1) First stage: Clear the past failures: I ask him to visualize the three days of the first failure (the mental grid), show me where they are situated. Then I would have him make them glide, overlap each other so there would just be a single “image.” At that point, “I would yell “stop” like in the “Compulsion Blow-out.” This would hopefully blowout the bad memories of the first failure.

2a) Next, as an introduction to reconstructing the past, I would talk about the magic number 3 . In the saga, stories of our childhood, the number three stands for magic things. You always get three wishes and the more you wish, the more successful you are, the more you wish, the more you get what you want...

Then I would go on to talk about all the things that he used to do in the past that made him feel good: paint, do martial arts, go for walks, read, and some of the things he would like to be able to do: cook, listen to his body; eat when he is hungry and not just drink water; how healthy he would be today; feel the positive changes up until today; how naturally he eats when he is hungry; takes care of his body; he is active; more balanced; full of strength; energetic; he has clean lungs and strong determination that helps him to obtain his goals.

2b) Reconstructing the Past.

Now, I would ask him what he would fill his first day with - creating a new past (on the same grid as before) and place that day in the spot of the first day mentioned earlier. Then I'd go on to the second day, etc. and ask how these days would be different from the past.

3) To check: I would tell him the time periods, dates of the first three failure days and ask: What happened? His answer would tell me if his past has really changed.

At the reconstruction of the past three days, I would anchor each day separately and finally collapse the anchors to integrate the whole three days into one single experience.

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