If you were to actually do what the opening page said, the rest of the program would be unnecessary. The simple act of imagining such a life brings you to a state of more inner peace. Therefore, the more fully you imagine a life with more inner peace, the more fully you will experience it.
Not relying on your ability to get to full inner peace in one jump, InnerPeace continues. After an orientation page which familiarizes you with the basics of running the program come the username, password, legal notices, and other such things that software authors often put at the beginning of computer programs.
Once the user accepts the legal terms, the gateway page opens: While this may seem very similar to the opening page, there are some important distinctions. The first sentence states that you, by name (your first name is recommended and is most effective), have access to InnerPeace.
The third sentence goes beyond just a asking you to imagine a life with more inner peace; it asks what it would feel like. This takes inner peace beyond just an intellectual concept and makes you feel it, both emotionally and in your body.
Again, not relying on your ability to get to total inner peace in this jump either, the next page is the main menu where the default choice is to "Run the InnerPeace Process."
There are options for spiritual quotes on the opening and closing page of each step of the process. They are not essensial to the effectiveness of the process but they are helpful for believers, who do make up about ninety-five percent of the population.
Before running the process, once each session InnerPeace takes you to the warning page which says: FEEL what would happen to YOU if you were to continue with the issue:
Describe what that would feel like.self doubt
Focus on what would feel bad or negative to YOU if you were to continue with the issue:
self doubt
Feel it BOTH emotionally and in your body.
Assume no rescue or recovery on this step.
If a rescue or recovery presents itself and things seem to improve a little for a while or even appear to just stay the same, feel what would happen after that were over and the issue:
self doubt
Imagine the WORST case scenario if everything were to get worse and worse.
Imagine what that would feel like to YOU.
Feel it BOTH emotionally and in your body.
What would and would not happen?
What would life be like?
How would you feel?
Consider the end result.
Take this to its ultimate conclusion.
Go all the way to 'crash and burn.'
How do you feel?
FEEL it all, as specifically as you can.
You will know that you have reached the end of this step if you really feel what "crash and burn" would feel like and you cannot imagine feeling much worse.
Imagine how an eternity of that would feel to YOU.
This is suffering that would have to be lived. Prevent this suffering from ever having to be experienced in real life by facing it now.
You might be asking, "Why is a self-improvement program taking me to worst case 'crashes and burns' rather than going in a more positive direction?"
First, be reassured that InnerPeace will not leave you at "crash and burn." Now, let us explain why InnerPeace goes first in the direction of the issue getting worse.
Simply put, most people resist change. A person who has been living with an issue for years and years, be it self doubt or anything else, is probably not going to just give it up instantly.
At the same time, there is often a lot of denial keeping the issue in place. People say things to themselves and others like, "Oh, it's not that bad," and "I can live with it." Having you explore what your worst case future would be like if you were to continue with your issues works to break down these denials.
Also notice that the questions use words like "if" and "would" such as: "What would happen ... if you were to continue ...." They do not assume that you will continue toward a worst case future.
After you take step 2 all the way to "crash and burn" and feel what that feels like, InnerPeace goes to:
FEEL what happens to YOU after you LET GO of the issue:
self doubt
Focus on what feels good or positive to YOU after you LET GO of the issue:
self doubt
Feel it BOTH emotionally and in your body.
Assume no setback or failure on this step. If a setback or failure presents itself and things were to worsen a little for a while or even appear to just stay the same, feel what happens after that is over as the issue vanishes and is GONE FOREVER.
Imagine the BEST case scenario as everything gets better and better.
Imagine what that feels like to YOU.
Feel it BOTH emotionally and in your body.
What would and would not happen?
What would life be like?
How would you feel?
Consider the end result.
Take this to its ultimate conclusion.
Go all the way to "victory and beyond."
How do you feel?
Feel it all, as specifically as you can.
This is an outcome that you can create in real life if you choose.
You will know that you have reached the end of this step if you really feel what "victory and beyond" feels like and you cannot imagine feeling much better.
Feel how an eternity of that feels to YOU.
There are some important differences between step 5 and step 2. First of all, while step 2 uses words like "if"
and "would" as in: "What would happen ... if you were to continue ... " step 5 is assumes that you will let go of the issue. It uses words like: "What happens ... after you let go ...."
Also, scroll back and look at the beginning of the screen shot of step 5 again, only this time squint your eyes so some of the words are fuzzy but you can still see some of them. Most likely, what you will see are the capitalized words and the bold words. Ignoring the other words, here is what they say:
and it were to go ON and ON and everything were to get WORSE and WORSE.
were to come back, STRONGER than ever.
Describe what that feels like.
and everything continues to get BETTER and BETTER.
| FEEL . . . . . . YOU . . . . LET GO . . . . . . . . . self doubt |
Step 6 is the positive equivilent of step 3: Notice how, like step 5, steps 6 and 7 assume that you will let go of the issue.
Here is some theory about the "crash and burn" steps (2, 3, and 4) and the "victory and beyond" steps (5, 6, and 7). Some people are more motivated to move toward positive experiences. Other people are more motivated to move away from negative experiences. These motivations are sometimes referred to as "carrot motivation" and "stick motivation," being named after the tried and true systems of inspiring horses to pull carriages. InnerPeace appeals to both motivations.
After you take step 7 all the way to "victory and beyond" and feel what that feels like, InnerPeace goes to: Using a scale of 0 to 100, how much of the issue:
do you sincerely FEEL that you are WILLING to LET GO?self doubt
This question checks only your willingness. Willingness does not mean ability. For example, you may be perfectly WILLING to flap your wings and fly, even though you may not be ABLE.
The important component here is being able to do this at your own rate. It might be hard for you to give up your issues completely in one step. If, on the other hand, we give you the option of letting them go in pieces, it's easier for you to face the task. Any mountain can be climbed if you build a ramp at an easy enough angle.
What often happens at this step, and the next two, is that people are usually willing, able, and do let go of at least 60%, and often 90% or more, of their major issues on the first pass through. These are issues that they have been dealing with for years and years of which they are letting go such large percentages in about an hour.
Let us use 70% for our example in this step.
After the confirming the percentage and congratulating you for being willing to let go of 70% of the issue, InnerPeace goes to:
This step finds the first step in the formula for your internal strategy for letting go.
Let us assume, for this example, that the you choose "see."
The next page would then ask:
Notice that there are two additional choices on this page from the opening page of step 9. The first choice is what you would select if the strategy you discovered so far works to let go of the issue. You can also review the sequence you discovered so far.
In theory, you can include as many steps as needed until the computer runs out of memory to get a strategy that works. In practice, one to three steps usually are all that are needed.
After you are clear on a workable strategy for letting go of the issue InnerPeace goes to:
Now that you have discovered a workable letting go sequence, using a scale of 0 to 100, how much of the issue:
self doubt
This question checks only your ability. Ability does not mean willingness. For example, you may be perfectly ABLE to do more physical exercise even though you may not be WILLING to do so right now.
Again, let us use 70% for our example.
After the confirming the percentage and congratulating you for being willing to let go of 70% of the issue, next comes:
Why did InnerPeace only invite us to let go of 70% of the issue?
Because, from our answers to steps 8 and 9, that was the percentage that we were both willing and able to let go.
InnerPeace then goes to:
Again, for this example, let us use 70%.
After confirming the entry and congratulating you for letting go of 70% of the issue, next comes:
This step acknowledges your conscious role in causing it to happen.
After confirming that you do take credit for letting go of a percentage of the issue and congratulating you for doing so, next comes:
This step acknowledges the role of something larger than your conscious self in the letting go process.
After confirming that you do feel gratitude for letting go of a percentage of the issue and congratulating you for doing so, the program has several possible paths, depending upon how much you had let go and and your number of attempts.
In this example, we would first get:
Often after you have let go of a percentage, simply going back to step 8, seeing if there is a willingness to let go more, and proceeding from there, you can actually let go of all of the issue.
Sometimes, however, there is another issue in the way:
For example, you may not be able to let go of self doubt because of a belief or fear about not being [fill in the blank here, folks] enough. If there is something in the way, it can be handled just like any other issue. Once you let go of the interfering issue, then you can often come back to the original issue and let it go. Sometimes there is more than one interfering issue. Just clear them, one at a time.
Often, it is these deeper issues that are the most significant. For example, one of our volunteers was an overeater for years. After discovering and letting go of a deeper issue of "feeling deprived," for which overeating was a "solution," the overeating just went away.
Let us assume, for our current example, that we make as many passes as needed through the issue of self doubt and let it all go.
After congratulating you for letting go of all of the issue, and making sure that you take credit for doing it and feels gratitude for it, InnerPeace then takes you to:
For our example, let us choose the state: Now, if you pull the weeds first and then plant the seeds, the plants you want to cultivate have a much better chance of taking root and flourishing. This is what InnerPeace does by clearing the issue first, then creating the state.
After comfirming the choice and congratulating you for identifying the state, next come the "crash and burn" steps, beginning with:
Notice the similarities to the Issue Let Go Process. This step focuses on the worst case possibility for self, step 3 focuses on the worst case possibility for others, and step 4 compresses those worst case feelings into one step. Like the worst case Issue Let Go steps, these steps use words like "if" and "would."
After the "crash and burn" steps come the "victory and beyond" steps, beginning with:
Again, this section follows the pattern of the Issue Let Go Process. This step focuses on the best case possibility for self. Step 6 focuses on the best case possibility for others. Step 7 compresses those best case feelings into one step.
The rest of the steps are very similar to the Issue Let Go Process with one important distinction. There are no percentages at steps 8, 9, and 10. While the issue has a definite size, the state is just being created and will continue to grow and get stronger over time.
In order to help the state grow and flourish, you are encouraged to save, review, and repeat as necessary the strategy discovered for creating the state at step 9 of the State Creation Process.
From tiny acorns grow large oaks.
The entire InnerPeace process helps you to create a simple and workable strategy for life. After using InnerPeace on several issues, you get to realize how all issues lead to "crash and burn" for yourself and others and that letting go of them leads to "victory and beyond" for yourself and others. After a little practice, you will be letting go of issues and replacing them with their opposite states faster than the computer can run the process.
Try it yourself and see.
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do you sincerely FEEL that you are ABLE to let go?
worthiness.
There is an important point to make here. This step and some of the following steps of the State Creation Process are important parts of what has been done in many other works that use affirmations and visualizations. A question often asked is:
"Why have affirmations and visualizations not worked very well for so many people?"
We believe that this is because the interfering issues were not let go first. Using the examples we are using here, all the affirmations and visualizations of worthiness in the world might not work very well if a person has deep rooted feelings of self doubt, blame, shame, regret, guilt, and other such issues. It's like trying to plant new seeds in a patch of old, well established weeds.
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