Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 8

[Shannon]

What I'm having trouble understanding is why having a strong will is seen as a negative thing.

Having a strong will isn't, in itself, a negative thing.  However, it enables higher levels of resistance than not having a strong will.  5G was where we discovered how to communicate sufficiently with the subconscious to trigger serious resistance, and it was not capable of handling serious resistance, which is why I started developing 6G.

After all, it was a conscious decision on my part to choose this program, and I've seen results in the past when I consciously engaged my subconscious using affirmations, particularly in the area of relationships with women. Why is having a strong will not beneficial in this context?

Consciously engaging your subconscious using affirmations, and consciously engaging your subconscious using subliminals, is not the same thing at all.

Affirmations engages what is known as the "shallow subconscious", which is easily accessed and generally cooperative.  Using a 5th Gen subliminal will attempt to engage ALL of your subconscious, and that can trigger resistance from one or more parts of your subconscious, which for whatever eason do not agree with the goals of the script.  Usually this is because they hold some sort of belief that contradicts the goal of the script directly, or because they hold some sort of belief that triggers a fear reaction to achieving the goal of the script for some reason.  It does not have to be a logical reason, at all, since the subconscious is not rational.

If I consciously use my will to get results, wouldn't that be effective?

It depends on how you do so, what parts of your subconscious you engage to do so and what beliefs those parts hold.

Also, what exactly does the new technology do to a person's will? 

Does it make them weaker-willed? This aspect is really unclear to me.

The newer technology does not make you weaker willed.  Instead, it works to get cooperation from those parts that are resisting or would resist otherwise.

Regarding becoming a stronger man, I'm in the process of making positive changes in my life, but it's going to take time. I'm currently going to university to study computer science, with the aim of eventually changing my career path.

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

In addition to my previous questions, I’m struggling to understand how this resistance could be related to past traumas. 
In the past, I've had periods where I saw real, tangible results having multiple women being interested in having sex with me immediately, and I was dating several attractive women at the same time.

Your subconscious mind is not monolithic.  It exists as different levels of awareness, different type of awareness and different parts within levels.  The "shallow subconscious" is easily accessed from the conscious mind directly, and usually it is cooperative because it is not where your formative experiences and beliefs are held.  Those are deeper, and they go all the way back to when your physical brain was still forming in the womb.  The vast majority of these levels and the experiences and resultant beliefs they hold are sub-conscious and you are consciously completely unaware of them until something forces them to respond in a way the conscious mind can observe.  For example, feeding into the deeper levels of your awareness a set of instructions that triggers a resistance response. 

In 5th Gen, I was able to reach down into the meso-subconscious.  You can make general sense of that by dividing the subconscious into three major sections, the "shallow", the "meso" (middle) and the "deep"  The meso-subconscious is where you begin holding important formative experiences and beliefs, and while these are almost never obvious to the conscious mind, they may in fact disagree with the conscious mind and it's beliefs and conclusions to a surprising degree.  If you introduce a set of instructions to this level, and it concludes that the instructions directly or indirectly contradict it's accepted beliefs (or would lead to literal death, which the subconscious concludes with shocking frequency when fear is involved, even when that is ridiculous and absurd to a preposterous degree) you will get a resistance response if you do not take the appropriate actions.  Those appropriate actions have come to be understood during the ~13 years it took me to work my way from 5th Gen to 6th Gen.  They are therefore not present in 5th Gen, and thus the recourse for them is to use the program for longer to work you through them, which is why I advised at least one more run through of Alpha Male 6.

If I was able to achieve that before, how can it be that suddenly now these supposed traumas are preventing me from getting results?

Because now you are asking the parts of you that hold these traumatic memories to participate in ways they irrationally conclude will somehow result in your literal death.  No joke, that's what it turns out to be at the root.  Remember, those parts of you have NO ability to think logically.  To them, the absurdities you dream at night male perfect sense literally, and they are not in the slightest bit absurd.  To the conscious mind, however, they are frequently absurd because they are symbolic and irrational instead of logical.

It’s puzzling to think that something I was consciously subconsciously able to achieve before is now being blocked by something that didn't subconsciously seem to hold me back previously.

I'd appreciate some clarification on this.

I know I have questions it's because I'm trying to understand all of it.
I'm really not happy with where I'm at

So if you are having traumas holding you back, and it's not just your situation with you not being your own man - and I can't be absolutely sure there are traumas holding you back without more information - you're going to need to un-tangle and heal those traumas to move forward.  The best choice for that is EHPRA6 or OGSF2.  If you don't want to spend money on those, we have a free EHPRA, I believe it's currently v2.  That will definitely shine some light on what you're dealing with, and work you through it.

If you're not dealing with trauma, the best option would be to use AM6 until you work yourself through the issues.  Most of us who used it required 2-3 runs through it.