wise Counsellor, and more.

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© Graham Morris 2002 – All rights reserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permission.
TPM is © Robert Fletcher.