A wide variety of things can be expected after Discharge, whether in a counselling session, or at any other time in our lives.
A. FREEDOM FROM DISTRESS: When Discharge ends naturally people are in a body-mind state of relaxed alertness, feeling positive and with a lot of free attention. Sometimes they will be zestful and bubbling with energy. The change in feelings state will show in facial expression and posture, and will be noticeable to others. Counsellors can enjoy this and give feedback on it to the client.
B. INTERRUPTION OF PATTERNS: because Discharge is an alternative action to those actions driven by Distress and because it takes people out of the Distress, it acts as a powerful disruptor of Patterns. This takes place in counselling sessions in the first place, but the effects transfer to the rest of life. Even Chronic Patterns which need many sessions' work will become noticeably weaker. It is helpful to keep aware of what is changing, rather than getting sucked into feeling that nothing has changed because the Pattern has not totally disappeared.
C. RECOVERY OF INFORMATION: Distressing memories are normally avoided because it is painful to think of them. This means the information they contain is inaccessible, 'buried in distress.' It is also isolated, not available for normal thinking processes. Discharge enables access without pain, so details of the events can surface and be available for thinking.
D. NEW LEARNING. The spontaneous making of new useful connections between ideas and events, and the solving of problems. This arises from having both access to the information and a lot of free attention, and often occurs as a striking flash of inspiration, the Re-Evaluation phenomenon.
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