Cooking by Recipe.
Cooking by Taste.
Both methods work.
In the first option, you get a set of instructions that take you from the beginning of the cooking process to the end, and if you follow every point precisely, you’ll have a decent result. If something messes up, the way to fix it is by looking closely at the instructions and seeing where and how you deviated.
In the second option, you still have a loose set of instructions, but you also introduce your own taste as your guiding feedback mechanism. You’re making a stew, for example, and you add in your favorite ingredients and cook it in line with generally effective principles. As it’s cooking, you use your senses of smell and taste to tell you what you want to change. ‘Needs more onion.’. ‘This is a bit too salty’. And so on.
With subliminals, Action is the feedback mechanism that allows you to ‘Cook by Taste’. It’s deceptively simple. What do you hope to be able to accomplish with this program? It’s going to be something Performance-related or Experience-related. Choose your own benchmarks. They should be aligned with the features of the subliminal program.
‘I want to be able to sit quietly for 5 minutes without feeling antsy or restless’
‘I want to derive enjoyment from listening to a Bach fugue and I want to feel pleasantly stimulated by and aware of the complex patterns in the music’
Stuff like that.
Then you just listen to the program until you have reached your benchmark. Voila. Satisfaction. Now, I move to the next stage.
If you use this approach, you can refine it by adding in a minimum and maximum amount. For the minimum that would be, ‘if I experience my benchmark after the 3rd day, I’ll keep listening for 4 more weeks before moving on to the next stage’. For the maximum that would be, ‘even if I don’t experience my benchmark after 8 weeks, I’ll have faith that the program is already doing its thing and I’ll move on to the next stage.’
