A simple self-help technique for peeling off small pieces of negative subconscious material

A simple self-help technique for peeling off

small pieces of negative subconscious material

The technique described below aims to discharge negative feelings, thoughts, incidents or
situations. Discharging means removing negative mental pain (feelings, emotions, thoughts,
images). For example, when you have had an argument with someone, you may experience
a negative or painful feeling when you recall this incident. If the incident has been
discharged, it is no longer painful to think about. This is because the negative feelings or
emotions, the negative thoughts or persistent images that lingered in your mind, have been
removed from the incident.
A concrete example to illustrate this
Suppose you are afraid to speak in front of groups. Try to clearly imagine the feeling of fear.
You can try to arouse the feeling of fear yourself. Or you can try and recall an incident in
which you felt this fear and then clearly try to picture the fear that you felt at that time. Or
imagine that you give a presentation in front of a group and in doing so, clearly imagine the
fear that accompanies this.
Next, put this imagined feeling into words, into a sentence, as you would formulate the
sentence for yourself in your mind, in the first person (so, using ‘I’ or ‘me’). For example: ‘I’m
overwhelmed with fear’. It is very important that the sentence formed is the right one,
otherwise, nothing will be peeled off. The right sentence is a copy of what is stored in the
subconscious mind, and only when the contents of the sentence is an exact copy of
subconscious information, small parts of it will be broken down. When you feel that it’s not
the right sentence, then look for another sentence, until you feel that it is the right one.
The sentence should be repeated while the fear is clearly imagined. In this case, the sentence
is ‘I’m overwhelmed with fear. Continue to repeat the sentence until you feel relief or a
change or you feel like forming a different sentence. For example, you might feel like
forming this new sentence: ‘I feel tense and insecure’. Or: ‘I will fail’. Or: ‘They will judge
me’.
Continue to repeat the new sentence, while clearly imagining the feeling or the idea that goes
with the sentence. Continue to repeat the new sentence until you feel there’s a relief or a
change, or until you feel like forming a different sentence.
When you feel that you have reached a final point, start all over again. So, again, imagine the
fear you feel when speaking in front of a group. Make a sentence in the first person about the
feeling as you would say it in your mind. Etcetera.
How to go about it
Choose a topic you want to reduce the negative aspect of. This can be an emotion, an idea, a
conviction, a situation, an incident that happened recently, an image or thought that keeps
lingering in your mind.

Clearly imagine this topic in your mind. If it is an emotion, try to feel it really good. If it is an
the idea, an image, a situation, an incident, then clearly imagine this idea, an element of the
the situation or an element of the incident and look for an emotion linked to this idea or this
element and clearly imagine this emotion. If it is an image, look for ideas and emotions that
accompany this image.
If you find it hard to imagine the topic, try to recall a memory related to the topic. If this
doesn’t work either, try to create an imaginary situation involving this topic.
For example, if you want to tackle the topic of not getting much respect from others. Either
imagine both this idea and the feeling that accompanies it, or create an imaginary situation in
which you are not respected by others in the hope that you can call up the right idea and
feeling.
When a situation includes several elements, choose one to start with. If you want to
discharge a recently happened incident, then take one element, to begin with. If you feel relief concerning this single element, then proceed to the treatment of another element.
If you have to repeat a sentence for a long time without anything happening, then you
probably haven’t formed the right sentence. Try to find another sentence for the same topic
or choose another topic. If you do it right, you’ll notice that the topic, feels lighter after this
the technique has been applied (sometimes only temporarily, however).
Most people find this technique easy to work with. But others find it difficult. Some people
experience that subconscious matter is being stirred up, without it being discharged, and as a result, they are stuck with a negative feeling. If this happens only once, it’s not a problem.
Simply leave the technique be for a while, focus your attention on other activities in your life,
and the negative feeling will disappear by itself. But if a negative feeling continues to remain
when applying this technique, then try it once more with a completely different topic, or
abandon this technique entirely.
This technique is simple but very powerful. If applied perfectly, it can discharge
more negative subconscious material within a certain time than in an equally long therapeutic session with a therapist. So, certainly try to work with it, don’t give upright
away. It may sometimes require some practice before you’ve mastered it, but once you’ve
got the hang of it, you have a powerful, free technique at your disposal that can help you to
fix problems in yourself and in your life. So, spend as much time on it as possible.