Re: [ET2] Always through the physical body?

HELLO, ALL!

I AM EXCITED TO INITIATE MY PARTICIPATION IN THIS DIALOGUE...
THIS IS DIANE FROM ST. LOUIS, MO. (MIDWEST USA). I TRAINED, HAPPILY, WITH SANDRA AND LISA IN NY IN OCTOBER 07. THOUGH I'VE BEEN QUIET, I'M GRATEFUL TO NOW BE CONNECTED WITH THIS GROUP SO THAT I CAN READ THE EXCHANGES, BE CURIOUS WITH OTHERS, BE CHALLENGED AND BE ENCOURAGED.

AS A PSYCHOTHERAPIST, I WORK WITH SOMEWHAT TRADITIONAL TALK THERAPY, BUT ALSO USE EXPRESSIVE THERAPIES, EFT, AND NOW ET. I HAVE USED ET WITH AMAZING SUCCESS SEVERAL TIMES IN SESSIONS. BUT THERE WAS ONE IN PARTICULAR, WHICH I WAS REMINDED OF UPON READING THIS CASE SCENARIO, WHICH CHALLENGED MY THINKING AND MY CONFIDENCE IN MY SKILL...
MY CLIENT, A FAIRLY YOUNG WIDOWER WHOSE FAMILY I'D BEENWORKING WITH, FATHER OF TWO GIRLS, WAS GOING THROUGH A PARTICULARLY HARD TIME AS THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF HIS WIFE'S DEATH APPROACHED. HE SHOWED ME THAT HIS HEART PAIN WAS IN FRONT OF HIS CHEST, BEYOND HIS BODY... SO, WITH HIS PERMISSION, WE BEGAN WORKING WITH THE ENERGY AS IF IT WERE SHIELDED, AND ALLOWED A TINY BIT OF THE PAIN IN... IT SEEMED TO BE TOO MUCH, SO WE DISCONTINUED AND I BELIEVE WE USED SOME EFT INSTEAD (WHERE I HAVE A BIT MORE CONFIDENCE). HE WAS STILL STRUGGLING WHEN HE LEFT, AND I WONDERED IF I'D DONE HIM A SERVICE OR A DISSERVICE. COME TO THINK OF IT, HOWEVER, AS I WRITE, WE'VE HAD A FEW MORE VISITS (GIRLS PARTICIPATE HALF OF THE TIME), AND WHILE HE'S BEEN MORE PREOCCUPIED WITH SUPPORTING THE GIRLS, I'VE NOT WITNESSED THE SAME INTENSITY OF GRIEF IN HIM... PERHAPS HE TOOK SOME OF THE PAIN IN ANYWAY AND EMBRACED IT, AND HAS BEGUN TO LEARN HOW TO "LOVE THE UNLOVABLE"? (THIS PHRASE IS VERY HELPFUL, BOTH
 ON A LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING AND INTERNALIZING THE SYSTEM, AS WELL AS WHEN DOING PERSONAL GROWTH WORK...)

OK, I'M GLAD TO BE ON-BOARD HERE, MOST GRATEFUL...

I'M NOT USUALLY A GREAT HISTORIAN/REPORTER, PERHAPS BECAUSE I'M SO PRESENT TO THE PROCESS ITSELF IN SESSIONS, BUT I CAN BE AWED BY THE OUTCOME... AND RECOGNIZE IT EVEN WHEN IT IS NOT SO CLEAR TO MY CLIENTS...

I'M LOOKING TO "STUDY"/PRACTICE MORE ET WITH A BUDDY LOCALLY, WHO'S NOT YET TRAINED IN THIS MODALITY BUT SHE IS A DANCER/MOVEMENT PROFESSIONAL AND AN ENERGY WORKER AND IS HUNGRY TO PLAY WITH THE MATERIALS WITH ME. SO WE WILL BE THE MINI MID-WEST CONTINGENCY FOR NOW!

ALSO, I'M PLANNING A TRIP TO PERU (WHERE I WAS REARED) IN OCTOBER, AND AM LOOKING FORWARD TO BEGINNING TO SHARE THIS MATERIAL WITH A FEW OF MY COLLEAGUES AT THAT TIME. I HOPE I'M PREPARED ENOUGH TO DO IT JUSTICE BY THEN...
PLEASE LET ME KNOW, AT SOME POINT, HOW MUCH OF THE ET MATERIAL IS TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH THUS FAR, AND HOW TO OBTAIN IT.

THANKS FOR READING THIS LONGER-THAN-EXPECTED MESSAGE!!!
I LOOK FORWARD TO MORE CONTACT...

NAMASTE, DIANE

P.S: As an interesting footnote, another female client who was also experiencing emotional heart pain for various different reasons, would consistently put her hand UNDER her breast when I asked her to show me where the pain was... so I, of course, used her words to describe where the pain was as we worked and placed my own hand under my breast, dismissing my own "knowing" (HA!) of where the physical heart or heart chakra probably lived... yet we had a wonderful, powerful release and she left looking and reporting great relief... :) !!! :)

SFX <sfx_at_ZEFji-G0eN7MO7zHcGP8aZNQLbrH7uYifZ8B-mDM39eMp6DO7md7Xc60qy3zIbPOk_REGnSgkqD_LHY.yahoo.invalid> wrote: Hi Susann,
 
 interesting questions.
 
 The whole idea of "cutting the ties that bind us" sounds so wonderful to a person who is suffering from these kinds of connections. It sounds like "cutting out the cancer" - yes, please, oh yes, do this right away! It would be gone and I'd feel so much better!!!
 
 But energetic matters are a billion times more complicated than "if thy eye offends thee, cut it out".
 
 What is at the end of these energetic ties?
 
 There are systems there, often incredibly important systems, which is why the impact is so great on the person who have these "ties that bind them".
 
 It helps to remember that these things are ties, they are flows; energy flows. Something happened to these flows that they became different, seemingly "harder" and that's always our sign that there's something stuck and not flowing as it should.
 
 That goes straight to Sandra's "loving the unlovable".
 
 With "hideous ties" to abusers, rapists, torturers and such, it is particularly important to stay very, VERY structural when working with it - this is not a "tie to your rapist" or an "umbilical chord to your torturer" but ONLY AN ENERGY.
 
 As soon as you got that straight in your mind as the practitioner, and you manage to transmit that to the person you're working with, we're right back to the practical questions of "where does that need to go?" and "what needs to be healed or adjusted so it can can go there?"
 
 That always finds a solution, or at least a movement TOWARDS an evolution. Either of which are good work by the practitioner.
 
 In a way, this is a great demonstration again WHY we don't use metaphors in EmoTrance. If you can stay totally structural, it really matters not what kind of energy form it is, where it originates, whether it is inside or outside of the body, or even which layer of the energy system this belongs to.
 
 As it is energy, it needs to flow and it has somewhere where it belongs, where it needs to flow to.
 
 The best part about it is that we do NOT KNOW - we need to find out.
 
 Every ET session is in essence an exploration that we undertake together with the client.
 
 If they can feel the energy, they can tell us the "tides" of that energy, or where it needs to go. We clear the path to that, inside or outside the body and let the energy go there. We remove shields and blockages, heal ereas to re-establish flow in the system.
 
 That is all really, really easy - but ONLY if you remember to forget all the metaphors, all the memories of abuse, or the faces of the abusers, and focus TOTALLY on the *structure* of what is happening with the energy flows.
 
 THAT is the challenge of EmoTrance - if we as the practitioners can just REMEMBER that it is ONLY ENERGY we are dealing with, we're fine.
 
 At any point we forget that and start thinking about ropes, chains, ties, dungeons or evil demonic spirits hovering around a person, we are out of the zone where we are in charge and can make changes at will.
 
 We experience "magic failure" as we call it in PS in that instant, and through us, of course the client experiences it too. Then we're back in woo-woo land where all is scary and out of control, and we remain there until we REMEMBER that it is only an energy once more.
 
 As soon as we do, it all comes back online and we really CAN change the client's energy system, create threshold shifts and bring them and us an energized end state to know we've done amazing work today.
 
 It's really a fascinating process.
 
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 Dr Silvia Hartmann
 http://SilviaHartmann.com
 
 
     
                                       

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