Re: [ET2] Easy?

Hi Nicholas

Sometimes we are too close to our own problems
that self help doesn't work. At times it is better
to get the help from someone that is not involved in
your personal issues AND has probably helped other
people with the same issues even if you think yours
is unique.

To quote you:

"So, I fix these things; or, in extremis, pay
someone to fix them".

Many years ago I took up golf, I hacked around trying
to get a decent game together, spending a fortune in time
and money on magazines, books, the driving range and
the practice ground to no avail, regardless of how hard
I tried things didn't get any better.

My wife for a birthday present (probably fed up of hearing me
moan about my lack of progress with my golf game) bought me
10 golf lessons with a Golf Professional. During the lessons
and after completing them all, my golfing world turned from black
and white to colour.

With his encouragement I started to believe in my abilities and
my
handicap came down from a hackers 28+ to a 17.

(I can still to this day when playing a pitching wedge, aiming at
the
hole, shape the ball in the air, so that when lands, it has back
spin
and rolls very little after landing). That is not something any
book
could have taught me, but his expert guidance drew the skill out
of me.

I have a very high success rate when using ET with clients, yet I
can't
use it on myself. If I need to work on something, I use the
skills of a
friend that was on the same ET practitioners course as me.

The point I am making is, YES by all means read and understand
the
power and potential of ET, but use a qualified ET practitioner or
at the
very leased another person that has read Silva's book and can
assist you
with the breakthroughs that you are seeking.

I hope this helps.

Love and Light

Jerry Jervis - ETP.

www.StressFreeLiving.co.uk

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Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:45 PM
Subject: RE: [ET2] Easy?

> Hello,
>
> Many thanks to those who responded to my post.
>
> I suspect my major difficulty is going to be having faith in
the
> existence of an energy system I have no certainty exists, for
long
> enough to prove to myself it does.
>
> Energy body -> neurology -> physiology is an interesting
concept; but
> it's just that, for me - a concept that has no grounding in
experience.
> Whereas the formula I've been following for a decade or so is:
>
> Things happen - I think about them - I feel okay - I carry on
with life.
>
> Or
>
> Things happen - I think about them - I feel grotty - I
consciously
> change my thinking - I feel slightly different - I change my
thinking a
> bit more - I feel vaguely better - I lapse back into
unconsciousness - I
> return to thinking and feeling much the same - I go and eat
some
> chocolate or watch television.
>
> Always, though, for me, it's been clear that my mood - whether
fine or
> foul - is the direct result of my thoughts. Thoughts happen so
fast,
> it's easy to miss them; but they're there, I've found.
>
> I did wonder why, when 'things happened', a certain pattern of
thoughts
> always came up, but I put it down to habit. Optimists had one
sort of
> habit; pessimists another. I definitely lived by Hamlet's maxim
of there
> being nothing either good or bad but thinking made it so.
>
> That's still true, of course; but now I have to seriously
consider the
> idea that the state of my energy body, which I can't feel - at
least not
> recognizably - is what determines the way I think.
>
> It's quite a scary thought: that I am 'controlled' by a part of
me I
> never knew existed.
>
> All this is of particular interest to me as I'm an occasional
teacher
> of the Alexander Technique. I was first attracted to this
because I saw
> it as a way of getting out of my head and back into my body. It
seemed a
> very physical approach, then. Pretty soon, I discovered (or
thought I
> discovered) it was actually more mental than physical. The way
we were -
> stooped, bent, slumped, poised, alert, buoyant - seemed to
depend on how
> we were thinking, where our attention was, what intentions we
had in
> mind.
>
> Then I attended a Zero Balancing workshop. Zero Balancing is an
offshoot
> of acupuncture, utilizing the same meridians (I think) in a
quirky hands
> on format that was sufficiently similar to parts of a typical
Alexander
> lesson to intrigue me. The workshop leader, on hearing of my
connection
> with the Alexander Technique, said: "Ah. Pure energy work!"
>
> I was mystified. What could he mean? I'm still not sure. All I
know is,
> in the Alexander world, the concept of an energy body underling
our
> psycho-physical reality is not welcome. There's an email group
where
> I've raised the issue once or twice and had my head bitten off.
>
> I take the point about Emotrance being far, far easier when a
person is
> not alone but with a friend or a practitioner who can assist in
> directing their wandering attention. It's only too easy for me
to go
> through the motions of scratching around for a feeling or two,
think
> vaguely of it softening and spreading, drift off into fantasy
land for
> twenty minutes, come back to my senses to find the feeling
hasn't
> changed, and convince myself nothing's worked. Of course it
hasn't
> worked if I haven't really done anything!
>
> Unfortunately, my shelves are stacked - as are the shelves of
the Oxfam
> shop in the last town I lived in - with books I've bought
detailing
> various self help methods of change. None of them has worked,
not even
> slightly, but they're lovely to read. I'm a total sucker for
them, as
> they give me the comforting illusion of experiencing a new way
of being,
> by association with its future possibility, without actually
doing
> anything now. The fact I never quite get around to doing
whatever is
> necessary, I'm curiously blind to. Especially when in
bookshops, as I
> reach out for another promising volume.
>
> Yet, weirdly, whenever I can, I do my own plumbing and
electrical work;
> I sweep my own chimneys, mend my roof, repair my car. To do
this stuff I
> have to bone up, using workshop manuals, etc, and it takes time
and
> effort. I can do this alright; so a big question mark does hang
over why
> I can't follow the far simpler routine of a Cognitive Therapy
or Lucid
> Dreaming manual.
>
> I suppose the major difference is I can live the way I am. I
may be
> dysfunctional; but I'm not at the stage of cracking up, yet. I
couldn't
> live in a house with no tiles, leaking taps and crappy sockets;
or drive
> a car with fouled points. So, I fix these things; or, in
extremis, pay
> someone to fix them.
>
> So, how do I convince myself that I am sufficiently badly
maintained to
> warrant the same careful, prolonged attention I gave to making
a garden
> gate a few weeks back, a task that took maybe 20 hours of time,
and
> required the sort of attention doing anything new needs if it's
not
> going to be made a hash of, when having or not having a garden
gate at
> all is supremely unimportant, in the overall scheme of things?
>
> I made the gate for thirty quid spent on wood and bolts, after
getting a
> quote for several hundred. Obviously, I wanted to save money;
but the
> best I've ever felt in my life was after a brief series of
hypnoanalysis
> years ago that left me, for months on end, unworried by
anything. I paid
> a garden gate sum for this; but there was no way I could have
done that
> hypnoanalysis on my own.
>
> The trouble was, the effect didn't last; which is why I am
drawn towards
> self help approaches, whose effect hopefully becomes second
nature in
> time. I appreciate this can only happen if those self help
manuals are
> followed, to the letter . which leaves me in the curious
position of not
> wanting to pay for professional services to produce results
that might
> not last, on the basis I'd prefer to produce those results on
my own, if
> I could only get round to it, which it seems I can't.
>
> I'm not sure this kind of thinking aloud is useful for anyone
but me; or
> even if it's useful for me, unless it results in action, which,
in fact,
> it may be helping me evade. Really, instead of sitting tapping
away at
> this, while the rest of the house is entranced by the TV, I
should be
> doing a bit of Emotrancing.
>
>
> Nicholas
>
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