Letting It Go

Here is a much more detailed guide to get you started.

Remember, some people experience an intense reaction to these words and others experience almost nothing. Sometimes I experience no reaction at the time I do the work but a day or a week later I notice that the problem I was addressing has disappeared. There is NO INCORRECT RESPONSE!

First, prepare for your experiment.

• Create a copy of the sentences that you can use as a guide. If you use this process frequently you will eventually memorize the sentences but you do NOT need to do this before you start.

• Have some water available to drink. Drinking water seems to facilitate doing energy work.

• Decide on a trigger to use for this practice session. Start small—if you were rating your distress on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being barely noticeable and 10 being overwhelming, choose a trigger you would rate no higher than 7.

• Extra. If you like to keep track of your own growth process, do keep a record of the triggers you work with in a permanent Logosynthesis Journal. Otherwise any scraps of paper will work.

• Write out your trigger. Writing will help you to both clarify it for yourself and remember exactly what it is as you practice.

• Extra. Sometimes it helps to write the entire Logosynthesis sentence with the trigger as part of it. Sometimes that is way too much trouble. You decide what will work for you.

• Write the number that rates your level of distress with this trigger.

Follow this procedure to do your first experiment.

• Say the first sentence. If you are working alone say sentence one that contains your trigger aloud. If you are working with a partner, use the method of speak and respond described in Chapter 5.

• Sit calmly and notice how you respond to this experience. It is counter-productive to try to remember the words you have just spoken aloud. You probably won’t be able to anyway. TAKE YOUR TIME and let your thoughts and feelings that come as words, visual images, smells, sounds or speech and/or the physical sensations you experience just go by. Just notice them. Don’t rush this process.

• Make sure you wait at least 15 seconds before moving on. You may experience nothing or anything at all. There is no right or wrong response—anything is fine.

• Repeat the process using sentences two and three.

• When you feel complete with sentence three, notice and write down the number that describes your level of distress right now. Notice whether it has changed from the first number you recorded.

• If your trigger was some sort of snapshot image, check the image and see how it may have changed.

• If your level of distress is at least 2 points lower than when you started, say the fourth sentence aloud.

• Drink several sips of water.

• If you are keeping a Logosynthesis Journal, write a sentence about your experience.