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Paul & Layne Cutright:
Relationship Energy Repatterning
I met Paul and Layne Cutright in 1981 when they left their successful organization in Hawaii to bring their relationship work to the staff at Terry Cole-Whittaker Ministries in La Jolla. Their expertise in what makes relationships work made them the perfect choice to work with the dynamics of very complicated personnel who were dealing with other people’s issues as well as their own.
Since 1976 they have used their own marriage and business relationship as a platform for their personal growth and spiritual evolution. They are always researching and staying on the leading edge of technology, willing to let go of what is no longer working and use what works even when it looks a little “out there.”
While on the phone with Layne recently, I mentioned a problem I had and she offered to use her ‘energy repatterning’ skills to clear it up. I agreed to do this because it was a problem I’d had for a long time and if this work was going to clear it up, I’d know that their method worked.
Like many women I’d always found it impossible to ask for what I wanted during sex and I never knew why. I knew what I wanted but some invisible force prevented me from verbalizing that desire. So Layne worked with me for about twenty minutes over the phone. About five days later without thinking about it, I was able to express myself. When my husband asked me how I was able to do that, I said I didn’t know; it just happened. I only realized the following day that it had been a direct result of the session I’d had with Layne. Needless to say, I can’t recommend their work highly enough.
What is ‘relationship energy repatterning’?
Layne: It’s a method of neutralizing invisible perturbations in the human vibrational matrix, which generate unwanted feelings, thoughts, beliefs, judgments and prejudices.
What are perturbations?
Paul: We are multi-dimensional energy beings. When something in our environment triggers us, it causes an agitated vibration in our energy field that usually feels like an emotional response or a physical sensation such as a headache or upset stomach. Sometimes you may become triggered and not even notice that you’re upset.
Someone could be upset and unable to rationalize it but the people around them would notice it.
Layne: Yes. It’s like a sleeping dragon living in our energy field. When it gets triggered, we start thinking, feeling and acting from this place without being aware of it. We think we’re having rational thoughts, perceiving accurately and knowing what’s happening. But really our awareness is being flooded with memories. We’re having images and emotions generated by unresolved structures in our energy field.
So the perturbations bring these images and emotions into our consciousness.
Paul: Yes, exactly. Vibrational patterns are like computer software. They’re invisible and operating in the background in our energy field. Relationship Energy Repatterning addresses these patterns at the causal level, which is energetic. Everything physical is also primarily energy vibrating at a slower frequency. Our thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and judgments are also energy vibrating at a faster frequency. Once you understand their origins, you can treat them at the level of cause.
Layne: People usually come to us when the perturbation has already been activated for a while and they’ve been living with these undesirable symptoms. They’re looking for solutions and relief.
What’s the first thing you do?
Layne: Since most relationship issues show up as unconscious patterns, we look for those first. If we’re working with both members of a partnership, no matter what kind of relationship they’re in, we look at how their relationship tensions are caused and how their individual patterns fit together. Any relationship problem is a co-creation, never just one person’s problem. Then we look at how their thoughts, beliefs, emotions, attitudes and choices contribute to the problem. Once discovered, we use Relationship Energy Repatterning to change beliefs and neutralize unresolved feelings from the past.
Paul: Here’s a way to think about it. On the physical level we have a nervous system, a circulatory system, a digestive system, etc. which work together to create the physical body which we think of as one thing, the physical body. We also have invisible components such as thoughts, feelings and emotions, which can be considered a kind of energy. There are different types of therapy that address these different systems. Bodywork addresses the physical system. Cognitive therapy works on our minds, thoughts and beliefs. There are emotion release therapies that work on the emotional body. But primarily there is an energy body, which you could think of as the electromagnetic component of human beings existing around our bodies and also penetrating them, like the electromagnetic fields of the earth. This has been scientifically validated, measured and documented, primarily at the Menninger Clinic in Kansas and in the work of Robert O. Becker, MD, author of The Body Electric and Richard Gerber, MD, author of Vibrational Medicine and others. We believe these patterns exist energetically before they manifest themselves as thoughts, feelings, emotions or physical problems. If we can intervene at this level and clear up these perturbations, we can arrest the symptoms.
Layne: Understanding how energy repatterning works is a challenge because it’s invisible. There was a time when we didn’t know that diseases were caused by microorganisms. They were invisible to the naked eye and we had no understanding about the importance of hygiene. Then, in the 19th century, Louis Pasteur developed the germ theory. There was a lot of disbelief among the scientific community. It seemed an absurd notion that disease could be caused by invisible organisms. Pasteur addressed the French Academy of Sciences in 1873, declaring, “All things are hidden and obscure if the causes of a phenomenon are unknown but everything is clear if the cause is known.” He knew that microorganisms caused diseases. Through the development of technology, microscopes and ways in which to view them, he proved that these invisible things caused diseases.
Paul: Technology now enables scientists to develop systems of measurement where they can actually observe and measure our energy bodies. So we can see how these invisible perturbations contribute to our mental and emotional disease.
Here’s an example. Many western scientists are still skeptical about the existence of the Meridian system, a 5,000-year-old system on which acupuncture is based. As far back as the 50s there have been research projects to measure the difference between electrical charges at acupuncture points and those at other points of the body. Recently a scientist developed compelling evidence proving the existence of meridians. Zang-Hee Cho, the University of California Irvine professor and physicist who invented the first PET scan and was instrumental in creating the MRI, put a person in an MRI and stimulated their visual cortex by flashing lights in their eyes and the visual cortex part of the brain lit up. Then he stimulated an acupuncture point on the little toe that was said to be connected with vision and exactly the same areas of the brain lit up. His results were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the world's premier scientific journals, showing for the first time a direct correlation between acupuncture and the brain.
It appears that we can no longer assume that not being able to see something automatically means it doesn’t exist or affect us. It may even affect us more than certain things we can see.
Paul: Exactly. The unique aspect of what’s called “Energy Psychology” is that we’re using energy interventions for emotional and psychological problems. Acupuncture and other “energy medicine” have traditionally treated physical problems. We only began to use these energy interventions for emotional and psychological problems twenty years ago.
What exactly do you do?
Layne: We use five different change procedures, depending on the problem, which work on different levels of the energy field. Some are very simple and can be learned by the client. Others are more complex.
Describe a change procedure.
Layne: The meridian-based procedure, for example, is accomplished by stimulating certain acupuncture points on the hands, face or torso by tapping on them with your finger tips or pressing into them and breathing deeply while focusing on the problem. The people can do this themselves or we can do it for them. There’s another change procedure that involves different types of eye movements. A person will move his or her eyes in a particular pattern in order to go into the different eye accessing zones, while at the same time stating a belief that he or she wants to be more true. This use of eye patterns uploads the new message.
What are eye-accessing zones?
Paul: The eyes are part of the brain, not merely connected to the brain but actually consisting of brain matter. When our eyes move either from side to side, up and down or diagonally, they’re accessing different parts of the brain. We can access these zones to input desirable patterns of thought to replace unconscious, undesirable ones.
Would inputting something positive kick out the negative thought?
Paul: Sometimes it kicks out the negative one. Sometimes we use one change procedure to neutralize the negative one and another to replace it. That’s why we call it repatterning. We repattern the invisible energy field.
Layne: There are other change procedures that are simply postures. The corpus collosum, which divides the left and right hemispheres of the brain and allows them to communicate, can get jammed. When this breaks down, the left and right hemispheres don’t communicate and people become what is called ‘hemispherically dominant.’ They’re processing information primarily in their left or right hemispheres but not both. If they’re in the left hemisphere, they become overly analytical and out of touch with their feelings. In the right hemisphere they aren’t able to think clearly and can be very emotional or spacey and may not understand why they’re feeling this way.
When a problem like that occurs, learning a simple posture can balance both hemispheres. A person could cross the ankles and wrists to create a closed circuit, hold the posture and breathe. This balances out the energy system so you can think more clearly and be in touch with your feelings at the same time. It activates the body’s natural healing systems.
Paul: Another change procedure uses ‘belief points’ on the body to diagnose and clear a person’s thoughts, beliefs, feelings and emotions. These are eighteen points that are different from acupuncture points. Muscle testing determines which points to use and lets us know when a change has taken place.
Can you give me an example?
Layne: A couple came to us who had been married for about eight years. The man was in California on business and she was on the other side of the country. She had the feeling that he was having an affair so she called him and he confirmed it. She called us and said she felt like killing him and asked for an appointment. She flew in and he drove for about three hours. They showed up at our front door, not having seen each other since the incident occurred.
They were in a volcanic, emotional state. Their invisible perturbations were throbbing uncontrollably. She loved him but felt betrayed, angry and hurt. He felt guilty, confused and he didn’t want to confront her anger. It was a very volatile situation.
We worked with them separately, for about an hour, dealing with each of their emotional patterns. Hers was vindictive rage. She wanted to punish him, to vivisect him. His feelings of guilt were so overwhelming that he was inviting punishment from her. Afterwards while they were sitting opposite each other and looking into each other’s eyes, the energy was completely different. It wasn’t that the problem had been resolved but they had released their emotional issues so they were able to think clearly. They were then able to have a dialogue. They were able to ask questions, really listen and start figuring out how the whole thing happened and what they wanted to do about it. It had the potential to be a crisis that ended the marriage or a catalyst for more intimacy and understanding.
After a total of about three hours they left holding hands and gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes. They had essentially fallen back in love with each other. That’s a lot of territory to cover in three hours. Of course, they had work to do when they got home but they were able to overcome a huge hurdle in a short period of time.
Paul: Hurdles like that can end relationships. Either they remain together with resentment and distrust, burying the pain or they break up.
We’ve been using these techniques for twelve years, transforming what people can accomplish and the amount of time needed. Now some issues can take hours instead years. Generally speaking, these interventions are not invasive, intrusive or cathartic. They don’t hurt, which is not to say people don’t have feelings. But it’s not about cathartic emoting. This flies in the face of most traditional therapeutic models, which say you have to recall the issue, understand it, be able to talk about it over and over again and then relive it in order to process it out. That was the way we used to do it. Much of our work was emotional healing. We now feel that the tools we were using in the 70s and 80s were like using a typewriter instead of a computer.
Someone who’s never used a computer can be forgiven for thinking that computers are just fancy typewriters. Typing is all you can do on a typewriter but computers have quantum dimensions beyond typewriters. It’s the same with Relationship Energy Repatterning as it relates to more traditional methods.
In closing, is there anything else you’d like people to know about your work?
Layne: When people come to us, there’s usually something that has triggered them. So we work on triggers first, to bring more harmony into the relationship. Triggers come from memories. Perhaps the couple has been together for a while and has had a series of difficult times, made some bad financial choices or said things they regret. Those things are stored in their memories and get triggered. She may look at her husband and remember him saying something at a party that made her ashamed or embarrassed. Maybe he uses a tone of voice that just drives her mad. Those little things, the gestures, the images, the tones of voice, trigger us. We have the couple make a list of all those triggers. What irritates you? What makes you become judgmental, closed, nasty, unwilling to talk or participate?
We start by working on the list to remove them. They’re sourced by invisible perturbations. We neutralize it all, so that when they think about them, they’ll still have the memory but not the negative reaction or charge. The triggers will no longer be an issue, cause an upset, and cause the need to punish their partners. There’s no emotion attached. As a result, they’re free to see new possibilities. When we’re triggered, we don’t think clearly and we can’t see new ways of handling things. When we heal the emotional aspect of this, it gives us the freedom to discover new solutions. That’s when the relationship starts to get exciting again.
Paul: Couples come to us overwhelmed with problems they’ve had for years and they’re at the end of their resources to solve them. It doesn’t matter how long the patterns have been in place, the lasting results can be achieved faster and easier using Relationship Energy Repatterning. Also, it’s not necessary to believe in this process for it to work.
People rediscover their creativity and their capacity to produce the kind of lives they’ve always wanted. They don’t have to settle for what they think they can have instead of being able to see the entire spectrum of possibilities.
Layne: Another exciting aspect is what this can do for us spiritually. Negative beliefs and emotions can interfere with our spiritual growth. Our relationships are the path to our spiritual evolution because it’s in our relationships that our issues are resolved.
