Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

If I wake up every morning feeling stressed and anxious with tension in my neck and shoulders, should I increase exposure, or just keep going? I’m following the base instructions of 1 loop for 2 days, followed by 3 days off

I suggest that you increase the loops by one for the next ASRB2 cycle.

I've been listening to 2 loops for 2 days, followed by 3 days off since you suggested the change. The stress and tension has returned (but happily not the anxiety). Should I add another loop? I have no auto config signs like craving to listen more. If anything, I feel like I'm getting tired, and want a rest.

The first change you make should be to reduce days off by 1 and add one loop.  Run that for a cycle of on/off days and then if you're still not getting anything, keep adding a loop each ASRB2 cycle until you do.

So just to clarify, if I’m feeling tension in my body, or stress, your diagnosis is to increase the intensity one cycle at a time until the tension and stress fades?

On a separate but related note, the tension and stress often feels like I have pent up anger or hate. Recently I also experienced guilt from taking an action after the fear faded. What do I do with these feelings?

It's not a diagnosis, because I am not a doctor.  It's an assessment that you feel stress because you aren't using enough input to override the tension created by the parts of you trying to prevent the program from achieving its goals.  

I have found that whenever I use a subliminal "almost enough", and there is resistance from my inner child or some other subconscious aspect of myself, there is frequently an anger response that results because it does not want to change and gets angry at being pushed so hard to.  When you increase the exposure sufficiently, the cooperative parts override this and the change happens with a lot less stress, etc.  So most likely all you need to do is just find your sweet spot for exposure.