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How does it work? How is it that people are able to be resonators with/for other strangers?

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IoPT sessions work on the basis that everything we have experienced is stored in our memory. To use the metaphor of an iceberg, explicit memories are the experiences we can consciously see and remember. And below sea level is our implicit memory, which includes the memories we had to dissociate from when the trauma happened because it was too much and unbearable.

Formulating an intention is a way to delve into our implicit memory. Each word in that sentence carries information from our implicit memory. We say it’s like scanning through our biography, step by step, intention by intention. And through the process, we get the chance to update the system of our psyche. In an IoPT session, the energy and information presented by the resonator may make their surviving strategy conscious and may bring up trauma emotions in the process holder that have been suppressed all their life. The therapist supports the process holder to help them remember, to help them connect with their healthy identity and will. The aim is to process now what happened back then—what could not be dealt with when the person was a small child. Because when the person is here now, they have people around them to provide full support, and they can begin to trust and feel safe with themselves.

That’s the theory. But I don’t know fully how this works; no one knows now. I just know it works. I don’t think it adds anything for the process holder to know exactly how it works. I tend to think the resonating part of it is the same innate skill as when you’re a parent to a newborn child and you can sense what they need. We, as humans, ascend when it’s required. According to Dr. Ruppert, we do have a sense for bonding with people that works similarly to other senses like seeing or hearing, on a subcortical level. This sense is very precise. (When you meet someone, you know, you sense something.)

When the process holder has decided, “I want to go through this process, here is my intention,” something is put into motion. When people get the opportunity to express themselves and show exactly who they are, including their traumatized past—and be met with love and compassion—that in itself has a great effect.