PaulsRobot3   1st: FAQ1

General FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

2. Isn't this session stuff just for crazy people, wimps and losers?

3. If I were to have a session, how could this possibly work? This is just a website with a limited number of responses, and I won't be interacting with another live person in the session. We're talking about a real person's life here — mine! I'm not a movie character following a pre-written screenplay.

4. How does this website Robot thingy know what topic I should address? If it just says I should choose the topic, how would I know what topic to pick? I'm not a professional in this area. Is there a list of topics I follow, or something?

5. Why is it so important to be sessionable? Why can't I just get five hours sleep the night before and drink beer for lunch like I always do?

6. What's this Rub & Yawn thing about?

7. Why should I keep a written record of my session?

8. There are over 25 modules in that module list. How do I know the right one to use?

9. If I find I do well with these sessions and get over some things, won't I get sort of addicted to these sessions? Will I get dependent on them?

1. Man! This is a long page! Can't I just skip all this boring crap and get on with the juicy stuff? I don't have a lot of time.
   If you want to have a good session you need to know most of this stuff. And especially the Notes in the right-hand column of the session pages, as they explain how to do the commands, and sometimes they are very different to similar instructions in earlier practices. Sorry. If you want to try it without knowing what you're doing, well, don't expect it to work at all. There's a YouTube video I put online that is shorter, which will give you a session, and you might do better with that.

2. Isn't this session stuff just for crazy people, wimps and losers?
   Some people think so, sure. But it was mainly developed so that the normal, fairly intelligent layman (man in this sense and as used on this website includes women in standard English) can improve his outlook on life in the comfort of his own home in his own time with very minimal expense. And to do so without having to get therapy or seek professional help or even go and talk to someone. If you think you really should seek professional help, by all means go and do so. How could using a simple set of web-pages like this be a substitute for dealing with a trained professional in person?

3. If I were to have a session, how could this possibly work? This is just a website with a limited number of responses, and I won't be interacting with another live person in the session. We're talking about a real person's life here - mine! I'm not a movie character following a pre-written screenplay.
   Good question. Without getting into the nitty-gritty of how this is all designed, all I can say is that it seems to work well as presented. While a person's responses to real life situations vary a great deal, there are only a very few different types of response that seem to appear in a PaulsRobot session. Each of these very few types of response dictates a specific next action to take. While there are many things a man driving a car can do, when he approaches a crossroads he can basically turn left or right, go straight across, do a u-turn and go back the way he came, or get stuck in the middle or something. Almost all the time he does one of the first options, and only rarely stalls. It is similar in a PaulsRobot session. There is even a Troubleshooting section for the occasional stall. But don't take my word for it. Look at the dozens of testimonials from satisfied clients. Try it out for yourself (follow the instructions!).

4. How does this web-page Robot thingy know what topic I should address? If it just says I should choose the topic, how would I know what topic to pick? I'm not a professional in this area. Is there a list of topics I follow, or something?
   To start with, unless your life is unusually calm, the session procedure will isolate what topic is uppermost in your mind and should be addressed in that session. It will vary from individual to individual and be very intimate to you personally. After many sessions, when you have been able to cool off all the hot topics, then you will have a bit more free choice on what to address. At that time, you will be able to pick and choose out of what seems interesting to you. But to begin with, there won't be much choice at all. Your topic will pretty much be forced upon you. You don't have to use that topic in the session, of course - there is no-one standing over you with a gun demanding it. But if you try and do the session on another topic it won't work out so well because your mind will keep straying back to that first topic you should have taken up and didn't...

5. Why is it so important to be sessionable? Why can't I just get five hours sleep the night before and drink beer for lunch like I always do?
   Basically because you won't get much out of a PaulsRobot session if you are not prepared for it, with quality sleep and food and so forth, as detailed in the relevant series of pre-session pages starting here. Just as it won't work to try and paint a wall or your nails if the surface is rough and covered with dust, so it won't work to try and have a session here if you are tired or hungry or under the influence or too distracted, etc.

6. What's this Rub & Yawn thing about?
   How it seems to work is this: If you put your attention on your topic and do the visualization procedure per the instructions, the harmful energy associated with your topic will get discharged through the body's action of yawning, or sighing, or sobbing, or similar physical means. The rubbing - vigorously rubbing your hands together, or rubbing your chest, your back, your arms, your legs; s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g; squeezing the chair and table; this kind of thing - causes the body to draw in fresh energy to replace the bad energy, the stagnant energy, the frozen energy, you just got rid of. It seems that the body needs a certain minimum amount of energy, whether good or bad, and if you go below this amount you will soon feel very short of energy. If you only do part of the procedure here and fail to rub, you will rapidly deplete your stock of total energy (good and bad), and begin to feel run down, wiped out, and so forth. One solution is to rub vigorously for as long as it takes to recharge your batteries, so to speak, which might take several minutes. The correct way is to keep up the rubbing all the time and not get into such a depleted state in the first place. If you are feeling short of energy because of low blood sugar, this is a different thing.

7. Why should I keep a written record of my session?
   Two reasons. Most people find it useful to have a report to refer back to after the session, to see the dates and times of the sessions and how they were doing before and after, how many yawns etc. came off that particular topic, what realizations they had, and so forth. But there is another very important reason, quite apart from the record-keeping aspect of it. It can be very therapeutic to write down things about your life, especially when the topics are charged or hot. In other words, when they have harmful mental energy attached to them. In order to write down the details you have to hold the events out away from you to some extent in order to look at them in enough detail to describe them, and doing this helps you to sort things out in your own mind. Many people who keep a daily journal or write posts to message boards on the internet have noticed this.

8. There are over 25 modules in that module list. How do I know the right one to use?
   Right at the start of that module list page is a link to the "Now what?" page. That explains how to proceed.

9. If I find I do well with these sessions and get over some things, won't I get sort of addicted to these sessions? Will I get dependent on them?
   Unlikely. What tends to happen is that as you discharge more and more harmful energy connected to unpleasant things in your life you become more in control of your baggage and it begins to affect you less and less. Things that once adversely affected you in life you may find you can easily shrug off without going anywhere near a formal session.