Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 8

[Shannon]

What are you doing to get help from professional sources?

I don't have professional help, haven’t had much success with it before. I am going to look for a therapist soon enough, though

As for the dream example I gave you, those kinds of dreams almost only happen when I use ultrasonic for too long

What really bothers me is that ever since something in my subconscious shut down after using OGSFv1, no subliminal has worked the way they used to. Given the current state of my subconscious, I think the instructions might not be a good fit for me with E6. By the fifth day of listening, it starts to feel like too much. Going into the rest days, I’m either in a state of resistance or feel over-pressurized, depending on which format I use. Perhaps subliminals aren’t for me anymore, as you pointed out, or maybe I just need to tweak my listening patterns to better suit me. Reducing the days ON to 4 instead of 5 comes to mind. Do you think that’s worth a try?

I've noticed a pattern with you, and please feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that you tend to resist so hard that you conclude that you should use it less and less and use the most gentle settings trying to make it work, that it ends up failing because there's not enough to make it work.  Has that been your experience so far?  Or am I mis-remembering?

I suggested professional help because of this.  If the pattern above is correct, then what you're doing is resisting by making it too painful to achieve the necessary change, and self sabotaging to protect what's causing the issues you're trying to solve.  It is a cycle that will always end the same way if you don't change something.

Since I'm not a licensed psychiatrist or psychologist, and I cannot spend the time necessary to try to fully understand your unique challenge here regardless, a professional source of help is your best bet.  It does not surprise me that you haven't had much success with it before, because quite frankly, the entire field of psychology is a bit of a mess right now.  But that doesn't mean you should give up.  It means you just need to keep looking for the right therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist, hypnotherapist, NLP specialist or other practitioner, and right approach.

Given what I have seen, I suggest you aim for in-person consultation, diagnosis and therapy.

Now then, if what I said at the top is not correct, then that laves us with some options for trying to find a way forward with subliminals still.

So it comes down to... are you in a repeating cycle of subconsciously self sabotaging when you try to use subliminals to help yourself?