IMPORTANT: Do not change or stop any medication or medical treatment without the consent of your doctor. This process is not currently a replacement for any form of medical care.

Summary


This page explains the process that restores people to their full potential by undoing baseline emotions and beliefs acquired during childhood.

This process uses the principles of exposure therapy, one of the safest and most effective psychiatric treatments known. Exposure therapy works by safely re-exposing people to the source of their uncomfortable emotions. With repetition, those emotions gradually weaken.

Interacting with a picture of a person whose face is imprinted safely reactivates emotions acquired during childhood. With repetition, those emotions gradually weaken, become less easily triggered, and the problems they cause begin to improve. When the process is completed, the emotional effects of childhood experience are completely undone, restoring people to the full potential they were born with and leading to the kinds of transformations outlined on the introductory page.

This process also disconnects the motor linkages formed during childhood. (See the Movement, Joints, and Skill page for details).

What you’ll need


You’ll need pictures that show the faces of the people whose faces are imprinted. 

• If the person was an adult when their face was imprinted (such as a parent), any adult photo will work.

• If the person was a child at the time (such as an older sibling), a photo from around that age may be preferable.

• If you have several pictures, select those that evoke the strongest emotional response.

The process

• • Talk to the picture. The goal is to emotionally connect with the person in the photo.

  • Say how you feel about them: what you appreciated, what hurt you, or anything else that keeps you emotionally engaged.

  • You can also talk about how you feel toward yourself, including any guilt, shame, or self-blame that comes up.

  • The hardest things to say usually help the most. Try to say what feels most uncomfortable.

  • Maintain eye contact with the person in the picture, even while you're talking.

  • If that feels too intense, start by just glancing at the picture occasionally. As discomfort lessens, work toward making steady eye contact.

Duration

• • Spend five to ten minutes per day with each picture. It is not yet clear whether longer sessions add benefit.

  • Doing this three to four times a week usually brings noticeable change within six to nine months.

  • The more often you do it, the faster change happens. Doubling the number of days per week will roughly double the speed of change.

  • Once change is noticed, more change will show up every few weeks or months.

  • All change is permanent.

What to expect

• • This process typically brings up sadness, fear, or anger.

  • Sometimes strong emotion will come up in daily life that makes it feel like no progress has been made. This can last for days or even weeks. When the emotion settles, the improvement will be clear again. These periods often mean that real change is happening.

  • Done properly, exposure therapy does not re-traumatize people, even if they were severely traumatized.

Caution

• • Never do this process with the actual person whose face is imprinted. It only works when you talk to a picture.

  • Medications, alcohol, or other substances that alter emotional responses can slow or halt progress.

Additional information

• • This process works at any adult age, as long as the brain is healthy.

  • It works even if you have no clear memory of the person. For example, if a parent whose face is imprinted died when you were two or three, looking at a photo of them will still help.

  • If more than one face is imprinted, working with just one of those faces can still lead to major improvement.

Children

• • This process may work with children as young as six to eight years old, or even younger.

  • Because children’s baseline emotions and beliefs are still taking shape, change in children may happen more quickly than in adults.

  • Exposure therapy in general works well in children and often produces faster results, so this method may do the same.