1. Man! This is a long page! Why can't you say it in a short paragraph or two? Can't I just skip all this boring crap and get on with the juicy stuff? I don't have a lot of time.
If you want to have a good session you need to know all this stuff. Sorry. If you want to try it without knowing what you're doing, well, don't expect it to work at all. There's a YouTube video I put online that is shorter, which will give you a session, and you might do better with that.
2. Isn't this session stuff just for crazy people, wimps and losers?
Some people think so, sure. But it was mainly developed so that the normal, fairly intelligent layman ("man" in this sense and as used on this website includes women in standard English) can improve his outlook on life in the comfort of his own home in his own time with very minimal expense. And to do so without having to "get therapy" or "seek professional help" or even "go and talk to someone." If you think you really should seek professional help, by all means go and do so. How could using a simple website like this be a substitute for dealing with a trained professional in person?
3. If I were to have a session, how could this possibly work? This is just a website with a limited number of responses, and I won't be interacting with another live person in the session. We're talking about a real person's life here - mine! I'm not a movie character following a pre-written sceenplay.
Good question. Without getting into the nitty-gritty of how this is all designed, all I can say is that it seems to work well as presented. While a person's responses to real life situations vary a great deal, there are only a very few different types of response that seem to appear in a PaulsRobot session. Each of these very few types of response dictates a specific next action to take. While there are many things a man driving a car can do, when he approaches a crossroads he can basically turn left or right, go straight across, do a u-turn and go back the way he came, or get stuck in the middle or something. Almost all the time he does one of the first options, and only rarely stalls. It is similar in a PaulsRobot session. There is even a Troubleshooting Add-On for the occasional stall. But don't take my word for it. Look at the dozens of testimonials from satisfied clients. Try it out for yourself (follow the instructions!).
4. How does this website Robot thingy know what topic I should address? If it just says I should choose the topic, how would I know what topic to pick? I'm not a professional in this area. Is there a list of topics I follow, or something?
To start with, unless your life is unusually calm, the session procedure will isolate what topic is uppermost in your mind and should be addressed in that session. It will vary from individual to individual and be very intimate to you personally. After many sessions, when you have been able to cool off all the hot topics, then you will have a bit more free choice on what to address. At that time, you will be able to pick and choose out of what seems interesting to you. But to begin with, there won't be much choice at all. Your topic will pretty much be forced upon you. You don't have to use that topic in the session, of course - there is no-one standing over you with a gun demanding it. But if you try and do the session on another topic it won't work out so well because your mind will keep straying back to that first topic you should have taken up and didn't...
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5. Why is it so important to be "sessionable"? Why can't I just get five hours sleep the night before and drink beer for lunch like I always do?
Basically because you won't get much out of a PaulsRobot session if you are not prepared for it, with quality sleep and food and so forth, as detailed in the relevant series of pre-session pages here. Just as it won't work to try and paint a wall or your nails if the surface is rough and covered with dust, so it won't work to try and have a session here if you are tired or hungry or under the influence or too distracted, etc.
6. What's this Rub & Yawn thing about?
How it seems to work is this: If you put your attention on your topic and do the visualization procedure per the instructions, the harmful energy associated with your topic will get discharged through the body's action of yawning, or sighing, or sobbing, or similar physical means. The "rubbing" - vigorously rubbing your hands together, or rubbing your chest, your back, your arms, your legs; s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g; squeezing the chair and table; this kind of thing - causes the body to draw in fresh energy to replace the bad energy, the stagnant energy, the frozen energy, you just got rid of. It seems that the body needs a certain minimum amount of energy, whether good or bad, and if you go below this amount you will soon feel very short of energy. If you only do part of the procedure here and fail to rub, you will rapidly deplete your stock of total energy (good and bad), and begin to feel run down, wiped out, and so forth. The solution is to rub vigorously for as long as it takes to recharge your batteries, so to speak, which might take several minutes. The correct way is to keep up the rubbing all the time and not get into such a depleted state in the first place. If you are feeling short of energy because of low blood sugar, this is a different thing.
7. Why should I keep a written record of my session?
Two reasons. Most people find it useful to have a report to refer back to after the session, to see the dates and times of the sessions and how they were doing before and after, how many yawns etc. came off that particular topic, what realizations they had, and so forth. But there is another very important reason, quite apart from the record-keeping aspect of it. It can be very therapeutic to write things down about your life, especially when the topics are "charged", hot, i.e., they have harmful mental energy attached to them. In order to write down the details you have to hold the events out away from you to some extent in order to look at them in enough detail to describe them, and doing this helps you to sort things out in your own mind. Many people who keep a daily journal or write posts to message boards on the Internet have noticed this.
8. Surely this free "Core" stuff isn't any good? I have to pay for the good stuff, right?
The Core module, i.e., the free stuff here, is surprisingly effective at discharging a wide variety of topics. But it won't work on everything. You might never use the full range of modules, but it is nice to have them available just in case. But the Core module contains a full workable procedure all by itself — it has not been disabled or watered down in any way. At one time it was all that existed like this. It is the original "Paul's Robot" module, with more sparkles and brought up to date.
9. Can I sue this website or this Paul guy and say you all screwed with my mind?
Sure. But note that per the terms and conditions you agreed to, you said you would take part in all this on your own responsibility. Also note that unless something major changes, you probably make much more money than I do, so you wouldn't even get your legal costs covered.
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10. What qualifications give Paul the right to do this?
I do it simply because I can. No-one else on the planet has put such a website online, have they? It's not like there is an established way of doing this that anyone with a _____ qualification knows about. The real question is, does it work? And the answer to that one is to try it and see. A free session or three won't cost you any money. If it works for you it works. If it doesn't work for you it doesn't. And if it doesn't work for you and you followed the instructions exactly e-mail me as I would be very interested in hearing about it!
11. What's with all this "All right", "Good" and "Fair enough" stuff? How do you know if what I did was good or not?
Obviously I don't know what you did or how you did it. All the application "knows" is that you clicked on a link. The acknowledgment is there because the session works better for the user than if such acknowledgments were absent. If the session command is "Think of a pink cat" (there isn't such a command here), and you click on a link saying "I thought of a pink cat", and the next screen says "Good. Imagine the cat purring," then all the "Good" means is "Thank you for carrying out the command" and nothing more. Similarly for the other acknowledgments here like "OK", "thank you", "fair enough", "all right", "fine", and whatever else may be used. It would be very distracting to hear "thank you for carrying out the command" each time.
12. I was having a great session - I discharged a hot topic and felt wonderful. I figured on keeping the momentum going and started on another topic that I usually have trouble with and the session went lousy after that. How come? I was doing the procedure exactly the same as before.
Once you've discharged a hot topic and feel great for now, end off and enjoy your "win". It just doesn't work to try and work on another hot topic when you're in such a good condition. It is known as doing a session "over a win" and is a big mistake. So lay off it for a bit. Enjoy the win and do another session when you feel like one, the next day or next week or whenever.
13. Why do I need written instructions for each of my sessions before the session starts? Why can't I just wing it as I go along?
You will be dealing with intense, life-changing stuff in your sessions. In the middle of such a session, your mind will tend to be rather occupied with the subject matter, and you won't have a lot of spare thinking power to make sensible decisions about other things you maybe could be doing in the session. If you simply follow the overall strategy of the written instructions from before the session, the regular session procedure will provide the necessary tactics, and all should be well. If for some reason the session is not going well, then click on the "troubleshooting" link available in the session and follow the instructions there. If you just want a nice, quiet, gentle approach to your life that won't change things very much, well, it's not really worth your while to stay on this site and you might as well have a beer and watch TV instead.
14. Why does the sound quality suck?
Two reasons. One is that the Flash (*.swf) files that contain the sound are one-tenth the size of similar mp3 files, which means they download much quicker to your computer. If they merely contained background music or something like that it wouldn't matter, but since they are the session commands it is important to keep any possible delay in hearing them as short as possible. The other is that Flash works better than the alternatives.
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