RE: [ET2] Easy?

Hi Nicholas,

great post - thank you. Are you an author as well as a painter
perchance?

I especially liked the way you wrapped it up by yourself - LOL. I
do that too. That way, you don't really need or get any input and
that is good and right because a strong man does it by
themselves - and I don't know about you, I'm sure a strong man at
heart :-)

> but there have been a load of posts
> itemising how it all seems so swimmingly easy to locate
> and soften the
> strongest feeling, I do wonder if I'm alone in finding it not so
> straightforward?

I am sure you will not be. The history at the beginning of the
mail, with these techniques, systems and approaches that had
disappoint results, is something you share with many and
especially with many men.

But let's look on the bright side.

At least you can identify a sensation/emotion when you are having
it. That puts you a great way ahead of many other people who know
in their head that they are worried or sad but can't give a
location at all.

Also, I thought your description of the big dome-like shield
really rocked.

Noticing these things when they happen or make themselves felt is
a HUGE step in the right direction; indeed it is what I would
consider to be the breakthrough, grade 1 ET initiation experiences
and NOT the releasing of them (which isn't so hard once you've
done it a few times).

Up to now, most if not all people on this list learned EmoTrance
FROM ANOTHER HUMAN BEING IN DIRECT ACTION. In a training or over
the phone. Or in person with a practitioner.

Indeed, it was my original plan to have it like that and keep it
like that to make sure that people have the best chance to get to
do it right for the first time and that they GET SOME HELP the
first time.

I've been whined into making this many dimensional process into a
linear book and I have done the best I can with what amounts to a
nearly impossible task - teaching *EmoTrance EXPERIENCES* and how
to have them.

But to come back to the point here, the thing is that the people
who are talking about it being easy were doing this with others
who helped them when they got stuck, got a hold of them when they
drifted off or got scared, helped them out with their intention
doubling up, with encouragement, "You're doing really well. Just
keep telling me what's happening in your body." and on the odd
occasion with a hard shot across the bows, "It's only an energy!
"It" can't want anything!! Stop wailing and focus on your
collarbone area - NOW." or encouraging words to that effect :-)))

Also, I believe firmly that it is a skill the body needs to
re-learn as we have been taught reflexively to push back
immediately and say "No!" to sensations and emotions, and their
soft little sisters, called intuitions.

It is further my contention that this is simply harder for men
bec. boys mustn't cry and it's important (in some environments,
getting the shit kicked out of you, life or death important!) to
have that "NO! to emotions!" reflex down to a fine art.

> Aha. I've just rediscovered page 35!
>
> "Speak your concerns out loud."
>
> So far, I have signally failed to do this. Also on page 35
>
> "Practice makes perfect".
>
> I'll have another go, right now. Thanks again for a great book.
>
>
> Nicholas

You're welcome.

I would suggest and highly advise that you should find yourself a
likeminded friend or person to *do this with* and failing that,
have a go with a practitioner.

You can work completely content free and get to practise the base
movement of finding the channels, letting the energy flow through
and out, then repeating it and swishing it (which is something you
don't get to practise in the field - how many times is your boss
willing to shout with conviction, "You are fired!!!" to allow you
to get to the energised end state as you are initiating the
EmoTrance processes?!)

Also, and this is fairly important as well as *very interesting
and pretty essential for everyone who does this*, now's the time
to become aware of these sensations, intuitions and emotions
*before they reach crisis point* and you get washed away into some
very unresourceful states indeed.

I think Ive written this down before, but there's this TV series
called, When Animals Attack Yet Again Part 53 or sth like that.

They have this elephant and the keeper who keeps prodding the
damned thing with a stick. It's getting really wound up, my 5 year
old niece can see it if questioned, making it's ears go, trying to
get away from the stick, tail going faster and faster, stamping
it's feet, looking really stressed out in every way imaginable -
AND IT IS ESCALATING FAST.

But over the top, the (heavily US accented typical US) presenter
says, "In a moment, this elephant is going to attack the keeper -
TOTALLY UNEXPECTED, OUT OF THE BLUE AND FOR NO GOOD REASON!"

Everytime this clip comes on, we all assemble and scream at the
TV: "Open your eyes! There is every reason! The elephant is
completely pissed off! Just look! Aaaaaargh ..."

Point of the tale is the ESCALATION.

Everything has an escalation - an order and sequence.

In emotional short circuitry, there is *always an order and
sequence*, a *common sense escalation*.

Only people totally ignore all the more subtle signs that are a
part of the escalation process - and when the chaotic shift into
this other state of being, order of being happens like when the
elephant flips and starts stomping the keeper to death, they say,
"Oh it was completely unexpected and happened for no good reason."

This is one of my major hobbyhorses, not just about elephants on
TV, or dog bite attacks, or serial killers or youngsters who
commit suicide and the parents interviewed on the TV say all
tearfully, "We had no idea ..."

Cause you didn't. The fact that the kid wore black for the last
six months, never left their rooms, played "Rammstein" on drowning
levels whilst screaming incoherently is not something to be
observed ... sure, it was completely random and out of the blue
;-<

This also applies to our lives, our cars and our luck; our
relationships with everything and with our energy body and our
emotions.

NOTHING is out of the blue. And most especially not emotonal
outbursts.

There is a build up system towards it but we don't see it because
we are doing some form of weird trance like that elephant's keeper
there or simply think erroneously that if we prod enough with the
stick, the thing will start to do what we want it to.

To fine tune our awareness *back* to the first unfoldments of
these totally logical cause-and-effect escalation systems is of
the highest importance because *the earlier in the system you
intervene, the less power/pressure/exertion it takes* to bring
everything back to balance and Even Flow.

When the elephant's on the rampage, it is basically way, way too
late for anything but a very large gun. The chaotic shift has then
happened and the escalating system has fallen off into a different
order of being, is no longer what it was and all the rules that
might have worked whilst the escalation was still in process (such
as calming elephants with peanuts) no longer apply at all.

We can't do *anything* anymore when we're having the panic attack,
we have to intervene in the unfolding process *before* it gets to
that state.

And hence, rebuild our understanding and feedback mechanisms of
the earliest stages of the escalation process towards the panic
attack, the chaotic shift.

Wow. I was only going to write a few lines of chirpy positivism
for Nicholas and here I go off into a flat out Silvia rant ...

LOL

SF

           
Received on Fri Feb 07 2003 - 13:28:37 GMT