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Laurie Weiss
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Letting It Go
Self-Help
Author Insight
Relinquish Frustration, Embrace Serenity
Sometimes I forget that the Logosynthesis tool I write and teach about is something of a miracle. I’m so used to helping people release long-standing problems quickly and easily that it seems normal to do so. But I sometimes need to be reminded to use it for myself. Whenever I run into a computer problem that needs tech-support, I feel betrayed. You see, I was once promised that that I would never have to have these conversations. So, along with my lack of skill, I have the fantasy that someone else should be doing it. So, it’s not surprising that after a full five hours dealing with various technicians, and one 10 minute wait that stretched into an hour, and that our dinner had been an hour and half late because of the mess, my head was spinning. Not only that, but the last technician kept asking questions I couldn’t answer and was quite inpatient with me and I kept telling myself how mean he was. You get the picture; my emotions were something like those of a frustrated eight-year-old. My ever-patient husband, who had been sympathizing with me all day and made the pizza for dinner, suggested that it was time for Logosynthesis. It certainly was! After saying the three sentences focused on the events of the afternoon, I was completely relaxed. I slept well, had pleasant dreams, and woke up completely refreshed. Rereading this, I can see that my next growth task is to release the fantasy.
Book Excerpt
Letting It Go
You can’t really break up with stress. After all it is an important part of life. You grow by responding to stress. When you need to stretch to respond to something you increase your capacity in that area. However, what you can do is reclaim the energy you are using to protect yourself from your reactions to toxic stress in your recent and distant past and in your imagined future.
Finding the trigger really means searching your body, your memory and the physical space that surrounds you to discover the bits of energy you froze around this stress. You froze your energy in order to protect yourself from the pain and overwhelm you experienced then. You may also be losing energy by imagining that similar painful events will occur in the future.
You may be very aware that your energy is stuck in toxic stress you are currently trying to manage in your life. On the other hand you may know your energy is stuck because you feel vague, nagging, hard to figure out or explain, anxiety or depression or a whole variety of other symptoms. In any case, in order to use the Logosynthesis sentences to reclaim that energy you need to describe what triggers your distress.
When the trigger is deactivated, the memory of the stressful event will remain but your reaction to the memory changes. It may seem as if the stress magically disappears but what really disappears is the block you once created that kept your energy from flowing freely.
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