LIFE AUTHORING FAQ

Life Authoring is an integrative cognitive selfhelp technique created by Dr. Peter Fritz Walter in 1998.
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Q-01. What is the basic technique of Life Authoring?
Life Authoring is a set of tools helping rewrite inner scripts through establishing a feedback loop
within the persons psyche. The feedback loop strengthens the relationship of the inner selves to one
another, specically between the lower and higher selves and thus triggers responses from the per-
sons own inherent intelligence. Those responses have been identied to benet healing and self-
healing in an effective way.
One technique of several is for getting in touch with our inner selves through the feedback loop,
a kind of inner dialogue that triggers a process of self-healing and that leads to emotional and cogni-
tive integration. In practice, this technique can be drafted in a way to be done online, using basic
interactive media.
Q-02. What are the main benets of Life Authoring?
The integration of conicting emotions, inner harmony, and a fundamental balance between intel-
lect and emotions. Other benets are increased integration of the inner shadow and negative emo-
tions related to it.
Q-03. Can Life Authoring change evolutionary or karmic patterns?
Contrary to what spiritualists believe, karmic patterns are not eternally inscribed into human-
itys evolutionary memory. They can be changed at any time. However, in order for us to do this,
we need to attain a certain amount of purity and inner clarity, just for getting in touch with our in-
ner source. Consciousness can alter DNA patterns and it can alter evolutionary patterns. This has
been demonstrated scientically.
Now, what Life Authoring does is to open the channel to the higher form of consciousness that is an
inherent part of the life code. The amazing thing is, then, that the change comes by itself. There is
nothing needed to trigger the change since consciousness changes instantly as it is self-cleaning and
self-renewing.
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Q-04. How does Life Authoring handle asocial emotions or urges?
The surprising fact is that emotions are integrated and part of our conscious control once we
have faced them, expressed them and accepted them. Any kind of moralistic approach, theory or
dogma acts counter to this to happen. Life Authoring does therefore not operate from any moralistic
or judgmental point of departure, but from a paradigm of total acceptance. Once conicting or con-
troversial or asocial emotions are totally accepted they are integrated and can do no harm any more.
Q-05. Does Life Authoring alter consciousness?
Life Authoring does not alter consciousness. However, doing the complete set of techniques re-
quires to temporarily alter our awareness level. This is done with full permission of the client, or it
is not done at all. This part of the program is a relaxation that combines music with suggestions.
During this phase of the work, the clients consciousness will indeed be altered. If they do not
want this to happen, they are free to skip it. But they may not get the full range of benets from the
work. Emotions and subconscious desires cannot be changed as long as a person remains on their
level of wake consciousness.
Q-06. Does Life Authoring impact positively on our emotions?
It is important to note that Life Authoring doesnt willfully change anything. Any impact it has
on a persons emotions is brought about not through the work itself, but will be the result of the
persons enhanced consciousness. If done correctly, Life Authoring results in a spontaneous change
of consciousness that, in turn, has an integrative effect on the clients split-off emotional residues.
Q-07. Is Life Authoring a subtle form of brainwashing?
Part of Life Authoring is indeed an inner cleansing process. It is what I call throwing out the in-
ner garbage. This is washing not only of mind, but also of our emotional body and complete mind-
body unity. If clients do not want that, they are free to turn their back to it. So if they think anybody
is washing their brain, it is well they themselvesif they want to! That insight may turn down the
fears that this ugly word certainly creates in many people.
Q-08. How to reach the deeper levels of the mind?
I may turn the question around and ask How do the deeper levels of my mind reach us? Conscious-
ness is active and there is a drive in the split-off parts of our residual civilized consciousness to re-
connect with us, so as to achieve the primordial unity within us.
Thus the desire for establishing inner harmony and unity is not a one-way street, but a powerful
motor for achieving a higher form of unied consciousness. There is no need to worry; this result is quite
automatically triggered when doing Life Authoring work. It cant be different. However, this is a
gradual process, until consciousness leaps to a higher level. The person may not feel any progress at
rst and may not be aware that they are already connected. It is pretty much an involuntary thing to
happen. But one triggers the outcome by simply doing the work.
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Q-09. How do I get in touch with my inner voices?
Voice dialogue is an essential part of the Life Authoring work. There is a roadmap to get in touch
with our inner voices. This roadmap is a detailed list of instructions. Clients do not need to worry
about this outside of the work itself; they do the work and they are in touch!
Q-10. What are the dangers of Life Authoring or its side-effects?
So far no side-effects have been reported. There are no dangers other than the ones inherent in
living. In all what we do we need to keep a balance. If we overdo things, effectiveness may not in-
crease, and instead there may be more stress with the result that our efforts may become counter-
productive.
It is part of Life Authoring instructions to tell clients how often the work should be done in order
to be effective. They are supposed to respect and follow these rules, or better not do the work. Dan-
gers could come from the persons interference into the work with manipulative habits such as the
use of alcohol, drugs or tranquilizers. This is prohibited and against the rules of the work! If clients
do that, they do it in their own responsibility and are hereby expressly warned!
Q-11. What is the minimum amount of Life Authoring work to get results?
This is individually very different and no general rule can be established. Regularly, results
show up for most candidates after the rst and before the third month of the work. But many peo-
ple need longer and some achieve the complete change in just one week. Human beings are very
different, thats a fact of life.
Q-12. Does Life Authoring enhance creativity?
Yes, denitely, creativity boosting was one of the rst results observed when developing and
testing Life Authoring, next to greater emotional freedom and inner balance.
Q-13. How long should Life Authoring be done?
No general rule can be given. Most candidates will not do less than one week or more than one
year in a one-time effort. The rule is rather doing several cycles of lets say one month, and have a
time lapse in between to let the seed settle down. Thats perhaps the most effective way of doing
the work. But again, were all different and people should use their discretion to get to know them-
selves to a point to decide what is best for them!
Q-14. Is Life Authoring a psychological treatment or a therapy?
No. Denitely not. I am not a licensed therapist or psychologist, while I have studied these prin-
ciples. While I have worked through my own inner hangups and emotional stuckness, I have dis-
covered that voice dialogue, inner child healing and spontaneous art are effective ways for self-
healing and for enhancing vitality and creativity. They are usually treated apart, under different in-
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tegrative headers, but I grouped them all under the header of Life Authoring for thats what they
represent: they are forms of communication with our inner life, and they proceed through verbal
and non-verbal language. Hence, they are a form of authoring after all!
Q-15. Is there is difference between Self-Improvement and Life Authoring?
There is a whole branch of literature trying to help us strengthen our contact with the higher
self; subjects such as self-empowerment, holistic or accelerated learning, healing with bioenergy,
vegetarianism, awakening the child within, talking with owers, and so on are covered.
Life Authoring is a term that intentionally draws a line to self-improvement. What is the difference?
Most people in our industrialized societies have lost their center. They live almost entirely outside
of their continuum, their original shell. Therefore they are cut off from the center of their inner and
original powers. This is why, in turn, they can so easily be manipulated and dominated, for example
by advertising, false and manipulative political rhetoric, violent ideologies or what I call the hero
culture. They live second hand lives and have not even the slightest idea what it feels like to live
ones original rst hand life.
Life Authoring was established to guide people back to their original continuum, enabling them
to lead a rst hand life, a life that is their own unique creation. The method provides a set of practi-
cal tools to achieve this goal with simple means and by accomplishing simple tasks, tasks that everybody,
even of mediocre intelligence, can carry out. No power seminars and dependency on a coach is part
of this game! Ultimately, the difference between Life Authoring and self-improvement is perhaps that
I do not believe that we can really improve ourselves. We are perfect creatures. What we can do is to
get the vital energies in us to stream again for with most of us they have been blocked during the
process we call education and which for many of us was a traumatic form of cultural brainwash-
ing that deprived us of our intrinsic creative drives, thus burying our creative gifts deep in our un-
conscious!
As a result, we are full of garbage, cultural garbage, linguistic garbage, intellectual garbage, and
all we have picked up from others, in order to make it on the social ladder. Life Authoring is more of
a cleansing process, a purge than a teaching, a restoration of wholeness rather than a new learning.
More and more structural transformations change the world presently and we all know that in
only ten years from now the world will be more different compared to today than it was a hundred
years ago compared to yesterday. The acceleration of human evolution on a personal and collective
level is a fact of life that even non-intellectuals today are aware ofor made aware of by the mass
media. Facing this situation on a worldwide scale, it is one of the irresponsible attitudes of school sys-
tems around the world to go on with teaching stuff instead of teaching learning skills, prosperity prin-
ciples, and holistic intelligence.
On an individual level we are called upon to work for a consciousness transformation, or, as
Krishnamurti called it, a psychological revolution, and this without negatively affecting others, but by
granting others their own freedom and letting them do their own choices.
This transformation can only be individual, but it is nonetheless a sacred way, the only Way
there is that is peaceful and that brings about true and lasting change.
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Q-16. Does Life Authoring enhance exibility?
Yes. Flexibility is a form of intelligence, perhaps the highest manifestation of emotional intelli-
gence? Flexibility is the highest virtue simply because life is unendingly exible and adaptable. Sur-
vival is right that: being able to adapt.
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to macro-climatic changes. And many
people today are jobless because they were unable to anticipate structural changes in the world
economy or are unable to relearn after having found out about those changes.
Relying on what we have learnt in school is among the most silly ideas we can think of in these
days. Among all what makes out a modern society, the primary school system is still the end where
we are with one leg in the dark age. Flexibility is thus a manifestation of intelligence.
Life Authoring helps the mind become more exible and more creative. It also helps us recognize
patterns in our behavior, repetitive patterns, neurotic ticks, phobias, habits and generally all that is
impeding high exibility from unfolding.
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