Some TPM© processes when working with children

By Graham Morris

Thought Pattern Management (TPM)© is described as “instructing the inner mind for neurological renewal and/or repair” and the following does, I think, give a good description of those processes.

Martin is a 9 year old boy with epilepsy who came to see me after his mother made an appointment for him, as she had heard a few things about the possibilities of TPM.
Prior to the appointment I had talked with his mother about Martin’s history and the epilepsy. There seemed to be a possibility that a difficult birth could have contributed to the epilepsy.

Prior to many TPM processes, clients undergo what is called a ‘Comprehensive Memory Clean-Up’ where, put simply, the negative or ‘bad’ element of a memory is removed, leaving only the positive learning from each remembered experience. This is, as the name suggests, comprehensive. Once the process is complete (about 30 minutes) every single ‘bad memory’ has been re-evaluated with the bad feelings sent to the far side of Pluto, where eventually those feelings will be recycled.
So, for example, you can instruct the unconscious mind to re-evaluate 10,000+ individual negatively charged memories, removing the bad feeling, retaining the positive learning and this part of the process can be done in 3 seconds – we presuppose that your unconscious mind works at neuron speed.
The client is in a light trance or the TPM ‘Wide Awake’* trance during this.
It is a truly remarkable, liberating process that’s worth having on its own!

Prior to the CMC clients fill in a ‘Silent Emotional History’ form – see copy later in this article.
If you check out the form you will see that it’s beyond the comprehension of most children (youngest I have worked with was four).
So we have to find a way of combining the SEH with the CMC that will work with kids.
And that’s what the developer of TPM, Robert Fletcher, did.
This process is called the Brainwash and I decided it was more appropriate to do the Brainwash during the session, rather than at the beginning.

The Process
In TPM terms, epilepsy is like an electrical short-circuit of the brain and the task is to check if there is a genetic disposition to epilepsy, repair all the circuitry, insulate all the brain’s wiring, remove any dead cells and future pace the healthy wiring system for a lifetime free of epilepsy.
All in one session of 50 minutes.

Prior to Martin’s arrival I gathered together some strands of electrical wiring (each piece was about 30cm) and a couple of batteries. The first set of wiring had bare metal at each end and second set had bare metal at one end and the other end was insulated.

I wanted to show Martin that his mind was capable of doing lots of things he thought were impossible, especially if he used his ‘other mind’.
I showed him the Unbending Arm** and then taught him how to do it – and he was very impressed.

After a bit more chitchat I asked Martin:
“Do you know what happens when you have a seizure? Has anybody ever explained it to you?”
Martin replied that he knew a bit about it and someone had tried to explain what happened but he wasn’t sure that he could remember.
Then I got out my batteries and un-insulated wires and started connecting them, much to the fascination of Martin.

TPM Process with Epilepsy

(When working with children, there is always another adult – usually a parent present. I ask them to keep quiet and reserve any questions until the end).
There were two batteries with a piece of wire attached to each, with bare wire at the end.
I asked Martin what he thought would happen if I put the bare ends together and he said that there would be a current and if he touched them he would get an electric shock.

I then asked him what would happen if they just brushed against each other and his reply was there would be sparks flying.
Disconnecting those wires, I then attached two more wires, each one insulated all the way to the end.

“What do you think would happen if these two wires touched now?”
Martin told me that nothing would happen and I asked him why nothing would happen.
He explained to me that the wires were completely insulated and it would be impossible for any current to pass between them.
We spent quite a few minutes thoroughly explaining why it would be absolutely impossible for any current whatsoever to pass between the two wires.
“What would happen if all the ‘wiring’ in your brain was insulated like these wires?”
“Everything would be OK.”

I then talked with Martin about what he would do if all the water started pouring out of the pipes at his house. After initially finding this amusing, he said that he would call the plumber to come and fix it.
“And what if all the wiring started sparking?”
He told me that he would call an electrician and that the electrician would fix it by ensuring that everything was properly insulated.

“And do you know that you have in your brain a Head Plumber and a Head Electrician?”

The Brainwash
I asked Martin to imagine that he was in a lift that was at the top floor of a building and that we were going to go in the lift all the way down to the basement, where there would be a car waiting for us.
He closed his eyes and imagined going into the lift, pressing the button for the basement and down we went.
As promised there was a car and we got in it.
I told Martin that we were going to a hotel and the room we wanted to look at was Room 512 and we walked through the lobby and saw there were two lifts, one serving the even-numbered floors and one for the odd-numbered floors.
We took that lift, pressed the button ‘5’ and went up.
I explained to Martin that coming out of the lift, we would turn left:
“There’s Room 510; that’s not the one. There’s Room 511; that’s not the one – ah, Room 512, that’s the one we want.”
Before going in I explained that this was much like any other hotel room, except for one thing.
“This room has the biggest bathroom you have ever seen in your life; there are showers and sinks and sluices.
Now not many people know this, but you have a zip going from the back of your head to your forehead and I want you to imagine that you can unzip your head and open it up so you can reach inside and take out your brain. OK? (Martin made actual movement with his hand).
Now put your brain in the sink and turn on the taps and let the water flow through your brain, into all the tiny nooks and crannies so it gets a thorough wash, removing all the dirt, shadows and darkness and you can see those disappearing down the plughole (I made a ‘plughole’ gurgling sound at this point.)

TPM Process with Epilepsy

Now let’s leave your brain rinsing for a few moments and I want you to step into one of the showers and have a shower on the inside of your body. And you can see any dirt or debris flowing out through the soles of your feet and down the plughole.

Now step out of the shower and pick up your brain from the sink; give it a quick check to make sure it’s completely clean and when it is I want you to put it back into your head and then zip up your head.
Now let’s leave the room, go down the lift, into the car and back to the basement.”

Once in the basement I asked Martin if we could speak with the Head Electrician and he said ‘ok’.
I asked the Head Electrician to work with the Creative Manager and to go back to the last seizure, check the wiring and find out the difference and then go through ALL of the wiring in the brain, checking the connections, insulating the wiring where appropriate and doing a thorough and complete check that everything was safe.
I also asked the Head Electrician to work with the Memory Manager and correct all the memories about seizures.
At this point I raised his arm, telling him that this was his ‘dreaming’ arm and it would lower and come to rest only as quickly as the Work Team completed the tasks we had set.
This took only a few moments.

I asked him to imagine he was going up in the lift which would bring him back to the room we were in. He did this and I asked him to keep his eyes closed (if you want to induce a deeper trance, then I find the Dave Ellman** inductions work very well with children).

I asked him to think of something he would like to achieve over the coming six months and once he had something, I told him he could go into the future and could look back, knowing he had achieved what he’d set out to do.
“Now go all the way into the future; that’s right…..that’s right. Now look back over your life and notice how wonderful it is; and I also want you to notice that the epilepsy has gone forever and can never come back.

Before we finish I want to thank the Creative Manager and the Head Electrician for all the work they have done today, and when you’re ready just open your eyes and come all the way back.”

Which he did.

Martin was pleased and relaxed with what we had done and he was especially pleased that he knew how to do the Unbending Arm.
His mother asked me: “Is that it? What happens if he has another (seizure)?”
With total congruence I told her that ‘yes, that was it’ and it would be impossible for him to have another.

That was 3 years ago and there has been not the slightest indication of any epileptic activity since.

Although the Brainwash was designed primarily for children I have used it successfully with some adults and achieved similar results.

I find that children take to TPM without hesitation and you can make the whole thing a fun experience.

In a future article I will give a detailed description of how to use some TPM processes with heroin addiction and other addictions, but here’s a very brief run-through.

Spatially, all addiction is in front of the person and this is partly why the behaviour is difficult to shift.
Here’s an example:
Peter had been using heroin for some years and he explained to me that one of the difficulties was that wherever he looked, whatever he looked at, reminded him of heroin.
I was a tad incredulous concerning this so, referring to a vase of flowers in the room, I asked:
“How can that remind you of heroin?”
His reply was that he recalled buying, as an apology, a bunch of flowers for his partner, having blown most of his available cash on heroin.

And then he went round the room (remember, this was my room, not his) and with every single object he recalled or created an association with heroin.
I said that from his description he would be fine outside where there were fewer objects to remind him.
Not in the slightest.
He told me how the look of a house, any house, would remind him of going round to someone’s house to get what he needed.
With addiction you have quite a large Work Team.
The Head Chemist is required to adjust chemical production and storage systems and the Manager of the Lymphatic System is instructed to clean out all chemical residues from the mind and the body.

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References:
* The TPM Wide Awake Trance induction is this: ‘relax and close your eyes’.
**You can find descriptions of the Unbending Arm and Dave Ellman’s Inductions in:
‘Hypnosis A Comprehensive Guide’ by Tad James with Lorraine Flores & Jack Schober
Crown House Publishing 2000 www.crownhouse.co.uk
Thought Pattern Management (TPM) is © Robert Fletcher.

This article was updated in late 2005.

©Graham Morris
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