True JOY - The Cycle Tool for Brain State 4

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When you first start doing Cycle, my suggestion is to just have at it. Just trying is a victory. Also, don't expect much. Early in using EBT emotions are not as deep, so the Cycle penetrate and enable you to find unreasonable expectations. It's only as you use it over time, and feel that powerful switch from stress to joy that the tool becomes even more powerful.

However, right from the start, chances are you'll feel the shirt. Knowing what is happening when you use it, adds to the richness of the experience. First, be sure you are in Brain State 4, not 3 or 5. If you are in those states, use Emotional Housecleaning and you'll pop to 1 or 2. In either case, use a tool again to get to a deep, pure, fabulous Brain State 1. If you are in Brain State 5, use Damage Control. That could put you to Brain State 1, but it can also move you to Brain State 4, the state of that Moment of Opportunity.

Reading. You know you are in Brain State 4 . . . Now state the facts about your upset. No feelings. Just the facts, and keep it short, however, long enough to arouse strong emotions in your body. Then launch into the Natural Flow of Feelings, and as you express short choppy sentences to express your feelings, your stress will begin to quiet down, and you will be in the portal of your emotional brain. At that point, you can use deductive reasoning to identify your unreasonable expectation. Then find a reasonable one, as stating the reasonable one -- the opposite of the unreasonable one -- quashes the wiring of that old expectation. In a flash you will go into a stress response, which is why we use Encouraging Words, a short statement of support to keep you thinking about the reasonable expectation. The most powerful part of the Cycle is to identify the Essential Pain, the change, loss, upset, reality to face, and grow from, in order to switch your brain to joy, and feel the joy response.

The Earned Reward is your reason for following through with that reasonable expectation, and if that reward is not more pleasurable than the Essential Pain then the expectation needs some tweaking. It's not reasonable.  Last, as you are usually at Brain State 1, ask What do I need? (including need for support from others).

If you like, check to see if there is a circuit you want to break that was revealed by the Cycle. That's your Grind In. Repeat it 10 times, 1 to 3 times per day to help break that old neural circuit and build a new one that leads to joy.

You can do Cycle in the iPhone app, with your connections, via email or telephone, and in your group, telegroup or self-help circle. The magic of this has to do with the mirror neurons. When one person in a group does a Cycle and their Brain State pops to 1, then that emotion floods the room, with both positive emotional states and a loving connection. This is one reason that people who complete The Kits and are wired at 1 continue to connect with others and do Cycles and even continue with their group, telegroup or circles. The experience is nothing less than precious.