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As well as the un ified energy field that connects all bei ngs, there are also local fields around our own body which shape not only our physical form but also our behaviour, our customs and our habits.

These fields are different from the Matrix, because they are local to us. But at the same time they are sub-fields that are part of the Matrix.

Let us look at how they affect our everyday reality.

Fields - Patterns of the Past

In her early twenties Sasha regu larly used amphetamines and hall ucinogens to block her emotions around her childhood and l ife traumas. Her habit spanned eight years, beginning when she was 19 and ending when she was 27. For a particular period in her early twenties she had a pattern with the street drug known as speed. She would take it every Friday night, stay awake most of the night and

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wake abruptly early on Saturday morning. Her partner at the time would stay in bed and sleep all day Saturday, and she would lie next to him, unable to motivate herself, a nd obsess about things that she had said or done. In effect, she would torture herself psychologically for several hours at a time. She continued this pattern for a number of years. However, although by the time she was 25 she no longer used speed, she would sti l l wake up early every Saturday. What's more, she continued to be plagued by the sa me pattern of obsessing over her actions at this time, and Saturday would always be a painful and disturbing day for her, accompanied by anxiety and self-doubt. This pattern conti nued well into her th irties, until she eventually managed to break it with Matrix Reimprinting and EFT.

For a number of years, Sasha also worked with teenagers with severe behavioural problems. She taught therapeutic drama as a means of encouraging them to reflect on thei r actions and address their destructive behaviour and often criminal activity. With street crime, she enabled them to act out the role of both victim and perpetrator, so that they would experience all the issues involved. In lessons they made great progress and Sasha was delighted. It felt as though she was changing the world! However, most victories were short-lived.

During the course of h is ten-year marriage, Karl had an increasing amount of trouble with his lower back. He had a prolapsed d isc and

It would take him a few days afterwards to feel 'normal ' again. Years later, while he was working with a holistic healthcare practitioner who was using a diagnostic tool known as M ETA-Medicine® (which we will discuss in Cha pter 3), he was told that the problem was related to self­

devaluation. He was origi nally outraged at the suggestion, but then it started to make a lot of sense to him. He had felt devalued in his family

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situation. He had been a house-husband and his wife had been a very strong and domineering character. And retu rning to the old house at Christmas-time would retrigger how his marriage had made him feel.

So what does all this behaviour have in common? The answer is 'fields'. All our behaviour, either self-supporting or self-destructive, has its own field, which in turn i nfluences us to react in a given way.

The concept of fields is not a new one, and there are already a number of known fields, such as the Earth's gravitational field and magnetic field. In addition, biologist Rupert Sheldrake's work suggests that all living cells, tissues, organs and organisms have their own fields, wh ich he calls 'morphic fields'. These fields sha pe each individual species. We owe a huge debt to Sheldrake, as his work has inspired a number of the Matrix Reimprinting techniques.

Morphic fields are habitual and the more they are repeated, the stronger they become. They are influenced by what has gone before, through a process called 'morphic resonance'. Each individual cel l, organ or species takes a specific form because of its morphic resonance with similar cells, organs or species from the past.

Behavioural Fields

As well as shaping form, fields also shape sociological patterns, customs, behaviour and habits of the mind. They impose rhythmic patterns on the nervous system which affect the sensory and motor regions of the brain, impacting behaviour.2

Every species, includ ing humans, has some sort of in herent i nstinctive behaviour. We learn this through morphic resonance with the members of our species who have gone before us. Learned behaviour is different, a nd becomes established through resonance with ourselves. Our morphic fields become habituated when we repeat certain patterns and behaviour.

Learned behaviour and the fields that accompany it are in fact an important part of our socialization process. There would be no structure in our life without these fields. Every form of behaviour, from the simple act of brushing our teeth to the more complex one of communicating with members of the opposite sex, has its own field,

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which has been created by our life experiences and is reinforced by self-resonance.

Many of these behavioural fields may be supportive and nurturing.

If, for example, your life is structured and organized then you have probably formed positive behavioural fields around functioning. If your life lacks structure then your behavioural fields may be more chaotic.

And if you have very obsessive qual ities a bout being ordered or are even expressing a condition such as obsessive compu lsive d isorder, your behavioural fields around being organized have become too strong.

Changing Behavioural Fields

So how do we change our behaviour? We have all heard the saying 'You can't teach an old dog new tricks.' In the light of our understanding of behavioural fields, what this is actually referring to is the chal lenging nature of changing a behavioural field.

Let's look at a common scenario. There's something you want to change about yourself and you believe this time you really ca n do it.

You may tell everyone you are going to do it. You set a date. For most people it's a Monday or the first of the month. The first of January is obviously the most popular choice, because that's when everyone else changes, so it has to be the best time, right?

On your start date you put all your energetic resources into changing. You have a good first day. You feel confident and may even talk about your success. This goes on for a few days or even weeks.

As time passes you sta rt to feel real ly sure of yourself. You might even think you have conquered your 'bad habit'. If it's eating chocolate, for example, you might think it's OK to have just a little bit now and then. If it's exercising regularly, you might deviate from your sched ule slightly.

It's OK to skip it once or twice, isn't it? Or it may be that someone has upset you, so you justify slipping back i nto old ways just for a while, to get over it. It's a temporary blip anyway. You'll be back on track tomorrow. But cha nces are that you won't be back on track. Because, bang, you'll be straight back into the old pattern and back to square one. Sound familiar?

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So let's take a look at this universal pattern. What's real ly happening here?

The more you repeat something, the stronger its field becomes. So if you have a long-standing way of behaving, its resonance has great strength, and thus a great influence over you. When you decide with your conscious mind that you want to make a change, put a lot of energy into this decision a nd actively make the change, you start to tune i nto a new field, an opposing field if you like. Consider this in relation to Sheldrake's remark: 'A field brings about material effects while the system is tuned into it. But if the tuning is changed then other fields come into play: the original field disappears.'3 By tuning into this new field you feel completely d ifferent. The new field has its own resonance and you may feel confident, sure and able because of this resonance.

However, if you decide, too soon, that you have 'cracked it' and you believe, too early, that this new field is totally stable, you may slip back i nto your old ways with all the confidence that you have from the resonance of the new field. And the trouble is that as soon as you do slip back, you tune back into the old field - that old field that resonates so strongly with you. According to Sheldrake, 'the most specific morphic resonance acting on a given organism will be that from its own past states, because it is more similar to itself in the im mediate past, than to any other organism' .4 So you are instantly familiar with the old field.

It's like an old friend, but the sort that you keep going back to despite knowing how destructive the relationship is for you.

If you've been caught in this cycle for a nu mber of years and have been wondering things like 'Why aren't I strong enough?' or 'What's wrong with me?' then take a moment to sit back a nd let yourself off the hook. Because it is very challenging to change behaviour with wi llpower alone, because willpower comes from the conscious mind, a nd the conscious mind does not override the subconscious mind, or the fields. I n fact, we believe that the subconscious mind and the fields may be one and the same (we will discuss this further in the following chapter). And if you have used other interventions that haven't worked for you, even Energy Psychology interventions that have seemed to

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work for everyone else, this explains why. By resolving the old trauma you may have stopped yourself from tuning into the old field, but you may not have tuned into a new field. And as a result the new behaviour has not stabilized.

So, what's the solution? With Matrix Reimprinting we will introd uce you to a un ique Field-Clearing Technique which will help you to tune into and stabilize new fields. But this is only one part of the process.

We will also show you how you can go back to whatever may have triggered your destructive or habitual behaviour in the first place and clear any energy from the past that is holding you in that old pattern.

Furthermore, we will explain how to create new pictures in your field, so you can begin to align yourself with the new habit or behaviour. We will basica lly show you how to create a new image of yourself and then stabil ize this with a new and supportive field.

Following Through

Once you have new pictures in your field, you will start attracting new experiences into your life. We often lightheartedly refer to the Kevin Costner film Field of Dreams, which has the recurring phrase: 'If you build it, they will come!' If you create new fields, the right people will come into your life and it will begin to change. But it is also important to follow through these opportunities. There is a popular story in the personal development ind ustry that runs as follows:

A fisherman's boat capsizes in the middle of the ocean and he ends up

holding onto it. He tells himself, 'God will save me.'