EL-Method. Tony Gaschler

       The First Emotional Autosuggestion Exercise

      Emotional autosuggestion has applied here has a twofold effect:

      1.It has an EMOTIONALLY FORMATIVE EFFECT propelling us towards our goal.

      2.It has a strong DISINHIBITING and LIBERATING effect.

      However, it has nothing in common with other autosuggestion exercises where suggestions are rattled off in a monotonous voice. Our type of autosuggestion yields strongly formative and lasting inhibiting results as early as after the first few exercises. And that is what matters to us.

      The emotional autosuggestion exercises consist of generating and expressing positive and disinhibiting images and notions as lively, vividly, and graphically as possible. Now we ask you to take the first exercise (see paragraph “Download the useful tools”). Read the autosuggestion text carefully so that you have an idea what the first exercise is all about. After you have finished reading the text, please begin with the first exercise as follows:

      A.)Pick up the page with Exercise No. 1. Stand straight in the center of the room. Head high and look straight forward; chest out; mouth slightly open and lips slightly pursed. This posture is to look as if you were holding a lecture to a large audience. This erect body posture is the starting point for all of the emotional autosuggestion exercises. Body posture also has an autosuggestive effect and influences basic moods and attitudes.

      B.)Now read the autosuggestive text slowly and clearly by somewhat whispering it but with all of the STRENGTH OF YOU CONVICTIONS AND YOUR ABILITY TO EXPRESS YOURSELF - say it like you mean it! This means: with an animated and purposeful emphasis, with a clear, well-articulated, inspired, whispering pronunciation, with a lively facial expression and animated gestures. The more lively and animated your facial expression the more effective the disinhibiting effect of every exercise - imaging you are an actor in a silent movie.

      C.)While you are reading the autosuggestive text with optimal expressiveness try - as well as you might be able to in the beginning - to become excited about what the text is suggesting, to become emotionally energized and keyed up, to become inspired and psychologically stirred and involved. Be overcome by the meaning and contents of the text; become completely caught up in it as vividly and strongly as possible. We also call this process of SELF-ENTHUSIASM, SELF-EXCITEMENT, and SELF-ROUSING the process of SELF-EMOTIONALIZING. In this sense, then, emotionalize yourself optimally into the text, that is, invest all of your emotions into the text; identify with the text. The more you are able to do this the stronger the emotionally formative effect of every exercise will be. To make sure that you will be able to do this optimally right at the start we recommend EXAGGERATING and OVERACTING - as far as the OVERALL EXPRESSIVENESS is concerned as well as the SELF-EMOTIONALIZING. Go ahead, nobody is watching!

      D.)Once you have finished reading the text once, have a look at the clock, pause for a few seconds and once more read the text in the manner described earlier. Read the text FOUR TIMES corresponding to an overall exercise duration of approx. 10 to 12 minutes. If it takes you less than 10 minutes to read the autosuggestive text four times you are reading too fast. However, if it takes longer than 12 minutes you are probably speaking to slow. Adjust your reading speed so that the fourtime reading of the text takes between 10 and 12 minutes.

      E.)During the entire first week, do these exercises twice daily. The best times for these exercises are as follows: Between 7 and 9 a.m. and between 7 and 09 p.m. However, if these times are impractical for you, you may also select other times. The important thing is that at least 4 hours should elapse between two exercises. Never combine the two daily exercises. Never do more than 2 exercises per day. The measure of 2 properly and intensely carried out exercises using OPTIMAL EXPRESSIVENESS and OPTIMAL SELF-EMOTIONALIZING is completely sufficient to trigger the intended emotionally formative and disinhibiting effect.

      F.)Once you are finished with an exercise, put away the exercise page and the entire EL Method. Never continue reading in the EL method after completing an exercise. Your primary objective after every exercise should be to get out among people and to socialize. This has the sense and purpose that you will always consciously experience the positive and disinhibiting aftereffects while among people. This is the best if not the only way to create new and socially useful and effective reaction systems in a very short time. If you do the individually exercises properly and intensely, you will automatically feel an inner urge for social contact, which you should follow as much as possible.

      Before you now start with the first exercise, once again read all of the text concerning this exercise to make sure your very first exercise is also a complete success. The better you understand everything the higher your success rate for the first few exercises the more you will notice that you enjoy doing these exercises.

      IMPORTANT: Only do the prescribed exercises when and if you are sure to have understood everything and when you are certain to be able to execute each exercise properly and as intended.