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2. If the voice disappears

As you try these experiments — and the others in the chapters that follow — you may occasionally find that a voice entirely disappears, or you find a way to deliberately make it disappear — for instance, by moving the voice so far away into the distance that you can't hear it at all.

Sometimes when a voice disappears that is an indication that a voice has reorganized in some way so that it no longer needs to talk to you. Perhaps it has completely integrated into who you are in a useful way. When this happens, you will not only feel relief from what it has been saying, you will likely also feel an added wholeness, a feeling of being more than you were before.

This experience of a troublesome voice disappearing — along with a greater feeling of wholeness — happens frequently in a process called "Aligning Perceptual Positions" developed by my wife Connirae Andreas. This process uses location to sort out our different perceptions and organize them, resulting in personal integration and clarification. An article about this process can be found on my web site at: http://www.steveandreas.com/Articles/comaligning.html. A complete demonstration of this process is included in the DVD Training: "Core Transformation — the full 3–day workshop" available from RealPeoplePress.com.

However, at other times the disappearance of a voice may not be so useful. Despite its unpleasantness, often a voice has some very important information or protective function. If you lost the voice you would also lose that information or protection; you would lose a part of yourself, and possibly something that was very valuable. The voice may have been overcome, or smothered, or hidden, but not integrated, and it will likely emerge again later to cause trouble again.

In order to avoid this, I always like to bring the voice back in and find a location and direction that makes it possible to comfortably hear what it is saying. That way you can talk with it, and find out if the voice might still have some important message for you. If it does, you can continue to modify it in some way, using some of the other methods in this book. If the voice calmly tells you that it has nothing more to say to you, then you can safely allow it to disappear again. The overall goal of this book is to teach you how to transform a troublesome voice into something much more useful and supportive, not to eliminate it.