Wisdom Strategy Research Institute

Part 0 – Set up

1. Choose a time period to work with.

2. Choose an event to release.

What specific memory comes to mind that doesn’t feel so good?
Pick a specific event to release.
You could also choose to release an event you perceive might
happen in the future, or one that is happening in the now.

3. Decide that it’s OK now to let go of the stress of that event.
a. Would you be willing now to begin to let go of some of the
stress that that event used to have for you in the past? Is it
OK now to just let the stress go?

b. If not OK, what would you have to learn, or do or be, or
have, in order for it to be OK to start to let go now of those
unresolved emotions? Are there any other events or
meanings you’d want to release first for it to be OK to let it
go now?

4. Rate the intensity of that event on a scale from zero to 10.
Where 10 was maximum stress, and zero means it’s balanced, or you now
have only good feelings about it.

Part 1 – Specifying

1. Specify Time. When was it? When did it happen? What time of
day was it? What year? What season? What was the date? What
day was it? How old were you?

2. Specify Location of the Event. Where did it happen? What,
specific part of the planet where you on? What was the exact
location? What was the address where it happened? What
landmarks were nearby? What was it close to?

3. Specify Duration. How long did the event last? What was the
duration? When did it start? When was it over? What let you
know it was done? When did you know you were safe afterwards?

4. Specify People and Things. Who else was there? What was
there?

5. Specify Your Location in the Event. Where were you during the
event? Location-wise, where were you in relationship to the other
people and things in that event?

6. Specify the Location of the Other People and Things. Where
were the other people? Where were the things?

7. Specify Your Activity. What were you doing? How were you
doing it?

8. Specify Others Activity. What were the people doing (one at a
time)? What were the objects doing?

9. Specify Appearance. How did each person or thing in the event
look to you (one at a time)?

10. Perception Then. How did it (the event) seem to you then? How
did the other people seem to you? How did the activities of you
and the other people seem to you then?

11. Perception Now. How does it seem to you now?

Part 2- Reconstructing

1. Go to 15 minutes before the event and turn and look across time to
NOW. Notice how that was.

2. Push the event out into the distance. Put it way out there at about
100 yards or further away in the distance. Watch the event over
there. Let it play through very quickly over there from before the
beginning to after the end.

3. Run it quickly in reverse at high-speed from the end to the
beginning of the event. As if watching a movie rewind in a VCR.

4. What, specifically, happened? Describe what happened.

5. And then what happened?

6. And then what?

7. And then what happened after that?

8. Repeat steps 4-7 until you GO PAST THE END of the event.

9. Repeat steps 1-8 until the event is pretty much flat. Repeat the
process until you have gotten most of the charge off of the event.
This will usually take 2 to 5 times through this process to diminish
and reduce most of the stress that was contained in that event from
the past. It may take 15 or 20 times. Keep going until the stress is
GONE.

10. What were the positive learning’s you needed to learn from that
event?

Part 3 – Releasing Deeper

1. One more time, go through what happened as if you are telling a
story to a friend. Tell it to yourself or the mirror, or any object or
being that doesn’t object. Use a humorous tone of voice while
keeping an outrageous or bizarre and fun look on your face.

2. What did you see? What did it look like? How did it seem to you
then? How does it seem to you now?

3. What sounds did you hear? What did it sound like? How did it
seem to you then? How does it seem to you now?

4. What words were said? What did the words sound like? How did
the words seem to you then? How do they seem to you now?

5. What physical sensations did you feel? What sights and sounds
went with those physical sensations? How did it feel? How would
you describe the physical sensations? How did those sensations
seem to you back then? How do they seem to you now?

6. What is an emotion that you felt then? If that emotion could talk,
what would it say? How did that emotion seem to you then? How
does it seem to you now?

7. A. - What did you need in that situation? What needs weren’t
fulfilled at that time, in that situation? We could also describe a
need as an emotional want. Some common needs or emotional
wants include: Safety, Love, Respect, Affection, Importance, Fun,
Comfort, Growth, Esteem of others, Contribution, Security, Trust,
Empathy, Control, and Approval.

7. B - Whatever needs you had then, give the you back then what you
needed then. You can do this by imagining a beam of light going
from you to the you in that event. Also you can go and interact
with the younger you, love and assure him/her and comfort your
younger self. Embrace the younger you from that event and give
yourself what you needed most then. This is an opportunity to
forgive yourself.

8. Is there any part of the event you wish would have gone
differently? If so, Could you just let go of wanting it to have
happened differently?

Take 5 deep full breath’s and on each exhale imagine sending it into
further and further away out there in the far distance. That’s right,
just let it go.

This process allows us to fully take advantage of the power of
indexing from General Semantics. Indexing separates things out, and
literally causes the unpleasant emotional energy to be released from the
event.

If there is any stress left – you have three options. You can repeat
these questions again for that event. Or you can find an earlier moment that
led up this moment, and use the indexing questions with that earlier point in
time that contributed to the situation you are exploring. A third option is to
notice if there happen to be any particular aspects of the memory that stands
out as having a little bit more to release and focus the indexing questions on
just that particular aspect.

Relaxing vs. Resisting
This is best experienced from a curious and relaxed frame of mind. The
reason that a past event can cause us stress is we resist it. We protest it. We
object to it. This may be somewhat useful at the time it occurred.
However, later on as you look way back on it in the distance past, it’s over.
There is no longer the necessity to do anything other than be curious about
it. Every moment in your past has a gift for you. You can only discover
what it is if you accept it.
At this point any negative response will likely have lessened, and it is
easy to begin to search for positive meanings. Questions to facilitate this
include:

Part 4 - Optimism
1. What part of what happened was, or could be valuable to you?
2. What about this was, or could be valuable to other people?
3. What did you do right?
4. What is or could be good about this?
5. How might this benefit you in the future? How did this benefit you
at the time.
6. What are the positive and empowering learnings that you need to
have learned from this that will make you even more capable,
effective and resourceful in the future?
7. How could you use this? How does it serve you?
8. What part of it was fun? What could you enjoy about that event?
9. What about this gives you more choices in the future?
10. What advantage is there in this having happened?
11. What did you like about? What could you have like about it?
12. What about the event is humorous as you think about it now?
What is the funniest thing about it? What about that event could
you laugh about now?