Charged topics, like life, exist on several levels. The levels do interact inductively on each other, but it is a lot more efficient to address each directly (not necessarily one by one, although that can be done).
You can address a person mainly on a physical level, by a massage, say. A person can feel wonderful after a good massage, with no talking whatsoever. In fact it would be a distraction, as one just wants to relax and "be a body" for a while.
A person can address a topic mainly through the physical etheric band of sensation, effort etc. In recreating an incident or series of incidents to run, the client mainly focuses on recreating the efforts, the masses, the pressures, the sensations, the pains, without worrying about the think.
A person can address a topic through the emotional level. In recreating an incident or series of incidents to run, the client mainly focuses on recreating the emotions, the feelings in the incident, without worrying about the think.
A person can address a topic through the mental level. In recreating an incident or series of incidents to run, here the client mainly focuses on recreating the thoughts in the incident.
A person can address a topic focusing mainly on the higher spiritual levels too.
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This fits in with the subtle energy model of a person as per my usual illustration. The blue level next to the skin* is the physical etheric level holding the sensations, the next level with the coloured blobs is the emotional level, the thick yellow level next is the mental level, with the higher levels outside those. If one conducts all auditing on the mental yellow level, the only way of getting at stuff in the other levels is by induction. Changes at the mental level will impinge on the emotional level, but it is not the same as addressing the emotional level directly. I mean, look at the enormous difference between saying, "I was pretty unhappy with it" and sobbing your eyes out for ten minutes.
Session dope-off (not low blood-sugar) might start at a think level, but by the time it has got to the body level (body starts to go to sleep) it is difficult to handle from a think approach. In session with an auditor right there it is still possible, because the auditor will stay awake and kick the pc awake enough to keep looking with what little awareness is left and answer the questions enough to finally dig him out. But solo? Forget it. I remember solo auditing sessions in the CofS where I got lots of sleep slumped over a correction list. The staff didn't really care as it was "auditing hours"!
Standing up and pounding the wall is not at the think level at all. And it is a very effective solo auditing (or PaulsRobot, more to the point) tool in one's arsenal. Very very effective. PaulsRobot wouldn't work without it because most of the procedures are very intense. The general expectation is a 20-30 minute hell-for-leather session with the blood (well, yawns etc.) flying, not a 2 hour gentile question-and-answer session. And deliberately going after something with that much charge can easily result in being overwhumped — STAND UP! immediately and stamp your feet and so forth and we're off to the races; slump forward and try and find the right thoughts and you're laid out for half an hour.
Now, you still haven't found the reason for the dope-off, but in many cases it doesn't matter. If the reason is that one's topic is overcharged, the Rub & Yawn "remedy" for the dope-off will fix that all by itself by bleeding off the charge. If you're studying and get hit you would usually need to go back and try again, and maybe you'll get smacked again and maybe you won't. But as long as you have this jim-dandy remedy handy you don't need to fear getting knocked over by stuff you don't understand before you have time to sort it out.
So there.
Paul
*The levels interpenetrate each other and the body, not lie on top of each other like a parcel wrapped in several layers of paper. Each higher (thinner or finer) level extends out more than the one below. So the mental level still penetrates the entire physical body, but in terms of frequency is three levels removed.
