BubbleStream

Laurie Weiss

a book bubble about

Letting It Go

Self-Help

synopsis

Synopsis

If you’re tired of being told to just let go of things that bother you—but you don’t know how—you will love this book! Using this brief, step-by-step guide, discover three little-known, magical sentences to effortlessly release anxiety and toxic stress in just minutes and reclaim the joy in your life. The revolutionary new technique revealed in Letting It Go: Relieve Anxiety and Toxic Stress in Just a Few Minutes Using Only Words (Rapid Relief with Logosynthesis®) shows you how to actually let go of whatever is bothering you—easily, effectively and often permanently. In an ever-faster moving world, people often feel like their lives are falling apart. They secretly worry that not being able to keep up means there is something wrong with them. This reassuring, easily understood explanation of complicated psychological information reveals how normal it is to feel this way—how everyone’s energy naturally gets stuck in the process of growing up and learning to manage the world. The challenge of letting go of that old, stuck energy becomes manageable. You are hugely relieved as you discover you can easily learn and apply this process yourself—either privately or with a learning partner. Then you experience the freedom that comes from effortlessly managing previously distressing situations and even forget to worry about things you used to obsess about. This leads to reclaiming the life energy and the joy you long for.

bio

Author Biography

After over 40 years practicing psychotherapy and coaching, Dr. Laurie Weiss had no intention of starting a new phase of her career. Then a colleague helped her resolve a persistent, stressful problem using an amazing new technique. She was astounded that he did it in just a few minutes, while standing on the sidewalk outside of a restaurant, using only words. She has a multifaceted background as an internationally known psychotherapist, executive and life coach, marriage counselor, relationship communication expert, trainer of professionals, speaker, grandmother and author of 12 books. Her current focus is on helping clients reclaim their life energy and find joy in all areas of their lives.

website

Author Insight

Do I Need a Witness?

Yesterday I used the basic Logosynthesis process when I could not stop thinking about a slightly uncomfortable encounter I had earlier in the day. I had been judging my own actions about both protecting and not protecting my own boundaries. The process worked and I didn’t give the encounter another thought until this morning when I was in the car with my husband, returning to the place where the encounter occurred. Then I started obsessing about it again. Jonathan is also a Master Logosynthesis Practitioner and I shared my story with him. We searched for what was still undone, couldn’t find anything, and I realized that the difference was that the entire issue was no longer a secret. Sharing it was what had been left out and was now complete. Later I was reminded of a Brené Brown technique of sharing old feelings of shame with a “shame-buddy” as part of a process to resolve them. I wondered if my experience was similar to this process. Once I shared something after my initial work, it vanished. Logosynthesis can certainly be used alone as a self-coaching technique. However, it was originally developed as a tool a therapist could use. I think that it may be important to use it with a “buddy” when a problem isn’t easily resolved.

Book Excerpt

Letting It Go

This Story Led to Toxic Stress

Emily created a story as a child that influenced her entire life. Just imagine this scene and you will understand how easy it is to do.

Four-year-old Emily is angry at her mother and yells, “You’re a bad mommy!” Mother, pregnant, frustrated and exhausted herself, snaps back, “Be quiet, you are giving me a headache!” (I know that is not good parenting, but unfortunately it is all too common.)

Later when mother has severe morning sickness, Emily is scared because she knows that something is very wrong but does not understand what it is. Her immature mind figures out that if she can give mother a headache, she must be responsible for this problem too. After all, she still thinks angry thoughts when things don’t go her way.

Emily tells herself this story: “I’m a bad girl because I made mommy sick.” She then decides that from now on, she should be good and not make any demands or complaints and essentially freezes the exuberant, demanding, alive part of herself.

As a responsible and successful grownup woman, Emily has long since forgotten that she once created this story, but the story she now tells herself is about how much she is supposed to be doing. She exhausts herself by trying to take care of everything and everyone around her. She feels stressed and anxious about managing all the demands of her busy life.

How Words Help Target and Release the Toxic Stress

This is where the Logosynthesis sentences can help relieve her stress, but first she needs a target.

In a workshop exercise to find targets to use for practice, she describes feeling stressed because she has to take a business trip and set up all the meals and activities for her husband and school-age children before she leaves. When looking for a target for the sentences her group decides it is “this belief that I am responsible for doing everything.”

This is how the sentences she used were constructed to help her relieve her stress.

1. I retrieve all my energy bound up in (this belief that I am responsible for doing everything) and take it back to the right place in my Self.

2. I remove all the non-me energy related to (this belief that I am responsible for doing everything) from all of my cells, from my body and from my personal space and send it to where it truly belongs.

3. I retrieve all my energy bound up in all my reactions to (this belief that I am responsible for doing everything) and take it back to the right place in my Self.

Since this was a workshop situation, a partner was readily available. Emily sat quietly with her eyes closed and repeated the words as phrases that were given to her in this form.

Helper: I retrieve all my energy

Emily: I retrieve all my energy

Helper: bound up in this belief

Emily: bound up in this belief

Helper: that I am responsible for doing everything

Emily: that I am responsible for doing everything

Helper: and take it back to the right place in my Self.

Emily: and take it back to the right place in my Self.

Emily sits quietly for about 30 seconds and a variety of expressions cross her face. She opens her eyes and nods at her helper. Her helper proceeds with sentence 2.

Helper: I remove all the non-me energy

Emily: I remove all the non-me energy

Helper: related to this belief

Emily: related to this belief

Helper: that I am responsible for doing everything

Emily: that I am responsible for doing everything

Helper: from all of my cells,

Emily: from all of my cells,

Helper: from my body and from my personal space

Emily: from my body and from my personal space

Helper: and send it to where it truly belongs.

Emily: and send it to where it truly belongs.

Again Emily sits with her eyes closed and shifts her position several times. After about 45 seconds she looks at her helper and says Okay. Her helper proceeds with sentence 3.

Helper: I retrieve all my energy bound up in all my reactions to this belief

Emily: I retrieve all my energy bound up in all my reactions to this belief

Helper: that I am responsible for doing everything

Emily: that I am responsible for doing everything

Helper: and take it back to the right place in my Self.

Emily: and take it back to the right place in my Self.

Emily sits with her eyes closed for about a minute and finally opens them and looks at her helper. Her helper asks her what she experienced. Emily says that she feels much more relaxed but kept having memories of trying to take care of her mother when she was small.

This is a workshop, so Emily does not go further at that moment. She notes that for further work she can focus on these experiences in her early life. Her helper then offered her sentence 4 as a way of acknowledging her relaxation even though there was still more work to do in this area.

Buy

	Amazon
	Barnes&Noble
	Apple Books
	Kobo

Share
Follow Unfollow
Comment
x
Comment on this Bubble

Your comment and a link to this bubble will also appear in your Facebook feed.

Laurie Weiss

Letting It Go

Synopsis

Author Biography

Author Insight

Do I Need a Witness?

Book Excerpt

Letting It Go

Comment on this Bubble