How a session topic chooses you

Not a typo. Want proof? Let's stir up your most available hot topic right now. This is personalized exactly to you, and is not the same for everyone. You can discharge it in a Rub & Yawn stress-release session (simplest is my Rub & Yawn 1/3 YouTube video). It would be cruel to only trigger it if there were not simple ways to discharge it, to (perhaps permanently) "untrigger" it.

I describe in the new client section here how selectively stirring up a hot topic and then discharging it is a normal Rub & Yawn session action. Also described is how an accessible hot topic will tend to discharge (yawns, sighs etc) immediately, or else send one to sleep (the remedy is given there too).

The session topic

This is what to address in a Rub & Yawn session, your topic. For the first many sessions, it will probably be something big. It will usually be something long-term, something that has been bugging you for years, maybe decades. It will usually be something sticky, meaning once you have it in mind it will be difficult to get out of your mind. Examples:

• Maybe some failure in life?
• Maybe money worries?
• Maybe a sour relationship?
• Maybe work-related?
• Maybe a health issue? (Rub & Yawn sessions are not a substitute for medical treatment, but can still release stress connected with a health issue).
• Maybe something forced on you?
• Maybe a loss, like a loved one died or you moved apart?
• Maybe an unethical situation you've been involved in or some harmful actions you've done?
• Maybe concern about the future?

Something should have come to mind by now, maybe more than one thing. And if something did come to mind, then you need a session. Go with whatever is uppermost in your mind, whatever is staring you in the face right now. That is your topic for this session. Don't second guess it and think, "Oh no, it couldn't possibly work to address that, so I'll pick something else." You are probably interested in working with this topic, even if you don't believe it will ever get better.

The fact that it is right there so vividly means that it is ripe for plucking, so to speak. It should discharge to some extent relatively easily, as long as you have had enough sleep etc (you are fairly sessionable), and Rub & Yawn works with you.

If you have had many sessions and/or have cooled off many hot topics in your life, maybe there is nothing urgent to address. In that case, you then get to choose the topic instead of it choosing you. Go off and work out what you would like to try, or try the advanced topics below. As before, it is best to address whatever is uppermost in your mind, so if you have something sitting there right now go with that. The purpose of the lists below is to systematically bring to view items to address that are currently under the surface.

Advanced topics

1. 44-question list
2. Lifetime relief
3. People relief
4. Places relief
5. Lifelists

These will be described in future posts.

SUDS/SUSHI score

• SUDS = Subjective Units of Distress/Disturbance (Negative) Scale
• SUSHI = Subjective Units of Session Harmony and Insight (Positive scale)

When doing a session, you should probably rate your topic before and after addressing it, and record your scores along with the topic description and any session notes. This usually becomes a valuable reference later.

Source: Edited from my writing at PaulsRobot3.com

Questions?

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Disclaimer

I am not a licensed practitioner in your area, and no longer give personal sessions. My works, designed for normal people and not clinical cases or the dysfunctional, treat you as a spiritual being and not mere flesh and blood. Use my free websites and videos at your own risk.

Index of my main Steemit blog posts

Table gives post number, title/link, brief notes about content.

Links to some of my stress-release sites

Yawnguy YouTube videos: Entry level. Since 2007, I deliver sessions directly to you by video on your custom topics. Start with Rub & Yawn 1/3.

YawnMachine.com: Entry level. Mobile-friendly. Text-based Rub & Yawn sessions.

PaulsRobot.com: Entry level (more or less). Mobile-friendly. More options to address your own topics. Sessions use three different Rub & Yawn techniques (Reach & Withdraw, 6-Direction, Rogerian). Includes theory and explanations.

RubAndYawn.com: Entry-level. Mobile friendly. Theory/explanations only, no session delivery.

PaulsRobot3.com: Advanced level. Desktop site. Delivers sessions on your custom topics. 3375 session pages in 31 onsite modules, using over 16 different techniques, none of them simply “talking about it”. Includes all relevant theory.

PaulsRobot2.com: Advanced level. Mobile-friendly. Experimental. PaulsRobot functionality but through icons instead of words. Includes automated session record. Video intro.

Yawnguy.com: Entry level. Desktop site. Links to my other sites. Over 100 testimonials. Includes roll-your-own audio session templates.

Facebook: My FB account, not used much.

Twitter: I have @yawnguy, @paulsrobot, @rubandyawn accounts, now coming out of hibernation since 2009.