The EmoMonster ...

Why is it, I ask you, that when you say to someone who is perfectly
emotrance-enabled, "Just soften and flow that, I should ..." they get
annoyed at you?

WHAT?

So this guy comes into my office and says, "Oh woe is me, oh woe is me,
I've had such a terrible experience just now, and my head feels like it
has a weight on it ..."

So I say, "So it's an energy. SOFTEN AND FLOW."

So he says all angrily, "Well if that's how you feel I'll just go away
again then ..."

WHAT?

If WHAT'S how I feel?

Like, make it better in an instant?

Let it go?

Did he or did he not come to me for "energetic pain relief"?!

Is he or is he not an ET trainer?!?!?!?!!!

So alright, if you say that to someone off the street who knows nothing
about energy or anything else, you deserve that response. You have
become an emomonster. Like you can be a metamonster after an NLP
practitioner training, and a BSFFmonster who goes round telling people
to "treat THAT!".

But WE should ALL know better.

When someone says to US, and that includes anyone who's read Oceans,
"it's just an energy, soften and flow", we should AT THE VERY LEAST
recognise the attempt to help there.

Yet this isn't always the case, as in the case above.

WHAT?

What *is* that?

If you say to someone, "Hey I've got scurvy!" and they respond with,
"Here,have a lemon ..." you wouldn't start bitching about "feeling all
misunderstood and not sufficiently validated", would you.

"I've cut my knee!"
"Here's a plaster!"

"I'm hungry!"
"Here's a sandwich!"

"I have a thing on my head!"
"Here's some EmoTrance!"

Pray tell, what's the difference?

Has this ever happened to you?

And what is one to do to make sure that at least when it's our turn with
the thing on the head, to respond APPROPRIATELY to a reminder that it's
ONLY AN ENERGY?

<hissing, frustrated noise>
<that's also only an energy>
<alright, alright>

SFX

Silvia Hartmann
http://silviahartmann.com

           
Received on Wed Jun 07 2006 - 10:55:27 BST