Just prior to doing a consultation, the first thing the HC does is to make sure the room and requirements for the consultation are set up. i.e. the room is as comfortable as possible and is free from interruptions and distractions, the meter is well charged, set up and that the consultant report forms and worksheets are ready and that he has a sufficient supply of pens and a good dictionary.
The personnel receiving the consultant is seated in the chair furthest from the door and is asked to pick up the cans (from now on until the consultation ends the personnel remains on the cans). The HC ensures the personnel is not wearing any rings, that he has eaten well, had sufficient sleep and rest, has had no alcohol for 24 hours prior to the session and has had no drugs and has taken no aspirin or painkillers for at least a week. When this is all checked and ascertained to be OK, the HC says, "This is the consultation", and then gently informs the personnel what he is going to do and ensures that the personnel understands this.
If the needle is quite clean and loose or if floating (may not be the latter if the person has had little or no auditing) and the personnel is quite cheerful, the HC goes directly into doing the actions intended for the consultation — i.e. any of the HC stress analyses or the out-point-plus-point assessment and two-way comm, which ever is scheduled for the consultation.
If the needle is fairly clean but the person is somewhat upset, the HC should find out and clean up what is troubling the personnel by two-way comm as per stress analysis No. 1 until the personnel is feeling bright and cheerful and the needle is floating. He should indicate this — i.e. that the needle floated and then proceed with the action intended for the consultation.
If at the beginning of the consultation the needle is found to be very dirty or there is an ARC break float and the personnel is quite upset, the consultant should gently say that he is going to conclude the consultation at this point and say "That is all". The personnel should then be routed to the Qualifications Division of a Scientology organization to visit the examiner and to arrange for some auditing to be C/Sed for him.
If at any time during a consultation, the needle becomes dirty or there is an ARC break float and the personnel is upset the same action should be done — i.e. conclude the consultation at this point and send the personnel to the examiner, this is if the consultant has not been able to clean the upset by two way comm.
When the major action intended for the consultation is complete and the person is very cheerful, has finished what he wants to say, realizes what has been bothering him and has a floating needle, the HC says "That is all" and ends the period.
Points to be noted:
1. The Hubbard consultant should never run any subject which does not read well on the meter as it will not readily discharge, but should locate something else which reads well and run that instead.
2. If at any time the personnel comments that he is exterior or that he can see his body or the room from a different viewpoint other than from where he is sitting, the HC should gently end the session by saying "That is all" and route the personnel to the examiner to ensure that an exteriorization/interiorization intensive is run as no further consultations should be done until this is complete otherwise the tone arm will go very high and no further progress will be made.
3. If at any time the HC is unable to make progress with the personnel and the TA goes high, he should also gently end the session with "That is all" and route the personnel to the examiner in the Qualifications Division of a Scientology Organization for the trouble to be resolved with processing.