Still haunted by feelings such as anger, sorrow, depression or fear about the infamous attacks on New York City and Washington D. C.?  If you are interested in relieving those feelings then PLEASE read this article.  You will find a specific technique and instruction here for quickly changing those feelings.

We’re going to take an old and simple technique you may be familiar with, trim it down and add new instruction.  The old technique is to just be willing to have a feeling, reliving it and talking it out.  That is slow and painful.

A new instruction gives the old technique fast and almost painless results.  The instruction is so simple and obvious that you might have the tendency to dismiss it as incapable of being much help!  That would be a mistake because the speed of its correct application gives you life-changing power.

The new instruction is to just have a feeling without wanting to change it!  For example, you naturally feel sorrow and empathy for the victims of the attack.  As usual, you soon want to feel happy rather than sad.  Instead, fully experience the negative feeling for a few seconds without wanting to be happy. Let-go of any judgment of whether it is right or wrong to have that feeling. The sadness will begin to fade and in a few more seconds you won’t feel sad.

It is important to feel the feeling rather than think about how the feeling should or did feel.  Feelings cannot be changed while thinking.  You can tell you are thinking when this instruction doesn’t work for you.  Thinking involves looking at the past or future.  Feeling is what you have only for this moment you are in.

Thinking leads you to want a specific feeling.  Feeling lets you accept the feeling you are having.  Accepting the feeling is not accepting the event.  What makes the event what it is in your mind is how you feel about it.  Change how you feel about it and the event appears to change.

If you want to change a feeling, that feeling turns into a memory that never leaves and in fact sometimes gets more painful as time goes by.  When you have a feeling without wanting to change it, the feeling permanently leaves in seconds and reveals another underlying feeling.  There may be many underlying feelings.

When the underlying feeling is negative, feel it without wanting to change it until it is gone.  When all negative feelings are gone you will always have positive feelings no matter how negative you had felt.  When the underlying feeling is positive, let it go free so that you can be aware of other underlying positive feelings. See how many positive feelings you can have.

Everyone’s individual feelings also compose collective feelings of all people, similar to the individual musician’s contribution to the music of the orchestra.

Since the attack, you may have sensed collective feelings such as oppressive heaviness or sluggishness, irritability and wanting to hide or cry while attempting to carry on regular daily activities.  Handle those feelings the same way.

Will war on terrorists eliminate terrorism?  Each one of us handling our feelings in a constructive way can contribute to a collective feeling of peace.  Could terrorism then be potentially affected?  Has the war on drugs eliminated drugs?  War has never eliminated war. Maybe one person at a time moving out of negative feelings can collectively eliminate terrorism.

You may have heard educated and respected people say that we will probably be struggling with these feelings for many years to come.  Many will struggle because they want to change their feelings the same as they have in the past.

It is not disrespectful to the murdered ones to shorten our disabling feelings, move on to enabling feelings and build enabling memories.  It is doubtful that any of those who lost their life would have wanted us to be crippled in any way by their misfortune and loss of life. After all, what happened to them was neither their fault nor ours. It is both respectful and honorable to have the birth of something positive from this tragedy. Wouldn’t you feel better if you were the one person who tipped the scales to peace?