Igor: Ok so, let’s get back to content for today.
I’d like to have a volunteer for a quick exercise who would like to feel good.
So Thorne first of all, how are you doing?
Thorne: Very well and yourself.
Igor: Feel good, are you having fun?
Thorne: I am.
Igor: Very nice to hear.
What kind of feeling would you like to feel a bit more often?
Thorne: Peace.
Igor: And peace.
What kind of peace of you mean?
Thorne: A calm resolve.
Igor: All right.
I have a sense that you felt like this before, am I close?
Thorne: Yes.
Igor: When have you felt like this?
Thorne: Just after I made a life change and joined the Coast Guard to escape misspent
youth, so to speak.
Igor: How long ago was that when you joined the Coast Guard?
Thorne: Twenty years ago.
Igor: So it was about 20 years ago and where were you when this whole process of joining
the Coast Guard gave you that real sense of peace, that quiet calm resolve?
Thorne: I was making the move from basic training to my A school, when I realized the shift
in my thought process.
Igor: And where were you when you noticed that shift in your thought processes?
So you’re making the shift into the A school, but physically where were you?
What room?
What location?
Thorne: I was in my dorm room.
Igor: So you’re in your dorm room?
What are you doing in your dorm room as you become aware of this shift?
Thorne: Studying.
Igor: So you were in your dorm room and you were studying.
At what point do you become aware of this shift?
Thorne: When I realized that I was on a different path.
I just had that sense of, a completely different opposite of what I was doing even a couple
months ago.
Igor: So when you were studying were you sitting at a desk or doing something else?
Thorne: At a desk.
Igor: So you’re sitting at a desk, and what else was in the room?
What color was the room?
Was it brightly colored or more muted?
Thorne: It was yellow.
Igor: Okay a yellow room.
And the desk was?
Thorne: The desk was part of a bunk bed system.
There were three people per room so there were three bunks.
The under space of the top bunk was the bed/dresser.
Igor: Got it.
So you’re under the bunk at your desk in a yellow room.
You’re studying and suddenly you have the realization that you just moved on a completely
different path.
Is that when you were flooded with a calm resolve, a peaceful feeling?
Thorne: Yeah.
Igor: I have a sense you’re getting some of that now.
Thorne: I am indeed.
Igor: Take all the time you need to really enjoy it.
No need to pay any attention to me until you’re ready to talk a little more.
Thorne: Boy, oh boy.
Igor: Isn’t that something?
Thorne: It’s immediate.
Igor: Okay folks, do you mind sticking around a little bit because we want to talk about
what we just did.
We’ll set this up as an exercise and you’ll all get a chance to do this in a minute.
All right so, what do we do here?
It’s a more conversational style of revivification.
Could we have the notes for this one?
So, are you all familiar with the idea of the sySTEMs predicates?
By system, this is one way we looked at Mind Bending Language.
It’s just a mnemonic for space, time, energy and matter.
What is this?
So space, time, energy and matter do you all see that?
This is just a simple acronym to help us remember that there are four coordinates to making
things feel real for us.
For something to be real it has to occur in some place at some time, there’s some kind
of activity going on and there is some object involved, so energy, the verb of matter is
a noun.
That’s how we tend to orient through reality.
So, when you talk about a life changing moment that happens at a certain time, in a certain
place, you’re doing certain things and you were surrounded by certain physical objects.
Now space is to time what energy is to matter.
As any physicist will tell you, matter is really just a ton of really densely vibrating
energy that has sort of coalescence to a matrix that stays relatively stable.
But energy and matter are really the same thing.
In the same way that space and time are the same thing.
Time is just a measurement of change across space.
So it’s really two coordinates, space time and energy matter, the two coordinates that
keep things real.
Now, that’s just a bit of theory.
What is the value of this?
When you ask someone to tell you a story about a particular resource, in this case the idea
of peace, the first thing that happens is the Law of Attention works in your favor.
Where attention goes energy flows and that thing grows.
Did it grow for you?
Thorne: Yes.
Igor: And all you had to do was place your attention on it, but it can’t just be, I’m
going to will myself to be oh…
I’m going to be more peaceful.
That’s taking the wrong kind of attention to it.
We’re going to distract them a little by the story so that the unconscious mind can
rest their attention on the story and from that invoke the experience just like you had
it.
To help we’re going to ask about those four systems…
space, time, energy and matter.
The space question is, where were you?
The time question is, when have you felt like that and how long ago was that?
We can add that if you want into this.
How long ago can orient them in time a little more.
You’ll notice that time here was pretty vague, it was about 20 years ago.
Then space started to make it a little bit more real.
It was abstract at first, I was going from my basic training to the A school.
Then we ask about physical location.
Oh I was in my dorm.
I was studying.
Behavior is the energy.
What were you doing?
What were you spending your energy on?
Studying.
Then we use matter to build out the location.
What do you see?
Yellow walls, bunk beds, desk underneath the bunk bed and as soon as he had enough sensory
detail…
you could see the bunk bed in your mind and almost feel the desk and maybe even got a
hint of the unique smell in the room.
So as those sense memories are starting to come back to life again, it re-awakened the
state that’s attached to that memory.
In this case the resource we’re looking for.
Does that make sense?
It took no time at all, a three or four minute conversation and presto we have a strong healthy
state here.
Does that make sense to you Thorn?
Thorne: Yes.
As a matter of fact, all sorts of other memories from that timeframe are flooding through as
well.
Igor: Because we’ve opened a door and now the Law of Association is working in your
favor.
On the one side the affect bridge, that means the associations to the feeling will bring
you other moments when you felt like that, but also the sensory bridge will bring you
in all the other things that are linked to that memory.
It’s like a memory palace because the dorm room is linked to the corridor, is linked
to the refractory, it’s linked to the park, it’s linked to… and all the activities
that happened in those places are spatially located and our memories excel at storing
things spatially, because that’s how we used to hunt.
Make sense?
Thorne: Yeah.