John, Thank you for responding with such a rich and detailed answer. The description you offered helps answer a number of questions. Given that level of sensory-grounded detail regarding each pattern, anyone else who would like to espouse the superior effectiveness of their approach can now get to work to produce results with a similar level of specificity. Otherwise, their arguments are of no interest to me. When I took my practitioner training in 1991, I had the opportunity to work with a fellow participant who had a phobia of heights. When I asked him how he would know he was phobia free, he told me that he would feel comfortable standing on the third step of a step ladder. Somewhere mid phobia cure procedure, he said, "Wow. It's gone. You know what I want to do? I want to go across the street to the top of that parking garage and look over the edge. I would have never been able to even think about that without feeling terrified and now I actually want to do it!" Needless to say, he was a happy, excited man. However, I insisted that he let me finish the steps of the procedure! Within about 60 seconds of doing the final steps, I realized what a bonehead I had been. I realized that I was acting from an internally-driven strategy in which my Test for Exit was the final step of the procedure and NOT anything to do with sensory experience. - Ulic