6204C26 SHSpec-138  Professional Attitude;

     Rundown on Prepchecking

     There are several things that monitor the success of auditing.  One of
these is a professional attitude.  The substance of the professional attitude
is that someone is here to be healed and the auditor is going to heal him,
regardless of the PC's politics, religion, or pace, etc..  The auditor is a
professional who is healing beings who need healing.  It doesn't matter who
the PC is.  This is a very hard-boiled attitude, actually.  An auditor is as
good as he can assume a professional attitude towards the PC in front of him,
regardless of any personal opinions or the PC's opinions, creed, etc.  That
attitude alone has brought the healing professions along through the
trillenia.

     There are splinter groups of healers who may be far more effective than
medical doctors but who don't have a professional code of conduct.  These
practitioners are far less well respected because they are not that
professional or they haven't created a belief in the public that they have a
professional attitude.  This is also why husband-wife teams don't audit each
other well.  There is too much personal concern and too little professional
attitude.

     As an auditor, you will have terrific wins when you realize that a case
is a case, no matter what the PC's body looks like, and when you audit with a
professional attitude.  Having a professional attitude is also necessary
because failure to do so will get in the way of your processing results.  Push
it home and stand by it where the public is concerned, and you will inherit
the world of healing, where other splinter groups have not.  This doesn't
necessarily mean having a particular mockup or appearance.  It just means that
anyone who comes for processing gets audited as himself.  Don't process anyone
because of anything.  Just process him.  This will become a very comfortable
attitude to have in session, one with no additives or personal quirks.  It
will result in Public trust.

     You had also better not be an auditor after the session, or the PC will
tend to continue to be in session after the session is supposed to be over.
Act like an auditor during the session, not before or after.

     The public demands only that they be treated by someone who is interested
in them.  If you always do a good job, both technically and professionally,
you will be in good shape.  Technical perfection itself is very impressive.

     Prepchecking is harder to do than Routine 3 processes.  It is the first
test of whether an Auditor knows his business.  Furthermore, if you can't do a
good job prepchecking, you will never do a good job on Routine 3.  There will
always be something missing.

     Don't ever decide what should read and what shouldn't.  Observe.

     Prepchecking gets the PC in session and frees up his attention so he can
be audited.  It can also give fantastic changes and gains, if run
searchingly.  As a total psychotherapy of this lifetime, it completes the work
of Freud and any cathartic-type therapy.  It is therefore very comprehensible
to the public.  It could he used to help someone clean up some troublesome
area.  If you expect too much of prepchecking, however, you will have some
loses.

     The basic thing that has been going wrong in running Routine 3 is that
the auditor doing the process was also trying to do a sec check or ruds
session -- trying to mate an eagle with a shark.  This also accounts for the
fact that people couldn't find goals -- because the ruds were out.  You can't
combine a sec checking or prepchecking session with a Routine 3 session, but a
green auditor will try.  If the auditor starts to give one sort of session but
finds he has to go on to another sort of session, he gets the impression of
loss of control of the PC.  If keeping the PC's ruds in is that big a problem,
he shouldn't be doing Routine 3 processes.  He should be on CCH's.  Prepchecks
also get him used to being Model Sessioned and get him so that he will stay in
session.  You will have enough difficulty with Routine 3 without adding the
difficulty of prepchecking at the same time.

     The whole reason Routine 3 kept being varied and moved around was that
the ruds kept going nut on people, and they weren't able to find items.
Prepchecking is the remedy for that.  It sets the PC up so that when you list,
you can just list and find goals, terminals, and oppterms.  It is luckily also
very interesting to the PC.

     From the viewpoint of auditor training, Routine 3 processes are too hard
on a case to be done wrong.  They can't safely be used as a training
activity.  Prepchecking, though it is harder and has the liability that you
can miss withholds, with devastating results, is a better training activity.

     The theetie-weetie case walks around with the idea that everybody should
know all the time.  This is the perpetual missed withhold case.  He is in bad
shape.  Whenever you ask him a question, you get a missed withhold because you
should have known the answer.  If you ask three questions, you miss three
withholds.  He thinks everyone should know everything he is thinking, so there
is a mass of continuous missed withholds.  Prepchecking will handle it as a
key-out.  On 3DXX, you will come up with an item like "a swami", and then the
circuit ceases.  But these cases are Hell to prepcheck, because they think you
must know if they know, so they "don't have any withholds"; they "have never
done anything".  You have to know this phenomenon so you can straighten it all
out.  That is the hard case to prepcheck, not the sinner.

     Prepchecking is not easy, but it is very precise and must be done very
professionally, since your personal reaction and personal interest interjected
into the session ruins the PC's willingness td get off real overts.  He will
only give up "safe" withholds if you have anything but a calm, professional
attitude.  It is also necessary to keep missed withholds cleaned up,
particularly if he gets misemotional on you.  Auditors have a terrible time
getting this through their heads and just pulling the missed withhold.
Prepchecking is easy to do if it is done right.  It makes doing Routine 3
ridiculously easy by comparison, also.

