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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. " | 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. " | ||
- | It's the same question as " | + | It's the same question as: |
+ | * " | ||
+ | * "Tell me all about it!" | ||
+ | * "How is it going?" | ||
+ | * "What is your attention on?" | ||
+ | * "What do you think about now?" | ||
+ | * "What is your intention now?" | ||
+ | * " | ||
+ | * "What is your viewpoint?", | ||
+ | or any of many other phrases which mean essentially the same thing. After the Seeker gets the hang of UCP, they don't care what you say because they know what they are doing. It's what the Seeker does that is important, not what the Witness says. You could simply say " | ||
A new Seeker may well talk for two hours about his entire life. A Seeker who already had a session this morning will probably give me a minute or two about what he has noticed since his last session. I don't care. He talks until he has looked at "Where he is now" and described it to his own satisfaction, | A new Seeker may well talk for two hours about his entire life. A Seeker who already had a session this morning will probably give me a minute or two about what he has noticed since his last session. I don't care. He talks until he has looked at "Where he is now" and described it to his own satisfaction, | ||
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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?," | + | |
- | Whatever the Seeker thinks of is fine with me. Anything he imagines is a proper answer. It could be a state of mind, an emotional state, a mental attitude, a spot on the highway, a physical position, a logical computation, a social position, a role he plays, etc.. It can be 10,000 years in the future, impossible by definition, in his wildest dreams, in another dimension, in a parallel | + | This is the POTENTIAL, FUTURE, IMAGINE, MOCK-UP, CREATIVE side of the process. It is not a tightly worded |
+ | * "What might happen?" | ||
+ | * " | ||
+ | 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. | ||
- | I don't even care if it is really from the future or not. I often have the Seeker | + | Whatever |
- | I once had a session in which "Where I Might Be" | + | I don't even care if it is really from the future or not. I often have the Seeker tell me a place he "might be," and in the process of describing or comparing it, he realizes it is actually an incident from his past. Fine! He snuck up on a REGRESSION by putting it in the future to make it more confrontable! Of course, that is also a possible future place, as he might be there again someday. You might notice this selection method is very similar |
- | Notice that this same dream might also have come up on the past leg of "Where I Was, this morning." | + | I once had a session in which "Where I Might Be" was the dream I had this morning and analyzing the dream by comparing it to where I was now was profound, and took me all the way up to " |
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+ | Notice that this same dream might also have come up on the past leg of "Where I Was, this morning." | ||
This future leg of the process helps the Seeker discover his future, or lack thereof. It allows him to create new futures, and to change his mind and revise them. It lets him separate his goals, fantasies and possibilities from the actuality of his present time, and see how his future, or lack thereof, is actually created by him in the NOW. | This future leg of the process helps the Seeker discover his future, or lack thereof. It allows him to create new futures, and to change his mind and revise them. It lets him separate his goals, fantasies and possibilities from the actuality of his present time, and see how his future, or lack thereof, is actually created by him in the NOW. | ||
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This is simple and easy because you are not trying to figure out what the Seeker should put his attention on, and when he should take it off. You don't have to find, assess or analyze mysterious stuff in the dusty far corners of his mind to pick a minute obscure topic or " | This is simple and easy because you are not trying to figure out what the Seeker should put his attention on, and when he should take it off. You don't have to find, assess or analyze mysterious stuff in the dusty far corners of his mind to pick a minute obscure topic or " | ||
- | Since that is all that is needed, anything additional would be an unnecessary complexity and distract the Seeker from his important work. The less the coach / therapist / Witness does, and the less attention the client / Seeker has on him, the better UCP works. If the | + | Since that is all that is needed, anything additional would be an unnecessary complexity and distract the Seeker from his important work. The less the coach/ |
- | Seeker is so absorbed he forgets the Witness is there . . . Wonderful! | + | |
- | 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 " | + | |
- | Whatever he talked about on Step 1, I just want him to compare that to NOW . . . which may still be what he described in Step 0 . . . but quite likely has changed considerably since then. | + | This step has the Seeker compare the selected " |
- | By " | + | Whatever he talked about on Step 1, I just want him to compare that to NOW . . . which may still be what he described |
- | This step could be two sentences, or it could take two hours as he looks back and forth between the two scenes over and over again, seeing more and more clearly, and describing things in more and more detail and texture | + | By " |
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+ | This step could be two sentences, or it could take two hours as he looks back and forth between the two scenes over and over again, seeing more and more clearly, and describing things in more and more detail and texture until he loses interest in this. | ||
In order to compare the two elements, the Seeker essentially has to view both pictures, incidents, viewpoints or whatever at the same time. This in itself is extraordinarily beneficial to him. | In order to compare the two elements, the Seeker essentially has to view both pictures, incidents, viewpoints or whatever at the same time. This in itself is extraordinarily beneficial to him. | ||
- | Most people' | + | Most people' |
- | They compulsively identify with whatever that is as " | + | |
- | When the picture flips to a different channel, it's still " | + | When the picture flips to a different channel, it's still " |
The constant discipline of comparing builds the ability to view two viewpoints, pictures, etc., at the same time. This forces them OUT of the picture they have been IN, and gets them to adopt the viewpoint of the being who is looking AT the pictures. This DIFFERENTIATES them from the pictures they have been compulsively dramatizing, | The constant discipline of comparing builds the ability to view two viewpoints, pictures, etc., at the same time. This forces them OUT of the picture they have been IN, and gets them to adopt the viewpoint of the being who is looking AT the pictures. This DIFFERENTIATES them from the pictures they have been compulsively dramatizing, | ||
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If their attention is on only one item, they can interiorize into it and BE it. When they confront two pictures and compare, it is very clear that they are neither one, but the viewer of pictures. | If their attention is on only one item, they can interiorize into it and BE it. When they confront two pictures and compare, it is very clear that they are neither one, but the viewer of pictures. | ||
- | This is an enormously important spiritual capacity to develop. It builds enormous self-awareness of the Seeker as the creator of his own universe, and greatly enhances his ability to knowingly create himself and his future. This simple ability is far beyond the realm of most individuals who believe themselves to be spiritually advanced, but are actually quite thoroughly lost in pretense | + | This is an enormously important spiritual capacity to develop. It builds enormous self-awareness of the Seeker as the creator of his own universe and greatly enhances his ability to knowingly create himself and his future. This simple ability is far beyond the realm of most individuals who believe themselves to be spiritually advanced but are actually quite thoroughly lost in pretence |
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+ | While doing UCP, you will normally see many different kinds of weird mental phenomena, known variously in different disciplines by many arbitrary terms, appear with a vengeance and disappear again with no fancy complex rigid process commands, no chains of earlier similar incidents, no tricky diagnosis or evaluation of what is wrong, or what to do, no hypnotic suggestions, | ||
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+ | Just let them describe similarities and differences as long as they have interest. It might be a few words. It might be many minutes of analysis and cognitions. You don't have to worry about " | ||
- | While doing UCP, you will normally see many different kinds of weird mental phenomena, known variously in different disciplines by many arbitrary terms, appear with a vengeance . . . and disappear again with no fancy complex rigid process commands, no chains of earlier similar incidents, no tricky diagnosis or evaluation of what is wrong, or what to do, no hypnotic suggestions, | + | When he is satisfied he has seen what he wants to we move on. |
- | Just let them describe similarities and differences as long as they have interest. It might be a few words. It might be many minutes of analysis and cognitions. You don't have to worry about " | + | **3. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?** |
- | You controlling his attention is always DESTRUCTIVE to HIS universe. You just easily and naturally follow his lead to what HIS attention is on. | + | |
- | When he is satisfied he has seen what he wants to . . . we move on. | + | This step of the process simply has the Seeker select something already existing that his attention |
- | =3. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?= | + | This leg of the process |
- | This step of the process | + | |
- | 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 " | + | **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' | 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' | ||
- | 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, | If the Seeker is heavily in DENIAL or DISASSOCIATION, |