Taking AIM at Terrorism
Consider what terrorists are: They are groups of people of an ideology who are frightened to congregate, for they believe that are likely to be controlled, killed or manipulated while in groups.
Now consider what terrorism is doing to America. It is attempting to create no safe place to be so as to force us to become frightened to congregate.
Do you see? Terrorists understand and know how to control their own environment much more than we do, and so, if they can make us behave like they do, they can come into power over us, irregardless of whatever government we have, for theirs is a power of fear and persuasion.
There is only one clear way to fight this, and that is to logically eliminate fear from your own life memory. By doing so, no one can instigate a fearful situation. You’ll just look at the bastard and say, “Yeah, so what?” Without our fear, Terrorists have no power.
The following script is an addition for use with the Basic All-In-One.
Okay, now I want you to run the following routine for each of those feelings. As you run these instructions, you will objectively analyze what you have experienced, without any sensations from these events, especially excluding any fear or any pain. You will do all of the instructions for the first feeling, and when you accomplish that one, you return and start it for the next feeling.
You see a sign on the wall which reads "START" in a room which is fairly pleasing and comfortable. There is a small red flag on a pole here. As you leave, you take it with you.
I want you to isolate the current feeling in your mind. Now, I want you to go back in your life memory to just before you ever had this feeling, and set the temporary flag here and call it "THE BEGINNING."
Imagine, in your mind, that you are on a most comfortable couch and
watching a TV show about how you came to be
feeling this current feeling. You are, at no time, re-experiencing
it. Instead, you are watching this TV show, and analyzing it as it
is replaying what has actually happened to you. I want you to pay
particular attention to the exact point in the event when you first felt
the feeling we are analyzing, without actually feeling it here and now.
Once you have discovered what caused you to have this feeling, I want
you to go back to THE BEGINNING and this time through, using your imagination,
I want you to create an alternate situation with the best resolution so
as to not experience any shocking or fearful emotions, but instead to rationally
deal with such a situation. You will see the events on the TV screen
play out exactly as you choose for them to be. Tell me when you are
done. I now want you to throw the original memory and original decision
into the
garbage can, even if it is to simply cut out the original memory and
decide to reverse the original decision so as to not feel this feeling
anymore, while replacing it with this new and rational decision memory.
You can now recover the flag.
I want you now to see if there are any more feelings left in your original list, and if so, I want you to take the next one and return to START and begin the process again for that next feeling. Note that the more you run this mental machine, the faster it will run, and thus, the amount of time it will take to accomplish this task will shorten to very little real time.
Once you have completed all of the feelings in your list, I want you now to release all anxiety you have had because of these feelings, and to, forever more, give yourself the maximal amount of comfort and relaxation in dealing with situations which have caused you stress in the past."
If we go out of our way to neutralize fear and terror in ourselves and others, giving total control to the self without these tools of manipulation by others, then terrorists will become simply murderers.
© 2001 David I. Brager