Reframing Outline

(1) Identify the pattern (X) to be changed.

(2) Establish communication with the part responsible for the

pattern.

(a) "Will the part of me that runs pattern X communicate with

me in consciousness?"

(b) Establish the "yes-no" meaning of the signal.                                      

(3) Distinguish between the behavior, pattern X, and the intention

of the part that is responsible for the behavior.

(a) "Would you be willing to let me know in consciousness what

you are trying to do for me by pattern X?"

(b) If you get a "yes" response, ask the part to go ahead and

communicate its intention.

(c) Is that intention acceptable to conscidusness?

(4) Create new alternative behaviors to satisfy the intention. At the

unconscious level the part that runs pattern X communicates

its intention to the creative part, and selects from the alternatives

that the creative part generates. Each time it selects an alternative

it gives the "yes" signal.

(5) Ask the part "Are you willingto take responsibility for generating

the three new alternatives in the appropriate context?"

(6) Ecological check. "Is there any other part of me that objects to

the three new alternatives?" If there is a "yes" response, recycle

to step (2) above