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Thanks to everyone for their personal feedback re how RI goes for them, and suggestions. With your help, I've regained a certainty that I can do RI and it does not have to drag on forever.
Getting back to the last poster (was it Robin?) who described a type of RI that places an object or multiples of the object around them in six directions and then spins them faster and faster until no more change, for example, stop yawning and things look brighter, more relaxed, etcetera. A former PC I taught to do RI even naturally did it as spinning multiples of the object all around him and RI went very fast for him using simple objects in the room. Tonight I tested that out and yes it does work, especially with objects like, say, a book. So, I started by having someone hand me a book and then I put the book in all six directions and started spinning until the spin was all 360 very fast and a growing quantity of books. That's when the yawning started where all my previous attempts to put a book all around me produced no change except some tension build-up. This neatly resolves the requirement for quantity of importance and I don't have to try and stretch the book into unnatural shapes to put it all around me, or create curved bookshelves filled with books and put those all around me, all of which I did at first. The spinning technique was simpler, doable, and quickly got me ready to do the timebreaking exercise, which went very well. Entering a session with enough RI helped me have a great attitude and really makes a difference for me when timebreaking. For example, I thought this session's timebreaking subject was going to really bite me, and I'd been putting off this session for a couple of weeks, and it was the win with RI that made it a lamb and not a lion because I'm timebreaking now some very live and entrenched covert game strategies... as in "bye-bye me"! :-)) But also, breaking this general timebreaking subject down into different goals with the same person, such as "eating", etc., and nulling game strategies one goal at a time makes it approachable, in spite of two weeks of foot dragging. Re the constant foot dragging I'm falling prey to, I've decided that if it continues I'm going to drop down a notch and run a separate timebreaking therapy to laser-in on an incident where this may have first been adopted, and look at whatever decisions were made during a confusion. Idenics format is great for this of course. I think I should stop masochistically berating myself and simply source the problem. Isn't it fun to get more and more familiar with the ways of our mind and begin to know we can now take it all apart neatly? The Buddhists call this "The Fourth Noble Path" - certainty of one's practices to nibbana. colleen
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