know fairly quickly. The emotional intensity of each issue should diminish considerably and even disappear. When that change doesn't happen, all you have to do is look at the troubleshooting chapter. There you'll see how to troubleshoot, correct, and even remove any problem or barrier getting in the way of your healing process.
Here's how the book is laid out: The first chapter gives an overview of what can be healed, followed by a chapter giving a detailed overview of the book. This chapter is really a glossary of all the concepts used in the book. Most of the concepts discussed in the glossary are treated individually in a chapter. In the next five chapters you'll learn the healing method itself. Then an experimental procedure is presented to help the reader become confident with the healing method. Next are chapters on shortcuts and troubleshooting. Then there is a summary of the healing method with an example, followed by chapters dealing with beliefs and memories, addictions, and pain. For those who like flow charts, there is a complete flow chart. For those interested, there is a chapter that teaches the healing method to your subconscious-the Innerself. If this works, then the healing process is automated and can be used by simply asking. In the appendix are lists of issues and aspects to help you and reminder aids for the healing method.
Just remember: Following the five steps in this book could rid your life of mental and physical pain and keep them away. That's a big payback for investing a little time in a small book. I think you'll find the time well spent.
Chapter 1... Foiling the Wasp: Taking the Sting Out of What's Troubling You
Remember when, as a kid, you got stung by a wasp or a yellow jacket? The pain always went away when the stinger was pulled out. You felt a lot better. By using The Method, you can remove the sting of painful emotions from any of your Issues. In this chapter, you'll get a wide-angle view of exactly what Issues are involved in altering those painful beliefs, memories, addictions and chronic symptoms you'd rather live without.
Beliefs and memories are slightly different from addictions and chronic symptoms. Beliefs and memories are both simply memories with emotions attached to them. Addictions and chronic symptoms involve many memories and are much more complex. Change of these Issues is briefly described in this chapter. Later, there are chapters that fully describe how to use The Method to change beliefs, memories, addictions and chronic symptoms.
By using a painful belief as an example, you will obtain a general idea of how The Method is used to reduce or remove painful emotions. Changing painful memories, emotions, pictures, intrusions, nightmares, addictive urges and chronic symptoms, and so forth, are all similar to changing a painful belief. The similarity is that they are all based on a memory. You can use The Method to change the emotions connected to the memory. An example of using The Method will be given that shows how to change or remove the emotions of an unwanted belief. This will provide you with a general understanding about how The Method can be used for removing pain from other Issues.
Beliefs and Memories
It is the painful emotion connected to a traumatic memory that is the part of the memory that causes problems and disrupts your life. The memory of an emotion is different from the memory of what happened. All mild and severe psychological problems, self-limiting beliefs, intrusive memories or emotions and painful traumatic memories are memories with painful memories of emotion connected to them. Again, it is painful memories of emotion connected to experiential memories that make them painful.
Let's look at beliefs as an example. It is easy to change an unwanted belief using The Method. A belief is either true or not true for you, depending upon the intensity of the positive or negative emotions attached to the belief. If a negative belief is true for you, it can pop up in your thoughts frequently. To get rid of an unwanted negative belief, you simply have to change the belief from being true to being not true. When it is not true for you, you will tend to forget about it.
Hurt, by the way, is a term that stands for all negative emotions. This will be explained further below. Unwanted beliefs are beliefs that are true for you. They are true because they have Hurt associated with them. It is the Hurt that makes the unwanted belief true. When you remove the Hurt from the belief, the belief becomes not true for you. When it is not true, it will not intrude into your thoughts. You can use The Method to remove the Hurt from a belief. You can also strengthen weak, positive beliefs, so they are totally true for you. This will be explained later.
Fears, bad feelings, thoughts and memories of bad events, including all the symptoms they cause, are memories with Hurt associated with them. So to change one of these Issues, all you have to do is use The Method to remove the Hurt from the memory. Similar to beliefs, if the painful emotions are removed from an intrusive voice, image, or "movie," they will stop occurring to you. The changed memory is not lost, and may even be more accurate or complete.
What it won't have is old Hurt associated with it. With the Hurt removed, the memory or experience will have less or no impact on your life. Without it, your life can be more satisfying.
Addictions
Addictions can be stopped. The Method eliminates addictive urges. Since all addictive urges are driven by Hurt, The Method gives you choice. You will have choice because it gives you a way to change the Hurt and neutralize your urge or craving whenever it occurs. To be sure, it takes a strong desire to make the choice to stop an addiction. It is important to do The Method before you do your addiction - before you binge eat, drink, or smoke - otherwise The Method will not work. Because of the complexity of addictions, you will be encouraged to persistently and routinely use The Method to change your addictive urges whenever they are present. The strategy for changing addictions will be described in a later chapter. Do not try to change an addictive urge while you are reading this book. First, understand how to do The Method; then build confidence that The Method will work for you by using it on less difficult Issues. Because addictive urges are sometimes more resistant to change, it is your confidence that The Method will work for you that will give you the patience and persistence necessary to change addictive urges.
Chronic Symptoms
Physical ailments, aches and pains and symptoms of chronic illnesses often have symptoms that are learned associated with them. You can use The Method to neutralize those learned and remembered painful symptoms. Also, stress causes tension in the muscles- that aggravates the Hurt caused by physical damage. If you remove the stress, then you reduce the muscle tension and relieve the Hurt. Sometimes when you use The Method to change a pain, inadvertently you can change underlying emotional Issues. It will never hurt to use The Method to try to reduce your symptoms.
Here is a sample of physical ailments and chronic illnesses for which partial or complete success has been obtained by addressing stress and remembered painful symptoms using The Method.
Allergies
Arthritis
Asthma
Back pain
Bee stings
Body sores
Cancer
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Constipation
Eyesight
Headaches
Insomnia
Irritable bowel syndrome
Itching eyes
Joint
