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of Problems, Using Intention I have mentioned already that trying to overcome your weaknesses by an effort of will is ineffective, because results are short-term if one is antagonisticall y motivated; that is, if there is unconscious self-sabotage. However, intention or desire to change is the necessary starting point for removing a disorder. If this intention or desire is lacking at the beginning of therapy, there will be no success. When the one who has the problem does not desire to eliminate it, every attempt to help coming from others is doomed to fa ilure. As the old saying goes, a wound heals only from within. The night I was inspired to create the basic components of PEAT (see Introductio n), a thought came to me: one of the most important elements of healing is intention ( effort of will or volition), through which we eliminate the energetic disturbances that sp ring from one's limiting beliefs and decisions of defeat made in the distant past, both of w hich prevent one's Spiritual growth. At that time I already had the belief that one should try to influence one's energ etic field using pure intention, through focused will and imagination. This idea was reinforced when I recalled an interesting experience from 1977, wh en I was doing a special processing in London. Once I had a strong headache which m ade me unable to continue the session. In order to help me, my Processor applied the so-called ªTouch Assistº. It was a very simple technique. Using his finger he touched parts of my body, be ginning with the areas most distant from the source of the pain in my head (toes). Gradu ally approaching my head, at each point he gave me the command: ªFeel my finger!º When I answered affirmatively, he would thank me. After 7 or 8 minutes he reached the place in my head where I felt the strongest pain and the moment he touched it, the pai n miraculously vanished. A month later I had a strong headache. It was evening and I was not able to slee p because of the pain. In an inspired moment, I had a fruitful idea about how to help myse lf. As vividly as I could, I imagined my Processor standing by my bed and applying the Touch Assist. In my imagination I strained to feel the touch of his finger and to hear his words. When he, in my imagination, reached the painful place on my head, suddenly the p ain vanished completely. I was fascinated by that experience but did nothing to deve lop the process further. During the development of PEAT, this memory reinforced my idea of the importance of using intention and imagination in therapy and Spiritual developme nt. We could define intention as a directed willful effort toward attaining a certai n
goal. Practice shows that a therapeutic or Spiritual developmental procedure by itself is not enough to bring about healing or to raise a person's Spiritual level. Technical ac tion has to be directed toward a specific goal or outcome in order to be effective, especial ly if the Client and Processor are intently focused on the goal of processing. 166 Živorad Mihajlović Slavinski Later on I came across Professor Tiller's research, which gave scientific confirma tion to this idea. In 1972 Tiller pointed out that mental awareness and thought conce ntration causes significant changes in the electrical characteristics of acupoints and th at this awareness, or intention, is measurable. This explains the significant differences in succes s between processing when the Client is concentrating on her problem and experiencing it a nd when she is disassociated. Another aspect of intentional influence worth investigating is the resonance of the Processor's positive psychic energy with the Client and vice versa, while both are focused o n the ultimate goal of the process. In great measure it is influenced by the posit ive emotions of both parties, or at least the Processor's positive emotions toward the Client. Naturally, the strongest positive emotion is love, which miraculously influences healing. A Processor who removes problems using intention should arouse within himself positive emoti ons, preferably love, for the whole group. He should perceive them as beings that nee d help, and help is given most easily through love. Since it took me much time to check out the many ideas I had the night I synthes ized the basic principles of PEAT processing, I was able to test the value of pure in tention as a therapeutic act only two or three weeks later. The first time I tried it with a member of my Spiritual technology research group. The problem that a particular member had wa s her sudden aggressiveness. On the scale, she estimated the strength of that feeling as 9. I felt that her problem would be difficult to eliminate by intention, but I deci ded to try it anyway. I would have probably been satisfied if, after one round of the Basic process (at that time I worked with 13 points, not with 3, as I do now), her problem's strengt h was reduced to a level of 6 or 7. I asked her to be completely open towards me and to accept with trust everything that came from me. First I imagined her stating the FESS formula for her problem and then I began i nfluencing her with my thoughts. I imagined stretching my arm out towards her to touch all the 13 points, one after another. I imagined the contact of my fingers on he r skin while I silently repeated the problem phrase (ªaggressive behaviorº); at each acupoint I d
eeply inhaled and exhaled. When I had finished with the first round of touching acupoints, which took a min ute or so, I asked her: ªBefore I began this process you told me the strength of your pro blem was 9; what is happening with the problem now?º She looked surprised, as did the group of fifteen people present, when she said: ªThere isn't any. It vanished!º I was the most surprised of all. Based on everything I knew, I did not expect su ch a successful result. Several weeks later I gave my first PEAT workshop. At the end of the day, when P articipants were convinced of the efficiency of the method, I repeated the experiment with a volunteer Participant. I was again slightly skeptical and had modest expectation s ± only that the strength of the problem would decrease at the end of the process. I believed I should not expect more because the volunteer had met me for the first time at that work shop, so I expected him to be less open and trusting of me than the members of my group. Ye t again I was surprised ± his problem disappeared after just one round of touching acupoints . From then on, as a component of my PEAT workshops, I have included this method o f removing problems without using words and without touching acupoints, just using intenPEAT: New Pathways 167 tion. Not even once has the strength of the problem not been considerably reduce d, and in many Participants, the problem entirely disappeared. I later began applying this procedure to an entire group. I ask each person to c hoose a problem, to experience it and estimate its strength on a scale of 0 to 10. They do not inform me which problem they chose or what its strength is. Next I visualize the whole group as one huge being of vague shape, and as taking up most of the space in the room. T hen I imagine stretching out my hand and touching the being's acupoints with the intenti on of removing its collective problem. I go through all the acupoints. At each point, I deeply inhale and exhale. When I complete the process I ask all the members of the group to te ll me what happened to their problems. Not even one problem has ever had the same stre ngth as before. They were either much weaker, or disappeared entirely. On my workshops, I show Participants that they too can achieve the same result. I first describe the method in detail and then let a volunteer try to conduct the proces s. The result is the same as when I conduct it. To be able to achieve such success with this p rocess is surprising and fascinating. There are several important elements in this process I would like to point out. First, I do the process focusing on the three points around the eye. I move from
the first to the third point. This is one round. In total, I do three rounds (three times three points). Second, and most important for Practitioners, is the significance of directing a ttention and intention to a Client when we do individual PEAT processing, either Basic or Deep. Obviously, it makes a great difference if the Processor places maximum attention on the Client and has the intention of helping rather than if the Processor does it wit h partial attention or even automatically, without being truly engaged. If the Processor uses his ow n intention to the greatest possible degree, and the Client has the intention to f eel better, success will be incomparably greater than when such a well-intentioned and focused attit ude is lacking. Third, the issue of moral responsibility in such a procedure arises, especially because some practitioners claim to have helped others using intention without their acc ordance or knowledge. Actually, this is the same problem that arises with Surrogate Process ing (see that chapter); that is, processing others through identifying with them. Fourth, entirely new perspectives and possibilities are opening up for us. If I can attain good results with 20 or 30 people, and if after me a Participant from my Process ors' training seminar can do the same, is it possible to attain the same results with a group of 150 people? This process could be developed further because it has a great potential . Perhaps soon we will witness the development of a new kind of therapy ± Intentio nal therapy?
