Reference: The Book of Subject Clearing
Reference: Running Hubbard’s Processes with Subject Clearing
When clearing the subject of life, the first target is always the traumas in a person’s life. A trauma is an incident that has a beginning and an end.
People have different conditions in life that they want to handle. The difficulty that the person is trying to resolve could be a body condition, such as, an autoimmune disease, or a continually recurring illness, painful symptoms, etc. Or, it could be a mental condition such as panic attacks, depression, compulsion, obsession, etc. Or, it can be a combination of such conditions.
All such difficulties seem to be connected to certain traumas in a person’s life. So, the main target for addressing a person’s difficulty is the clearing of the traumatic incidents connected to it.
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The Traumatic Incident
The incident that affects a person the most are traumas. They contain pain and unconsciousness. Most of the details of such an incident are submerged into his subconsciousness. He is resisting to look at those details because they are very painful. At the core of those painful details is a moment of shock.
Some traumas are so deep that the person is not even aware that they exist. Birth is such a traumatic incident. Most people have no memory of the moment of their birth, because it is a very painful and traumatic event for both mother and child. The child is squeezed through a narrow birth canal, and then suddenly exposed to a harsh environment as compared to the comfort of the womb.
The birth incident is the source of many autoimmune conditions and other difficulties. Once a person is able to re-experience the birth incident with all its pain, sensations, emotions and feelings, a remarkable change comes about. Many of the unwanted conditions disappear.
But the mind offers the birth incident to run only when it is ready. Therefore, we simply clear the incidents that are available. The birth incident may appear sooner or later. It should not be rushed.
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Clearing an Incident
A person usually knows the difficulty that he would like to handle. It could either be a physical or a mental condition. Or, it could have elements of both, such as, a psychosomatic illness. To address that difficulty he starts with an incident connected to it, which he may spot right away.
To clear that incident, the person lets his mind replay that incident from the beginning to end until he is fully aware of all its content. This may require several replays. He may use commands such as the following.
“What is the date of the incident? What is its duration?”
“Go to the beginning of the incident and perceive what is there.”
“Move through to the end of the incident.”
“Review what happened.”
The person first locates the time and place of the beginning of the incident. Once he is reasonably certain of the beginning he lets the incident replay in his mind. He does not think, but simply watches and re-experiences the sensations, feelings and emotions contained in that incident. He does that until he reaches the end of the incident. He then reviews what he perceived.
During each replay he checks if the incident could have started earlier, and focuses on the new details emerging during the replay. He replays the incident again and again as long as new details are emerging and the incident is becoming clearer. The difficulty may also lighten up as the awareness increases.
If the difficulty still persists, he looks for an earlier incident connected to this difficulty. When such an incident is found then he starts from the beginning of the earlier incident. He proceeds as he did with the first incident, and replays it till there are no more changes. He looks for earlier and earlier incidents connected to the difficulty.
He may end up with a chain of incidents connected to the difficulty. After he has run each incident individually, he may scan through the whole chain of incidents from beginning to end. He may come up with later incidents also as a part of this chain. The idea is to run the whole chain of incidents that are connected with the difficulty from as early as possible to now. This may lighten up the difficulty considerably.
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Handling the Difficulty
Running the incidents as above may bring the difficulty to remission, and the person may now strengthen his discipline and remain free of that difficulty. But the root cause of the difficulty still exists and the difficulty can flare up under stressful circumstances.
A deeper remedy would require the handling of identifications (attachments) the person is carrying unconsciously with worldly things. It should be emphasized that the person is not aware of these identifications so he cannot control them with self-discipline.
At the root of these identifications are misconceptions.
Only after all available incidents connected with the difficulty are cleared up, that one targets the identifications, and then the misconceptions, to handle the root cause of the difficulty.
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