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There are many ways one could explain processing. Basically we want to increase the client's awareness and enable him to see causes of things related to his own life, situations and issues. This is done in session where the practitioner or auditor asks questions or gives directions to her client. We see the preclear (client) as a spiritual Being with almost unlimited potentials. Auditing is a system based on two way communication and guidance that helps the preclear to overcome his own artificial barriers and release his own powers and constructive nature (goodness). We are not trying to teach the preclear anything in session. Once he understands a few definitions and the rules that auditing follow, he simply has to find his own answers under the auditor's professional guidance. The following is a chapter from Clearbird's book "What Makes You Tick? Clearing of Spirit-Mind-Body". It has been edited so it can be read and understood by itself.

In this article Auditor and Practitioner are used as synonyms. For clarity the auditor is a "she". The Client or Preclear a "He".

In explaining what processing is, we will in this article start by explaining what the practitioner uses as an aid: the so-called E-Meter. The Meter is an instrument used to monitor what is going on in the client's mind. It basically measures electrical resistance of the skin and especially minute rapid changes of this resistance. Countless experiments have shown that these changes are not caused by the client's sweating and "unsweating", as claimed by critics. The resistance can rise from 5,000 ohms to about 20,000 ohms without any measurable drying out of skin. The resistance can fall from 20,000 to 5,000 ohms in a matter of seconds without the client's hands becoming wet and sweaty. The client will subjectively feel a pressure on his head and body lift accompanying this reduced resistance. He will experience a shift of mental activity and outlook. The conclusion is that thoughts are real; they have physical mass and resistance to electricity. The changes in resistance are caused by a shift of mental masses, produced by thought, in and around the body.

These mental masses are produced by the client, knowingly and unknowingly, usually in the form of mental image pictures. Heavy experiences and trauma, such as Engrams and Secondary Engrams, will have mental mass. Contacting these mental recordings will cause a considerable reaction on the Meter. Recent upsets, problems, scares and minute pains will react instantly as well but less dramatically. The interesting thing is that conscious thoughts and ideas will react with a slight delay; about 1/4-1 of a second after the question is asked. Recordings with different types of reactive charge, negative emotion, pain, etc., will react instantly. Those are the mental masses created unknowingly. The instant reaction is due to the fact that the reactions bypass analytical thought. They are the instantaneous stimulus-response circuits of the Reactive Mind. Thus, a trained practitioner can easily sort out the things that need attention from those that are only stray or undisturbing thoughts. The practitioner, by asking the right questions while watching the Meter, will rapidly be able to assess what should be pursued in order to be relieved in the client's mind and what should be left alone as pursuing it wouldn't lead to any relief or improvement. She will, on purpose, seek to restimulate a small section of these reactive thought circuits as that gives the client and her something to work with, without overwhelming the client.


An instant Read following a question or statement shows that there is some charge that can be taken up and processed to its End Phenomena.	A Floating Needle usually means that a process has been completed. In major processes the End Phenomena consist of Floating Needle, Very Good Indicators and a new realization (Cognition).

The picture below shows a session in progress and how the Meter is fitted in. Small changes in mental masses are seen on the Needle. Bigger changes in electrical resistance are also seen on the Tone Arm (TA), that has to be adjusted manually. Processing instructions and questions are designed to restimulate targeted mental masses in the preclear's Reactive Mind (Bank). It is important not to reactivate or restimulate more charge than the client can currently handle. A gradient scale approach is taken. The rule is, however, if an issue gives a large reaction it is ready to be taken up. It will discharge effectively. Issues that are hot in theory but not ready to be taken up, will not give any instant reaction. This convenient fact is due to how close to the line of consciousness the issue is.

If the issue is hidden or thoroughly repressed it will not react. If the preclear only needs a targeted reminder to become aware of it, the subject will react on the Meter in response to the auditor's questioning. Once a hot issue is found, the preclear is made to talk about it and the mental mass connected with it will go through a series of changes. The Needle and the Tone Arm will move up and down. This shows that the mass is discharging and becoming less solid and disturbing. The mass (which is actually a mental recording) will eventually disappear and the preclear will feel great relief. What happens, is that live communication is capable of discharging the harmful energy held in these masses. With Einstein we can say, 'masses get transformed to energy'. The energy is easily discharged through live communication by a skilled auditor. Processing, then, consists of: the auditor asks a charged, a hot, question. This causes a targeted restimulation in the preclear's Bank.

The preclear looks for an answer to the question in his Bank and finds it. The preclear tells the auditor the answer to the question. This causes a little discharge (destimulation) of his Bank. The auditor acknowledges the answer. The same process is continued until such a time where all the charge it restimulates has been discharged. At that point the auditor will see a relieved and happy client. The preclear will usually express a new realization, called a cognition. A Floating Needle will show on the Meter dial. The significance of the Floating Needle is that it tells the auditor that the process, most likely, is a completed cycle of action. The practitioner does not, however, end off until she has ensured that the preclear is happy and relieved as well. When this happens, she knows it's time to stop and find another hot issue to process.

Basic Auditing Skills
There are three basic skills the practitioner must master to perfection in order for processing to work:

The first and most fundamental skill is actually session communication; it includes a professional presence. This is what we explained in chapter 3, "Live Communication". The skills learned in the basic communication drills are the auditor's primary tools in controlling the session in a professional and competent manner. The auditor is in control. Yet, she must give the preclear center stage completely and abstain from any remarks containing distractions, judgments, approval or disapproval, negative reactions, etc. All such remarks are called either evaluations, invalidations, or distractions. The whole idea of processing, is that the practitioner lends the client additional analytical mind power in order for client and practitioner, now working together seamlessly as a team, to become greater than the client's Bank. The wild content of the preclear's Bank will discharge against an auditor who is exterior to its content and can demonstrate unflinching presence and control over it. When this is established, processing will work. If the client would try to sort out things on his own, he does not have sufficient distance nor analytical powers to penetrate these occluded and repressed memories, and other mechanisms, of his own mind. When the practitioner, with her level of expertise and level of professional discipline, adds her analytical powers to the client's, the Bank does not stand a chance. It will continuously be discharged until such a day when it is completely gone.

A process is a set of questions or instructions the auditor uses. It could be two questions asked alternately. It may be counter-intuitive to some, just reading about it, that a session is scripted and the script is that simple. The questions used to resolve an issue are, however, very carefully chosen and have been worked on and tested for decades. Also, the auditor has over 1,000 processes to choose from. The issues are, in the first place, the subjects the preclear wants handled in his life. The auditor composes a program of processes to use. Sometimes, this is done by a case supervisor (technical director) who also ensures the quality of the delivery. The case supervisor, if available, is a behind-the-scenes technical expert that does his work from reading sessionreports.

Any issue has to be tackled using the gradient scale approach. The client should at any point feel comfortable enough to stay the course. The auditor never tries to overpower a client's protest or unwillingness as that works against the overall purpose of enlightening and empowering him. Use of theMeter helps the auditor (and case supervisor) establish the right gradient of processes for the situation. The use of a scripted process helps the auditor to avoid steering up more charge than the preclear is ready for. It ensures that one particular process is completely discharged before it's left behind. Any process is run to its specific End Phenomena. For any major process this consists of 1. Very Good Indicators visible on the client. He is happy and relived. 2. He expresses a realization or cognition. 3. A Floating Needle is showing on the Meter. When all 3 are present it signifies a considerable release of charge and end of cycle for that process. Going beyond that point detracts from the benefits. A major issue may be taken up in a dozen different processes and in this manner be perforated like a Swiss cheese before it finally falls completely apart as a negative force.

The approach with scripted processes, use of the Meter, and very non-distractive, but competent, behavior on the part of the auditor, makes auditing a game that ends in "victory as usual". It is very predictable to the preclear in terms of what is going to happen. The only wild variable is what experiences and fixed ideas he will find in his own mind and memory and how it suddenly can explain a dozen things gone haywire in his current life.

The overall goal of processing is to enable the preclear to eradicate the Reactive Mind, piece by piece. Once the Reactive Mind is completely gone, the preclear is said to have achieved the State of Clear. He is no longer a pre-clear (meaning: before Clear); he is Clear! Clear is a stable state of being where the person can live life to its fullest and easily deal with new problems in life. This state can usually be reached in about two hundred to a few hundred hours of processing.

Auditor's Code
The Practitioner's Code, or "Auditor's Code" as it is usually called, is a professional code that guides the practitioner's professional conduct in and around sessions. The complete code can be found in the appendix. The principle the code is designed around, is to make

the session as safe as possible for the client and to empower him to completely concentrate on the issues at hand. There should be no second thoughts of repercussions, moral judgments, fear of secrets being leaked, or any fear of not having enough time to deal with the issue. In many types of practices sessions are run by the clock. When the hour is up the client is told "sorry, your time is up" regardless of what difficulties the client momentarily is in. Not so in Clearing Technology. An important principle is to run each process to its conclusion (End Phenomena) before ending a session. You don't contact an incident where the client is being run over by a truck just to tell him "sorry, your time is up. See you next Thursday." Once a process is started and working, you take it to its conclusion of: client happy and relieved and a Floating Needle showing on the Meter. If that takes three hours, that's how long the session will be. The emphasis is on completing cycles of action successfully. Incomplete cycles, after all, is a common denominator of what got the preclear in trouble in the first place.

The Meter Again
We have already explained some aspects of metering. We can add that a trained practitioner gets intense training in using such an instrument and can determine a number of things from the type of reactionof the Needle a certain question produces.

There are various ways the auditor can demonstrate the Meter's workability to a new person. One common demonstration is called the pinch test. The practitioner has the person hold the electrodes (cans). Then she pinches the person's arm so it produces a pain. She asks the test person to recall the pinch he just received. It will produce a small Fall of the Needle. Usually the test person will re-experience the pain of the pinch as well. A few seconds later, she asks the person to again recall the pinch. Again, the Needle will react. This is repeated a few more times and it will gradually be seen that the reaction becomes smaller and then disappears. The re-experiencing of the pain ceases

. A variation of this, is to tell the person to recall the pain after waiting a moment without saying when he does this. The practitioner will be able to recognize the same type of reaction on the Needle and indicate exactly when the client recalled the pinch.

Another demonstration is to have the test person "recall the events of today" but remain silent. The test person will look over what happened and run into small irritations and upsets; maybe some confusing situation. The auditor is observing the Meter in the meantime. At some point she will see a characteristic Needle reaction or pattern. She will say "that!" and ask the person not to reveal what it was but remain silent. She directs the person to think of other things and after a while, again, think of the incident, unknown to her, that produced the reaction. When she sees the same pattern she says, "that was the same event!" The person will, to his amazement, realize that it was.

>This experiment illustrates that the Meter will reveal recent incidents that is on the preclear's mind; but maybe not the kind that is ruining his life. These types of incidents are, however, routinely taken up in the beginning of a session and discharged to a Floating Needle. The only difference is that the auditor will be looking for an instant Read to a question. Discharging a concern or distractive event may only take a few minutes. The reason they are of interest, is to enable the preclear to have all his analytical power available to him when the bigger issues, the ones he is there to resolve, are being tackled. If the preclear comes in and is upset or confused about recent events, those should be addressed first and resolved before turning to the main course of the session.

Another illustrative demonstration is to have a test person hold the electrodes while being asked simple daily life questions; like how old he is, where he lives, his name, etc. The demonstrator is, however, going to interrupt and upset the test person in various ways. She will interrupt his answer, forget to acknowledge; ask a second question before the test person has had a chance to answer the first one, etc. Soon the test person will feel charged up, somewhat upset, and certainly in no mood to continue the conversation. The demonstrator will show the test person that the Needle now has a ragged irregular pattern of small ticks and jerks. It is said to be a "Dirty Needle". She will now change the demonstration and use perfect session communication. She will ask the test person what considerations he has on the drill and acknowledge each answer he gives. She can pursue persistent Needle patterns to get all his thoughts and incomplete answers. At some point the test person will brighten up and, again, feel comfortable and listened to. The parties are now said to be in good two way communication.

All the small ticks and jerks of the Needle have disappeared and the demonstrator shows the test person that the Needle is now "clean". This demonstrates also that the Meter first reacts on the smoothness of the session and only secondly on a preclear's issues. The formality of the communication drills is not only to be polite but necessary to make metering smooth and auditing occur. If the preclear has to cope with the auditor's social or rude manners, attempts to be entertaining and interesting, and has to adopt a social polished attitude himself, the effectiveness of the session is reduced to a fraction of what is desirable and possible. The preclear should be allowed to completely concentrate on his issues and the auditor's primary functions are to make it safe to do so and to be a competent guide into the Terra Incognita of the preclear's mind.

The Meter is, in other words, a very useful instrument. The simple language of the Meter is that a read on a question means "Yes"; a no-read means "No". "Are you upset about something?" followed by an instant Fall; means, "yes, I am upset." The auditor's task is now to have the preclear find the exact upset and help him clear it up. If there is no read on 'are you upset about something?' it means there is nothing on the preclear's mind. The Meter is simply a compass that points the auditor in the right direction. The real skill of the auditor is to ask the preclear the right questions, smoothly keep him going deeper into the Terra Incognita of his mind, and know when an issue, large or small, is resolved and end off there. All this put together, is what makes auditing fast, effective, and a joyful experience.

Level of Participation
Processing is best described as a discipline of self-improvement. The objectives are to empower the client to better "know thyself" and to experience greater freedom because "the truth will set you free", to quote some old sayings. It is distinctly different from a medical cure. It is not something that is done to a preclear. In medicine we typically have a doctor who administers drugs or surgery to a patient. The patient is the passive recipient of a cure for his ailment.

This model is not used in Clearing Technology as active client participation is required. The goals are removal of reactive charge in the Bank. This removal results in higher awareness, higher understanding and appreciation; greater vitality and outreach, and courage in taking on new and bigger games across the different spheres of life. One determining experience is for the preclear to recognize his true spiritual nature, which is a very empowering occurrence. A preclear can have such a realization at any time. Some clients will experience "exteriorization" in processing. They are capable, as a result of having mental burdens removed form them, to move out of the body as a sentient Being and perceive the world around them without the use of the body's senses. Such experiences are described repeatedly in literature under "Near death experiences" or "Out of body experiences"; the difference is, in processing no threatening death or danger is necessary, no use of drugs is ever suggested.

To exteriorize a preclear is, however, not a goal the auditor works on directly. The goal is to remove charge and enable the preclear to play a better game of life. Exteriorization in auditing only happens if the preclear is ready and willing

For the preclear to get the optimum gains from the processing, it is important to understand that this comes about as a result of the client's self-determined efforts in response to the processes. The auditor is a facilitator, not an administrator of a cure. She can "do everything right" without bringing about the desired result if she doesn't educate the client properly in what is expected of him or doesn't have his active participation.

The preclear has to adopt a healthy life-style while being audited. He should eat healthy foods, get enough sleep, not get himself into too much trouble in life and refrain from taking mind altering drugs and medications. In case he cannot follow such a regiment right away, the best thing to do is to put him on a life-style program in order to bring some order in his daily life. Once this is established, the preclear can receive auditing with great benefit. This is not a moral statement but a practical precaution that ensures that the preclear actually gets the gains he hopes for. In this world, where advertising will promise him anything in order to make a sale, it may be the surprise of his life that these gains actually are obtainable in a field that doesn't have many successes to brag about

Outline of the Grades
In processing there is a sequence of Grades the preclear is taken through. You could compare it to a curriculum in education. A number of basic abilities all Beings have, to a greater or lesser degree, are rehabilitated fully. The sequence of these Grades is established as a workable gradient scale approach to increasing ability. The Grades consist of about 300 main processes available for use.

Where applicable, any process or issue is taken up from different points of causation, called the 4 Flows. When looking at an issue (say, "being late for important appointments"), we are interested in situations: 1. where it happened to the preclear; 2. he was causing it to happen to another; 3. he witnessed a similar occurrence among others; 4. he clearly caused it to himself. This is run as 4 different sub-processes, each to its End Phenomena. Add to this that each process can be run on a number of issues, tailored to the preclear's case. This makes the total number of processes available end up in the thousands. In other words, the practitioner has all the firepower she will ever need in her arsenal. Which processes are actually needed vary. It is determined from interviews and session data as auditing progresses. Since the Socratic Method is used, it is an "education" in one's own true capabilities and hidden wisdoms rather than transmission of data from a teacher to a student. The preclear will "find the truths he has always known" and will realize many truths he had long forgotten. This will come to him, one cognition at the time, at the end of each process.

Before the Grades are embarked upon, the preclear's current difficulties in life are taken up and "cleaned up". The first action is called Life Repair. It is designed to take care of the stress and difficulties currently on the client's mind and in his life. This, by itself, can be a life changing experience. Issues and situations the preclear was convinced were permanent can suddenly give in and be cleared away. Relationships, new and old, are routinely repaired by removing the charge left behind from upsets, misunderstandings, conflicts of interest, accumulated secrets and problems. Here is a short list of the major Grades actions.

Life Repair:as described above. It cleans up the preclear's current relationships, upsets, situations and life.
Once the Life Repair is completed the objective is to enable the preclear to cover new ground and release his hidden potential of abilities in different areas. The Grades form a natural sequence to bring this about.

Recall Grade: Processes the preclear's ability to recall. Improves memory and is an important preparation to the following actions.

Grade 0, Communications Release: Processes the preclear to become more outgoing and easier in his communication. Ability attained: Ability to communicate freely to anyone on any subject.

Grade 1 Problems Release: By auditing problems the preclear's ability to "play a better game" improves (chapter 10). The goal is to make the preclear cause over his problems rather than conclusively 'solve' them all. Ability attained is expressed as: Able to see source of problems and capable of making them vanish.

Grade 2 Relief Release: As discussed under "Confessional Techniques" in chapter 7, bad deeds and secrets tend to be major blocks to action. It is also what is behind guilt and shame. It is a major factor in poisoning relationships. This whole subject of bad deeds and secrets is taken up on this Grade and thoroughly reviewed. Upon completion of this level, the preclear will feel: relief from hostilities and sufferings of life. It's about taking enough responsibly to be able to "forgive and forget"; both things done by the preclear, but also things done to the preclear.

Grade 3 Freedoms Release: This grade concentrates on two subjects; the preclear's ability to cope with sudden changes in life and with upsets. These are oftentimes closely related. Some of the techniques were described in chapter 6 under the heading ARC in processing. The ability attained is stated as: free of upsets of the past; ability to confront the future.

Grade 4 Ability Release: Operating on fixed ideas and prejudice, rather than using fresh observations and data, is a sure way to get oneself into trouble. Grade 4 concentrates on inspecting various types of such fixed ideas. There are types of pre-conceived thought and justifications a person routinely uses in order to prove others wrong and confirm his own rightness. If and when a person uses this type of thought to replace sound judgment it may lead to disaster. In processing, any such fixed ideas the client uses are uncovered and all related charge is handled. When this is done, the preclear will be able to confront and handle tight situations better. Ability attained from Grade 4 is: moving out of fixed conditions. Ability to do new things.

Grade 5, Engram Clearing: Finally there is Engram Clearing, the handling of effects of physical and emotional trauma. Engrams and Secondary Engrams have probably already been taken up in other contexts to address specific issues. On this Grade we use, among other things, inexplicable pains, negative emotions, attitudes, and disabilities as the clues to uncover past events. Any and all of these discomforts that can be made to read on the Meter, and has preclear's interest, are systematically taken up. We use a high powered technique that typically will take the preclear back to earlier existences and unbelievable incidents. This is metered processing and neither the preclear nor the auditor has to "believe in it". The auditor simply uses her Meter as a compass and goes where it takes them. On this level preclears routinely go Clear. If it doesn't happen, there are other techniques to accomplish it. There are two possible outcomes from Engram Clearing: 1. a well and happy Being (but not Clear). The inexplicable pains, unwanted emotions and certain disabilities were traced back to their roots and erased from the Reactive Mind; or 2. the State of Clear. The State of Clear is defined as: A Being, who no longer has his own Reactive Mind.

There are other actions a preclear will typically receive early on and along the way. Usually, if the preclear has had any history of drug use, this subject will be taken up early on. Since the detailed actions of processing are covered extensively in other of our publications, such as "The Guided Tour to

Standard Technology" and "The Road to Clear" series, we will have to refer the readers to these books for the detailed information. Besides this 'curriculum' of Grades, many other processes and so-called rundowns (procedures) exist to handle different parts of a person's life. These make up a 'menu' of special actions that are very helpful to some preclears but unnecessary for others. There are rundowns to help people become better and brighter students; better executives; get over the trauma of pregnancy and delivery; recover completely from recent injuries or operations, etc., etc. These are all special applications of the basic principles set forth in this book. The issues the preclear brings to the table may be all he needs and wants to take up. Since auditing is a client-driven program he can stop there. The Grades, however, is a journey or bridge to a higher level of beingness, doingness and havingness in all parts of life.

There is a whole echelon of advanced procedures that a Clear person can embark upon. Here, the goals are clearly spiritual. The ultimate goal, in our terminology, could be said to be full pan-determinism along all Dynamics. It could tentatively be compared to goals described in Eastern practices. Many of these advanced levels can be administered long-distance once the client is educated. The client, first of all, needs to receive training in Solo-auditing. This is done person to person. He will learn special skills, including how to use a Meter on himself. When the auditing starts, he will be in session by himself running special solo processes. He will be under the supervision of a case supervisor, who reads his session reports and gives very specific written instructions; this part can be done long-distance. Solo-auditing is only possible with the proper training and after the person has gone Clear. The client has to be capable of holding his ground when contacting advanced spiritual issues. Also, it takes the supervision of a sharp case supervisor (comparable to a mentor) in order to work.

Besides receiving processing, many clients take shorter courses in the applied philosophy and technology. The most popular course is the Communication Course that is built around the Training Routines. It increases a person's ability to confront and communicate across the boards. Another popular course teaches the Objective Processes to lay people. These and other courses, give clients a hands-on experience that enables them to help friends and family with many simple but powerful data and processes. It gives a practical understanding of relationships and the mind they can apply to their lives. Taking such training will widen and stabilize the gains possible through processing and is a strongly recommended.

Here is a Chapter from Clearbird's New book, "What Makes You Tick?" Supplied courtesy of Clearbird Publishing.

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