what is spin and shatter programming and how do you deal with them when triggered?
Spin Programming-Designed to spread effects such as pain, painful emotions, and other feelings or urges globally throughout a subject’s personality system for purposes of either designing and building a young subject's personality system, or harassing older subjects anddisrupting psychotherapy. Spin programming appears to be based on a combination of physical spinning, cognitive and imagery training, and repetition and practice aimed at creating an internal multi-alter spinning the pain or affective components of numerous traumatic memories simultaneously to large groups of targeted alters.
Signs and symptoms of Spin Programs are;
Global Effects, symptoms occurring like a "storm," pressure, dizziness, a sense of spinning inside, physical movements related to the internal experience of spinning, and spinning-related imagery and vocabulary. When a subject is affected by a specifically targeted program, she or he typically experiences one or a small number of alters having emotions or urges or manifesting behaviours, while most orall other alters remain unaffected.
Global effects, The flurries of pain, affect, or impulse tend to grow in intensity, build to a crescendo, maintain that peak for a time, and then gradually diminish before finally subsiding. Nearly every alter in the system is lashed by the “wind and rain” of the storm, often without understanding why these effects are occurring, and doing their best to minimize damages until the storm passes.
Pressure, When spin programs are active, the affected alters subjectively experience high levels of force or pressure, as if they are sitting at the outside edge of a rapidly rotating disc. They feel overwhelmed by this pressure, finding it impossible to resist, and they often complain of symptoms that would be caused by mounting internal pressure, such as headaches that feel like they are going to cause the head to explode from the inside, disruption of speech, vision problems, and similar phenomena.
Dizziness. As the internal spinning associated with spin programming increases in speed and force, subjects frequently complain of dizziness. At these times, they may be literally feeling the sensations caused by the original spinning, because they are experiencing a planned revivification or flashback of that event.
Sense of Spinning Internally. Along with the dizziness, subjects experiencing active spin programs often notice a sense of spinning internally.
Physical Movements. When the internal spinning is at its most intense, subjects often move in ways that a person might move while being physically spun. These movements tend to be rhythmic and repetitive, they may involve any part of the body, and they are subtle and may escape notice. The movements tend to be slower, smoother, more fluid, more subtle, and more regular and rhythmic than typical “nervous” movements.
Spinning-Related Imagery and Vocabulary. When describing their sensations during an active spin program, subjects often utilize imagery or words that are related to the experience of spinning. Typical words used include: vortex, whirlpool, whirlwind, tornado, cyclone, abyss, falling, drowning, sinking, being pulled or sucked down, being blown or shot or exploded out, tumbling, hurling, whirling, swirling, and twirling. Some alters have programmer-assigned names related to spinning (e.g., Spinner,).
Shatter Programming-Uses the images of mirrors, and glass shattering to assist in splitting the mind. The subject is advised to grab pieces of the shattered glass and put it back together. The subject will cut their hands, knees, and other parts of their bodies in an attempt to rebuild the glass. They will be advised this will happen to them if they attempt to rebuild themselves.
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Working through programming takes safety. The parts who have been impacted by the programming assured they are safe.
It takes time to work through programming, Identifying the triggers and working towards managing them, and staying present.
how is shatter programming different from just like splitting? the way it's talked abt makes it sound super bad and dangerous but i don't understand the differences between it and a normal split
The alters created during shatter programming are intentional. The methods and duration is planned in TBMC.
This is differentiated by the trauma that usually leads to DID isn't measured, planned and intended to create a part.
I know you said it has to do with splitting and glass, but what exactly does shattering do to like the individual and system? it sounds worse than a normal split but i don't understand
Shatter programming assists with the trauma to create DID. DID is a result of trauma and the brains natural response to trauma. The difference is with TBMC the intent is to create DID.
Shatter Programming-Uses the images of mirrors, and glass shattering to assist in providing an image of fragmenting the mind to the alters. The alters are advised to put the shattered glass back together.
(TW description of trauma/accidental harm) i have this memory of being on my knees in front of a broken mirror and being told to pick up the pieces. i kept cutting my hands on the pieces, though, and then i was told that i was the mirror. the memory ends there. we know we're RA survivors and im wondering if this holds any sort of significance in that vain?? thank u sm!! hope ur well :D
It can be used as a part of shatter programming.
The message of this is; Attempting to heal and be whole can lead to more pain and suffering.
