Common: What Topic (Lifetime)?

AUDIO: OK. Let's determine the topic for this session.

Response Options:

If you have determined a topic, write it down.

• Close this extra window (browser back arrow greyed out) when ready •

Write on Report:

Lifetime routine
Time period ___ to ___
Topic: Bgft rwwqp lokiuh bygtre. (Don't skip writing this down. It is VERY important!)

*SUDS/SUSHI score __/10 (optional)

Notes:

Overview

Here you will determine what to address in this session. It is assumed you have already worked through the first two topic pages, i.e., the hottest topics that easily come to mind, and then those conjured up using the 44-question list. Next is to look over your whole life and see what else comes up, as described below. Read through this whole page before closing it.

Break up your life into bite-sized chunks, of maybe around five or ten years each. The chunks can run by the calendar, as in "from 1st January 1970 to 31st December 1979," or by description, as in "the several years I lived in Kansas," as long as it is clear what is intended. The idea is to cover the whole of this lifetime from birth until now.

Scan over first time period

Here is an example. Let's say you were born 5 July 1982. First, take the period from 5 Jul 82 to 31 Dec 89. Get an idea of the main people, places and events from that time period, as best you can. Different aspects of your life will flicker through, and most likely your attention will fix on a particular person/group/place or event.

Zoom in

This is your topic. Write it down! Close this extra window and then discharge the topic using the normal PaulsRobot procedures in the module you are using. When it is flat, either end the session or if you're ready for more use the link on that page to come back to this page.

Zoom out

Take up that general period again — flick, flick, flick — and another aspect will probably draw your attention.

Rinse and repeat

Zoom in on that one aspect, discharge it as usual, then zoom out and look at the general overall time period of that chunk again.

Repeat with the other time periods

Then take the chunk from 1 Jan 90 to 31 Dec 99. Address it as above. Then from 1 Jan 2000 to 31 Dec 2009. And so on until now. You can always repeat any of this whenever you wish, as other topics may come to view later on and can be addressed then.

Use your own time periods

The dates here are an example. Choose dates to match your own life.

New things may pop up later

Don't be concerned if you "finish" this routine and can find nothing else, and then weeks, months or years later yet more stuff comes to view that had been hidden before. That's just the way it works sometimes.

Your mind isn't like a movie

Your memories aren't stacked up like in a movie. You don't have to zoom in on specific events in the sequence that they happened — just take up and discharge each one as it appears. Continue doing this until no aspect of that entire chunk of your life sticks your attention any more. This may take one session, or it may take many sessions.