PART

Introduction to P.A.R.T.

So, my experience with CART being more effective than the Flash Technique (which is super effective), caused me to wonder what The Flash Technique might be like if there were additional resources going on.  If the CART technique is basically the Flash Technique on steroids, then how can we add steroids to The Flash Technique.  That’s the goal, anyway.

Enter The PART (Personal Activation Reduction Technique)

The PART technique is my attempt to add steroids (other parallel internal resources) to the Flash Technique.  I’ve added three “steroids”.  First, I include a mantra that counteracts whatever your emotional raw spot is and secondly “V” breaths.

What are the modifications to The Flash Technique that are being added:?

1)  Develop and practice a soothing mantra that counteracts whatever your internal raw spot is.

• • As an example, my emotional raw spot is organized around, “Am I really worthy of connection?”  This shows up with having to unlearn patterns of performing for love.  So, in helping me embody a felt sense of worthiness, for a while I used a mantra sang in a slow song that simply says, “I am worthy, worthy.  Who I am is worthy.”  I found that finding a slow repetitive cadence of singing that song helped me embody a felt sense of worthiness.

2).  “V” Breaths simply are breathing in deeply and very slowly exhaling while making a “V” sound.  You are attempting to make your diaphram vibrate.  When that happens it sends a signal to your brain that you must not be under threat.  Then your brain starts believe that being in a state of anxiety is not necessary and less anxiety / stress hormones get produced.  This is a technique I learned from listening to a Peter Levine training.

3)  I have people tap their chest soothingly or do butterfly hugs instead of simply tapping.  I believe that the body somatically feels this as an additional internal resource that is even better than tapping.

I’ve found it to be effective sometimes quicker than The Flash Technique (which is super effective).  And I attribute the effectiveness again to Memory Reconsolidation Theory.  The difference is just that more resourced states (more positive wiring in the brain) is firing while we almost think about the threat.

So, my job is to come up with a preferred experience to think about.  The more I can embody it, the better (basically more of the pre-frontal cortex lights up).  And then I metaphorically decide what the newspaper title of my threat is.  I come up with a newspaper title without going into all of the thoughts, feelings, and emotions that are caught up in the story.  I acknowledge that in the newspaper, there are thoughts, emotions, and feelings.  But, I just name that fact rather than light them up experientially.  Then I tap my chest left / right calmly (with butterfly hugs) about a second and a half apart.  While I am tapping, I am lighting up my preferred experience.  And while I am in my preferred experience, I am singing a soft mantra of “I’m worthy” with a soothing cadence, as you might lullaby a child to sleep.  Then when I get a good rhythm doing that, I morph the mantra from the language of “worthy” to the “V” breaths.  However, in my mind’s eye, I assign the meaning of “V” breath to my mantra “I’m worthy”.  So, my body is getting a preferred sound for stimulating my diaphram with the “V” breath, my brain is getting the preferred message of I’m worthy, and I’m in an internal resource.  So, all that is happening and every 4-5 taps, I flutter my eyes as prescribed in The Flash Technique.