Step ONE: The Demon Appears

This step is the exact same as the Demon Trap. You will handle it differently in the next step.

How do you know the demon is there?

YOU ARE UPSET.

Repeat that until you really understand it and accept it. Otherwise you will fail to do the next step and end up in the Demon Trap again.

Step TWO: Cast Out the Demon

This second step is radically different compared to the Demon Trap. Instead of talking to it (the voice insecurity, hurt feelings, and blame – aka the demon), you cast it out. It’s taken enough of your attention and enough of your life. NO MORE. GET OUT!

God, release me from this (insert upset feeling over the situation) that I may be present where you need me.

This is your personal mythology which means you can use your own practice or terminology. If you want to use a journal that’s fine. If you want to write it down on paper and then cross it out as an act of closure, that’s fine. You must have the mechanism of letting go plus intention. Your intention is aimed at the upset (not the situation directly) and the letting go is letting go of the upset (which is the power loss, the ego, the demon). We don’t let go of the real life situation, which you may or may not still need to address.

Prayer to a higher power has the additional benefit of reminding you that only God can heal you and that this is not a self-help program. You are broken in a way that only God can heal.

Step THREE: Return to Authenticity

Authenticity: who you are and how you show up in life once you are no longer managing what you are suffering or what you are getting.

After you cast out the demon, redirect your focus on serving God.

This will take some practice. It’s not enough to get relief from the demon (casting it out). Imagine your mind as a pie chart and a significant piece has been hijacked by the demon. Now you are removing it. This leaves a big empty spot which creates an identity crisis. Who are you without the demon? You must reprogram or refill that empty spot with Truth (from God). This is where we redirect our focus back to inspiration, meaning, and purpose through serving a picture that is bigger than yourself.

On the compass of Light and Dark, you move from self to God-centeredness every time the demon attacks you. This is how you heal. You are in a tailor made lesson play orchestrated by a limitless source of love and perfection, God.