I would just like to add that ALS is the state a person needs to be in to learn and retain information with the least amount of effort. Remember back to all the times in your life when you felt totally comfortable and stress-free. You felt like the world revolved around you and you where in total control. These mostly happened when you were a little child.
The ALS helps put you into that state by offering 3 steps. It has to be done this way because we have actually forgotten how to get there by ourselves.
Children who are very young that haven't yet allowed themselves to be dominated by other people are always in this state. If something bad happens to them, they cry a little then move onto the next thing in their lives. They haven't let things weigh them down. They don't have excess baggage which they continually refer back to and beat themselves up with. And please note that little kids do believe the world revolves around them.
SO the ALS is a state in which you are totally comfortable and are able to exist in a moment of time without you going into your memory and digging things up so you can beat yourself up, making it impossible to learn anything.
A paradoxical state of existence we feel compelled to exist in.
ALS, A STATE WHEREBY THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND YOU.
[This message has been edited by JoeBlogs (edited December 09, 2005).]