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The reason for treating the pain of a part is to get the part ready, without pain, to join with the Main Personality (see Figure 3-15). This joining process is called integration. The following metaphor describes joining or integrating a part with the Main Personality. The trauma part and Main Personality get close together and the trauma part and Main Personality share their entire histories with each other until each has the same history.

Then, the Main Personality knows everything the trauma part knows and the trauma part knows everything the Main Personality knows. The major benefit of this joining of memories is that, because memories create behavior and filters for experience, both parts can now run the body at the same time without conflicts. Also, all the knowledge, wisdom and understanding memories of the trauma part, after joining with the Main Personality, are available to contribute to behavior in appropriate situations.

All trauma parts have helpful protection information and coping behavior. If these positive qualities of the parts are not strengthened with positive emotions, the information or skill may be lost. Therefore, before the integration process, the subconscious is asked to associate positive emotions with any positive coping behaviors or information in the part formerly motivated by negative emotions. By doing this, the positive coping behavior and protective information will be more noticeable in the behavior created by the Main Personality. When all the parts and aspects have joined with the Main Personality, all the integrated experiences from the entire personality are used correctly and appropriately when creating behavior.

Sometimes, parts worry that they will lose their identity when they integrate (see Figure 3-16). This does not happen. At the beginning of the trauma that created an amnesic part, the brain mobilized and created a new, unique memory structure. This new memory structure is different from all other trauma parts, (or previous memory structures) and the Main Personality. With integration, the trauma part and the Main Personality exchange memories until they both have the same memory associations. All integrated parts have the same memory associations. However, the memory structures of the integrated parts do not change, but remain unique.

It is important to mention that integration does not always last. If a person experiences another trauma and there are enough similarities to the original trauma of some part, that part could separate from the Main Personality and become active and problematic again. However, all parts integrated usually remain integrated. They will all experience both satisfaction and pain and will want to contribute to getting more satisfaction and having less pain.