33 Ways for 33 Days
New and Proven Ground-breaking techniques based on research and demonstration
Preliminary Notes
Importance of 33 Days
As far back as 1896 research has been carried out to see how turning the light coming into our eyes upside down might affect our perception and our behaviour. This was achieved by using goggles which made the world appear upside down. G.M. Stratton (David P. McGovern, 2012) was one of the first to recognise that our brain has the ability to adjust itself. Further experiments have been undertaken over the years including some by the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The NASA agency was researching the effects of gravity on its astronauts. They were interested in any effects on the astronauts of being upside down in space. Part of the research was to have a number of potential astronauts wear a set of goggles, continuously for 30 days. These goggles made the world look like it was upside down in the mind of the viewer.
After a period of 28 to 30 days, subjects recognised the world as the right way up. Their brains created fresh neural pathways that turned the upside-down image that came to their eye, the right way up. It was also of interest that when the trainees removed the goggles, it took a similar time of 28-30 days for their worldview to return to the way in which you and I perceive it to be.
An extension to this research later demonstrated something everyone needs to understand if they want to change the way they think, and particularly if they want to change a habit.
NASA researchers found that any astronauts who removed the goggles at any time during this 30-day period did not experience the long-term change expected. Some astronauts removed the goggles on the 15th day and they then had to start from the beginning. These astronauts needed to replace the goggles for a further 28-30 days before the plasticity of the brain was permanent enough to allow any lasting change. The conclusion, it takes an uninterrupted period of around 30 days to rewrite a program in your brain, and change the way you perceive facets of your world.
Is the above research factual? Well yes, the experiments were undertaken however the figure of 28-30 days is up in the air. The bottom line it seems is that it does take time to change the effects of a core belief and it does take somewhere between 6 and 66 days to change a complicated belief. The more complicated the longer the period of change.
There seem to be two major variables to change to effect change in behaviour. The first is the ability of the brain to change its neural pathways based on neuroplasticity, and the second is the ability to change a belief that is stored in the Inner Mind. All of this is thrown out the window when the power of hypnosis is introduced into the discussion.
The reason I mention this research is that the 33 Ways for 33 days’ program is designed to provide you with options for reprograming the Inner mind and for developing new pathways for a different way of thinking. It will take a period depending on what you intend to change; however, 33 days will provide you with an indicator. There is no magic number.
It is not 21 days as Maxwell Maltz mentioned in his book Psychocybernetics, and it is not 30 as the elusive NASA research reports, and it is not 66 as is suggested elsewhere. I like 33 as a good starting point and I hope it works for you too.
But who wants to do the same thing for 33 days? To provide you with different experiences, and to provide a sense of variety the program provides a number of different ‘tools’ to choose from.
This self-paced program is designed to take you through simple stages with a singularity of purpose over a 33-day period. The singularity of purpose will be what you decide to focus your energies on and will be something you want to manifest in your life. Remember those words, “Something you want to manifest” as this is not focused on something you want to get ‘rid’ of or something you are resisting. The Golden principle here, keep your focus on what you want to manifest and off what you don’t want to manifest. By keeping your focus on what you want and off what you don’t want, what you focus on will grow and the other will dissolve.
The program is powerful and colourful enough to allow you the excitement and curiosity to monitor your life events and see what changes come about. Commit to this program and changes will become evident. Adopt the attitude this is a game and I am playing at my pace.
Choose and visualise what you want
Accept that change is in the air
Spend time looking for the evidence
Express appreciation for what you have each day
One final and important tip as you begin this journey. This is important because you can be easily convinced that nothing is changing after you have undertaken some serious efforts towards change. Understand that the process of change follows a consistent and simple formula.
As you engage in the process of change by evaluating and modifying your beliefs, the indicators or evidence does not necessarily show up immediately. There is a momentum happening and it takes a little while to collapse. This momentum continues to present the ‘old’ indicators in your life almost like a test to see if you really have changed your core beliefs. If you have Not changed within, then the evidence on the outside will continue to present as it has in the past. If on the other hand, you have changed within, if you have changed a core belief, then the external evidence will start to reflect this change.
Most of us question our ability to create ‘something different’ into our life when the external evidence does not seem to change. Remember the mantra “Circumstances do not matter, only my state of being matters.” (Darryl Anka – Bashar)
Circumstances do not matter, only my state of being matters
In other words, the state of your being, which results from my core beliefs, is the only thing that can create matter – the only thing that matters. Do not be distracted or fooled by the outside circumstances. Again, when you focus on something and accept it to be true/real you energise its existence thereby causing the same ole, same old to be present.
This life experience you are having is never about the physical. It is always about the non-physical – the energy. Everything is based on vibrational frequencies and everything you see and experience is made of energy vibrating at different frequencies. This program is all about physics! The physics principles inherent in the following come from the neurosciences and quantum physics arenas.
Awareness & Recognition
Learn to be aware of what is happening to you without allowing yourself to be caught up in the attached stories. It is the stories you attach to events that cause pain in the form of anxiety, stress, anger, depression, powerlessness, and general feelings of lack.
Recognise how you sense through vibrations both internally and externally. This is an energy-based Universe and you sense through vibrations. Hearing, sight, touch, all your senses are vibrationally based. This goes especially the feelings within. If you are like most people, you will judge the feelings you experience as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. The reality is these feelings are simple indicators or sensations of vibrational changes in your physical body.
This act of recognition is conscious awareness. This is a way for you to check in on what is happening within you, particularly as your Ego and conscious mind will continually and unapologetically make up stories to add to the mix.
Awareness Is the First Key! This is the first necessary step on any journey. Becoming aware of your experience and consciously choosing to act rather than unconsciously reacting. If you want a drink of water, you must first become aware of a desire, or inner need to quench a thirst. Awareness of the “lack” of water in your system sets up a tension. Your mind provides you with this information, an indicator, to dissolve the tension by quenching a thirst.
When you are in pain (psychological, emotional, physical, spiritual), a similar process is activated. The pain starts when the mind starts to analyze the situation. Analysis always takes you into the past or into the future and keeps you out of the present moment. Because of this, you often fail to recognise the ‘tension’. You will find yourself caught up in the stories you tell yourself about the past and the future. Most people recognise these stories as the ‘problem’ and the focus goes on to the stories. Quickly, the stories become the focus rather than the ending of the tension.
There is a potential flaw in the ‘way’ most people think but most importantly ‘what’ they think about. It has been determined that most people think 98% of the same thoughts today as they did yesterday. This habit has most of us focused away from the solution and on to people, places, events, and objects we blame and shame for the existence of the ‘problem’.
The habit is to focus on the stories we attach to a core belief. Very few are real. These stories are either in the past which has gone or in the future, which can only be imagined and planned. We do not have the whereabouts to change the past and we fill the future with many what-if imaginings.
If you are willing to take total responsibility for your own wellbeing and happiness (or lack of), the journey is exciting and faster. If you are not willing to let go of pointing at other people, places, events, or objects in an act of blaming or shaming, then this program may not be for you. At the same time, it cannot hurt you. If anything, it might ‘hurt’ your cause i.e. the cause to blame or shame something external to your own power and potential. There is no judgement here! The only real judge ever is you.
The starting point doesn’t require you to know what the problem is, nor what caused it in the first place. The starting point is your intent. Intention more than any technique, strategy or trick, is the power behind your change.
What is your intent here? Are you clear about your intention in reading these words? Do you know what you don’t want because this will allow you to know your preference? A clue is to notice what is happening in your body. What are the sensations or feelings in your body? Are these sensations energising or are they less than comfortable? When you become aware of this sensation, use the following to name it.
Stop thinking! Open to becoming mindful of what is happening inside of your body. Start feeling what is happening inside your body. Stay inside your body observing the goings-on until you locate a specific sensation. Where is it located? Is there a word you use to describe this sensation/feeling?
Next, there is a list of 33 ways for you to investigate and action your preference. Each has the power and potential to change the way you experience your life, and your world. These are techniques you can use alone or with others. Each is powerful enough to change your life and each has the potential to enhance your experience.
The suggestion is that you consider each technique consecutively, but you can choose randomly. When you choose a technique, read about it and then practice it for one complete day. Some people will like a particular technique and will want to play with that technique most days. Be flexible how you choose and how you operate while giving attention to the entire list.
Taking action
Nobody knows what the first step of a journey looks like until it is taken. It does not matter what that first step is or what it looks like, as long as there is a step. Choose your own action by taking a step on your journey. And if you stop or take a rest or go off into the swamp looking at the wildlife, choose to take another first step. It is all good and the only judgement is your freedom to assign meaning to a certain outcome. In this way, you energise that outcome into reality.
Nothing is more powerful than that first step except your intention when taking that step.
There are 33 separate techniques you can play with. You are in charge of this program. Choose the techniques you relate to best. Every one of these Ways is a step by itself. Each one has the potential to make a difference for you even when you do not recognise a change. Some of these 33 Ways will be placed on to the backburner, and that is ok.
There is no right or wrong way to do this program. This is all about choice – your choice. Take a step and see what happens. Then take another first step and see what happens. Then another, and another until you look back and recognise a journey.
Not one size fits all
There is value in testing each of these techniques, to find out which ones suit your frame of reference and unique situation. You may notice a closer association to one or more of these exercises.
The reason I have presented these specific techniques is that they have demonstrated the potential to bring about a significant change. I have demonstrated results with clients of all ages and situations, using one or more of these techniques. Anyone of these Ways has the potential to bring about relief for your situation.
I don’t have the Drive
Boring kills interest and motivation. We take the focus off the goal and place it on old patterns of thinking. It becomes too hard. When this happens some genuine and common responses might include:
- “Even though they may be powerful, and even though I know they make a difference for me, I couldn’t be bothered.”
- “I know gentle exercise like walking helps with depression, but I think what the hell. I do it for a short time, all keen, then it becomes too much.”
- “Nothing works in the long term because I lose interest. I need it happening now!”
- If this sounds like you, there are a couple of points you need to be comfortable with.
Bite off what you can chew. Distorted thinking would have you ‘trying’ to ‘fix’ what is causing the pain. The reaction is to ‘fix’ the entire problem in one move. This is where the infamous self-sabotage joins the parade. The trick, however, is to make the problem smaller, and manageable. This way you do not set yourself up for failure.
Moment by moment, bite by bite, is the most powerful way forward. The most powerful bite is the one you enjoy. If you don’t like what you are biting on, choose something other. This is meant to be fun, believe it or not, and if you are not having fun then go away and come back when it feels like fun.
Golden rule – follow your excitement, your joy, your bliss in any moment and do this with total commitment.
Find ways of treating yourself with compassion. Beating yourself up, putting yourself down, feeling guilty, engaging shame or blame, are all unacceptable ways of treating anyone let alone your Self. Recognise the situation for what it is without turning it into some epic catastrophe.
Coach yourself to acceptance and appreciation. It is true what they say, guilt is judging your behaviour as ‘wrong’ while shame is judging you as ‘wrong’. Both blame and shame are attempts to dissolve the internal pain but they energise the very thing you are trying to release.
What you resist will persist and what you accept and appreciate will dissolve
Understand your position
Understand your position in terms of where you have come from and where you are currently. Often we can be in an entirely different place to what you think. Sometimes you might ‘think’ things are not as good as they appear, and sometimes you might ‘think’ things are better than what they appear. How do you know which position to support?
You need to gain perspective! This might require professional support. Seek a practitioner who reads your stories and your energy, not a practitioner who reads the books and interprets your stories.
What EVER it takes
Making a commitment to your Self to do something, ANYTHING, each day towards your goal. Doing something can mean laying in your bed, feeling sorry for yourself and lifting one finger into the air three times in succession. Make the commitment and then do it. It might be to drink one cup of water with a loving intention. Make the commitment and then do it. It might mean going without one cigarette, or one drink in a day. Make the commitment to yourself and then do it. It might be to look in the mirror and say to your illusion, “As small as it is, I am making an effort!” Make the commitment and do it. Avoid jumping to the end of your first step. One small step with purpose is more powerful than taking a giant leap and falling on your face.
Self-sabotage personality
Self-sabotage has no personality. It is an effect, not a cause. Self-sabotage follows the Universal law of cause and effect. The cause – your current belief system. The effect – what you see after your ego does its job. The Ego has you figured out and it is extremely cunning. It will do whatever it considers necessary to carry out its role. Its role is to protect you and make absolutely sure that your current belief system is supported by the last man standing.
This, however, is not a self-sabotage program. It is the way you are set up to live in this world. In many ways, it is a magical thing. The problem comes about because you have core beliefs that support a reality that you do not prefer. Change the belief and you change your life. Change your belief and your ego will do whatever it considers necessary to support that belief.
Stop trying so hard
As you enter this journey, remind yourself to look at this as your personal experiment. This is a process that works so much better when you adopt an attitude of play rather than serious, an attitude of experimenting rather than expectation. There is no “I must do this!” or “I must make this work!” and certainly no “I must do this to please my (mum, dad, partner, God, the world)”
Write on the top of the page in your journal, “Resistance is futile. What I resist will persist. What I accept/appreciate will dissolve! This will be fun!”
Essentials
Drink clean water then drink some clean water. This is important for washing out the toxins out of your system. Secondly, breathe naturally but maybe a little more mindful – deeper and slower. Throughout the day become aware of your breath and its rate, depth and length. Every now and then use a big sigh and let it all go.
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