EFFORT PROCESSING
  1. the bank can be considered to have three layers. Effort-Emotion-Thought. Effort buries emotion. Emotion buries thought. A physical aberration or physical disability is held in place by a counter-effort. Effort processing removes the effort which uncovers the pc's own emotion and removes the emotion which uncovers and blows the pc's thoughts and postulates about the disability as these are the aberrative source of it. (BTB 1 Dec 71R IV)
  2. processing which lifts up for emphasis the fact that only one's self-determinism is important, and that the efforts and the counter-efforts against it are the aberrative factor. Rediscovering times for the preclear when he gave up his self-determinism, and erasing the efforts involved in these postulates and incidents is giving back that individual's happiness and assisting him to move again in a survival direction. (DAB, Vol. II, p. 105)


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