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What sorts of issues can I address in a private session? Is anything off-limits?

Pat tells clients, "The only patterns you can't change are the ones you don't acknowledge."  Based on that, everything, and anything, is fair game.  It all depends on:

1. What you want more of in your life

2. What you want less of, i.e., what 'problems' you would like to be a non-issue

•   Just now, think of three concerns (chronic or recent) that you'd like to be non-issues. 

What if they werenon-issues?  Take a moment and imagine how that would feel.   What relief, and changes, might you see, hear or sense around you?

•   Now, think of three enhanced qualities-of-life, and physical-world  results that you'd like to add to your life. 

Imagine how your life would be different with these positive changes.   What desirable shifts would you sense, see, or hear around you?

If you want more abundance and success...better health...or better relationships, you can address those issues.  If you desire more inner peace and confidence, or a satisfying love relationship, you can address those.  If you want to feel empowered and masteror mistressof your own life, that's entirely appropriate.  

Would you like to know that you are on-track.....and using more of your potential?  Would you like to be and feel more aligned with your life's purpose?

Because of the unique dynamic of the Essence Repatterning process, whatever issues you address overtly will inevitably result in positive changes in many areas of your life.  (Pat promises very soon to post an article about a few of the more unusual issues people have addressed with good success.)

What form does the session take? 

•  Establishing your natural success programming: The session begins with you identifying two to four areas in which you already feel successfulvery small or large, recent or long agoit doesn't matter.  To the unconscious, success is success. 

The point is that we all have success tracksthose positive patterns that we've learned to rely on in various areas of our lives.  Again, we're all programmed for successand happinessat the cellular level. This is your birthright.   Essence Repatterning is about teaching you to expand these existing success tracks into other areas of your life.

•  Setting your agenda: Next, Pat will ask you to identify the issues you'd like to address during the session; that is,  what you'd like, by the end of the session, to know and feel that you've made some progress in, even subtly. (You'll revisit these issues at the end of the session so you can see where this focus has taken you.)

  Then Pat will ask you to identify how you'd like to experience the session itself.  If you feel stuck in answering this, she might ask, "Would you like to feel relaxed...or tense?"  (Most people choose the former, but the point is that you are at choice in how you experience it.)  "Would you like to feel inspired...productive ...safe...peaceful...stimulated...or  excited, for example?" 

•  Identifying patterns: Then, she will ask you what specific patterns you already suspect may be holding you back.  As you explore this, Pat will offer you insights that reflect how these patterns may have originated and played out in ways you might not have noticed.   She will work with you to elicit, in a gentle, detached way, the truth of this for you.  She will also prompt you to identify what opposite, positive patterns you'd like to be activating.

During this exploration, Pat will offer you insights that, to her, may seem 'out of the blue', but that usually end up being 'right on' for youoften providing a link that makes perfect, poignant, sense.

•  De-Activating the old/Re-activating success: When sufficient issues have been identified for repatterning, you will stop and be guided in how to de-activate, or repattern this layer of patternsand also how to activate their opposite, positive, flip sides.

•  Next layers: When that is complete, you will know something has shifted and be ready to address the next layer of issues that you're now ready to de-activate.  

•  New ground! By the time the session is complete, you'll know the specific new ground you've claimed insidethe new levels of freedom and focus that you have achieved.  You will also know how to continue integrating this.

•  Revisiting your objectives: At this point you'll revisit your objectives for the session and see how they influenced the particular issues that you've addressed.

•  New world view:  As the session closes, Pat will suggest that you take a little  time for yourself as things continue to percolate.  Your whole world view has changed, both by the new information you've opened toand also the internal shifts that you've instituted through the Essence Repatterning process. Eventually you will see how this new view affects virtually every area of your life. 

•  Continuing the process/Claiming your changes:  By the time the session ends,  you will have specific tools to use to continue deepening the process and claiming your changes.  This latter point is important because often the changes become so organic, that you forget how it was.  By actively noticing and acknowledging your changes, you accelerate your progress.

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FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions):

•  How is this process different from what I already do? After all, I do make changes eventually.

Ordinarily, individuals only make significant shifts in their attitudes, beliefs, and experience when they are under extreme stress and after much work and worry. In those instances, when the changes do occur, they often seem to unexpectedly 'pop' through, out of the bluemuch to their relief.

To better understand the difference in approaches, think of a time when you experienced that much-desired changefinallyand perhaps wondered, "How did that happen?

You may have even thought, "If I only knew what I did so I could do it again."

With the Essence Repatterning approach, you have identified specifically what you want to changeand you know how you changed it, step by step. Furthermore, as you use the process, you are learning to master your own creative process, and how to access more of your natural brilliance. You also are learning how to free up more of your natural resources---and how to use them more efficiently.

•  Is this process very emotional, or traumatic?

Since the process is guided by your high self, which will only bring up things you are ready, and sufficiently comfortable, to address, it is not  overly emotional.  It is actually a pretty detached approach, for Pat will guide you in  looking at things very objectively:  patterns are patterns.  She says, "We are only identifying these patterns because we know that they can, and will, be changedon the spot, layer by layer. 

•  How does Essence Repatterning compare with psychotherapy?

First of all, it is different from psychotherapy.  That healing art is about creating relationship with the therapist and working out issues within that relationship.   Essence Repatterning is actually a re-education process.  In this process, you are identifying patterns, and parts of yourself, that are ripe for repatterning..  As you do this, you actually are bringing yourself up-to-datewith who you really are today, rather than hanging out in patterns from childhood.

Pat has trained psychotherapists and medical doctors in how to apply this process in their practicesand with themselves.  She has also worked with many in those professions as clients.

At the end of a session, it is not unusual to hear, "We did more in these two hours than I did in 20 years of therapy."  

As one therapist explains it, "Psychotherapy is about relationship and the evolutionary change that comes from that.  Essence Repatterning is about more immediate change, layer by layer."

•  Is Essence Repatterning for everyone?

Essence Repatterning is specifically recommended for healthy individuals who want their lives to work better. It is not recommended  for those with psychiatric disorders, although there are medical doctors who are using it in controlled settings within their psychiatry practices.  There also are psychotherapists who are using it to create significant, rapid progress with their clients.

•  Are there those you specifically recommend it to?

Yes.  Essentially, Essence Repatterning is for those who know that…if they always do what they've always done, they'll always get what they've always gotten. In other words, Essence Repatterning is for those who know that if they want things to be different, then they have to do things differently.  This approach offers a step-by-step process for doing that.

• How does Essence Repatterning compare to NeuroLinguisticProgramming (NLP)

Those who have worked closely with both approaches often say that they find the Essence Repatterning process offers a shortcut that is faster and easier to implement.  They also report that it allows them to address issues in a broader, deeper way.  

•  How long does the process last?  Do we ever get it done?

You may have heard the saying that "We are spiritual beings having a human experience."  As such, we are always learning, growing and expanding.  In Pat's evolving focus, she now values the importance of ensuring that this expansion and growth always includes, first and foremastthe expansion of our happiness, pleasure and joy.  Then the learning is rich and easy. 

Do we ever get it done?  No. We are here to experience more.....more what?   Pleasure.....pain, adventure.....boredom:  it's up to us.   So there may be times when we feel stuck.....in a rut.....or simply baffled by the results we are getting, or not getting.  Then it can be useful to draw on those resources that can help us, not only get to the bottom of the problembut to actually resolve it in an empowering, measureable way we can track. 

•  What if I want to schedule a session with Pat in person? 

She is available for in-person sessions in Eugene, OR.  You may  contact her by email to schedule a two-hour session at the standard rate of $95 per hour.

•  How do I make an appointment? 

  E-mail us with your name, phone number and preferred times of day, plus the preferred days of the week, you wish to schedule an appointment. (Include several if you can.)

  • Note: Pat is located in Eugene OR, in the Pacific Time zonethree hours earlier than the East Coast, etc.

  • We will call or e-mail you a list of open time slots. Choose one that fits your schedule and notify us of your selection via email. We will contact you with the phone number to call for your session..

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Pat McCallum

Essence Solutions, Inc.

Eugene, Oregon

 

Telephone    (541) 344-3600

Fax              (541) 344-5079