The best attitude for using Aurelis is in fact, very common. Nothing special is necessary or even desirable. Spontaneity and an attitude of curious expectation are ideal. Even relaxation during a session is not a necessary condition. There are, as a matter of fact, many people for whom relaxation is practically impossible. For these people, Aurelis can also be used purely towards motivation and concentration. Over the course of time they can nevertheless experience some relaxation at their own pace. One can be sure that they are the ones who need it most.

If you experience an inner resistance to an Aurelis-experience, then this will have no effect upon you. On the other hand, only a minimum of collaboration is needed. It is not necessary to let yourself entirely ‘go’. The best attitude is simply being your own natural self, with an open mind and healthy curiosity. It is suitable not to nourish too highly strung expectations, because this reduces your spontaneity. Your first good experience will come over you like a light breeze, without any effort. If you already have some experience with one form or another of meditation, then you will probably notice that you encounter a pleasant memory of this in your Aurelis sessions. That is normal, but it is not necessary. Aurelis-sessions can also mutually give you the same feeling. They can also be surprisingly different each time. This is also better in the long run. Each new opening to your own inner strength can make you more flexible as a person. It gives you new resources. At the other hand, it is also good to make yourself well versed in a limited number of techniques, so that you can enjoy these in an optimal way and make use of them each time you feel the need.

It is suitable that you are focused entirely on the essence of the text itself. That is to say to the meaning this text has for you. This does not have to correspond with the exact meaning of what is told. You partially fill in the story yourself without necessarily realizing this. If for example, you hear something that does not apply to you, you can simply ignore that. You ‘hear’ what your subconscious wants you to hear in order to realize your aim as efficiently as possible and in the beginning that aim is to simply relax a bit, and that’s all.

It is very interesting for you to adopt a ‘yes-attitude’ during a large part of the session, without forcing this, however. Say ‘yes’ to what you hear, not because this doctor says so, but because this way you also say ‘yes’ to yourself. ‘Yes I can do this.’ ‘Yes I want this.’ ‘Yes this is right for me in this sense.’ This attitude doesn’t mean that you simply and uncritically adopt everything, but that you are continuously open to how what you hear is right for you.

Try to analyze as little as possible during a session, especially (and that is also the only reason) if you experience that that impedes your spontaneity. Of course, you can analyze it before and after a session. This has no importance on the effectiveness. It hardly interferes with what happens during a session. But if you nevertheless cannot avoid considering again and again what you are busy with during the sessions, then you can benefit from one or several of the concentration exercises. These help you to keep your attention focused on the here and now in a natural way.

Directly involve your symptom in the session. If, for instance, you do a session about palpitations, then think of your own heart. If possible, feel your heart. Focus on your palpitations and involve them in the session. How do they react? Do they decrease or increase? Every change is proof for you that your ‘heart’ reacts to the session, that your symptom becomes loose and that you get the occasion to grow as a person. The eventual intention of Aurelis lies in this growth to beyond where the symptom is still necessary, as a result of which, it spontaneously disappears. By involving your symptom as concretely as possible - but spontaneously, without forcing it! - at the session, you strongly raise the chance on this growth.

‘Practicing’ with Aurelis is: simply proceeding, certainly in the beginning. If a kind of relaxation doesn’t succeed the first time or a next time, that is by no means an indication that you will not benefit from it. Eventually, this exercise can develop into one of your favorite exercises. You can first try some other ways and then afterwards come back to this one. Of course, that is always possible whenever you feel like it.

In any case, it is appropriate to at least have five or six good relaxation-experiences before you start with goal-specific suggestions in the first place, because these suggestions are much more effective in an agreeable state of relaxation and concentration. In addition to this, you generally need some experience with Aurelis to be able to work purposefully. Concerning the effect of goal-oriented suggestions, it is never advisable to make a final evaluation before you have practiced regularly for some weeks with a certain method. Inner strength has no strict time scale. In a positive sense, this also means that sometimes you can almost immediately experience some effect. Sometimes this is only clear if you let yourself be entirely open to it. However, you can never force it.

No. You don’t get a special sensation in the belly, because the effect of Aurelis appears completely from the inside, you can in fact pose that it happens very spontaneously. How can you know that it works? Simply, if you use Aurelis to become slimmer, you see that your appetite diminishes. The fight against the calorie devil diminishes or disappears. At best circumstances, you even experience that your pleasure in eating remarkably increases, while you nevertheless feel less of a need for it in order to feel emotionally strong.

What you can feel, however, is a kind of euphoria. This does not come through the use of Aurelis itself, but through feeling and knowing with your whole being, that you have taken a new direction, a direction that probably conducts you to the desired result. That euphoria is sometimes mixed with a sad feeling. You shouldn’t be scared by this. It is very momentary and can have several causes. You can feel sad because of the years you have ‘lost’ in fighting against yourself. It can also be caused by your feeling that you are going to take leave of your self-image with which you have lived for years, even if that self-image is the thing against which you have fought all those years. A slightly depressed, unsettling feeling is furthermore something that occurs in everyone sometimes at the occasion of a big change. It doesn’t necessarily need to have an assignable reason. It’s simply something that belongs to it. If you don’t fight against it, it can even feel pleasant and can quickly pass.

If you use Aurelis, it is best to simply and freely wait for the result that will announce itself by simply being there. If a feeling of success is important to you, then I advise as a criterion for realization: losing a stipulated part of your excess weight, without using much will power or without it being really painful in any way. Until now, the measure for success has probably only been stipulated by the amount of lost weight. To lose that weight, you perhaps did as little effort as possible, or perhaps you found the effort important as long as the overweight disappeared. With Aurelis, however, the ease with which you lose the weight is a substantial component of your success, because through this, you know that you can easily keep away the lost weight.

The intention of the music is to create an environment of relaxation, openness and confidence in yourself. It is always desirable to create such an environment. Aurelis music has been specifically composed to fulfill this aim. It is always very gentle and repetitive with a minimal melody. We get many good comments about this.

However, if the Aurelis music doesn’t evoke the right atmosphere for you, then it is better to turn it off if possible (not on the CD of course). You can of course also use another music (in the cd-player of your computer for instance). Of course, you should take care that this music doesn’t hamper your understanding of the text. Music with a clear melody or a clear progression (such as classical music that you already know well) can cause your attention to be pulled away from the text (and from your interpretation of it) too much. This can be annoying. However, it is up to you to experiment with this, if you wish.

An additional advantage of music is that after some sessions it brings you even faster in the right mental attitude. In other words: it works slightly ‘conditioning’. That is good in this case, because you are doing it in complete openness.

That depends entirely on you. Take care that it’s a time that you are not very nervous, but nevertheless also not too tired. It’s important that you don’t fall asleep each time, unless, of course, that is your intention.

It’s interesting to use Aurelis in that part of the day when you are most ‘clear of mind’. Are you a morning- or an evening person? That is for you the best time, with one reservation: take care that you don’t give yourself the impression that Aurelis is standing in the way of ‘more important things’. Your health and well-being are themselves very important in any way. The fact that with Aurelis you don’t have the impression of ‘working’, doesn’t mean you are not busy efficiently.

It is advantageous (but certainly not necessary) to ‘aurelis’ always at approximately the same time of the day. Your mind automatically orients itself to this and takes care that you are ‘ready’ at the right time. It also helps you not forget your ‘Aurelis-moment’.

If you are a smoker for a long time, you have probably already stopped smoking several times and each time restarted - hence your concern that, to remain stopped with a good method, you continuously need to keep busy with it.

Using Aurelis, however, you do not simply quit smoking. You change yourself, not only concerning a certain external behaviour, but concerning the way in which you relate to smoking. You have been a smoker. You become a non-smoker and that is nothing less than a new state of being. I make a distinction between the terms ‘non-smoker’ and ‘ex-smoker’. ‘Ex-smoker’ indicates a description of external behaviour, namely the not lighting of a cigarette during a short or long time. Everyone who doesn’t smoke for some hours, is in fact already somewhat an ex-smoker. Someone can have stopped smoking for years and still be an ex-smoker (in contrast to a non-smoker).

In light of this distinction, it is clear that you do not have to regularly keep using Aurelis to become free of smoking. You don’t become an ex-smoker, but a non-smoker.

On the other hand it is, however, the case that people continuously change, as well as the situations in which they live, think, work, have pleasure and encounter grievances and circumstances that make them long for what may have been alleged advantages of smoking. It is good to never deem yourself immune to addiction. Also people who have never in their life been addicted to something, are not immune. A quasi-immunity, as a matter of fact, would testify of a hardness that is for most of us inhuman. I advise to continue to ‘observe’ yourself with a healthy mind, with which I simply mean that you have to remain attentive to your own needs and frustrations. That is very human. If you feel that you have a need to start smoking again, you can better reflect on this in time, clarify your own motivations and, yes, use Aurelis again to adapt your conscious and subconscious intentions to each other. That can certainly be useful preventively, and I strongly advise it.

If you have nevertheless fallen again into smoking behaviour, you can use Aurelis with as much usefulness as you did the first time. If you need it again, then do not consider this a failure, but a chance to grow as a person. Try to learn from previous experiences. Perhaps it is important for you to be busy with autosuggestion somewhat longer, more intensively, or with another attitude. It is not Aurelis that makes you stop smoking: you are the one who has to learn to use the strength within yourself towards this end. Therefore, no standard recommendation can be given about how long or how often you should use Aurelis, and whether you should use it regularly for some time after you have stopped smoking.

That, among other things, depends on the degree of your being a non-smoker when you lit your last cigarette. I advise you to light the last cigarette only when you feel 99% certain that you are a non-smoker. After that, I would still (for at least three weeks) do a couple of session weekly. At such a moment you will however, be sufficiently motivated to persevere. Specific sessions to quit smoking are not necessary then, on condition that before each session you take up one idea or another that has personally touched you on your way towards being a non-smoker. You don’t have to do anything more with that idea than to rekindle it in your memory and then to simply let it loose.

It is very normal that a relaxation doesn’t ‘succeed’ if you assume that it has to meet certain requirements such as ‘excluding oneself from the outside world’. For some, that ‘excluding oneself’ is easy, for others not.

For me, for example, it almost never succeeds, but nevertheless I clearly feel the relaxation in itself and the further practical advantages of suggestion. The first time that I tried to go into a ‘trance’ through the accompaniment of a colleague therapist in training, I was worried about this, but that quickly passed.

You probably expected a detachment from the outside world, especially because you have that idea of a hypnotic trance. But this is no hypnosis! Critical research also shows that at hypnosis with trance, that trance has no direct influence on the effectiveness, for example in order to quit smoking.

This means:

1) Someone who easily experiences a detachment from the outside world, will on average also experience other effects more easily, but not through the detachment.

2) Someone who experiences no detachment, will eventually not have less effect of (auto)suggestion, unless he has of course, the expectation that the detachment is necessary.

And that is a very regrettable matter concerning the way in which hypnosis has grown during the past two centuries, namely: that it has put that expectation central, that as a result of this, it has made itself more important than it is, and at the same time has curtailed its own advantages for many people. I think that your expectation concerning the importance of detachment is the direct consequence of this. I myself am proof that that expectation is not appropriate. In addition to this, a lot of professional literature exists about this issue (especially by Barber & Spanos *).

Actively avoiding to think of other things, keeps you from letting yourself go. It is advisable to be as open-minded as possible. The story of the session doesn’t even need to be followed. It is enough that you go to it now and then. You fill up the holes in the tale yourself. Therefore, you are in every respect, particularly  letting yourself go, more active than someone who in a weak-willed manner is ‘handed over’ to the will of the hypnotist. After a time - hopefully - you too will come to the conclusion that at a certain level you are in fact never more active than during and as a result of, deep ‘relaxation’. But I let it be (inevitably) up to you to dig this out for yourself.

If it doesn’t ‘succeed’ the first time for one reason or another, or if you have that impression, try to not look at what happened as a ‘failure’. At working with your own subconscious, there is actually never a failure. That is a term that simply has no meaning on this domain, unless as a negative suggestion.

Therefore, I advise you to simply continue, but with short sessions in the beginning. A longer session has no sense if you are not spontaneously persuaded that it fits you.

* T. X. Barber, N. P. Spanos, J. F.Chaves Hypnosis - Imagination and Human Potentialities. New-York: Pergamon Press, 1974:191.

This can have several causes. It should, however, under no circumstances lead to your thinking that relaxation is not for you. I think that in this case some insight in the causes can more easily help to neutralize that tension.

Many people are already so long and continuously nervous that they no longer know how it feels to be relaxed.

What feels as the ‘normal relaxation’ of, for example a weekend out, is in fact filled with a number of new tensions and a continuation of the tensions that are always present. A real relaxation is, for these people, as it were a new experience, something that they can feel unaccustomed to and that as a result of this deters them. The first response can therefore exist in a tension brought about by the unknown.

Western culture puts the emphasis on action. ‘Doing nothing’ is something that is not done. We are all thoroughly conditioned to this by our education. Simply relaxing, deeply relaxing, and seemingly or effectively being involved in ‘nothing’ looks like loathed inactivity and can as a result, consciously or subconsciously, lead to feelings of guilt and tensions.

For people who are tensed for a long time, the tension can eventually become a kind of addiction, mentally by feeling at home in this state, and perhaps even physically by the continuous production of stress hormones (adrenalin, noradrenaline, cortisol...). Suddenly stopping this addiction can lead to withdrawal symptoms such as, secondarily, an increase in tension which automatically passes after a short while.

Tensions are often the consequence of oppressing other tensions. For instance, the tension caused by ‘suffering’ from overweight can, for a woman, be a way to deflect the energy of tensions in the marital relationship. This deflection of tensions is a process that often happens to a large degree subconsciously. If the more ‘superficial’ tensions are taken away, as a result of this, the suppression of the deeper tensions also disappears and can arise as an apparently new tension.

In all these cases, it looks as if the tension originates strangely enough from the attempt to relax. Within a broader look, this is clearly not the case. If a deeper relaxation makes you nervous time after time, I advise to proceed slowly. Take for yourself the time that you need and try to process the feelings that arise within you. I don’t mean that you should spend much time on this, but that you better start with, for example, a few deep relaxations weekly rather than daily.

Take care also that you have a sufficient night's rest, because the processing of new feelings and points of view happens more easily during and with the use of REM and NREM sleep. It is, of course, also good and interesting if you can discuss your feelings in such a period more intensively with someone in whom you have much confidence, your spouse, a friend or perhaps a therapist.

[ From ` heal yourself: ].



While relaxing, all kinds of problems may turn up that are especially annoying since they can hamper the smooth cause of the relaxation, or that could even lead to giving up autorelaxation altogether. They are all small problems that can be avoided or handled easily. I will list the most frequent ones, while proposing what can be done about them.



coughing or hacking

Try not to restrain this. Autorelaxation does not imply sitting or lying motionless. Concentration always fluctuates and when you are distracted for a moment by a cough, you can return straightaway to that condition of deep concentration and relaxation.



itching, pain

Here too, moving will not do any harm. After being distracted, returning to relaxation can be seen as a deepening. In other words, it can help you to reach an even deeper level of relaxation.



distracting noises in the background

Try to ignore noises in the background, or to include them in your relaxation. Noises in the surroundings can be interpreted e.g. as a background that enhances your inner peace and silence.



muscle contractions

Slight muscle contractions are normal symptoms with deep relaxation. They sometimes occur with someone who just fell asleep. If it annoys you, you can simply stretch the muscle slightly, keep it like this for a short while, and then slowly relax it.



obtrusive thoughts

Try in any case not to oppress these thoughts through willpower. Simply let them come and go, even if this means that in this session you do not get round to a deep relaxation. By handling disturbing thoughts this way, you will notice that your concentration will be improved without much effort. You will actually profit from enhanced concentration, even outside your relaxations.



disorientation and unwanted dissociation

These symptoms are to a small extent quite normal with deep relaxation. If this makes you anxious, you had better briefly return from relaxation to let them disappear naturally, what happens all the time. Learn how you can always return from a deep relaxation, until your potential fear fades away naturally. The symptoms can be interpreted as an indication that your relaxation is deep and that it may be of good use to you.



fear of loss of control during relaxation

It could happen that relaxation makes someone more nervous. This can be explained by the fact that deep relaxation takes away the normal diversion from worries and fears, thus enabling fears and emotions that have been blocked for a long time to emerge. If the control of these blocked fears and emotions threatens to be reduced, it is only normal that this should be converted in nervousness. If relaxation comes to you always accompanied with some nervousness, then it is advisable to proceed slowly and start with auto-relaxations that are not much longer than 10 minutes. If you feel an acute anxiety during a session, then it is better to stop for the time being. If this happens only once or twice, you can just continue after a few days. However, if you suffer from an acute anxiety every time you try to relax, I advise you to discuss this with a good psychotherapist.



falling to sleep

Falling to sleep during a relaxation exercise means that in fact, you suffer from an acute or chronic lack of sleep. Your body immediately reacts to the occasion to try and catch up with sleep. Do not start a session when you really are very tired. If during a relaxation you fall asleep, take this message from your body seriously and from this moment on, try to get sufficient sleep at night.



increasing pain

With some kinds of nerve pain, it is possible that the pain increases during the relaxation. This happens very rarely. If you intend to relieve your pain with the use of mental power, you can learn to apply some cognitive strategies without relaxation. Relaxation is beneficial for this, but not necessary.
 

That is very normal. Subjective time is very extendable. If you are sunk into a good book or a tense film, time also ‘progresses quickly’. It’s a sign (but not necessarily) that you are using Aurelis well. It’s also completely not dangerous.

After the speech, the music simply runs further (in AurelisOnLine). You have passed an exit, but if you wish so and while listening to the music, you can keep musing about what you heard and have just experienced. Pay attention, however: this is not necessary for the good functioning of a session. Do it if you like it and if you feel a need for it from inside. And then do not lose track of time, because before you know it, half an hour has passed and perhaps that was not the intention beforehand.

Take a pain-killer (if necessary a very powerful one) that allows you to use Aurelis. It is not necessary that you are in pain at your Aurelis-moment to alleviate that pain. You work with Aurelis in the first place on yourself, with the intention of reducing the pain that comes, to the level that you really need. You can be sure of this: that level is generally much lower than what someone with chronic pain experiences.

If you do not really succeed to concentrate, then it is not a good idea to try to force this. You would then get some frustrating experiences and those can prevent you from experiencing an optimally efficient influence of Aurelis at other moments. Be satisfied if necessary, with a pain-killer and some diversion.

If however, you can slightly concentrate on a session, even if only partially, then you can obtain a favorable influence from this by not making your expectations all too highly strung. No, the pain will not disappear entirely and immediately. But by doing a session with an open expectation, the pain will be diminished after a quarter of an hour. Be grateful (especially to yourself) for what you get, how much or how little it may be. Consider also that each good session is one that helps all following sessions be more efficient. A good session does not necessarily have an immediate and visible effect. It may be that it is only ‘good’ in the depth, but eventually it is there that it is most important to you.

If you look at the duration of a session (that you always get exactly in advance and afterwards) and you compare this with the time that the session has subjectively lasted for you, then it can strike you that it looked much shorter than it was in reality. That difference is an indication of a contact with your deeper self. Also, if you have absolutely no subjective feeling about how long a session lasted, this indicates a deeper contact.

The above question can mean: ‘when do I know for certain whether I’m doing it well?' Then it is possibly a question that originates from a specific cultural attitude that puts the emphasis on guilt: ‘you are wrong; you should have done it differently.’ This, in principle, does not correspond to the philosophy of Aurelis, where the emphasis lies precisely on spontaneous growth and even on the impossibility of guilt (but not of responsibility!). It is advisable to not ask yourself the above question during a session. In other words, asking the question itself during a session prevents, to a large degree, that you are ‘doing well’. It’s better to let it be completely unimportant during a session. Open yourself as best you can to the story and to what spontaneously reaches you.

During the use of Aurelis, the ‘being in contact with your deeper self’ can come over you as a conviction, an inner certainty, simply from within yourself. You don’t need any further indications. You simply know it and that is also the most pleasant and significant way to come to know it.

Of course, you generally use Aurelis because of a problem and then you want to know when you are raising your chances to a solution as well as possible. See for this the question: ‘What is the best attitude to use Aurelis?’.

That occurs sometimes and is easily avoidable. The cause lies in a tension of the neck muscles. During an Aurelis session, it can happen that you are much less mobile than otherwise. Some people have the idea that one has to remain as motionless as possible during a deep relaxation. In itself, there is no need for this. You can without any problem move a bit now and then, remove yourself if you feel some pressure or so here or there. During the next session, try to think of simply moving your head now and then. Perhaps this diminishes the depth of your relaxation, but that is absolutely harmless. Most likely, your headache will be entirely gone afterwards.

What also can contribute, is a tension that appears through high expectations and the urge to do it well at whatever cost. In this case, try to reduce your expectations. Think of a relaxed, open and spontaneous attitude that promotes the effect of Aurelis.

For most of the people who are burdened by a light headache during the first sessions, this feeling spontaneously disappears after some time. Mind and body simply adapt.

It’s possible. The relaxation is in itself not necessary, only favorable. With AurelisOnLine, however, you have to choose an intro, but you can take one that only lasts a number of seconds. Then you are immediately busy quitting smoking. During the session, if you wish, you don’t pay attention to the aspect of relaxation. If you concentrate yourself, without relaxation, on experiencing what the session is about, then that is perfect.

You can, however, wonder why a deep relaxation says nothing to you. Do you have a bad experience with it or are you frightened to ‘entirely lose touch with the world’? You may look a bit further around in this Q&A or on the website. Probably part of the reasons will disappear and you can enjoy the advantages that a deep relaxation can give you.

In absolutely no case does a fear for deeper relaxation need to keep you from using Aurelis. Whenever you feel uncomfortable during a session, it can absolutely not do any harm to just briefly interrupt this session or stop it. It can then be interesting to discuss your experiences with a good friend or therapist.

You can use Aurelis for several indications at the same time. However, as long as you still have no experience with it, it is advisable to not want to go ahead too quickly. The changes that you are about to carry out, are no small changes. The decision to quit smoking is very different from the decision to buy a loaf of bread. It is respectful to your own individuality that you take time for this. At the same time, working on several indications may be a sign of impatience, and that is not a good basis for personal growth.

I find this very important: using autosuggestion for instance, to quit smoking is more than just quitting smoking. It is also a way to grow as a person: to obtain a bigger oneness, to become less ‘dissociated’. (‘Dissociated’ is someone who, with a part of himself for example, wants to quit smoking, but with another part wants to continue smoking.) To be able to stand entirely behind what you want, is a characteristic of a healthy mind and, I think, this immediately transfers into a healthier body. It is normal that you have to take the time for that and that you cannot expect everything all of a sudden.

Therefore, it is good for you to keep matters somewhat separated and for instance, work first on quitting smoking, afterwards on losing weight.

Both can, however, flow into each other during some time. If you feel that you are already much less dependent on smoking, you can immediately use this success (because this ís a big success) as a motivation to also tackle losing weight. Let this motivation simmer a bit further and immediately after effectively quitting smoking, you are ready for the next change. The after treatment of quitting smoking flows over into the beginning of your travel towards a slimmer figure.

Perhaps you have an earlier experience that you increased in weight by quitting smoking. There is insufficient experience with Aurelis to be able to claim that this does not occur with this method. However, in view of the fact that with a correct use of autosuggestion you do not impose any frustration on yourself in the least (like that is the case with other methods), it is very plausible that any increase in weight occurs much less.

Autosuggestion can be applied apart from or with, pain-killers. There is absolutely no negative interaction. On the contrary, in Aurelis you find strategies to raise the effectiveness of the pain-killers that you take, by better using their placebo phenomenon. Through this, it is no longer a placebo fraud, but a conscious application. Of course, you can also apply other autosuggestive strategies to alleviate pain. It is even very interesting to practice several of those strategies for pain relief.

If you take a pain-killer, then you can graft your autosuggestion on it in a visualization by say, imagining it as little bullets that go towards the pain and dissolve. This is just an example; there are many possibilities. If you take a pain-killer with the positive expectation that it helps you, then that expectation itself is already an effective autosuggestion. You can consider the pain-killer as a message, as an indicator of a direction, namely towards a state of reduced pain. Since a pain-killer really has a biochemically analgesic effect, it is a good indicator of the direction. In other words, the subconscious gets a first little push and then does the rest of the work. It’s best to look at it this way. The pain-killer is ‘only’ the self-starter. The real engine towards healing (here: pain relief) is your own mental strength.

Of course, autosuggestion is effective beside a pain-killer. Especially with chronic pain, where the mental aspects of the pain are always very pronounced. If you already take pain-killers for a long time, I advise that you start combining these with the use of autosuggestion. If you feel that you can even slightly influence the pain by own strength, you can slowly reduce the amount of pain-killers. Of course, it makes no sense to let this go together with periods of heightened pain. Since the chronic use of pain-killers ALWAYS has side effects, autosuggestion is a very valuable alternative. It’s already significant if you can reduce the amount of your medication through this. If you can abolish them, so much the better, but that has to be seen for each individual case.

Certainly. Aurelis can be used together with anything else. On the other hand, the basic attitude of Aurelis is one of non-aggression. Depending on how you apply your diet, it can be fairly aggressive to you. Hopefully, Aurelis helps you continue the diet in a more friendly way. This implies that you take yourself into account as a complete person. Look at the diet as an additional instrument to use towards your goal and not as something you impose on yourself, cost what may. With Aurelis, you change more from within. If you do it well, sooner or later you spontaneously notice another attitude of yourself towards diets in general. You will need them much less. Your body (deeper self) takes care of itself much more automatically than before.

But whether that will happen or not, is not so important at this moment. You can, of course, use Aurelis with your diet. There is absolutely no reason not to.

That is indeed an interesting way to proceed. Aurelis is only an instrument to reach autosuggestive self-help. Don’t feel obliged to continue listening in an attempt ‘to use it as well as possible’. If you feel that you can do a session equally well without listening to it, then it is valuable to do it this way. It actually depends upon you.

On the other hand, if you think that listening remains important to you, then that is also the case. For most people, it is not easy to work quite as effectively without aid of the voice. I would then only want to ask you to avoid the feeling of dependence. That is not the intention of the whole Aurelis project. You are central in your own healing. Aurelis is at best a good and temporary aid in this.

If you know several techniques quite well, then you can combine them with each other in one self-made session. I have already experienced more than once myself that this is really very effective, for instance, in the case of acute violent pain.

If you feel yourself helped, then it is meaningful to repeat a session once more from time to time, at yourself, or while listening to Aurelis. Then this last is interesting if meanwhile you have somewhat forgotten what a session is really about. A good quality of symbolism is very important to reach your own subconscious in a good way.