Stage 1: Testing This is the initial phase, where you experience early results but also encounter cognitive dissonance (“recon”) as you reconcile new beliefs with your current mindset.
Stage 1 lasts 1-3 days for me as long as I meditate on the recon. Otherwise, it can extend for much longer. During this meditation, I end up getting a feeling or explanation for why I am experiencing recon. THIS IS NOT THE ANSWER. You continue asking “why” until you get the right answer. You know you have the right answer because you feel the recon subsiding. To me, this lessens the pressure in my head area and I feel energy shifting. Any moodiness, tiredness, or irritation is drained out.
When I ran KB the answer ended up being about my religious upbringing and what people in my surroundings would think if I fully expressed my sexual energy. When I found that answer, it just clicked and I could let go of that belief.
I would highly encourage meditating on the recon as a way of reaching “stage 2”.
During old tech (think before ZP, or even before Q) I know I personally never left stage 1
Stage 2: Absorption Here, you begin integrating the subliminal’s guidance, adopting new behaviors, beliefs, and thought patterns that align with its goals. In this phase, taking action reinforces these changes, making them a part of your daily life and personality. For example, with “Wanted Black,” I adapted my flirting to make it easier for girls to chase me. It’s not me asking for dates, it’s girls asking me for dates, and the interaction/flirting had to change for that to be congruent/natural. Most books, guides, and courses won’t teach that difference because it’s out of the norm.
Stage 3: Becoming/Being At this stage, the subliminal influence is ingrained, and you embody the basics of the archetype.
We can also change out my fabulous buzzwords into the NLP framework of competence and see subs through that.
- Stage 1: Conscious incompetence – You recognize the gap between your current state and the subliminal goals.
- Stage 2: Conscious competence – You work to apply the subliminal’s guidance.
- Stage 3: Unconscious competence – The basic archetype of the subliminal goal becomes second nature.
Technically all of these are fluid, you never really leave stage 1 because there is always a new way to develop. But as a conceptual framework for looking at one’s progress of the subs, it works.
Stage 1 is easy. Once you have acknowledged the incompetence/reason/gap, you can move forward onto stage 2, and you have an open mind to make improvements.
Per my own experimentation with full loops vs microloops, is that full loops easily cause overloaded (duh) but allow for faster development, if imbalanced.
I’m referring to the Quadrants F & S have talked about to explain what I mean. In Q1, I get the basics. For example, I might fully integrate the romance aspect of Emperor Q1 but still struggle with the wealth aspect. When I move to Q2, it challenges me further in romance, while progress in wealth might slow due to the additional layers of processing. I ended up progressing faster with romance, giving me better results in that area but on Wealth I haven’t progressed further than Q1. This is what I mean by imbalanced development when doing full loops.
This leads to my question - has anyone else discovered strategies they use to deal with recon or enhance their execution of the subs?