Thread by @sewneo

Okay, so for the grand finale:

I used to study NLP and use Richard Bandler's book "Get The Life You Want". (I think Bandler's kind of a self-centered ass... but his stuff works.)

After I got away from my ex... I was still HAUNTED by this woman. She was an evil witch in my mind

https://twitter.com/stunlovesyou/status/1217302161916194816

And all that horrible stuff she said was still with me... it would trigger me depending on where I was, or things I saw like photos, or old clothes/items... You know?

So Bandler's NLP has these techniques to erase and release bad memories--but do it fast--not like therapy.

One of them goes like this:

Take the thing that's haunting you...
✅Give it a size in your mind. Is it huge? Average? Small? Is it color? Is it a still picture or a movie? determine variables on as many as you can.
✅Next: Can U make it bigger or Smaller?

...or put a frame around it? Can you make it go backwards or speed up? Drag slow like an old movie reel?
✅Once you get some 'control', you can change it forever. Speed it up--forwards and back--over and over. Until it gets silly. Until you can laugh. change the faces. Add stuff

...like a clown wig and makeup, or a dog suit. Screw it all around until the memory changes. And then put a big frame around it and shrink it. Down to a page. Down to a stamp... Smaller.. make it blink and disapear.

Do that or similar to change it forever. Do it agian and again.

OKAY LAST ONE. Thanks for reading all of this Stun.

This one's most important in a way--because--It's the one I've found most recently. it's from a book called "AWARENESS" By Anthony De Mello. Here's a snippet from the book that points out the main takeaway:

This changed my life just in the last few weeks! I been freaking out & doing it over and over along w/ the 'release' from Beth.

It's so simple but so powerful man... The whole book is a huge inspiration. I grabbed the audio version and it's actually the author's orig lectures.

He's got this British-Indian accent, and he tells all these illustrative stories to a live audience... So you can hear them reacting. It's really worth listening too imho.

I took his "four steps" and made this girl meme out of it as a reminder & a way to memorize it:

I know I'll go listen to this book over and over again... And I'll keep practicing all these techniques (and more), for the rest of my life... Because they bring me that "inner-peace".

I don't always have it... It doesn't "stop my depression", but it makes it pass quicker...

In the last few years I've done other stuff too. I quit booze, and cigarettes, and I quit pot too... I've switched to a 'fruit only at lunch' and 'one vegetarian meal at night' diet... When I quit drugs and booze I realized food was still my drug. I eat to feel better.

But I'm changing that too.

I really hope you can find a tiny flash of that 'light feeling'...That RELIEF & joy... & grab on and keep it Stun.

I think most folks on here are either too desperate or too embarrassed to let you know how much you mean to them. I'm embarrassed too.

I'm just saying screw it and doing it anyway... partly because it's a thrill, and partly because it's worth it to have my freedom and hope like hell that it helps other folks find that 'inner-peace'.

Have a good night man.

see ya round,

-sb

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