What Is a Tool?

A tool is a procedure, usually visual but sometimes other things besides visualization that will change your inner state right at the moment you're using it. When I was young psychiatrist and this is in the 70s there's a point where they train you to be a psychotherapist as well as obviously train you to use all the relevant medications. The way they taught me to do psychotherapy, I left me very, very frustrated because they would always go into the past. If the patient could have come up with the solution to this problem, they would have already done that instead of spending more money.