Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

@Shannon

Is  frm 4.9 like e3 in the sense that it is a more gentle approach to getting rid of fears- or is it more reminiscent of how you’d like to create e4 to be which you’ve stated you’d like to make more aggressive yet safe...

FRM 4.9 is neither trying to be gentle, nor trying to be aggressive.  It is trying to achieve its goals, and do whatever it takes to successfully and safely accomplish that goal.  If that means throttling up, it will throttle up.  If that means throttling down, it will throttle down.  But the usage patterns will determine a large part of how "aggressive" its approach is.  

The goal is to get rid of fears.  All parts of the fear, and all fears.  To do this, it must not just play better strategies than fear does, but it must do so more efficiently, faster, more effectively, and it must prevent the fear from generating new fears, regenerating fears that have been removed, and finding ways to remove the fears without triggering them in ways that make them dominate.

Too aggressive, and you trigger the fears the wrong way.  Too gentle, and the fears aren't dealt with sufficiently, quickly enough, or just enough in general.  Not only does the approach have to be based on incredible strategy, it has to balance exactly right, and it has to do that for every person using it.

The biggest issue we will have with OF is people trying to give up out of fear, instead of trying to find the right balance points to make it work.  This one is going to be very important to use according to the specified directions, I think, and then find the ideal format and volume instead of messing with the days on, days off and loops per day.