Greg lost 5 pounds in five weeks, without thinking about his weight,

[Guest guest]

Greg lost 5 pounds in five weeks, without thinking about his weight,

or trying to lose any, because our support group focused on him and

did the basic clearing procedure with him about half a dozen times.

Cathartic!

You have heard, no doubt, of the Accelerator; this is the Symptom

Eraser.

The way it works is, you start by thinking about your symptoms. You

simply take an introspective look at yourself. It's best to think of

a lot of symptoms, as many as you can, for about five minutes. If you

have trouble identifying symptoms, you're lying to yourself.

Symptoms are behaviors. A symptomatic behavior can be something you

don't want to be doing but do, or it's just irrational, or makes you

feel bad, or it makes you sick -- need I go on? There are as many

symptomatic behaviors as there are leaves on this tree (imagine a big

tree with a lot of leaves).

And every time you think of a symptom, you actually test -- " is that

one my symptoms? That behavior? " You probably find that many of

these symptoms are interconnected, and you want to start by seeing a

bunch of them before you go on to the next part of the procedure.

So you take one of these symptoms, and you test it. The next question

is, thinking of one of the symptoms you just discovered, " would that

be a good one to do this procedure about? "

Next, what you're going to do is find some of the things that cause

the symptom. If you look at the list of lessons, what you're looking

at, for the most part, is a list of things that cause symptoms that

you can erase by doing any one of the lessons.

http://www.wayimmune.org/colleague/0lesson/0keelytoc%20.htm

In Greg's case, the first thing we asked about was impairments or

disabilities.

Greg got yes for every symptom he started working on, so that's what

he removed: impairments and disabilities. Since removing one of those

can take 10 minutes, and his work time in our meetings was only

around

half an hour per meeting, in each session he removed one impairment,

or one disability. The exceptions were when there was a related

string of them -- then he accessed and removed them all. A related

string might be three or four.

http://www.wayimmune.org/colleague/skill06/upper.htm

We're going to put up audios of us doing this, but for now you can

muddle your way through just by using the lessons on impairments and

disabilities, and listening to the audios on them. The audio lectures

on impairments and disabilities are among the talks on this page.

http://www.wayimmune.org/colleague/woitoc.htm

Then, after he cleared the impairment or disability, we always made

sure we did an Accelerator. Now, when you do the Accelerator, you

generally only do part of an Accelerator. So when we say, " I did an

Accelerator " about something, we're actually saying we did maybe a

few

questions from the Accelerator. In this case, we focused on new

behaviors to construct, and good responses that come easy. Here's a

link to the Accelerator.

http://www.wayimmune.org/colleague/0lesson/0acc.htm

OK, now at this point I should make one thing perfectly clear: it is

quite possible to remove a cause of a symptom and see virtually no

change in the symptom, or your tendency to do the symptomatic

behavior. You are also perfectly capable of maintaining the

symptomatic behavior in its pristine state by sheer intention. And in

the absence of substitute non-symptomatic behaviors you may be quite

likely to do so.

But, if you're like most people what you'll notice is that, after

doing the eraser as outlined above, the force is gone. The compulsion

lessens. The symptom dims down. You'll sound like somebody curing

the flu on a flu CureShow: they say things like " my throat feels less

scratchy. " Flu gets fainter and fainter, and finally disappears

altogether.

And the difference between curing flu and curing the symptom you're

after, which may be that you're overweight or a drug addict, is that

flu takes 15 minutes to cure, whereas one of those symptoms may take

15 weeks, or 15 months. And that's 15 weeks of work that's as intense

as what you hear somebody doing with curing flu.

What I mean here is that with weight or drug addiction you would

probably want to do at least two or three of these erasers per day:

one in the morning and one in the afternoon, let's say. And you

should expect to see change on a daily basis. Not cure, but change.

Cure comes after change. But you know what? That is cure. When you

see change, it means something is gone. Maybe not the thing you're

trying to cure, but something got cured there.

So you can report that cure in the Cure Drive poll. Don't forget to

report your cures weekly in the Cure Drive poll. Test how many you've

had, then check the right number of boxes so that you register all

your cures for that week.

/polls

Greg lost 5 pounds in five weeks. Since it may be harder to lose

weight than it is to cure cancer, what I'm telling you here is pretty

important.

the Symptom Eraser is something I came up with back in the mid-1990s.

I used to walk through Wissahickon Park, in Philadelphia, and do this

whole procedure over around an hour and a half every morning, and

every afternoon. I did that, off and on, for around three years. And

it did make a change in me.

Buz