PAIN asks us to heal by focusing not only on the place the pain is felt but also the actual way the pain is felt. Pain is a form of alertness and particularity; pain is a way in.

• Exploring your concerns in conversation until a mutual understanding is reached regarding your issue.

• On this basis, you are invited to make a practical wish about what you want to change. This wish guides the direction of the action phase in the session.

• A common starting point is choosing the experience of a moment in life relating to your issue.
  

• This moment is then recalled and the process can include -
  

• sensing this experience in the body
  
• expressing the experience through gesturing, visualising, drawing, or claywork
  
• entering, exiting and beholding imaginatively the inner dynamics
  
• gaining insights 
  
• through deeper work and using sounds, changes can be made to the vibrational patterns of the experience held in your body. 

• This non-verbal way of knowing offers a transformational and developmental approach for you to gain skills of self-management for use in everyday life, not just during the session.
  

• Drawing, painting and clay-work may also be used at home, as well as in the sessions.
  

  Using sounds feels like I’ve broken down a black box that I’ve been inside.

  Each time I make a sound and gesture I give myself more space…

  I had negative thought patterns & behaviours I was able to break down with sounds…

  I’ve involved the whole of me to heal the whole of me, not just the mind.

_{^{I never quite understood what had happened to me and what impact it had on me, and why I was affected so much...}}

_{^{It was amazing to find out and to have a greater clarity and understanding about past hurts and triggers… I mean first I had to gesture the situation, feel it, find a colour and sound and then at the end was the clay.}}

_{^{The clarity of seeing the relationships, seeing it in clay was quite profound for me...there was a different perspective completely.}}

An introductory article about one person's experience of Psychophonetics