Re: Not "Letting Go"

--- In emotrance2_at_yahoogroups.com, SFX <starfields@...> wrote:
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> A good example and a great tip comes from Steve Collins, who
attended an energy therapies meeting this weekend.
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> He was asked to work with a person who wasn't connected to the event
(i.e. a complete newbie) who had become very upset. Someone else had
suggested that she should "just let it go .." but this had caused the
person to tighten up defensively and actually hold an invisible
something close to her chest, whilst shaking her head, "NO!" at the
suggestion.
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> Steve saw this and said to the person:
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> "I'm not asking you to let go of anything.
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> I'm just asking you to remember that it is only an energy, and
energy needs to flow."
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> Upon which the person nodded slowly, relaxed all over and entered
into the spirit of EmoTrance. Just 10 minutes later, and a significant
trauma GROUP had been taken care of. The person was astonished,
extremely relieved and elated.
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> One of the real tricks to EmoTrance is the language we use. We try
and keep it as un-emotional and metaphor free as possible, because it
is contortions of thought and language, NOT the actual energy system,
that causes our long standing problems.
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> "Letting go of ..." is a term that has many connotations, many
layers. It is a very highly charged term that "means" all sort of
profound things. "Letting go" *sounds* difficult and momentous.
Wherever it turns up and whatever the topic is, there are decisions
and values in play, all manner of constructs, memories and contortions.
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> But energy just needs to flow and that is all.
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> The person (let's remember, this was a newbie who had no interest in
personal development and was simply there in a technical capacity)
UNDERSTOOD THAT immediately and instinctively.
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> They weren't being asked to forget, or forgive, or change their
minds, or admit an error, or even admit THEY had been at fault for
"holding on" to something or other that was never their doing in the
first place.
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> They further NEVER wanted to suffer, nor did they deliberately want
to continue to suffer - an accusation often levelled, if beneath the
surface, at those who can't just "let go" of this, that, or the other.
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> The cleanliness of the concept of Even Flow, of energy that must
move because that is its nature, allowed the person to step into that
and "put to right what once went wrong".
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> I think this is a really important example and something for us to
remember, and to use.
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> You might like to consider something that you, personally, would or
could NEVER "let go of".
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> You might consider where you feel that in your body, and we might
hear Steve's comment being given:
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> "I'm not asking you to let go of anything.
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> I'm just asking you to remember that it is only an energy, and
energy needs to flow."
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> And then we might simply take a deep breath and find out what
happens next.
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> Even Flow to all,
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> SFX
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> Silvia Hartmann
> http://SilviaHartmann.com
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Thanks, this is helpful. Nan

           
Received on Tue Jul 11 2006 - 12:20:38 BST