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 <sup>The Circle of Now</sup> <sup>The Circle of Now</sup>
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-The process starts in the middle with Step 0.Then it goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3 . . . around the outer ring, til it ends in the middle at 0 again.+The process starts in the middle with Step 0. Then it goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3 . . . around the outer ring, til it ends in the middle at 0 again.
  
 Here are the UCP questions, what they do, and how they work: Here are the UCP questions, what they do, and how they work:
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  ==DETAILED EXPLANATION OF PRACTICE STEPS==  ==DETAILED EXPLANATION OF PRACTICE STEPS==
-=0. WHERE ARE YOU NOW?=+**0. WHERE ARE YOU NOW?**
 I just ask "Where are you now?" If a new Seeker, I explain that this is their opportunity to look at their entire life and scene and examine anything important about it. We are not listing anything or looking for whys or causes or solutions or anything like that. It's just a Look, See and Say about where they are now. "Where" is interpreted in the most general way. I often used to say "Tell me about your universe," or "What's up with your life?", but it seems more logical and consistent to go with the past/present/future model, and it works just fine either way. I just ask "Where are you now?" If a new Seeker, I explain that this is their opportunity to look at their entire life and scene and examine anything important about it. We are not listing anything or looking for whys or causes or solutions or anything like that. It's just a Look, See and Say about where they are now. "Where" is interpreted in the most general way. I often used to say "Tell me about your universe," or "What's up with your life?", but it seems more logical and consistent to go with the past/present/future model, and it works just fine either way.
  
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 This orients him to the present, creates a starting point for him to compare other scenes to, and makes his universe clearer. This orients him to the present, creates a starting point for him to compare other scenes to, and makes his universe clearer.
  
-=1. WHERE MIGHT YOU BE?=+**1. WHERE MIGHT YOU BE?** 
 This is the POTENTIAL, FUTURE, IMAGINE, MOCK-UP, CREATIVE side of the process. It is not a tightly worded or narrowly construed question. You could probably just as well ask "What might happen?," "Imagine a possible future," or anything similar. The words are not critical as long as you understand what you are doing. I merely want him to create or notice some possible or even impossible future. It does not have to make immediate sense or even be actually possible. I just want him to fish something out of his universe and look at it.  This is the POTENTIAL, FUTURE, IMAGINE, MOCK-UP, CREATIVE side of the process. It is not a tightly worded or narrowly construed question. You could probably just as well ask "What might happen?," "Imagine a possible future," or anything similar. The words are not critical as long as you understand what you are doing. I merely want him to create or notice some possible or even impossible future. It does not have to make immediate sense or even be actually possible. I just want him to fish something out of his universe and look at it. 
  
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 This description of "where he might be" could be 2 words . . . or 20 minutes. I don't really care, as long as the Seeker describes it to his satisfaction. When he is ready to look at something else, we go on. This description of "where he might be" could be 2 words . . . or 20 minutes. I don't really care, as long as the Seeker describes it to his satisfaction. When he is ready to look at something else, we go on.
  
-=2. COMPARE THAT TO NOW.=+**2. COMPARE THAT TO NOW.** 
 This step has the Seeker compare the selected "something" with the present. I don't use the word "place," because I don't want to define what he will be comparing. I don't know if it will be an attitude, a computation, a physical location, an activity, an emotion, a state of mind, a beingness, an identity, or whatever . . . and I don't care.  This step has the Seeker compare the selected "something" with the present. I don't use the word "place," because I don't want to define what he will be comparing. I don't know if it will be an attitude, a computation, a physical location, an activity, an emotion, a state of mind, a beingness, an identity, or whatever . . . and I don't care. 
  
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 When he is satisfied he has seen what he wants to . . . we move on. When he is satisfied he has seen what he wants to . . . we move on.
  
-=3. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?=+**3. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?** 
 This step of the process simply has the Seeker select something already existing that his attention is on. It is not critically worded. You could probably run it as "Remember something" or "What has happened?". This just asks for anything from his past. He simply selects something for examination from what has already happened, and is therefore PAST, and he is relatively the EFFECT of. It could be how his morning has been going so far, his reaction to a commercial, an exact specific incident lasting 1/10 of a second, a lingering thought he had 85,000 years ago as he lay dying, a room he used to live in, or a broad general scene that went on for trillions of years. I don't care. This step of the process simply has the Seeker select something already existing that his attention is on. It is not critically worded. You could probably run it as "Remember something" or "What has happened?". This just asks for anything from his past. He simply selects something for examination from what has already happened, and is therefore PAST, and he is relatively the EFFECT of. It could be how his morning has been going so far, his reaction to a commercial, an exact specific incident lasting 1/10 of a second, a lingering thought he had 85,000 years ago as he lay dying, a room he used to live in, or a broad general scene that went on for trillions of years. I don't care.
  
-This leg of the process is the EMOTIONAL DISCHARGE or TRAUMA REDUCTION aspect of prior events. It includes as subsets all of the narrowly defined regression processes that many "well-trained" therapists know hundreds of. It handles and heals what has already happened to the Seeker as effect. It leads naturally to the FUTURE.+This leg of the process is the EMOTIONAL DISCHARGE or TRAUMA REDUCTION aspect of prior events. It includes as subsets all of the narrowly defined regression processes that many "well-trained" therapists know hundreds of. It handles and heals what has already happened to the Seeker as the effect. It leads naturally to the FUTURE. 
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 +**4. COMPARE THAT TO NOW.**
  
-=4. COMPARE THAT TO NOW.= 
 This is the exact same compare question as in the first leg of the process, and operates similarly, but compares the present with the past, fixed, effect aspect of the Seeker's universe, rather than the future, imagine, cause, create, potential aspect of it.  This is the exact same compare question as in the first leg of the process, and operates similarly, but compares the present with the past, fixed, effect aspect of the Seeker's universe, rather than the future, imagine, cause, create, potential aspect of it. 
  
-The constant motion back and forth between the legs of the process keeps him from getting stuck in the past and dramatizing himself as hallucinatory total victim, and from getting stuck in fantasies of the future and dramatizing himself as hallucinatory total victor, or vice versa.+The constant motion back and forth between the legs of the process keeps him from getting stuck in the past and dramatizing himself as the hallucinatory total victim, and from getting stuck in fantasies of the future and dramatizing himself as the hallucinatory total victor, or vice versa.
  
 If the Seeker is heavily in DENIAL or DISASSOCIATION, it will start to build CONNECTIONS between past, present, and future. If the Seeker is in IDENTIFICATION, comparing past and future to present separates them. It creates awareness of similarities and differences . . . a basic definition of sanity. It pulls the past out of the present, and lets it go to where it should be . . . back into the past. It separates the Seeker more and more from the past into a clearer and more sharply defined and understood present time.  If the Seeker is heavily in DENIAL or DISASSOCIATION, it will start to build CONNECTIONS between past, present, and future. If the Seeker is in IDENTIFICATION, comparing past and future to present separates them. It creates awareness of similarities and differences . . . a basic definition of sanity. It pulls the past out of the present, and lets it go to where it should be . . . back into the past. It separates the Seeker more and more from the past into a clearer and more sharply defined and understood present time.