Access? For what purpose? There are some useful distinctions that I first need to consider before thinking about what it is you are having reservations about. Also, and on the same hand, how are you meaning to use the word access? Are you framing your argument on the basis of using unconscious access as it applies to the ability to recall raw information, or are you building your argument around the ability to access or elicit information that leads toward useful behavioral change? Although the two need not be mutually exclusive, there is a difference. And my having in mind what you are wanting to presuppose here with your own use of language would better help me in gaining clarity into the point(s) you are wanting to make here.

Putting that aside for a moment, let me offer you this. For me it's not simply a matter of disagreeing, it's truly about evolution. In my mind I would hardly consider slowing the clients thinking down, although that would have been a choice in my distant past. Instead I think I would rather choose speeding myself up, therefore having the perception that the client was moving in slow motion.

I have a friend who works as a professional Drag Racer. He operated a Top Fuel Nitro Methane Dragster. With all of the detailed preparation on the side, his job them becomes to pilot the vehicle from a standing start to over three hundred miles an hour in only a quarter of a mile, and in under five seconds. From what I have learned as a result of having been to a few of his races, is that he operates out of a completely different model of time. Here he is at the starting line, the light turns green, he reacts in near perfect timing, and in less than a second he is already moving at over one hundred miles an hour while experiencing over five times his body weight (5 G's).

For me the best part of the entire affair is the debriefing. He is a professional, and in order to remain as such, he has to continue improving on his performance. After each run, he gets together with his crew and discusses in absolute detail the entire run. Some of this discussion includes, but is not limited to, how the eight thousand horse power engine felt and sounded at any given point while going down the track. Where during the last run, exactly, did the car feel loose? Where on the track he experienced the best traction. Was there any unusual slippage in the clutching system, and if so, at what point on the track did the slippage occur.

You see, the point is, for him this five second period of time takes forever, and at three hundred miles an hour. It usually takes him about an hour to discuss the details that occurred in a five second time frame. His state, as he is in the process of piloting the car down the track, is one of absolute relaxation. His perception is that the world is moving in slow motion.

As I said before, there really is no need to slow a person's thinking down when you can speed up your own. And, if the meaning of your communication is centered around the notion of learning and change, there is also no need to have a conscious understanding of the unconscious information being utilized in the processes that leads toward learning and change. Here the focus becomes one of utilization. With the question being, how can I structure my own behavior in a way that can lead toward an ability to usefully utilize other than conscious information and processes? But since I am still partially uncertain as to your intended meaning here, I will forgo any further input.

Be well

Carmine Baffa