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Let me respond to the much appreciated feedback about RI.
About my first question about doing RI with a 4x8 plywood sheeting mock-up, one poster responded that I could put it around me as a square, and, following his cue, putting up a box of six plywood sheets was the right gradient starting point and I could take it from there. I just needed to loosen up a bit on Dennis' instruct and find the right gradient. Thanks for shaking me loose. >From now on I promise myself to stick with simple and favorable objects for session's sake, and reserve other kinds of RI for leisure time or as an aversion therapy. Here is an example of doing my corrected RI: I brought into existence a cottony, fluffy beige color (trying to make it easy on myself). First I focused on carefully, suredly placing it under me (I sit on a mat) and then once I was sure I got that I extended it up the back and the rest of the way around me. Immense yawns just from doing this. I'm sure it will be easier with practice. Putting something in front of me is no problem and it is placing it under me and behind me that I need to put more effort. At the same time I was being very watchful that I wasn't doing it in my mind, but mocking it up in the actual space around me. I also noticed that I tend to want to keep everything very close to me - not spread out very far or wide. No change except continuous yawning while I repeated this over and over again until finally the yawning stopped and I looked around seeing everything look brighter and clearer and I felt complete with that. I'm surprised that simply doing that releases so much charge, and the yawning was the only change that occurred. I can see my mock-up in full color, etcetera, but it is like looking at it through frosted glass, so that needs to be worked through. For the poster who could not do RI when extremely agitated, yes, I've experienced that, and after a few days I can approach it again. This happens often enough that I know the routine now. Listening to the Tao Te Ching audiobook oils the troubled waters in the meantime. Or I extrovert watching Byron-Katie's videos on "The Work", so one sees that others have their problems too, and her technique is quite useful if one is upset with someone else because it introduces Dennis' favorite subject - LOGIC :-)) It gets you quickly to thinking logically and analytically once again. Better than watching "Judge Judy", lol. Thank you for taking the time to answer in detail my question about "change occurring". I have fond memories of doing Level Two (oh, the agony I unnecessarily put myself through), and still employ it when a scene is not moving or there is a fixation in the scene. It's a wonderful fallback tool once you get grooved into it. Response to MARCUS: Marcus, have you tried all of these variations? I've wondered about it myself, and then just decided it did not matter because I'm still needing to put it all around me until no more change occurs. I like to feel relaxed and feel I'm entering the Timebreaking portion of the session with a positive attitude and minimally at the level of Courage to face whatever comes up in the scene I choose to timebreak. After a session I'm positive I've done enough RI if I don't have the munchies because I always have gotten a "snack attack" after a good session, and copious RI cures that. The Tao Te Ching says "complicated minds require drastic measures" and Hubbard would have said complicated minds need correct gradients introduced. In Ron's PDC lectures he shows how he put in the gradients for a woman who was having trouble mocking something up; then there is the lecture where he has one gradiently mock up an eyeball. Happy Tromming, Colleen
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