RE: [ET2] Snow globes, or Thought Balls?

In my work as a psychiatrist, until now I have taught about thirty patients
the Thought Flow (TF) process. The results have been varying as may be
expected, but several have experienced astonishing relief of disturbing
thoughts.

One funny experience was a woman with a severe OCD (obsessive-compulsive
disorder). She did the TF on a compulsive thought with her left hand, as she
is left-handed. She described a strange sensation that the left half of her
brain felt "empty". I had her repeat the exercise with her right hand,
whereupon she could no more connect to the thought in focus. She was quite
amazed of this "magic".

I also give them handouts in our language (Swedish). Next session, if they
want it, I teach them the Snow Globe (SG), and also the reverse process from
back to heart to catch a positive resource. The difference is that TF is for
separate thoughts, while SG is for whole packets of thoughts and feelings.

But I wonder about the name SG - what has it to do with snow? Was there any
specific reason for calling it Snow Globe, or did i just so happen? For me
it sounds more reasonable to call it in Swedish "tankeboll", Thought Ball
(or Thought Globe. if you prefer).

Playing with Thought Balls,
Nils

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Received on Wed Jun 11 2003 - 12:44:35 BST