Re: Is EMO a way forward for me?

As a mostly EFT user, I do appreciate your exploring and writing
up/recording and sharing using EFT to develop the positive dimension of
experience. I fully agree it's a very valuable insight.

Here's a big "duh" to share. I've done this creating of positives and even
named it, as one option among others, but it never really clicked to use it
systematically and consistently to create positive experiences. I let the
EFT frame of getting to zero and using it to remove negatives blind me.

I called the approach "backing in" to the positive after reaching zero
distress, because tapping directly on positives doesn't seem to work as
well, except as it identifies negative "tail enders" which can then be
tapped on.

The model I used was removing blocks to positive experience, which may be
potentially unlimited. So the view I take is that the positive is already
there in potential, but we limit it, and the limitation can be removed with
EFT.

If it's true that EFT removes limitations, that includes limitations on how
much you can enjoy or experience something. Negating a negation moves one in
a positive direction, but why stop at zero? That's what you're pointing out.

If we imagine a new scale which includes enjoyment or other positive
reactions, rather than just distress, it could run from -10 through 0 to
+10. We could ask a client, what's your experience of (this) on a scale from
negative to positive 10, with neutral being zero?

Of course, you wouldn't ask it that way for a traumatic experience,
suggesting they might have enjoyed it or even ought to enjoy it. But for
other matters where interpretation is the crux it does set the potential for
a positive experience into play simply by asking, implicitly suggesting it
could exist by the very existence of that positive 10.

This scale considers the whole experience and builds in the assumption and
view that full expansiveness is a natural and achievable state.

I'll be building out the positive from now on. Thanks mucho for the
expansion of vision, and good on you for sharing it.

Daimon

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<http://profiles.yahoo.com/starfields_sfi> Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:29 am (PST) Yeah
- let's liase behind the scenes. I wonder if Alex's amazing new phone system
can handle it?

We take that off list now, yeah?

Very cool, and I should say the EFT guys are lucky that we bother to take
the time and trouble and make these things available for free.

Good on us!

SFX

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