1:1 Ask the explorer to roll the eyes around in all directions, reversing direction from time to time, and to really stretch to see as far out to the sides, down and back over the head, as possible. At the same time make sure they are sighing out audibly and letting the chest down. Have them continue this for several minutes.

1:2 Ask the explorer to look at you for a moment and tell them what you see in their eyes: sadness, longing, defiance, or whatever.

1:3 Now move to kneel behind their head and either take a pen or pencil or use one finger and move it around about a foot above the explorer's face, asking them to track it with the eyes only, i.e. not moving the head. Move your finger or the pen in figures of eight, wiggles, circles, and irregular loops, all the time leading the person's eyes as far as possible out to the edges of their vision. The eyes can stretch in this way. If you feel the tracking is becoming mechanical, either vary or speed up your movement. If the person tends to move the head, urge them not to for a while.

The stretching of the eyes may hurt a little at first, but this is nothing to worry about. If the explorer finds it impossible to move the eyes without moving the head, encourage them to keep trying and make the movements gentle to lead them gradually out. Make sure they continue breathing (many people stop breathing in order to "concentrate") so that the chest wall moves visibly up and down. However it is not necessary to be puffing and panting or forcing an extra deep breath. Continue this for about five minutes.

1:4 Now ask the explorer to let the head move with the eyes, and track with the end of the nose: they can follow the tip of your finger or of the pen by sighting down their nose and letting the head revolve around. This requires some loosening of the neck. Make sure your movements are extensive in all directions, so that the head is made to rotate from side to side and up and down. This may be somewhat fatiguing and some people tend to seek refuge in mechanical movement, stop breathing, or lose eye contact. Provided it is not painful, encourage the explorer to continue for another five minutes.

1:5 Now ask the explorer to begin rapping their hands and feet down quite fast on the mattress, as if running on the spot. This gets the whole body moving. Try and make sure they are uttering a continuous sound as they breathe out, and that they keep tracking even as their whole body is moving.

Many people find it difficult to do all these things at once. If they lose track, go back to the procedure where they were last comfortable, and proceed from there.

1:6 Urge the explorer to give in to any involuntary movement which occurs unless by some small chance it is dangerous or seems to be causing too much anxiety. In such case you can stop them and ask them to return to tracking without movement for a minute or so, then rest with the eyes shut.

1:7 After another five minutes or so of this movement of the whole body, ask the explorer to return to lying quietly on the back, and make a few passes around for them to track with the eyes only.

1:8 Ask the explorer to look at you for a few moments and tell you how they feel.

In some people this mobilization of the eyes may cause a dramatic emotional outburst. More often the person will simply have experienced some fatigue and perhaps a variety of tingling sensations. The legs may have begun to shake or tremble.

Afterward, if the explorer feels extremely "charged up" or ready to explode with anxiety or some feeling they cannot identify, ask them to turn over and kick pound on the mattress for a while, and if possible let out a roaring sound, to let off steam.

Even if not much emotion has been felt during this exploration, there may be some effects which last at least a day. In particular the person may find their vision has sharpened, and that the world seems more alive to them, or they feel less anxious.

Eye mobilization is an essential preliminary to further work on the lower segments. Before beginning to concentrate on a lower segment, even if you feel the eyes have already been "dealt with" in previous sessions, it is advisable to begin each session with a few minutes of tracking. After this the eyes can stay open during the work or can be closed if the person feels like going more "inside."

During therapeutic work in general, the eyes are best either closed or, if open, looking actively at the environment or at another person; i.e. in contact. If the eyes are open in a frozen stare, work on the lower body may cause a sudden attack of anxiety, or more total bodily freezing.