BSFF & THE iSt 9X9 GRID
Don presented the team’s findings on this “iSt 9X9 grid” at the Energy
Psychology Conference in San Diego on May 11th 2001. He then graciously
presented and demonstrated it for two hours at my post-conference BSFF training
seminar. Don is not only brilliant; he is a superb caring and compassionate
counselor. I was very impressed while watching him work with several people.
Don and his team have discovered that head and eye positions, in all of their
possible combinations, can hold (be anchored to) different aspects of our
problems/issues. It is routine practice in the energy therapies (myself
included) to muscle test with the person's head and eyes in the same position
for all testing. Don has discovered that this will typically cause us to miss
detecting and treating some problems without our realizing it.
Conceptually this idea fits in well with Roger Callahan’s “eye roll”
procedure. The idea being to roll the eyes in a full circle in each direction
while treating the presenting problem to assure treating every eye position
where a problem may occur. Callahan’s “floor to ceiling” eye movement is
in the same category, I think. But, the iSt research team is showing us that
this is only part of the story.
Not treating for all possible eye and head positions may well account for why
some treated problems return. We have always thought, according to our muscle
testing results, that we were finished treating some issue, especially when we
had treated many problems around some issue. But we may well not have been as
thorough as we thought.
In fact, my early application of the iSt 9X9 process indicates that I may
have almost never been completely finished with treatment issues. Given this
discovery, I am somewhat puzzled that so few problems have returned with my BSFF
work all these years.
Don and his team have made a brilliant discovery, I think. I am very thankful
that the team chose to share this discovery with us now. They are still
systematically exploring these things, but we are ahead of the game by having
this discovery revealed now.
I hate to think how my work would have remained so incomplete if I had not
learned this from Don now. I have always emphasized the importance of
thoroughness of treatment to maximize healing, and in order to limit the
likelihood of problems returning. The iSt 9X9 finding is a quantum improvement
in assuring greater thoroughness. Whew! I am so thankful to have this new
understanding.
In Don’s conceptualization there are 81 possible combinations of head and
eye positions. He views the head positions, and also the eye positions, as if
they were on a grid that looks like a tic-tac-toe game board. Each position on
this grid could be a head position, and/or an eye position.
Therefore there are 9X9=81 possibilities where hidden problems could be
anchored. That is, there are 81 possible combinations, any one of which could
have a problem related to the one we have identified, but which we would
probably miss detecting and treating if we restrict ourselves to our usual
muscle testing strategy. Ouch!
I think that it could even be more complex than this. Don agrees that perhaps
the head being tilted to the right or left could add many other possible
head-eye combinations as well. Let’s see. The math gets tricky for me here.
Adding two sides of head tilt (right or left), does that make 9X9X two more head
positions? No, I guess it just adds 9X2=18 more head-eye possibilities for
problems to be anchored and triggered. That would make 99 possibilities in Don’s
schema.
And, of course, we do not know if just conceiving of this as head-eye
positions within each grid is finely tuned enough. There could be even more
gradations of positions within each grid. The nervous system is so finely tuned
that even very small changes in head or eye position might be anchored to the
development and triggering of problems. This means that the problem may be
triggered when only a very slight change of head-eye position occurs, no matter
what grid we are considering.
That is, perhaps a specific problem would be triggered in a very specific and
precise position and never in any other head-eye position—even one that is in
the same head-eye grid. Or possibly, any combination of head-eye positions could
be anchored to one specific problem whether or not there are other related
problems in other head-eye positions.
We do know that the subconscious mind is very literal, specific and precise
about word meanings. So, it seems plausible that it will react equally as
precisely to minute changes in head-eye positions as the triggers for our
psychological problems. (And perhaps in combination with many other body
experiences and positions as well?)
The math is getting really outrageous now. And probably irrelevant. There
seem to be an almost infinite number of possible head-eye-body position
combinations—right down to cell-by-cell possibilities. Fortunately, Don and
his research team are doing some very systematic, methodical work on these
things. It will be fascinating to see what they uncover next with all this
stuff. They are making some fantastic contributions to our knowledge in energy
psychology.
As I understand it, Don usually tests and treats many or most of the 81 (99?)
possible combinations of the various eye and head positions. He does collapse
them into one instant treatment sometimes, as well. And he has discovered other
ways to shorten this procedure, as well. But I am not inclined to using the
slower multiple position testing and treatment. So, I just go for the instant
procedure and combine them all into the same treatment.
Therefore, I now add this instruction to the subconscious mind.
"Subconscious mind, whenever you treat any problem(s) that I notice and
cue you to treat, you will also automatically include in the treatment:
A) every related problem that is in any way associated in my experience with
the problem I am treating,
B) including all problems that have ever been established or can be triggered
in all possible combinations of head and eye and body positions that I was in
whenever each of those problems was being created or experienced at any time in
my life, and,
C) you will now go back and add all of this additional treatment work to
every problem that I have treated with any energy therapy method in the past.”
Muscle testing confirms that the subconscious will accept and instantly
implement all three parts of this instruction.
Also, I always give this part C instruction whenever I add some new
instruction to the subconscious. It always does the retroactive work instantly,
no matter how extensive it has to be. It truly is an amazing faithful servant in
so many ways!
Question: I'm eager to start using iBSFF but I've some doubts about the
procedure.
Is it just describe the problem (in negative or positive?) and say the cue
word after the instruction to the subconscious mind has been set? That's it?
I’d appreciate your answers as soon as possible since I'm eager to start my
work with iBSFF.
Answer: Yes. That is all there is to it. Just consciously notice that you
have some problem and use your cue for it. You may or may not know what the
problem is or have any labels to identify it. No matter. Just notice it and
treat it. Your subconscious will faithfully respond to your cue word(s) and your
intention to eliminate the problem.
Your subconscious mind does the actual treatment work. You simply cue it to
do so. You give the overall instructions to the subconscious just once. You
never have to give them again--unless you tell your subconscious mind to stop
using your word for treatments. Then it would stop working immediately.
However, if you wanted to use the treatments again, you would simply tell
your subconscious mind something like, "my subconscious mind, I instruct
you to reestablished the BSFF treatments just as we did before I told you to
cancel them." You would not have to repeat the original instructions again.
Your subconscious mind would remember what they were and immediately implement
them for you again. It truly is a faithful servant in a great many ways.
I appreciate your kind remarks about the help you have gained from BSFF. I,
too, consider it a total gift from God. I merely get to be the joyful messenger
to share it with the world. I am so blessed to do this work.
Warmly,
Larry
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