If a person can’t change because they don’t know how to , they can become locked in a pattern in IEMT that is referred to as patterns of Chronicity. This can reflect a training need rather than a therapy need.  IEMT incorporates training the client in techniques to help them affect change. Negative emotional imprinting occurs when a person has an event with high intensity of emotional distress and the hippocampus registers a memory that is highly associated with a Fight or Flight response from the amygdala. Thus programming our ability to be able to reflect upon the incident without emotional trauma or conflict, and creating a painful memory that may then serve as an emotional template or map for all related and interconnected experiences and events. This emotional template then forms the emotional set for the individual for these experiences and events. Identity imprinting occurs throughout life and is constantly evolving and changing. Some aspects of identity are attributed neurologically but mostly occur as a feedback response to the environment. A pattern of chronicity is a behavioural pattern that serves to defend the problem from therapeutic change. These patterns can be readily discovered through simple linguistic analysis of the ways in which the client expresses him/her self. Whilst a therapeutic process aims at helping the client solve the problem, the client may experience it as a threat to the elements of his/her identity structure. As a result, the patterns of chronicity allow the client to avoid involvement in the change process or even to sabotage it. IEMT can be used as a standalone therapy or in conjunction with Counselling, Hypnotherapy, Breathwork, and EFT.