able2beWhat happens in a session of Thought Pattern Management?
“The mind has great knowledge and wisdom within itself and through TPMTM we endeavour to use that knowledge and wisdom for positive outcomes.” Robert Fletcher, the developer of TPMTM. Having established with the client the problem, the practitioner talks to the client, taking them through a Thought Pattern Management process, in which the client’s conscious mind has little to do because the practitioner is addressing the client’s unconscious mind and getting responses from the unconscious mind via movements of the client’s arm or finger. Working in this way, has three main advantages: the client does not relive past events consciously; the unconscious mind is capable of processing information and completing huge tasks at an incredible speed and the doubts and typical negativity of the conscious mind does not impair the good work. TPMTM can be applied to emotional, mental and physical difficulties.
Thought Pattern Management.
Thought Pattern Management has been developed since the 1980s by Robert Fletcher, from Utah, USA. I was very fortunate to learn Thought Pattern Management from him personally on one of the two courses he has taught outside USA. These are his words about TPMTM:
“Thought Pattern Management is not a medical process. Neither is it a psychological or therapeutic process, although it can be used to accomplish many of the same ends desired through medical and psychological fields of endeavour. Thought Pattern Management is the study and use of processes to educate and bring about change within the mind and the body.
Since the mind runs the functions of the body, when change is made within the mind corresponding changes often occur within the body. Also as mental pathways are cleared, many emotional and psychological problems simply go away. They cease producing the negative symptoms of illness.
Through the principles and techniques of TPMTM, the mind / body connection becomes immediately evident. Every thought in the mind has a corresponding body response. Every movement of the body causes a corresponding response in the mind. One does not function independently of the other. This interplay of action and reaction follow set patterns developed over the lifetime of the individual. No two people have exactly the same interactive patterns. They are as individual as fingerprints. Fortunately there are similarities of these patterns and this allows us to generalize the communication processes needed to bring about desired change.
For the purpose of simplification, we consider the brain and the mind as being separate entities. The brain is part of the physical apparatus through which the mind operates. It is composed of cells, molecules, atoms and subatomic parts as well as chemical and electrical functions. The mind is the operator of the brain and also the body. The mind is composed of the intelligence that runs the functions of the physical apparatus. The brain can be divided into parts and functions. The mind can be divided into levels. Whether the divisions are accurate or not is not important. The terms are simply communication devices for transferring ideas from one person to another and so long as each accepts the terminology, that is enough.
In other words, TPMTM is mental plumbing. Just like pipes that could carry anything, from water to gasoline, TPMTM deals with the mental systems rather than the content that moves within those systems. TPMTM deals with the processes of getting the right information to the right locations. Thought Pattern Management differs from Neuro-Linguistic Programming in that NLP mainly manipulates content while TPMTM manipulates process. The two programs NLP and TPMTM go hand in hand and may use many of the same tools but have a slightly different emphasis. Through TPMTM we ask the mind to make its own changes setting up its own ecology as it does so. Negative responses and abreactions are an extreme rarity in TPMTM .”