Shannon's Journal

[Shannon]

Shannon I've been having a bit of a rough time lately and need some advice. My biggest fear right now is going through this set and then not having it affect me enough. Stage 2 was really rough and stage 3 is a little better, but still it's been pretty hard on me. I think I'm one of those people that has a lot of resistance that affects my ability to grow or change. Don't get me wrong though, I've noticed I have made improvements thanks to this set, but I still feel like I've been resisting change.

I've also started watching my negative thinking more and challenging those thoughts that pop into my head. I used to take the approach of ignoring them, but I feel like it was more like suppressing them and then it became a bad habit of thinking negatively beyond my conscious awareness. It takes a lot of energy to fight off the negative thinking, but I realized that I need to do something about it, I can't just keep accepting this thinking.

Which this leads me to my next question. Currently I don't play the subliminal 24/7. I only play it at night and get about 8-10 hours of exposure every night. Is that enough? I was thinking about playing it 24/7 to drown out all the negative thinking. Or would this be too taxing on my mind?

I don't know as much about the workings of the subconscious mind as you, but I'm wondering if the sub could actually be making me think more negatively? I've noticed if I try to think positive my mind has a tendency to flip it around and tell me I'm lying to myself.

I'm just trying to figure things out right now and it's just really really hard. I pretty much feel like I'm stuck. I can't really describe how I feel, but it's like knowing the destination and having no gas in the tank. It's beyond frustrating.

What you describe is usually a situational result of having one or more deep fears that are rooted in things you are not dealing with through the subliminal you are using, and when you try to remove it, it tends to have something holding it in place which causes aggressive resistance, since it is based in fear.

There are generally three things you can do.

1. You can try to use the subliminal more, and force a change. How much is up to you. 24/7 is going to allow very little time for processing, but in your case that might be what you need. I'd leave at least an hour a day off, though.
   
2. You can try to figure out the root cause of the issue and deal with it specifically. That will probably require hypnotherapy.
   
3. You can try to select a subliminal that you think will help, and try that.