Thanks for the response, Rick.

I was confused about what you wrote earlier about hypnosis:
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You have used hypnosis everyday of your life.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">I thought you were suggesting I could use hypnosis to access my parts on my own because you said I used hypnosis every day of my life. (I didn't realize I did this?) But now you have posted that it is difficult to do this with self-hypnosis? I guess I misunderstood your original statement. I guess if it is better to not do the hypnosis on oneself, I need some other techniques to facilitate communication with my parts.

Thanks for explaining about the integration. I agree the goal should be coordination (integration) of purpose and function of all the parts. I told my male ego state, who was worried his role was diminishing, that I had tons of other stuff he could do to be helpful and essential. I floated a couple of ideas by him and he rejected them. But I have more ideas. But haven't talked with him for a while.