Hi,
When we are doing Inner or Age Regression, the most important factor governing its success or failure is whether the client is regressed back to his/her ISE, the Initial Sensitizing Event, i.e. the very first of his/her past experiences which lead to the problem.
How can we tell it is the ISE or not?
We have a lot of verification procedures to check. But even we check, we still cannot 100% ensure that it is the ISE!
However, all ISEs have a common characteristics. It must be related to a Primary Emotion. It can be Fear, Anger, Sadness and/or Disgust. When we could not handle the ISE at the time of happening, the emotion could then be further complicated with Subsequent Sensitizing Events (SSE) appearing. As a result, Secondary Emotions like boredom, annoyance, grief, remorse, jealousy are thus evolved.
The more serious and persisting problems usually have an ISE of Fear or Anger. Fear and Anger are the 2 emotions directly related to survival. This makes the problem so long-lasting. It is our basic instinct to survive. A persisting problem can be seen as a misunderstanding of threats to survival!
When you regress someone to ISE, check whether the emotion is primary or secondary. This saves the therapist's and the client's time and effort.
Keith
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