--- In emotrance2@yahoogroups.com, SFX <starfields@...> wrote:
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> > It wasn't until then that we got an inkling of just how much
there is on the other side of Zero Joy!
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> It was also then we really got it just how wrong our internal
scales of measuring such things as happiness and aliveness and so
forth actually were, and what we held to be Zero was more like -900
at best.
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Hi Silvia, Damien and all,
Thanks very much for sharing all your wisdom and your experience on
this one. It has been very useful for me. I have started to try
doing a round on gratitude for relief of the symptom if no other
positive comes along to light me up to do with the issue in hand. I
rate my gratitude then on 1 to 10. I am wondering whether one could
start on a PTSD type nasty memory by scaling how glad you would be
to get rid of the feelings attached to that memory and then tapping
and seeing how far up that gratitude scale you get?
My usual modus operandi before EFT included a lot of solution
focussed therapy and this fits comfortably with both for me; even
though the reminder phrase would still be focusing directly on the
problem, the scaling would be about how good things are getting!
What do you think?
By the way - I am loving how EFT does fit with all the modalities of
therapy that I have used previously. CBT - great! Get straight down
to some tapping on those thoughts and self beliefs, Transactional
Analysis, marvellous - never was a better way to broker a meeting
between Nurturing Parent and Rebellious Child (even though I want to
smoke myself silly, I choose to take care of myself today etc).
EFT is like the missing link for me. All previous therapies were
great at digging up the reasons why and prompting interesting
insights but then what do you do with them? EFT that's what!
Thanks again
Liz