Re: Raider and all, My "HWS" experience (long)
Raider,
Ok, I won't apologize! LOL! Seriously I do get a little intense at times, and then we are also dealing with written rather than spoken communication so it can be taken the wrong way.
I'm glad you got the book and are reading it. Getting started is easy - almost too easy - compared to what we have been doing.
I have found my healing goes better if I back away and relax, not thinking about it or business 24/7. I can't keep up the pace I have been keeping for the past couple of years anyway. I have worked down some debt though, and I am pleased with that.
I find Hawkins writing to be somewhat hard to follow and a little boring at times myself, that's why I stressed the information about the scale in regards to Stephen's work and the word lists. I also disagree with some of his statements but do not want to throw the proverbial baby out with the bath water. He has another book which I read about a third of and I still haven't connected with it. He also does have a lot of verbal material including some videos, I watched quite a few of them during my crash course week I mentioned in another post.
Stephen will test the level at which you are and your potential. How close you can get to your potential I'm not sure of, although I have made a lot of progress in the past months.
I learned to have confidence in my testing ability by comparing my results with others who I know have more experience than I do. A neat little exercise and I think you will find you can test effectively with some practice.
One thing I learned from Hawkins material is to test by making a statement rather than asking a question and get a yes or no in regards to the statement. Example; "Raider calibrates at 125." Yes or No answer to that is easier for me than than "Does Raider calibrate at over 125?" A subtle difference, but I noticed Hawkins phrases his muscle testing "questions" in the form of a statement.
Take Care,
WIP