Shedding the Armor
Who am I?
This is not an easy question to answer. I can tell you where I started, the transformation I witnessed, and where I am going, aware that everything changes and I change as I observe myself.
My name is Antonella Patrone. My journey began in the world of pharmacy, where for years I worked as a pharmacist, before evolving and expanding toward a more integrated vision of well-being. Today I work as an iridologist and foot reflexology practitioner, daily incorporating energy techniques into my practice, both personal and professional, with a specific focus on AGER and TAI, which I integrate with systemic family meditations. Since leaving the pharmacy counter, my life has changed profoundly, and a deep work of dis-identification began, a path of rediscovering aspects of myself long kept silent, and a truly demanding process of inner cleansing. All of this thanks to meeting many people, including Andrea Fredi.
My encounter with Andrea Fredi began through AGER, a methodology that proved from the very start to be perfectly complementary to my work with iridology and to the study of chrono-risk on the iris, as well as to the systemic family approach.
Precisely this deepening of AGER introduced me to TAI, of which it forms an integral part. Fascinated by the simplicity and immediate effectiveness of this technique, I chose to undertake the full training program.
TAI is a technique created by Andrea Fredi in 2017, continuously evolving and constantly growing.
What won me over right from the start about this method?
The union of two fundamental principles: meditation and intention.
In this synthesis we find the capacity, given by meditation, to connect with one’s inner dimension while remaining in an attitude of deep presence and trust, and the power of intention, understood as clear will and motivation oriented toward a precise goal of transformation.
The great simplicity and repetitiveness of the method.
The linear mode makes the practice of TAI easily integrable into everyday life. This is a fundamental aspect for me, as it stimulates and guides the person toward acquiring concrete and effective autonomy in managing their own inner well-being. Its application is therefore sometimes more immediate and simpler compared to AGER, and it prepares the ground for its subsequent use. Moreover, its ease makes it possible to apply it even with children.
Its effectiveness in re-modulating stress.
TAI proves to be an extraordinary tool because it is capable of zeroing out stress related to recent or past experiences with extreme speed and effectiveness, lightening the emotional charge associated with experiences and restoring a sense of balance and neutrality.
When TAI becomes an integral part of one’s daily life, its effectiveness is not limited to the emergency of the moment; it can constantly lower general stress levels, fostering a profound realignment that involves inner, physical, emotional, and mental balance.
Spontaneous inner openness and exploration.
Consistent practice naturally leads us to turn our gaze toward our deepest dimension. It thus fosters a progressive and ever-greater opening of our inner system, allowing deeper knots, experiences, and unresolved memories to gracefully emerge and be brought to resolution.
The great versatility and scalability of the method.
TAI represents a true universe of possibilities: it includes different techniques by type, gender, and levels of application. This extraordinary flexibility makes it suitable for a wide variety of cases and for people with very different levels of awareness, accompanying each person in their specific degree of inner maturation and growth.
Its harmonious integration with systemic family meditations.
A further and precious advantage I have found is the perfect synergy between TAI and systemic-family meditation or visualization work. In this area, TAI proves to be an exceptional ally for instantly normalizing and rebalancing the reactions or emotional charges that may arise during the application of these methods.
How and when has TAI been a great help to me?
The TAI Academy and then the Formula Uno program arrived at a particularly delicate moment in my life, or at least that is how I perceived it.
For about two years I had been planning a change of workplace and the realization of a broad professional project with other professionals with whom I already had a close and fruitful collaboration.
These two years, however, were characterized by my procrastination and an endless series of setbacks that never led to any progress, with the situation perpetually stuck at point zero.
Ever since I began working assiduously with TAI, the situation finally broke open: renovation work began in the apartment intended for my new office, and I reached an optimal working agreement with my colleagues.
What were the main stages and the specific techniques that came to my aid?
The triangle certainly deserves to be highlighted!
What does it mean to work with the triangle?
The methodical application of the triangle involves working on three aspects — experiences, fantasies, and ideas or beliefs — which essentially characterize unresolved memories frozen within us that continue to influence our present and our choices, and in my case determined the blockage in moving forward with my project.
I started from a list of all the fears I had about implementing this change, and for each fear I considered the fantasies that sustained it, working on them one by one with Instant TAI, often quickly realizing that they did not represent real dangers, but rather small manageable difficulties. I also worked on “all the fantasies of failure experienced in the family,” recognizing as significant my father’s past as an entrepreneur and the fears I myself breathed as a child or teenager regarding his work assignments.
I then traveled back in time, identifying past experiences of my own “failures” in the professional sphere, reducing the stress peaks still present when revisiting them.
I worked on the limiting beliefs I still perceived as actively rowing against me: “I am not enough,” “I am not worth as much as my father” were the most significant ones.
Inner TAI allowed me to shift into a higher gear.
What does it mean to work with Inner TAI?
Using Inner TAI means doing deeper work; it means coming into contact with the energy of each single part of ourselves — be it a memory, a thought, an image, an emotion, a symbol, etc. — and orienting it toward our goal.
Using it in the previously described work, applying the triangle, led to very rapid advances.
The Map Technique helped me unravel the mystery.
What does it mean to work with the Map Technique?
The Map Technique essentially consists of giving voice to the morphogenetic field as in Family Constellations, the difference being the application of TAI to facilitate the unfolding of the situation.
It was important at a moment of instability I experienced with my team: representing it and working with TAI generated a new order.
The Drawer Technique amazed me.
What does it mean to work with the Drawer Technique?
It is a technique that involves working on a particularly difficult situation, a challenging goal, or a specific problem in an automatic way, entrusting the work to our unconscious. It is applied by entrusting what we want to resolve to an imaginary drawer located at the back of our neck. I applied the technique during a group session, ideal for benefiting fully from the power of intention, which is strongly amplified in a group, and I entrusted to my drawer the image of the renovation works I wished to begin. Well, receiving from the builder I had hired, the very next day, a photo practically identical to the scenario I had placed in my drawer simply amazed me.
In summary, I started from:
A condition of blockage characterized by:
PREDOMINANT EMOTION: Fear and its shades, and insecurity PREDOMINANT THOUGHT/BELIEF: “I am not capable of undertaking such a project” FANTASIES: “I might lose all my clients…” “I might fail…” etc.
And I arrived at:
A condition of unblocking characterized by:
PREDOMINANT EMOTION: Enthusiasm, curiosity, trust PREDOMINANT THOUGHT/BELIEF: “I have the resources to undertake and nurture this project” FANTASIES: managed so as to stay in the “here and now,” including illusory ones like “everything will go well”
The Case: Shedding the Armor
Starting point
The client came to me for a physical reason: soreness on the left side of her body, mainly localized in the neck and shoulder area.
I investigated the moment the symptom appeared: during and after the COVID period, with notable acuity for just over a year, since her husband suffered a serious health problem.
In a first phase of assessment through iris and foot analysis, several significant aspects emerged:
- The person has a strong controlling attitude, especially directed at her family members, and takes full charge of their situation, coming into conflict over choices she considers wrong for them.
- The person holds the management of most family matters and the daily routine.
- She has a very rigid attitude toward her own personal choices too, and when she occasionally breaks the rules, she judges herself harshly.
- She has difficulty communicating within the family, especially with her daughter, and she feels deeply sorry about this.
- Frequent anxiety and worry, fueled by pessimistic fantasies.
- In drawing her family tree together, it emerged that her mother had the same rigidity.
Regarding the onset of symptoms, a strong attitude of suffering is evident both during COVID and during her husband’s illness: a suffering rooted in not accepting others’ choices, which she considered wrong.
Path
The TAI pathway was integrated with systemic family meditations and AGER.
In detail:
The first sessions were dedicated to teaching the technique to my client so as to make her autonomous and able to work on small everyday events in a consistent manner. She was also invited to follow brief guided practices of relaxation and body proprioception to facilitate inner work.
I then guided her through two systemic family meditations addressed to her mother, during which the application of TAI to the images or thoughts that created strong emotional impact made the work more harmonious. In particular, the final harmonizing phrase — “I harmonize all my systems to the changes underway and to the new awareness” — at the end of the cathartic practice allowed the work done during the meditation to be grounded, inviting the system to absorb the work at all levels.
Very significant was the return to the moment of acute onset of her painful symptom in the left head/shoulder area, when her husband’s illness began: applying the triangle method, I worked with her on the experiences with all the images responsible for her stress response (the image of her suffering husband, the trip to the hospital), all the related thoughts (“he doesn’t follow the rules,” “I started wrapping my head in bandages” — a very relevant phrase considering how the symptom manifested), and also the limiting belief “I must manage everything.” The repeated sequences of TAI with the triangle method brought about a drastic drop in stress levels. The subsequent reflections helped consolidate the new insights: “I accept that my husband is responsible for his choices,” “I cannot change him if he doesn’t want to,” “How can I manage differently? Can I choose to delegate?”
To this work I added my AGER knowledge, applying an emergency Bach flower mixture on the chronopoint corresponding to my client’s age and to her husband’s at the moment considered with TAI — coincidentally the same chronopoint for both.
Another very significant episode worked on with TAI relates to her daughter’s desire to get a tattoo and all her disapproval: entering through this episode, my client had the opportunity to reconnect with her experience as a teenager when, by her mother’s will, she could not hang posters in her room, could not express herself as she would have wished; once again, the perceptual rebalancing led to normalizing the anger and sadness that were still vivid in her, and highlighted how deeply rooted in her was the belief “I cannot express myself outside the rules,” confirmed by other experiences of her life, which were also worked on.
Once again, the work with TAI was combined with the application of Bach flowers on the chronopoint corresponding to her daughter’s age, active on the chrono-postural test.
Finally, important was the work conducted on a new lived episode in which she did not receive wishes from her daughter on Mother’s Day. In this case, we lingered on the “silence,” on the fantasy “she has always wished me happy Mother’s Day, she will this time too,” and on the beliefs “I am not worthy of love,” “I am not a good mother,” until the response — which included anger and disappointment — was normalized. The triangle method once again proved to be the winning protagonist.
Results achieved:
- The client notices a marked improvement in the soreness and stiffness in the left shoulder and head area.
- On the emotional level, she realizes she has improved her listening skills and learned to stay with and manage her emotions without fleeing into justifications or thoughts.
- She has reduced her controlling attitude toward family members and herself; she is less rigid about her dietary or personal choices.
- She grants herself dedicated time and does what she most enjoys, even staying away from home for a few days and delegating the household chores she normally handles. She also experiences new experiences.
- She has opened up to receiving compliments and to giving them to herself.
- Her communication within the family and with herself has improved.
All this thanks to TAI, and to my client’s commitment and consistency, even in daily practice!
Two truly remarkable transformations: mine and hers!
Dr. Antonella Patrone
Pharmacist, Signal Naturopath expert in Iridology and foot reflexology (L4/2013) AGER Master Practitioner TAI Master Practitioner
Contact: 3280285941 apatrone78@gmail.com