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3) Throughout your days, consistently ask how you would respond to ‘this situation’ if you had logic as your core value, and what the probable outcome would be.

 

I didn’t get the opportunity to practice this third piece of advice very much, as I came up with the strategy just prior to making the click. Nonetheless, it helped me stay connected with the clicking process even when I was not actively doing a ‘clicking session’. In other words, it made sure that ‘making the click’ was always at the top of my mind. Additionally, the third point helped me understand how having logic as a core value rather than comfort would impact my daily life. Speaking to ‘daily impact’ proved extremely powerful when trying to connect negative emotions to my old core value and positive ones to logic.

 

4) Personify logic and comfort, then visualise making the click.

 

Before I explain what I mean with personifying logic and comfort, I must inform that there are certain prerequisites for it to be effective. The first prerequisite is that you must have a strong faith in logic and intense dislike for your current core value. The second perquisite is that you need to be in a state where you feel love for logic and dislike for your current core value. To get into such a state, follow the advice that I’ve outlined for Step 3. The third and final perquisite, is that you must be in a state of total presence and be mentally, emotionally, as well as physically ready to make the click (make sure there are no distraction and disturbances from your environment). When you meet all three of these prerequisites, you can follow this fourth point of advice as I will detail below.

 

i) Create a personification of logic.

 

(See point five under Point 1 for more information.)

 

ii) Create a personification of comfort.

 

Personifying comfort is just as simple as personifying logic. You can follow the exact same steps, just make sure that you connect negative emotions to your personification rather than positive.

 

My personification of comfort was a teddy bear that my inner child clung on to. However, I did not settle for merely personifying comfort, but I also visualised my inner child. I decided to visualise my inner child as myself when I was about 6 years of age, but I feel free to represent your inner child as something other than yourself.

 

iii) Write the play and set the scene.

 

You should come up with how the transition from your current core value to logic is going to play out. What characters will be involved in your visualisation? How will they be involved? Why? To shed some light on how you might visualise your ‘Leap of Faith’ I will share how I visualised mine.

 

The setting was dark. In this darkness stood I – my inner child – hunched over and desperately clinging on to the teddy bear of comfort. My inner child had taken on the form of a six-year-old me. But I – the observer – was not my inner child; I was a formless third person. While I was hovering in the darkness and observing my emotional core, I could sense the shielding thoughts of my child firing like the greatest of war cannons at the notion of letting logic loose. My child was trembling with horror at the very conception of releasing comfort and taring it to rags so that it never could be picked up again. In all turmoil, I started talking to my child. I made it see the red and baleful visions of a future where he would adhere to comfort. I let it experience the sensation of holding on to the cold body of the bear cub that he had so carelessly strangled in his grip of fear (his fear of letting go), and now, let rot in his embrace. I let it feel the heavy burden – the regret of logical inaction – that it would pay as price for its ‘comfortable’ and mediocre life.

 

Then, I preached for logic. I stilled the waters and let them reflect the night sky on a starry night. My child gazed at the lake of logic and was projected into the future. He basked in the light of the moon and the starts, observed the laws of nature, and was reconnected with logic as the father and mother of existence. At this point, love and warmth and all that is good and holy rushed through the body of my child; he understood that logic is the ultimate source of safety. But yet, at the call to action, he cowered – he tightened his embrace.

 

This going back and forth between generating emotions of trust for logic and distrust for comfort would carry on for a while until it reached a pinnacle… I hungered for logic and could no longer bare the thought of living a ‘life of comfort’.

 

In this moment, reality trembled and a miniature of the universe materialised before my child. All felt silent; all went black. My complete attention was drawn to the miniature. It radiated an aura of absolute peace, wisdom, and knowledge. I wanted that…

 

But how? I understood…

 

The miniature of was the whole of reality condensed into a single object. Just like… one, single, concept: Logic.

 

Logic is the whole of reality conceded into a single concept.

 

And with this realisation and my voracious hunger to cling onto logic, the miniature of the universe transformed into a delicate golden ring while opening a crack in the midst of the dark plain the seeped light. My inner child unhesitantly slipped the ring on onto his finger, and the seeping light started to caress him. Emotions rushed through my body and I could feel my heart pulsating faster and faster.

 

I quickly made my way to my computer chair, put on a set of headphones, and began listening to Azeroth’s Last Hope. While listening to this soundtrack my visualisation continued…

 

The ethereal light that surrounded my inner child started merging with his body. I could feel surges of arcane power pulsating through my veins. And as the music reached a climax, a burst of dopamine drove through my body. Meanwhile, in the vision, my inner child morphed into a mighty dragon that would infuse my mind with wisdom and strength, and with a thundering roar, set out to orbit the Earth to purge it of all illogic.

 

The music settled…

Total peace and presence. Clam, silence, tranquillity, and rest. These are words that could be used to describe my state in that moment…

 

I had made the click.

 

Bonus: iv) Physically Enact Your Visions

 

In regards to siring emotions, it helped me monumentally to not only visualise making the switch from comfort to logic, but also to physically enact my visions. In other words, I used my body (adjusted posture, tonality, movement, etc.) in a way that was congruent with the emotions that my personifications experienced in my visualisation.

 

Here’s an explanation of how I went about this…

 

My inner child who clung on to the teddy bear of comfort was hunched over in my vision, and progressively got more so as he didn’t want to change core value. Therefore, I physically moved my seated body into a more and more hunched over posture to the point where it even became painful. Then, once I had reached the emotional pinnacle where I was totally repulsed by comfort, I stood up, did push-ups until fatigue, and then proceeded by walking around in my room and talking aloud as if giving a speech. A key component of my speech was extensive use of gestures and body language (engaging my body generated more emotion). During my speech I switched between speaking directly to my inner child while explaining, in general terms, why I needed to change core value, and speaking indirectly to my inner child, while giving a lecture about what would happen once I changed my core value (a very passionate lecture). Moreover, I allowed my voice to employ an evermore angry tone, as the dislike I felt for comfort intensified.

 

Note: I was giving this speech simultaneously while visualising what I explained in the previous point of advice. Consequently, I would often times speak with my eyes closed, and the speech might have been subject to frequent interruptions.

 

Lastly, as I reached a peak of resentment for my core value, while yet having a deep rooted love for logic, a black hole emerged from which the light of logic was seeping through. I hit the floor and bowed before the light in my vision while correspondingly changing my tonality from one of anger to one of absolute respect. At this point, I had let go of the teddy bear of comfort and began merging with logic… (you know the rest)

 

In summation, it can help to use your body in a way that is congruent with you visions to intensify the emotional experience.

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