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Laurie Weiss
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Letting It Go
Self-Help
Author Insight
Trying to Change the Past?
Are you longing to rewind the clock to a time when you never needed to think about whether it was safe to be with a group of your friends? You are not alone. Right now it's hard to stop believing that life should be the way it was just a few months ago. Yet life is not that way now and it is not likely to be that way again for quite some time. And just thinking about the situation often triggers grief and anger. In this book segment, Ron released his energy from trying to solve an impossible problem like this one by using the Logosynthesis sentences that are taught in Letting It Go. You can get a quick intro to the work at www.BooksByLaurie.com/guide. Most people still believe that you need to keep living with the discomfort of resentment and disappointments replaying themselves over and over again. Fortunately, that isn't true anymore. Learning to use this process is much easier than you think. You will be amazed at what you can learn and start using in just an hour or two. For many people, the belief that triggers so much negative emotion is a variety of, “Life should be the way it used to be.” Try putting that into the sentences and just notice what happens.
Book Excerpt
Letting It Go
Target: An Attempt to Change the Past
You can also create toxic stress by repeatedly trying to solve an impossible problem like getting a dead parent to change something she did when she was alive.
Ron often replayed the scene of his mother giving away his comic books, told others the story and insisted that he could never forgive her, even though she had died 10 years earlier. We suggested that he could retrieve his energy from “this belief that mother should have been different.”
After he used that target in the sentences he said, “She was only 27 and had three kids in a one-bedroom apartment.”
More Sample Targets
Here is a list of 50 other targets used by real people in some of our workshops.
1. This image of her standing there screaming at me (the employee having a major freak out).
2. The voice of (a person in memory) scolding me.
3. This belief that I should be able to handle negativity.
4. This weight on my shoulders (the migraine pain that takes me out of my life).
5. This pressure, tension and tightness in my chest.
6. All of the times when I haven’t been heard.
7. The time I wasn’t listened to.
8. This belief that I’m supposed to be in charge of this process.
9. All of the fantasies that get in the way of my writing.
10. This fantasy that I won’t succeed. (Belief that I’m not enough.)
11. This turning in my gut (experiencing something as unnerving and gross).
12. This traumatic image in my mind (image of doing CPR on the dying person).
13. This fantasy that business will use up all of my time and I won’t enjoy it.
14. The fantasy that I can get what I missed from my father (trying to retrieve father’s wisdom from his papers).
15. This experience of being locked out of my heart.
16. This scene of finding (name) (previously finding someone who had suicided by gunshot).
17. The fantasy of all the terrible things that will happen if I lose my home.
18. This fantasy of not being able to give something of value.
19. This sore, warm acid lump in my gut.
20. The expectation of how my daughter should behave (daughter is a drug addict).
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