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Information: Shadow Emotions
Posted on Saturday, May 11 @ 08:52:56 BST by |
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As you might know, I am particularly interested when things don't
work as the theory says they should, for it is my supposition that
in the anomalies in any system, technique or theory the step up to
the next level of understanding lies hidden.
Here is a jig saw puzzle piece for those who are interested in far
ranging personal development and sweeping, global changes in their
lives; who have experienced the effectiveness of METs to release
emotional entanglements with certain subject matters; who have
done a lot of work but for whom, mysteriously, their actual lives
seem quite unchanged from where they started out.
When I use the term "actual lives" I mean measurable, physical,
hard data. Such as increased effectivity at work which should have
resulted in promotion and a pay increase by now. Or increased
ability to make close and loving relationships which one might
measure in dinner invitations per calendar month or such.
To me, it is important to use such "hard" feedback devices for
there are many ways to feel quite happy even when sitting on death
row that are available to the human mind and I rather like to
distinguish between effective *hard* strategies for change as
opposed to mind changes that stay confined to the mind space and
have no further repercussions than that.
It was interesting to observe that a percentage of people who use
METs regularly, with a will, for personal development purposes
were not actually getting the kind of cataclysmic shifts they had
been looking for.
I have been wondering about this for a while, and it occurred to
me the other day what a problem might well be, and how to go about
solving it.
Treating Present Emotional Entanglements
It is a fact that unless an emotion or problem presents itself, we
can't treat it.
Even the techniques that pass such things over to the unconscious
mind for the sorting rely on a starting point where one would say,
ok, this *is* the problem I want to work on.
To name the problem, one would, of course, by needs have to be
aware that *there is a problem* - if one was entirely unaware that
there was a problem, one could obviously not set the actions in
motion needed to resolve this.
So what we are generally treating, either by ourselves or with a
therapist, friend or a client, for that matter, are problems we
are aware of and that have presented themselves.
I put forth the proposition that in some cases, the actual
problems are not present at all and thus cannot be resolved and
that the reason they are not present is because *the individual
has structured their entire life in such a way that the problem
need never be experienced*.
Holographic Emotions
A hologram doesn't show you a picture of what is there; rather by
inference it shows you a kind of shadow of what must have been
there in order to create this pattern you are actually seeing,
much like a stone being dropped into a pond and even after it has
disappeared, the ripples would tell you clearly exactly where once
it was; if you were to dive there, you would find the exact stone.
Consider, for example, someone who suffers from agoraphobia.
If severe enough, they won't leave their house - ever - in order
to not have to experience the intense panic this would cause.
This is a simple and blatant example. Such a person organises
their entire life and that of their dependents and carers too
around this problem to avoid having to feel that feeling. All
forms of addictions are of course also examples of that category,
as is the person who will take the stairs because they will have
panic attacks in the lift.
However, they are of course well aware of "that feeling" at the
conscious level and can thus present themselves for treatment.
What I call "shadow emotions" are the emotions we actually don't
experience because we have constructed lives that protect us from
ever having them in the first place, to the degree that we are
entirely unknowing of their existence or of the terror we have of
their experience in consciousness.
Tracking Back To The Original
Here are some questions to help elicit or track back towards
someone's shadow emotions:
* What is unusual about your life compared to that of others?
* What do you do much more than other people?
* What do you do much less or even never at all?
* What decisions and behaviours don't make any sense about you to others
yet they seem quite normal or even "the only possible way"
for you?
* What is blatantly illogical about the way you have constructed your life
across time to this where you are now?
* What areas of change are either seemingly entirely resistant or you haven't
even ever considered to try and change at all?
And the final question is:
* What emotions must you never, never be allowed to experience (again)?
Likely Candidates
With a little bit of backward engineering and detective work, as
you consider your own timeline or that of others in it's totality,
you come up with likely candidates for these holographic,
super-scary shadow emotions that really must not ever be
experienced (or else ...).
I might make a short note that the or else ... is of the order of,
or else I would die immediately, or else the world would stop, or
else judgement day must arrive that instant.
Not particularly logical, but hey. When has the human neurology
ever functioned in a linear Newtonian logical fashion?
So, we will have some likely candidates.
Failure perhaps, shame. Terror, grief, - any description an
individual would give of these "unbearable emotions".
I have found so far that there are probably two or three likely
candidates, with one standing out clearly and drawing attention
towards it strongly.
In the country of holographic emotions, that might well be the
*least* frightening of them all, and that is alright because you
have to start somewhere, and our neurology always looks out for us
and wants to be sure that this is safe to do before letting us get
any deeper into heavier territory.
Releasing Shadow Emotions
There are many ways to accomplish this. You can tap straight, do
TAT, whatever on the fear of this emotion first, then the emotion
itself. Of course, you can metaphorise the whole thing into
numbers, shapes, gauges - feel free to use whatever approach seems
the most natural.
It is possible that memories pertaining to the holographic emotion
emerge; I am pretty certain that in order to basically censor
these emotions out of a person's standard repertoire altogether
and then to construct an entire incarnation around not having to
experience them again, we are looking at some very highly charged
memories indeed, probably from quite a young age (or also, if the
timeline has taken a major kink with a very noticeable "before"
and "after" at any time in a person's life).
Results and Repercussions
Bearing in mind that I am talking about extreme emotions here and
that shadow emotions may well set the boundaries and limits as
what an individual can ever hope to be, do or achieve (like the
house would set the boundaries for the agoraphobic), I would
propose that the restoration of the abilities of an individual to
know that they can cope with future occurrences of these emotions
will result in a measurable widening of their mental territory and
correspondingly, their behavioural flexibility. What I mean by
that is that a person who has successfully treated a holographic
or shadow emotion would find that they are behaviourally *and*
mentally able to contemplate actions that were simply out of reach
for them before - out of reach as in, entirely incomprehensible,
entirely impossible, or simply not there at all as an option, like
a missing hyperlink on an index page - the other page is there but
you wouldn't know it and can never reach it.
I would close this with a health warning.
As I said already, the original causative processes that cause an
entire set of feelings to be dropped from a person's life forever
need to be very highly charged.
You are dealing with very volatile material that needs to be
handled with great care and concern, especially when working with
clients.
The Shadow Emotions intervention should not be undertaken with a
client unless they are absolutely ready and willing and the
concept has been explained. I would personally not even start with
a Shadow intervention unless I was sure the client responded
readily and positively to MET treatments to get them out of
trouble if the original causative processes were highly traumatic,
probably had not been available to consciousness for many years,
or if the client was fragile or unstable.
Silvia Hartmann
http://www.sidereus.org
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