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We advise that you don't stop using visualization with your first success. Continue applying these techniques until you've made it habitual. Again, this method is greatly enhanced by journaling or other forms of record-keeping. One alternate form of record-keeping that is possibly even more effective than journaling for this kind of pre-conscious work is remixing and collage. Collage generally relates to visual and analog art, while remixing generally refers to digital audio and video work, but both are interchangeable terms for the purposes of this process of recording internal changes⁷¹.

Your self is a system that takes input, or sensations, then processes that input using feedback loops. Most of these feedback loops (but not all of them) are operated by your brain, and eventually you output actions based on the input and the processing of that input. This is an analogy of one's self as a kind of black box. In order to change what you do and what happens as a result, there are three factors to consider experimenting with, and, of these, the input is by far the easiest for you to personally influence, while the processing that transforms sensation into action is the hardest. One's output falls somewhere in between, as it is possible to convert sensation into action yet restrain oneself from performing that action through discipline.

Begin by eliminating⁷² sources of input that seem to exist purely to engage you with the hegemonic status quo. You may choose to replace ordinary input with material from specific sources, and we also encourage you to spend at least some time creating your own media to extend your feedback loops into an externalized space. This brings us to the second factor, your output. You are constantly performing some sort of action, and as such are outputting signals constantly. What we suggest is spending at least some of that energy in the outputting of creatively producing a recorded media.