Look Who’s Talking

In a recent client hypnotherapy session (unknown secret: I reference all those I counsel with as ‘clients’ – not ‘patients’, ‘patient’ subconsciously denotes sickness – how can you express wellness in any area of your life if you own the identification of sickness?!This is not denial it is responsibility.) … the client was tormented by all the triggers – both direct and indirect – from the covic predicament. 

This soul was going down one rabbit hole after another, both from experience and the fear of experiencing. And the list of anxieties grew as he continued to divulge his state of mind. Many of us are or have been there. 

After I gently interrupted and called a compassionate time out on the litany, I essentially submitted to him that he has the ‘feedback loop’ going in reverse. A part stunned, part puzzled, part intrigued look appeared on his face through the video portal of my laptop screen. 

We are all primarily participating in one of two positions in life – we are either absorbing from the environment or we are imputing (giving) to the environment. Most fall in the former category  – as was my client until this pivotal session. 

Understandably, since our five typical senses (I use that word, ‘typical’ intentionally) appear to be designed to provide feedback to the brain of environmental and situational conditions, unfortunately the feedback loop goes in the direction of absorbing and therefore determining from phenomena.

Seems normal, right? Oh, contraire mon frére!  In truth we have ‘normalized’ this condition, but fundamentally, our senses are designed to serve us not rule us. When we are ruled by our senses the fundamental ‘setup’ – which is to influence rather than be influenced – causes us to unknowingly reverse the feedback loop.

Instead of imputing to the environment – and therefore influencing – we remain in a perpetual state of absorbing and being influenced. This is not about foolishly denying, ignoring or resisting the feedback loop from conditions, it is about reversing the direction of the loop!

How is this done in a way that doesn’t amount to one combating and resisting what the senses detect? (Afterall, it’s good when the senses detect weather conditions indicating when to put on a sweater, right?) Well, this brings me to the leverage so potently submitted to my client that became his liberation from being at the mercy of the prevailing winds of doom and gloom.   

Decisively understand what I call, ‘the Setup’. Understanding the setup puts you back in the driver’s seat of your life. Conscious awareness of the setup empowers you to reverse the feedback loop of influence. The setup is a recognition of Life’s fundamental nature. In absolute truth, Life has no desire to sabotage itself! Nothing in nature – the most evident reflection of the setup – intentionally sabotages itself. 

And newsflash folks – your very existence is an expression of nature (you may or may not have your philosophical take on the origins of Nature but the fact remains you are indeed a part of it) which means in essence nothing about you wants to sabotage itself.

Your being doesn’t desire to sabotage itself with sickness, lack, conflict, low self-esteem, doubt, worry, jealousy, complication or other forms of distress. All of that stems from the forgetfulness of the Set-Up and then the feedback loop gets reversed and you are constantly at the mercy of taking your cues about (your) life from what the senses’ detect. Use understanding of the setup to reverse the feedback loop! (*This dynamic will be anchored in Sunday’s “Extraordinary New Year Reset” register here.)

In doing so, you are not attempting to ‘control’ circumstances (hell, we try to do too much of that as it is out of fear), but you impute to the state of things through awareness of the setup. This is not magic; you are not trying to force something into being in your life. You are influencing the direction of it!

The relative world operates on influence (boy, did the U.S. witness that the consequence of that on January 6, 2021), through keen understanding and appreciation of the Setup, you influence rather than remain at the mercy of being influenced. This applies to your health as well as the health of your circumstances.

Reverse the feedback loop and be your own salvation.