Your Voice Blaster is a far more important tool than we ever imagined.

 

If you do not blast away those praising or blaming Voices floating around your mind,

 

- those pesky voices that puff you up or smash you down -

 

it is not likely that will ever stabilize in the Adult Ego State.

 

You will be constantly dragged somewhere else, believing in the opinions of those Voices...

 

But they are not your Real Voice!

 

The Adult Ego State is the gateway to the Archetypal Domains.

 

And it is quiet there...

In a Possibility Team, in a pair or better, in a group of three:

Set things up so that one/two people tell one person all the ways they are perfect. For the perfect things they do and say, ways they behave.

The one person listening pays attention to the voices that come up while they receive the feedback.

When they get a voice in their head, they say "pause!" or "stop!"

They say out loud the voice they heard and write it down. When it's written down, maybe there will be another voice, and write that down. Then say, "Keep going!" and then keep going until that person has 20 voices written down.

Each person gets to do it.

In a team, each person spends five minutes bragging about something, telling a legend about something they have been doing.

After this, in 2 minutes of silence, notice the voices that came up and write them down, about how it is not okay to brag, and other voices.

Also notice the voices that came up before taking your turn.

And then shoot the voices.

Make a list of 12 abnormal things that you actually might want to do.

Wear different or fewer or too many clothes. Have dinner food for breakfast. Ask questions in a town hall meeting, or at the church. Build a sled even in a place with no snow. Have a pet ocelot. Take your kids out on a walk with leashes on them, dressed up as elephants.

List these things. Then! Really consider doing them.

Write down the voices you hear that come up from that and where they come.

The exact source of it, for example on Feb 17, 1994 in the Safeway grocery store and the peanut butter fell off the shelf and I ran away and then I got this voice in my head.

And then shoot the voices.

Go into a mall, or a shopping street in your village.

Every time you see an advertisement stop and face it.

Get you Beep! Book out, and write down the voices behind the advertisement. What are the voices saying? The image, the colours, the shape of the people, the colours of the skin.

Part 2: Write the voices an advertisement is saying on postable notes and leave them on the billboard. Don't get arrested for defacing corporate property.

And then shoot the voices.

Standing at an advertisement, scan the people walking by.

Write down the voices you see happening in their heads about the advertisement.

Part B: Say the voices out loud. Do this at the airport in the duty free zone. "You don't have enough money to buy THIS" "You will get all the women if you buy this." "You're not Peirce Brosnan, who do you think you are?"

And then shoot the voices.

First: say what voices come in you when you say that you could have the voices of God (or whoever you think is responsible for Creation) in your head. Write those voices down.

Part 2: assume God talks to everyone the same. Listen for ten minutes and hear what God is saying to you right now. "Where are the angels? They aren't cleaning the toilets enough? And the black angels... where are they?"

And then shoot the voices.

Sometimes you have different voices in your head arguing with each other. For a week, so you get lots of practice, pay attention and write down all when you have two or three different voices arguing in your head.

The end questions are: Why do you let them in there? Which one are you?

And then shoot the voices.

List 7 things that you don't want to do, like pull the weeds or wash the windows or do taxes or call your mother-in-law.

Then pick one of those things each day, and do one thing each day for a half hour each day for a week, while you listen to the voices in your head.

Why do you really NOT want to do it? Is it the voices or is it something else? What do you really want and don't want?

And then shoot the voices.

Make a list of all the tasks you have for the week, the thing you want to do, you have committed to do.

Once a week do one of the things, and notice the voices of your Gremlin that say "this is a boring job!" and complains and tells you you deserve better, and keeps you from having integrity.

And then shoot the voices.

In a Possibility Team, each person on the Team lists all of the voices in their head about how they can't be vulnerable, hold space, or be in front of other people presenting who they really are into the world.

List them all.

One by one, each person of the team shout a voice from their list.

When the others hear the voices that are also in their head, they shoot them, like Whack-a-Mole, to develop the inner reflexes to shoot first.

The government voices, the voice of authority to tell you how your life should proceed. How to be a good citizen. Don't cut in line, pay your taxes, cheer for the home team, or your country's Olympic Team, celebrate Independence Day. What are the voices you have?

They might be keeping you in one of the 8 Prisons.

Notice them.

Write them down.

Then shoot the voices.

Pick a skill where there will be a lot of voices around, like picking locks, pole dancing, growing marijuana or magic mushrooms, throwing knives, being a con artist, pickpocket, and LEARN ONE.

This makes you into a Bad Person. A marginal person. A Subversive. You can no longer NOT classify yourself as "that kind of person".

Become not a non smoker. Break the rule of your voices.

Shoot the voices while you are picking the skill, learning the skill and doing the skill.

Spend an hour in your home, starting with the kitchen, looking at how things are and say out loud all of the voices that come from all your parts about where things should be, how it should be, like,

"the sink should always be clean,"

"the bread should always be there,"

"plants make the place brighter"

...all the things that people told you how a house should be.

Do a tour of the voices in your home and how you have your mother's house or the house that advertisements tell you to have.

Part B: Do the same thing in another person's house and say all the voices.

And then shoot the voices.

Draw your voice blaster in detail and put it online with a link.

It can be a water colour, an oil painting, a drawing, a napkin sketch, a high resolution digital rendering, anything.

While you are drawing, split your attention and notice any voices about how you are drawing it.

And then shoot the voices.

Notice the voices about how you are building it.

And then shoot the voices.

Go to a public square with your new made Voice Blaster and a couple of other ones, and with a sign that says:

"Blast the Voices of Your Enemies or Your Parents!"

And say, "Come! Come! Come get your Voice Blaster!"

Shoot your own voices in public as a demonstration.

Invite people to shoot voices in public while you demonstrate doing it.

Blast away voices of disillusionment. It will be more fun that TV.

Do this for three days for an hour each day.

Design a flash mob that has lyrics in it of voices that a lot of people have, and say them and shoot them in the flash mob choreography.

And then shoot the voices about doing this.

When you go to your parent's home, and when you hear your mother's voices, the sentences she keeps saying, opinions she has told you again and again, say it with the same intonation.

You aren't trying to make fun of her, just say it out loud, to have the sense that the voices are in you.

This will help you, a month later, when you say it to your children, to know, "this is not my voice".

And then shoot the voices.

Either at a Rage Club or Possibility Team, ask of the people to tell you for ten minutes the voices they think you have in your head, and write them down, no discussion even if you don't think its true, if you think it's a projection and they are jealous, write it down anyway and then shoot the voices.

Some people develop an inner dialogue about praising themselves as a way of making it through abuse, or being unseen or unappreciated.

This inner dialogue is just as much bullshit as the criticizing dialogue.

Make a list of the inner praising, justifying voices that you have used to survive in horrendous circumstances, and think about possibly shooting them.

Who would you be without these voices?

If you feel like it, shoot them.

There might be a fear, and an Emotional Healing Process to do about this.

List the voices that start with "I am not allowed to..." and when you have 15-20, prove the voices wrong by doing one of these things for a week.

"I'm not allowed to fart in public."

"I am not allowed to leave food on my plate."

"I am not allowed to interrupt men."

"I am not allowed to leave a zoom conversation that doesn't feel valid for me in the moment."

Do this for all of the 15 - 20 voices for 15 - 20 weeks, shooting the voices as you do it.

Notice the things that really bug you about other people, little things you criticize or hate about other peoples behaviour or attitudes. Notice the voices about that.

Turn the mirror around. Find out about the things you hate about other people that you really hate about yourself. Or that you want to do, but aren't doing it. Find out which one it actually is.

Check off the voices you actually secretly use on yourself.

Shoot those voices.

In your Beep! Book, on a fresh double page, one one side, write words like:

patriotism, war, defending your country, being a hero, protection, safety, the good people kill the bad people.

On the other side, write words like:

sex, penis, prostitute, drug dealer, terrorist, murderer, cunt, fuck.

What are the voices that say the words on the first page are appropriate in social conversation while the words on the second page are not?

What is the construct?

Shoot the voices.

Do embarrassment and craziness to gain new access to non-linear possibility.

In places where you might be criticized, where people might have stories about you: at work, in public, at the library, do something embarrassing or crazy.

Bring a stuffed animal that you massage or kiss while in line at the grocery store.

In the park do new kinds of yoga exercises, like "Face Yoga", or "Maimed Person Yoga", or "Epileptic Yoga".

This gives your five bodies access to new possibilities that are not limited by voices.

When voices happen, shoot the voices.

Make a movie of yourself, where, while you are making it, you let all the voices come out,

and the voices about the voices,

and the voices about the movie and voices about the voices about the voices.

Put it all out there.

Stand in front of two doors, with somebody else.

Say, "I am going to go through this door because..."

and, "I don't want to go through that door because..."

and, "I want to go through both doors because...."

and, "I don't want to go through any door because..."

Or put two apples on the table and do it about which apple you will or will not eat and why and why not.

Minimize your Now until there is no room for voices.

See how long you can stay there.

Do it in different phases:

1. Alone

2. With somebody

3. With other people around who you don't think are watching

4. With other people

5. When you are giving a talk or workshop or coaching session.

There is no room in the Now for voices.

With a friend who is doing gossip, or complaining, practice Being With them with no voices about their low drama, no voices about fixing it, no voices about correcting it.

Shorten your Now

When you are with someone else, for 1 week, say,

"I have these voices about you, when I encounter you, about me or you, or about your relationship..."

...and just reveal them.

Get out 20 euros or dollars, and hold it in your hand in public, and just look at other people while you hold it out.

Read their minds about what their voices are.

Read your mind about the voices you think are in their mind.

Shoot the voices.

Become Money. There might be voices about that. Shoot them all.

Create a space for yourself for ten minutes.

For ten minutes notice the voices you have about sex, about you and sex, about how you have sex, about sex in general, your partner and sex, how others have sex, how it should go, how it shouldn't go.

Do it alone, write them down and shoot them.

Do it with a friend.

Do it in a team.

Part 1: Go around the mall or a park where there are children, observe how people are with children and spot the voices that happen, in others and in you.

Part 2: Go to parents you know and do not know and collect the voices about how parenting should go, and write down all the opinions.

Have conversations about parenting about the should's and should not's.

Part 3: Make a poem or an ode with all of these voices and publish it on line.

While you are at it, shoot the voices.

Do the same thing but with voices about art, music, poetry...how it should and shoudn't be.

Buy four or five pads of post-it notes.

On each one write one of the voices from these experiments, written clearly on the post-its.

Put the post-its on your walls of your room until the room is completely covered in post it notes.

Live in there.

Invite a person or a whole Possibility Team in there, show them what it's like to live in this world. They will get to know you.

Alternatively pin them onto yourself and wear them all day.

Make many framed art projects about your voices and fill a gallery with them and call the show "Voices."

Become rich and famous with a whole new set of voices.

Get a can of air, the kind for blowing dust off your camera or computer.

Put a label on the can that says, "Anti-Voice Spray," or "Voice Extermination Spray," or, "Voice Annihilation Spray,"and keep it around.

When you or anyone else has a voice use the air blaster as a Voice Blaster.

Spray the people off who come near you.

Ask your partner or your housemate, someone who knows you, to tell you, really tell you, "You sound just like your mother" or "You sound just like your father."

When they do this, say the voices again, clearly, out loud and then shoot them.

Create intimacy with your partner by doing this.