The American Heritage Dictionary defines ritual as “a detailed method or procedure faithfully or regularly followed.” We all have rituals, or set patterns, to take care of procedures we wish to have done faithfully regularly, such as tying our shoes or brushing our teeth. The more complex and potentially dangerous the procedure, the more important such proceedure is ritualized to assure quality and safety.

Rituals are essential to being able to use some of the most powerful RET techniques in a responsible and controlled manner. The more powerful and potent the change technique (i.e., RET), the more important safeguards become. In RET these safeguards are kept in place with ritual to assure quality and safety when using them.

Let’s explore some of the reasons we RET technicians strive to keep the RET “ritual” pure.

First and foremost, we need some sort of buffer that protects us from invoking a powerful change pattern accidentally. For example, launching a nuclear attack is a pretty complex procedure. You can’t fire a missile by pressing the wrong button accidentally. There is a ritual that is required. Same with RET. You don’t really want to do RET in an irresponsible – and perhaps harmful – manner.

Rituals help you access the mind states you need to perform a particular task well. Think anchors. Over time a ritual is developed for discharge – whenever the RET eye directing device (wand) starts moving, an anchor of discharge is invoked. Keeping that wand movement ritual pure and accurate – the way it is taught – ensures that the proper anchor is fired as desired. The more precise an anchor is developed, the more precise it must be to invoke it – and the deeper and quicker it will occur.

Rituals help you keep things sorted out and maintain clear contextual boundaries. The act of dressing in a uniform or business suit makes you switch from the I-am-home state to the I-am-at-work mind state. Many traditional cultures have a rite of passage that helps one draw a line between teenage years and adulthood. Familiar examples include confirmation in Catholicism and Bar Mitzvah in Judaism. The RET ritual tells the body/mind that we are in the I-change-now state.

The RET processes and techniques are best when assigned to ritual – keeping the RET process pure and standarized tends to build ritual – making it safer and more consistently successful. Safeguards are kept in place by doing the RET ritual as it is instructed. RET technicians are encouraged to return to their instructional DVDs and review occasionally to keep the processes and techniques pure – as well as to attend a RET Certification occasionally to renew and review. RET Certifications are wonderful for renewing because – where there are many gathered in a ritual, that ritual takes on a much more powerful meaning to the psyche. Technicians are also encouraged to add to their RET ritual; and as they do, they might find value in remembering how valuable and important ritual is to client safety and success.

-JB