Let's update the Emo Integrator Learn-in.
Diane Peterson
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Posts: 59 (10/27/08 12:47 PM) |
Hi everyone,
Let's update the Emo Integrator Learn-in. Diane Peterson
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Posts: 60 (10/27/08 12:52 PM) |
What is the Emo Integrator?
The Emo Integrator is a feelings integrator-desensitizer for both newbies and advanced folks too. The Emo Integrator focuses on feeling an emotion, feeling, or physical sensation and feeling it to full integration-desensitization. It uses breathing into the emotional target to suppress resistance and develop disidentification. The Emo Integrator utilizes both lower forehead/eyebrow palming, heartbeat palming, and tongue relaxation to achieve comfort, suppress emotional resistance, and advance integration-desensitization. Basic Steps of the Emo Integrator1. Lay a palm over your lower forehead/eyebrows and lay your other palm over your heartbeat region. Fill your mouth with saliva so your tongue is surrounded. Let your tongue relax. 2. Bring all your attention to an emotion/feeling/physical sensation and completely feel it.
The Emo Integrator
Warning: Folks with a history of mental illness, PTSD, or panic are urged not to use these techniques without a therapist. If you decide to do these processes you will agree to absolve the webmaster, the webhost, Emoclear.com, and Steve Mensing of any responsibility for the application or misapplication of these processes. There is always in any process the possibility that someone could experience some discomfort.
Tips on using the Emo Integrator
What can you tell me about me, others, the
world around me?
Just await the murky knowing. If you translate this murky knowing into sentences, you can jot them down on paper. But just getting the murky knowing is enough. That your unconscious knows is enough. This knowing is like driving a car and knowing when to brake or step on the gas. You know--you don't think about it. It's second nature. You get that intuitive knowing in your body and you brake or step on the gas. Whatever the situation requires. In integrating-desensitizing feelings several key items occur: Making full contact with a feeling. This means really feeling it without thinking. Full feeling means just that. No competing thoughts. No being distracted by other sensations, feelings, random thoughts, and doubts. We're talking about our attention being fully absorbed in the feeling. The No Intention Intention. This means we fully feel our feelings with no intention of getting rid of them or keeping them. This leads to acceptance. Keep in mind that most feelings are biological messages that do us good service even though they may bring discomfort at times in their attempts to get our attention. They all are valuable. Learning to appreciate their value assists greatly in our natural process of integration. It also develops long-term comfort with a full range of our feelings. The No Intention Intention naturally installs itself though working with Emoclear Integrators. Calling feelings "unwanted feelings" is resistance. If we're intending to get rid of feelings or we're negatively putting them down, that will create resistance and block natural integration. Calling our feelings "unwanted" points back to our intentions here. So having that intention of allowing feelings and not trying to keep feelings will greatly assist your natural ability to feel and integrate Deeper acceptance is not a thought. It is a sense of what ever is going on is acceptable or okay. Notice how acceptance arrives. It is a natural sense of things. This acceptance leaves us with a sense there's an okayness in what we're feeling. So acceptance is part of the unsticking process. It flows best when we really allow ourselves to feel something with no intention of getting rid of it or keeping it. So if you're fully feeling a feeling, have no intentions of getting rid of it or keeping it, taking that "just back" or dis-identified position, getting those sensations knowing, allowing acceptance to flow--you can count on your feelings, emotions, and physical sensations to integrate-desensitize. Develop your appreciation for feelings by starting to notice all the good things they do. For starters they provide valuable information and sometimes lessons. Placing a palm over your heartbeat region during the process amplifies feelings and connects you with the heart's 10,000 neuron subcortical center. It helps keep people from dissociating with very strong feelings. It increases intuition and suppresses resistance. Breathing into a feeling suppresses resistance and has comforting effects. Breathing into feelings can help us dis-identify with them which helps in lowering resistance and raising comfort. Between cycles of doing the Emo Integrator ask your heartbeat a future orientation in time question: "A year from now when I look back and my feeling, emotion, or physical sensation and the feeling is either accepted, what will I notice first? How will I feel? What will I know to do? What will I see and hear? Who will be the first to notice, besides me how I accepted this feeling?" Placing your palm over your lower forehead and eyebrows appears to alter blood flow in the frontal brain and leads to less resistance and cooler thoughts and feelings. Learn each step of the Emo Integrator separately before you put all 3 steps together. The Little Pocket Intensifier can be added to the process to intensify feelings after you are well versed in the Emo Integrator. Measure your progress with the Resistance/Acceptance scale, which is basically a rating scale of resistance to acceptance, ranging from overwhelming hate/can't stand your feelings to loving and fully appreciating them.. You can access the scale by clicking here.
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Posts: 70 (10/28/08 11:22 PM) |
Hey,
A boatload of emotional targets from the emotions you get around any of the Personality Clusters. Eric |
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Posts: 64 (10/30/08 11:47 AM) |
Hi,
Keys to successful integrator use: (1) Use only on arousal based emotions such as anxiety, fear, phobias, anger, embarassment, Low Frustration Tolerance, jealousy. Not on moods like depression or down feelings. (2) Keep feeling your target emotion and never try to be rid of it. Integration is based firmly on exposure. The more you feel the target the quicker it loses charge. (3) Practice several times a week at a set time. Ed Boylan |
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Posts: 27 (10/31/08 12:33 PM) |
Hi,
If you ever get bogged down in an integrator look at the following: 1) Are you pushing the process or demanding change? Trying to get rid of the emotion? You are then adding resistance. 2) Are there other similar emotional experiences behind your target or hidden aspects? Feel them annd integrate them. 3) Are you changing the process in any way or are failing to follow the instructions? Go to the original. 4) Have you gone over the 30 or 40 minutes limits and producd too many endorphins which are making it difficult to feel the emoton fully? Suspend operations and come back later when he endorphins have died down. Mike Slattery |
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Posts: 74 (11/01/08 01:15 PM) |
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Hi Russ, Emotional integration is: 1. Fully feeling or experiencing an emotion without resisiting it or avoiding it. It is based on an accepting and non-judgemental attitude toward the emotion based on the notion the emotion serves valuable purposes for us including letting us know how we feel about ourselves, the world around us, events, and others. We allow the feeling to be there. We don't try to get rid of it. 2. A fully felt and accepted emotion loses it's intensity, attention grabbingness, and discomfort. It is okay and acceptable to be there. It's no big deal when it's integrated. 3. Full emotional integration leaves us with a sense of okayness or acceptance about the emotion. In some instances integration leads to an essence state where we feel whole, complete, at peace, powerful, a sense of union. 4. After the emotion is integrated we think more clearly and undistortedly. We are no longer caught up in an intense emotions trance and see the world through distorted filters. Carol Howell Unregistered(d) What exactly is emotional integration? #2 [-] Posts: 0 (12/19/07 12:30 PM) Reply Quote MoreMy Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Hi Russ, Emotional integration is well explained in Steve's new Emoclear book: "Your Emotional Power". Read the first chapter: Http://www.hobbletbooks.com/pdf/chapter1.pdf Emmon Coughlin |
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Posts: 72 (11/02/08 01:32 PM) |
Hi,
It okay to use side methods to weaken an emotional target such as the Little Pocket Intensifier, jokes, the Heartbeat Questions, and the Intuitive Symbolizer. These all cuff resistance around. Richard Karch |
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Posts: 64 (11/03/08 03:16 PM) |
What do you suggest for beginner targets for integrators. Thanx. Allen
Hi Allen, Follow the Emo Integrator's directions. You can start out scanning your body and asking is there anything that needs your attention. If something big comes up, hold off on it until you are more experienced. Another approach is to just work with simple feelings and sensations as they come. Integrate 10 or so of those until you are more experienced. Jayne Burgos Hi Allen, Anything but traumas and phobias at the start. After you have experience integrating some ez targets go after lighter traumas and phobias. Paul Mayer Hi Allen, I agree with the other posters. Follow the directions for the Emo Integrator and do a body scan. Whisper to your body: "Is there anything that needs my attention?" If it's too heavy, go for another later. Nothing heavy until you master the technique. Ed Boylan Hi, Simply asking these arousal fanning questions can bring up newboid targets: What makes me angry? What irks me? What makes me anxious? What makes me somewhat anxious? What makes me jealous? What makes me somewhat jealous? Tom Cuthbertson Hi Tom, Great ideas on finding newbie targets. The targets always have to be arousal based like the emotions you mentioned. Dave Cohen |
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Posts: 46 (11/04/08 11:23 AM) |
Hi,
To pep up the emotional target recall it's event whenever your emotional intensity flags. Before too long the intensity will drain completely out from steady feeling. Noticing the space around the target acts to spread out the target and dis-identify with it. This moves progress along without pushing for it. Remind yourself that you are not out to get rid of the emotion. Be wary of any emotional resistance. Don't get caught up in any special states that naturally occur during integration. You may get some very deep acceptance or love. Don't attempt to stay in it. Martin Hauck |
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Posts: 66 (11/05/08 03:07 PM) |
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Don't go onto the more advanced integrators like the Heartbeat Integrator until you have fully mastered the Emo Integrator. The Emo Integrator will integrate anything set before it. The Heartbeat Integrator takes some more learning due to it's dis-identifcation techniques and attention to the heartbeat area. It is more stimulating to know and use several integrators. It keeps people from going stale on one. Gary Hotlzman |
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Posts: 52 (11/06/08 12:00 PM) |
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Hi all, Let's start a discussion on inappropriate emotional targets. Mike Slattery Hi, Hormonal driven moods and emotions can't really be effected much by emotional processing. Thyroid problems may effect depressive and anxious symptoms. The hormonal problems have to be addressed by a physician. Yev Miron Hi, Another inappropriate emotional target is worries. They are more compulsive thoughts and "what ifs" than emotions. The emotional targets are being covered over by the distracting worries. Aimee Hi Rumination is another inappropriate target. It, like worry isn't an emotion even though it generates plenty of depression and fatigue. See the Rumination Breaker for ending rumination. Jim Hi, Besides hormonal problems, which are not real emotional targets, emotional reactions and moods can be set off by anomalous brain conditions, allergies, improper sleep, and a lack of sunlight (SAD). Some of these conditions require a visit to a medical doctor. Bettina Kohler Hello, Targeting extremely intense and overwhelming emotional targets before you've had experience processing is inappropriate. Bonny Keats Hello, Another inappropriate target is rage or any emotional target where the targeter is scattered, unfocused, or over identified with the emotional target. Some arousal has to be reduced. Perhaps some venting and grounding to get someone into a more attentive mode. Aaron Kallish Hi, Hypochondriacal physical sensations are not direct targets. Like other unconscious and compulsive symptoms it is good to connect with the feelings and overwhelm which the hypochoncriacal symptoms are covering. When the underlying feelings are contacted, the symptoms dry up. Tom Cuthbertson Hi all, Physical diseases can create depression and anxiety like symptoms which are not targets for integration or desensitization. These need to be treated by medical doctors. Tim Grenier Hello, If someone has a history of mental illness such as psychosis or personality disorders they need to work with their emotions with a therapist. Bonny Keats Hi, Another poor target are targets you get rewarded for keeping. When people get rewards and attention for being depressed or anxious they're less likely to give them up or work on them. Another poor target is the target that has another problem coming after it's solved. People resist making changes when they see another problem arriving. Bettina Kohler |
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Posts: 39 (11/07/08 02:24 PM) |
Reposted by Nina K.
Jayne asks: "In integrating what are the signs someone is fully feeling an emotion?" Jayne here are some key signs someone is fully feeling an emotion: *You have a strong sense of the emotion in your body. You feel it with some intensity. *Your attention to the emotion wavers little. *Your attention on the emotion is not caught up in thoughts, memories, daydreams, or drifts to other feelings and sensations. You are feeling the emotion only. *You are not resisting your emotion with negative thoughts about it like it's "horrible" or "awful" or "I can't stand it" or "It's boring" or "When is this gonna integrate?" *The emotion eventually integrates or desensitizes. You get an emotional insight. Take care, Steve |
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Posts: 33 (11/08/08 01:14 PM) |
Hi,
Raw newbie--here's some valuable info on feeling, targeting, & integrating. http://www.emoclear.com/learningtofeelintegrate.htm Clark |
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Posts: 72 (11/09/08 09:49 AM) |
Hi all,
This chapter from 'Your Emotional Power' provides an important first step for those new to integrating. http://www.hobbletbooks.com/pdf/chapter1.pdf Eric |
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Posts: 77 (11/12/08 04:07 PM) |
Sense that I'm not doing integration right even though I get results.
Hello all, I am back to integration and get a sense sometimes that I am not following the instructions right on the Emo Integrator. This may be odd because targets seem to be integrating. The target change holds up. No distress. The SUD is all the way down. The targets no longer wrestle for my attention. No intensity. Not painful in the slightest. Not avoiding. Just that it sometimes seems too easy and I doubt myself. Is there someway I can handle this? Kyle Hi Kyle, If your SUD Scale shows results and you notice a difference in your target, then you did it correctly or at least got the results you wanted. Doubt is part of early learning like confusion. The doubt will go as you become more accostomed to integrating. You passed the tests for integration. No doubt you are doing integration right or at least right enough to get the correct result. Anne |
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Posts: 23 (11/13/08 01:01 PM) |
Greetings:
If you keep to the original No Intention Intention you will be halfway home with this technique. Allowing the feeling to be there and not pushing to get rid of it starts the emotion's evolution back to just being an emotion and not upsetting. It's starts to flake apart at that point. Albert Venhoven |
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Posts: 69 (11/14/08 01:24 PM) |
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Ed asks: "What makes Emoclear Integrators unique from other emotional processes? Methods for cutting down emotional resistance, comfort making, unusual dis-identifcation? More?" Ed, Emoclear Integrators while they may share emotional exposure with successful emotional processes, our integrators possess methods for comfort making, dis-identification, and ways of reducing emotional resistance. Lets take a look at what's under the hood of both the Emo Integrator and the Heartbeat Integrator which sets them apart from other emotional processes: EMO INTEGRATOR Basic Steps of the Emo Integrator 1. Lay a palm over your lower forehead/eyebrows and lay your other palm over your heartbeat region. Fill your mouth with saliva so your tongue is surrounded. Let your tongue relax. 2. Bring all your attention to an emotion/feeling/physical sensation and completely feel it. 3. Breathe into the emotion and notice its edges. Explore the emotion and feel it into acceptance. What is unique in the Emo Integrator is this: *Lower forehead/eyebrow hold calms arousal based emotions, cuts down on resistance, and makes for more comfort and less overwhelm. *Laying your palm over your heartbeat area leads to an intuitive connection with emotions (Our heartbeat area contains some 40, 000 neurons and acts as a second brain), is calming, and produces a dual focus of attention. *Submerging our tongues in saliva leads to a vagal response which is both arousal reducing and emotional resistance reducing. Tongue relaxation inhibits emotional resistance and makes targets easier to be with. *The basic No Intention Intention of allowing emotions to be there and not trying to get rid of them, reduces emotional resistance and avoidance both roadblocks to integration. *Bringing all your attention to an emotion and completely feeling it allows for full emotional exposure and speeds exposure/desensitization along. *Breathing into an emotion and noticing it's edges helps in dis-identifying with an emotion so you feel more comfort with it. This also reduces resistance and overwhelm. |
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