...I want to present here one most interesting «discovery» which would be very useful for any clearing practitioner.

As anyone who has practice knows, the hardest work with the viewer usually is in the very beginning, where you have to make a so called «Life Repair». There are lots of ways to do it, and I think, every tech director has his own way to run it. It may consist of anything – from simplest procedures like «repetitive prepchecking» (also called «unblocking» in this text) on hot things in life to various complex handlings and «rundowns».

But no matter what you do with your viewer, there is one thing which must be there. If it is not there, then «nothing works», no matter what you apply and what magic rundown you invent to «handle his case».

It’sa what? or What is Itsa?

Introduction

I have been working as independent clearing practitioner (facilitator) for about 7 years by now. At first, I was using «standard tech» as it was understood by members of the group which I was a part of – namely, Ron’s Orgs in Russia. I studied Academy Levels up to Class IV Grad and was delivering «the bridge» from the bottom all the way up to «Clear State». Much time followed since I left the old school groups, and I want to present here one most interesting «discovery» which would be very useful for any clearing practitioner.

As anyone who has practice knows, the hardest work with the viewer usually is in the very beginning, where you have to make a so called «Life Repair». There are lots of ways to do it, and I think, every tech director has his own way to run it. It may consist of anything – from simplest procedures like «repetitive prepchecking» (also called «unblocking» in this text) on hot things in life to various complex handlings and «rundowns».

One simple basic

But no matter what you do with your viewer, there is one thing which must be there. If it is not there, then «nothing works», no matter what you apply and what magic rundown you invent to «handle his case».

More to that, if you know that simple basic law about cases, just after your first interview with a certain person you can tell at once if she will have successes from viewing or not. If she is doing it, it will work on her. If not – it’s a failure.

That basic simple thing is called «itsa». Itsa is a process when a viewer looks at thing in her mind and can recognize them, saying «it’s a…», and that’s how the name for it came out.

There is also a procedure called «the viewing cycle». I have found the surprising number of those who managed to «make» all the lower Grades through, including Clear Attest, without knowing that thing at all. They weren’t doing any viewing; in essence, they were «analyzing» their own case just by superficial viewing results.

Looking at the number of such occurrences, I realized that nowhere in available materials I ever met any thorough descriptions of what exactly a viewer has to do in session to «get it». Everybody seemed to know about itsa, but nobody ever bothered to explain what it is, how it works and what to do if it is missing in the cycle.

That hole is what we will try to fill in here.

viewing cycle

First, I’ll remind you the steps of viewing cycle. Here they are:

1. The facilitator sees that the viewer is ready to receive the viewing instruction.

2. The facilitator gives the instruction.

3. The viewer examines his world to find the answer (or execute the viewing instruction).

4. The viewer reports what he has observed, or that he has executed the instruction.

5. The facilitator notices when the viewer has finished reporting and acknowledges the report.

6. New cycle started from (1) above.

All in all, also 6 steps.

If this cycle works, something happens. By the old famous rule, you do not have then to do anything else – just be there and watch the process. If cycle does not work – nothing happens with the case, and you have to do something about it. See below.

what is not that clear?

Now if you look at those steps you may notice that all of them are quite mechanical (easy trained actions), except steps 3 and 4. Exactly these steps are out when viewing or any technology «doesn’t work». So, we will pay a closer look to these steps. Everything else is just comm cycle which is easily trained by standard communication exercises.

For a long time, I was looking for methods how to teach a viewer to make these steps. The best thing I found appears to be quite far from clearing field – it was created by mainstream psychologist. The approach is called «Focusing». There are many books and manuals written about it, but the first one to study is 'Focusing' by Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. - Bantam New Age Books.

focusing – the missing descriptions

What follows is a lightly edited excerpt from The Focusing Manual, chapter four of Focusing.

The inner act of focusing can be broken down into six main subacts or movements. As you gain more practice, you won’t need to think of these as six separate parts of the process. To think of them as separate movements makes the process seem more mechanical than it is – or will be, for you, later. I have subdivided the process in this way because I’ve learned from years of experimenting that this is one of the effective ways to teach focusing to people who have never tried it before.

Think of this as only the basics. As you progress and learn more about focusing you will add to these basic instructions, clarify them, approach them from other angles. Eventually – perhaps not the first time you go through it – you will have the experience of something shifting inside.

So here are the focusing instructions in brief form, manual style. If you want to try them out, do so easily, gently. If you find difficulty in one step or another, don't push too hard, just move on to the next one. You can always come back.

1. Clearing a space

What I will ask you to do will be silent, just to yourself. Take a moment just to relax . . . All right – now, inside you, I would like you to pay attention inwardly, in your body, perhaps in your stomach or chest. Now see what comes there when you ask, «How is my life going? What is the main thing for me right now?» Sense within your body. Let the answers come slowly from this sensing. When some concern comes, DO NOT GO INSIDE IT. Stand back, say «Yes, that’s there. I can feel that, there.» Let there be a little space between you and that. Then ask what else you feel. Wait again, and sense. Usually there are several things.

2. Felt Sense

From among what came, select one personal problem to focus on. DO NOT GO INSIDE IT. Stand back from it. Of course, there are many parts to that one thing you are thinking about – too many to think of each one alone. But you can feel all of these things together. Pay attention there where you usually feel things, and in there you can get a sense of what all of the problem feels like. Let yourself feel the unclear sense of all of that.

3. Handle

What is the quality of this unclear felt sense? Let a word, a phrase, or an image come up from the felt sense itself. It might be a quality-word, like tight, sticky, scary, stuck, heavy, jumpy or a phrase, or an image. Stay with the quality of the felt sense till something fits it just right.

4. Resonating

Go back and forth between the felt sense and the word (phrase, or image). Check how they resonate with each other. See if there is a little bodily signal that lets you know there is a fit. To do it, you have to have the felt sense there again, as well as the word. Let the felt sense change, if it does, and also the word or picture, until they feel just right in capturing the quality of the felt sense.

5. Asking

Now ask: what is it, about this whole problem, that makes this quality (which you have just named or pictured)? Make sure the quality is sensed again, freshly, vividly (not just remembered from before). When it is here again, tap it, touch it, be with it, asking, «What makes the whole problem so ______?» Or you ask, «What is in this sense?»

If you get a quick answer without a shift in the felt sense, just let that kind of answer go by. Return your attention to your body and freshly find the felt sense again. Then ask it again.

Be with the felt sense till something comes along with a shift, a slight «give» or release.

6. Receiving

Receive whatever comes with a shift in a friendly way. Stay with it a while, even if it is only a slight release. Whatever comes, this is only one shift; there will be others. You will probably continue after a little while, but stay here for a few moments.

If during these instructions somewhere you have spent a little while sensing and touching an unclear holistic body sense of this problem, then you have focused. It doesn’t matter whether the body-shift came or not. It comes on its own. We don’t control that.

fOcusing: upgraded by a clearing practitioner

First note is that basically there is no special tech behind this approach, this is a free-style steering to a much degree. But anyway there are certain things, I'd say - basics, which are somehow usually get omitted from sessions, which is very very sad indeed.

So... by steps.

If we compare these two things – cycle of viewing and cycle of focusing, we can create a very interesting holistic procedure which will be so to say self-unfolding for a viewer.

So, let’s do that.

1. Clear the space

Looks very similar to rudiments and evident. Viewer has to relax and feel his space. Notice if there anything anywhere where his attention is attracted. Find it and look at it. Ask it, what is it (he does not answer that himself, let his feeling tell him, just wait for an answer. We do not need any «oh, I know this» things. We do not view any «knowns», we look at «not-knowns»).

Find things, spot them, ask them what they are. Do not go into them. After he spotted it and recognized what it is, just put it aside. (Facilitator puts it on his worksheet with a read, of there is one). Just indicate to it: OK, this is to be taken into account.

Repeat it until all things that bother you are spotted and taken into account. Facilitator now has a list of them. You do it until you can feel that your space has no more things in it, and you now are able to put all those things in a stash aside and give yourself a space to breathe and work.

2. Choose one thing to work with

That's where facilitator must ask you to choose something that you really want to view. Whatever you choose. Usually my viewers choose the same one which I'd give them - the one with the most baseline (tone arm) action. Sometimes they ask me to do this for them. Thus the work is clean.

Here I want to add some description and my evaluations of it. «Felt sense» that Gendlin mentions here is very specific thing. It means «the whole feeling of the thing». I would term this «movement» as «itsa maker» – the step where a viewer «looks at his case». This is a very very important step which often is dropped. What you do here is just be there with your feeling and try to get it as a whole – and you are silent, you do not break the itsa maker line by analytic evaluations. In some sense, this is «keeping the facilitator’s code» on by the viewer oneself . All he has to do is just stay with the feeling long enough to let it «speak» at the next step. This is a simple action – first you get the mass, then you look at it, then you say it’s a …. Do not skip the first two phases.

Do not go into it. What we need to get here is something called «felt sense». This is a holistic body-mind-emotion something which you sense when you view the chosen thing. It can be very very complex and unnameable. You do not have to name it on this step, just tune in to it and sense it. Embrace it with all it's complexity. Be with it as long as you want, take your time. On this step baseline usually go up, sometimes as high as 6. This is OK. You have to contact all the mass in it. Do not talk, just sit back and sense it as a whole. And do not do any stupid things about «instant reads» or whatever like this - no, do not interrupt the inner communication of the viewer in no way. Relax and watch you meter. Forget all stuff about being fast and hard and catch the reads. We do not need them here. Watch the meter, listen for dixie it plays now... :)

3. Usually it starts to talk now

If not, you just put all your attention to it, and try to feel it's quality, what is it, what is the most appropriate description for it. Do not tell it yourself, do not apply analytical forces of habitual interpretation machines to it, just wait until it will pop up in your conscious mind all by itself. At this point facilitator have to be very attentive and start to steer a viewer by meter blowdowns, note any long-falls and falls by half-acknowledgements. Half-acknowledgement does not mean that viewer must say anything about what he sees. Viewer just uses this as guiding notes. Baseline at this point start to drop heavily. Itsa occurs. Answers at first look may seem very strange and illogical. This is OK: case is not logical at all. It will clear up in the end anyway. Let it talk by itself. «It's a...»...

4. Itsa

Real itsa, if you are patient enough to wait until it happens, gives here a big baseline blowdown, for several units, sometimes from 6 to 2. And here is a usual rule applies: do not interrupt the blowdown. Let it happen and let your viewer talk, if he wishes so. Run out all itsa and repeat the steps again from 3 or maybe 2, looking at the state there is now.

5. Processing

If you get stuck, unblock it by any appropriate question or procedure. Here is the place where your tech training applies. Steering / clearing step.

What I do here is handle all things that read, by repeater tech: viewer has to compare the «names» he itsaed to the thing he has there as a felt sense and look if there is still anything unnamed and unviewed.

Any charged postulates - we repeat them as long as they do not F/N. I F/N each one. Or trace it's changing until we get the basic of it. Then I go back and F/N everything we touched upon on the way. Sometimes it is discharged already, sometimes not. Just check all things to be sure. Usually I say something like «Look if there is anything beyond the description we found, just consult this felt sense again».

This step can be very long, sometimes there are lots of incidents coming up, but I do not run any techniques on them, I just ask a viewer to get a «felt sense» which is at the base of it («Take your time, do not speak, just tune in into it») and then repeat same steps as above. Of course if he speaks I listen, but just as long as baseline acts. If it is not, I ask my viewer to focus again and feel it, instead of shallow talking.

And we go like this, F/Ning everything that we were able to get and view. We are not interested in any explanations, calculations and other talk-talk stuff, what we look for is real felt release of it. We erase it. No key outs. Check every reading thing until it just dissolve.

Now you work like that. You remove loads of charge. You do not run any «items». Just do these steps.

Sometimes even actual GPM thing pops up all by itself. When you removed enough charge, you will notice that your viewer mentions same things over and over. These can be things like «roles» that he or certain people play in their life again and again, this can be felt senses which are very hot and do not disappear from view easily, these also can be very persistent goals. You pick them up by meter and steer your viewer into them. After some time, he will tell you with certainty what the «item» is.

Then you make an expanded unblocking on the item (again, be sure not to interrupt the inner communication of a viewer - rather let him to sit a minute or two and look at it, do not start to push him after the first read).

Sometimes, I also use auxiliary processes. This can be anything. If there is a difficulty with some action, I mock up a process based on «reach-withdraw» principle regarding the action. You may also expand it with 4 flows, 8 types of suppression by flows (see TROM), whatever. There are lots of very useful unblocking tools in Grades sheets etc. It takes time to become versatile with using them up to a needed point, and to be able to pick them up as fast as they are needed. You can run simple memory, comm processes on charged terminals, problems, done/withheld, upsets handling, unfixing, right/wrong, as long as you feel it is appropriate here. That's an art, anyway. :)

F/N everything. And... At a certain moment, viewer will start to recognize that there is a certain structure to his karma, which is there. He will link parts of it like jigsaw puzzle. Charge will flow by tons when he will get the right items to the right place. You can also unblock any items it there are any. You can unblock the roles. You can unblock emotions - whatever gives you good baseline action.

Facilitator of course have to listen and calculate here. He must be a step ahead of the viewer and trace any and all items mentioned, and verify each one for interest and charge. No line plots are build by facilitator, he just marks whatever the viewer says and keep a log of it.

6. Check

Check if anything else needs clearing now. Repeat the steps, if needed.

Summary

Make a good work of a viewing cycle, do not miss the focusing step, and this will work like a wonder. It did on me and my viewers.

Any questions, comments etc are welcomed.