Friday, December 30, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Feelings of betrayal
Each betrayal begins with trust ~ Phish
We can often feel betrayed by different things in life. Try this tapping script if you have ever felt betrayed. EFT short cut diagram and procedure.
Even though I feel betrayed by ... (for example, my mother, my father, my body, myself) I accept myself anyway
Even though it really hurts to be betrayed, I accept my hurt
Even though being betrayed by ... feels ... it's ok to feel that way
Top of the head: It's hard to trust ...
Eyebrow: I feel betrayed
Side of eye: By ...
Under the eye: It's hard to take
Under the nose: It makes me feel ...
Under the chin: I want to protect myself
Collar bone: From this hurt
Under the arm: I want to close myself off
Top of the head: From being hurt
Eyebrow: I'd like to shut down
Side of eye: My feelings
Under the eye: Of betrayal
Under the nose: So I don't feel hurt
Under the chin: Or the pain
Collar bone: Of being betrayed
Under the arm: I'd like
Top of the head: To not feel this hurt
Eyebrow: I accept how I feel
Side of eye: I'm not going to fight how I feel
Under the eye: I feel the way I feel
Under the nose: Even though I don't want to feel this way
Under the chin: I do
Collar bone: And that's ok
Under the arm: Well, it's not really but I feel this way anyway
Continue tapping until you find relief, be specific about how you feel betrayed, you may have many memories to tap on. Stay with it and be persistent.
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal ~ Tennessee Williams
Monday, December 05, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Safety
Safety is the body's response to the environment ~ Stephen Porges
This is an excellent interview with psychiatrist Stephen Porges. It illustrates how important the body and its messages are for healing and feeling safe.
http://SomaticPerspectives.com/2011/11/porges/
Tapping script for feeling safe
Tapping script for feeling safe
Safety isn't expensive, it's priceless ~ Author Unknown
Monday, November 21, 2011
Everybody Hurts by Arthur Janov
Article by Dr Arthur Janov.
When I watch TV it seems like every commercial is about some kind of pain killer: Tylenol, ibuprofen, pills for stomach distress, headaches, high blood pressure and on and on. The best kept secret is that we are nearly all in pain but nobody says it; the emperor is really naked but we all are looking the other way; we are looking outward instead of inward. The distress is caused by this or that in the environment, we think, but never what is inside. That is obvious since few of us can look inside.
We are all hurting but in different ways; the hurt goes to where we are most vulnerable. That is the health crisis that no one speaks its name. So why is that? Because no one can see it! It was installed so early and so subtly, long before we had conscious-awareness, that it doesn’t even have a name. So I give it a name: Primal Pain. And a location: the imprint: and the chemical means: methylation. But what we may not be aware of is that its one of the leading causes of death among us, more so than deaths in traffic accidents, according to a recent study. Some of us are in so much agony that we take far too much medication and threaten our lives. We use Xanax, Vicodin, Fentanyl, Demerol, Oxycontin and Soma; we are treating the wrong thing, and that is why we do not get relief. We treat the symptom and not the person; we treat appearances and not generating sources. That gap I call the Janovian Gap. It is between origins and our conscious awareness of them. So long as Primal Pain exists it will militate toward wherever it can. Worse, sometimes we have both headaches and back aches so we take pain killers for both and again risk an overdose. The medication normally will not kill us but when we take more and more it will. Read on
When I watch TV it seems like every commercial is about some kind of pain killer: Tylenol, ibuprofen, pills for stomach distress, headaches, high blood pressure and on and on. The best kept secret is that we are nearly all in pain but nobody says it; the emperor is really naked but we all are looking the other way; we are looking outward instead of inward. The distress is caused by this or that in the environment, we think, but never what is inside. That is obvious since few of us can look inside.
We are all hurting but in different ways; the hurt goes to where we are most vulnerable. That is the health crisis that no one speaks its name. So why is that? Because no one can see it! It was installed so early and so subtly, long before we had conscious-awareness, that it doesn’t even have a name. So I give it a name: Primal Pain. And a location: the imprint: and the chemical means: methylation. But what we may not be aware of is that its one of the leading causes of death among us, more so than deaths in traffic accidents, according to a recent study. Some of us are in so much agony that we take far too much medication and threaten our lives. We use Xanax, Vicodin, Fentanyl, Demerol, Oxycontin and Soma; we are treating the wrong thing, and that is why we do not get relief. We treat the symptom and not the person; we treat appearances and not generating sources. That gap I call the Janovian Gap. It is between origins and our conscious awareness of them. So long as Primal Pain exists it will militate toward wherever it can. Worse, sometimes we have both headaches and back aches so we take pain killers for both and again risk an overdose. The medication normally will not kill us but when we take more and more it will. Read on
Monday, November 14, 2011
Honour your experience
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Monday, November 07, 2011
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)