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Heartbeat Integrator
THE HEARTBEAT INTEGRATOR. (An advanced emotional process).
The Heartbeat Integrator uses a lower forehead palm hold in unison with a heartbeat region palm hold. The lower forehead and heartbeat holds involve both the frontal cortex and the "second brain" the 40,000 neuron strong heartbeat region in a two-step exposure-integration process. The Heartbeat-Integrator also involves fully experiencing a feeling, emotion, or physcial sensation target and a simple breath-whisper labeling method to dis-identify with the target.
In the second step, after labeling and dis-identifying with the target, the target shares the awaressness field with the heartbeat. The practitioner tunes into the heartbeat and the target together and allows them to share the same field of awareness. This brings an intuitive knowing sense. From here the target is accepted into integration. The intuitive emotional message, the target carried, is now in the unconscious and can be felt as a wordless knowing. The practioner will respond like a driver does when driving. They don't have to think about steering, braking, or shifting gears. They intuitively know what to do.
***WARNING: Folks with a history of mental illness, trauma, or panic are urged not to use this process without a therapist. If you decide to do this process you will agree to absolve the webmasters, their server, Emoclear.com, and Steve Mensing of any responsibility for the application or misapplication of this process. Although there are safety features built into this process and they have been tested and evaluated, there is always in any emotional process the possibility that someone could experience some discomfort. So proceed with this warning.***
(c) Steve Mensing
THE HEARTBEAT INTEGRATOR.
The steps of the Heartbeat Integrator:
(1) FOREHEAD/EYEBROWS PALM HOLD, HEARTBEAT REGION PALM HOLD, AND TUNE FULLY INTO THE FEELING, EMOTION, OR PHYSICAL SENSATION: Lay one palm comfortably over your forehead and eyebrows. The karate chop side of the hand should be touching the bridge of the nose while your lower palm and little finger cover your eyebrows. Your finger tips should be pointing toward the side of your head. Don't press hard, just make comfortable contact. Your eyes should almost be covered by the lower part of your hand. Your fingers are slightly spread. Gently lay your opposing palm on your heartbeat area. Maintain both your lowerforehead/eyebrow grasp and heatbeat palm hold for the duration of the process.
Fully tune into your feeling, emotion, or physical sensation and allow it to be there with no intention of getting rid of it or keeping it. Really feel those feelings and their sensations. To feel those feelings as deeply as possible it's okay to briefly recall any scene you connect with the feeling, emotion, or physical sensation. Use all your senses. Hear the scene. Feel the scene. See the scene. If taste or smell was involved experience them too.
Anytime you think of something instead of just feeling your target, simply bring your attention back to the feeling. The feeling, emotion, physical sensations will grow with intensity as you allow it to be there with a sense of welcome. Let go of questioning whether the process is being done correctly. Let go of forcing a feeling or demanding it to be there. (This demonstrates the intention of getting rid of something which creates resistance). Just allow the feeling to be there and fully feel it. Let the feeling permeate all your attention. When you experience your target feeling, emotion, or physical sensation in its fullness move on to step (2).
**ATTENTION: Your target (feeling, emotion, physical sensation) may integrate spontaneously during any of the two steps. This isn't a problem. You'll notice your target no longer has any emotional charge. As you gain practice you'll likely notice this spontanaous integration taking place as a felt shift in your body.**
(2)BREATHE INTO THE TARGET WHILE YOU WHISPER LABEL THE TARGET "THOSE SENSATIONS", EXPERIENCE "THOSE SENSATIONS" ALONG WITH YOUR HEARTBEAT, AND ALLOW THEM TO SHARE THE SAME FIELD OF AWARENESS. EXPERIENCE THE TARGET INTERGRATE INTO ACCEPTANCE: Breathe into the emotion, feeling, or physical sensations and label your feelings in a whisper: "Those sensations". Label it only once. Before long will have a subtle sense of being outside those sensations or being seperate from those sensations. Within your awareness you'll sense your heartbeat along with those sensations. The awareness of your heartbeat and the target brings a tranquil awareness and helps to block emotional resistance. At this point any emotional messages, carried by your feelings, are known to your unconscious. You will know how to respond to these intuitive emotional messages. No thinking is involved. [If you later wish to consciously know the messages just recall how you felt and write down your intuitive responses to your questions. Questions to the heatbeat/feeling are found in the Tips on the Heartbeat Integrator]
After the heartbeat and "Those sensations" share the same field of tranquil awareness you will begin to integrate-desensitize your target on the way to acceptance. You'll have a shift in feelings as the emotional charge evaporates in either acceptance. Your perspective will change and your beliefs will change about what once disturbed or pained you. Your feeling will no longer be resisted. Enjoy these moments.
In us all resides acceptance. It is not a thought, but a wordless sense of what we're viewing is okay. We know when we're accepting something. It arrives out of an inner permisiveness and receptivity. After our acceptance connects with our feeling, the feeling's intensity dissolves. You have naturally integrated before in your life. This is our natural integration process. We are born with it. Most of us use it in an unconscious manner with no apparent steps. Breathe naturally and don't halt your breath.
The feeling may have lost its emotional charge by now in the final step. If it hasn't lost it's charge just give the emotional target your full attention and allow it to be there with no intention of getting rid of it or keeping it. You will soon accept it.
If integration does not take place the first time, then repeat the process until the integration takes place or use optional step (3):
***Optional Step (3). If it feels like your felt shift is only minimal or if your SUD Scale has not arrived at the bottom, then go to this additional step:
(3) ASK YOUR HEARTBEAT A FUTURE ORIENTATION IN TIME QUESTION: A year from now when I look back and my feeling, emotion, or physical sensation is either accepted or loved, 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 or loved this feeling?
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THE BASIC STEPS OF THE HEARTBEAT INTEGRATOR:
(1) FOREHEAD/EYEBROWS PALM HOLD, HEARTBEAT REGION PALM HOLD, AND FULLY TUNE INTO THE FEELING, EMOTION, OR PHYSICAL SENSATION.
(2)BREATHE INTO THE TARGET WHILE YOU WHISPER LABEL THE TARGET "THOSE SENSATIONS", EXPERIENCE THOSE SENSATIONS ALONG WITH YOUR HEARTBEAT, AND ALLOW THEM TO SHARE THE SAME FIELD OF AWARENESS. EXPERIENCE THE TARGET INTERGRATE INTO ACCEPTANCE.
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Optional Question:
(3) ASK YOUR HEARTBEAT THE FUTURE ORIENTATION IN TIME QUESTION.
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TIPS ON THE HEARTBEAT INTEGRATOR
*In integrating 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. We're talking being fully absorbed in the feeling and its sensations.
-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 all feelings are 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. The No Intention Intention naturally installs itself though working with Emoclear Integrators.
-Getting a just back perspective. Instead of remaining in the emotion or being over-identified with the emotion, we take a step back. This can be done by labeling a feeling. In the situation of the Heartbeat Integrator we label the feeling "Those sensations". This puts us just back where we can best intutively receive the emotional message. It also gives us that wider perspective on the feeling that later assists with integration.
-In the Heartbeat Integrator the heartbeat and target share the same field of tranquil awareness. This helps the target's (feeling, emotion, or physical sensation) to let intuitively know our emotional message. We don't have to consciously know the message. Just have a felt knowing of it. With the Heartbeat Integrator we don't have to ask our "target" questions to get this knowing as is done with some of our other integrators. This transfer of emotional information occurs during the time the heartbeat/target share the same field of awareness. The person will afterwards intuitively know their feeling's messages. They'll "know" what to do.
*If you prefer to ask your heartbeat questions you may go to your heartbeat/target field and ask it intuitive questions to access it's emotional messages:
-What can you tell me about me, others, the world around me?
-What best I do?
-What do you want for me?
-Is there anything else I better know?
Just await the murky knowing. If you translate this murky knowing into sentences, you can jot them down on paper. Making them into sentances and writing them out is not required.
*Some persons will want to begin their Heartbeat Integrator sessions with left nasal dominance breathwork. This makes feelings, emotions, and physical sensations more available and increases intuition. Left nasal dominance breathwork is gently pinching your right nostil shut while you take 12 full and deep inhalations and exhalations through your left nostril only.
*Allowing your tongue to completely relax and flatten out, prior to your Heartbeat Integrator session will help close down thinking during the process of integration. This may speed the process for folks who often think a bunch.
*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.
*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, connecting with your deeper intuitive knowing, allowing acceptance to flow spontaneously--you can count on your feelings, emotions, and sensations to do their thing and integrate-desensitize.
*Develop you appreciation for feelings by starting to notice all the good things they do. For starters they are valuable bio-messengers.
*Remember that steady exposure to even the most intense and enduring emotions eventually desensitizes them. Keep at it and your emotion will eventually desensitize and become far less intense and enduring.
*Hydrate yourself prior to working with the Heartbeat Integrator.
*Learn each step of the Heartbeat Integrator separately before you put all the steps together.
*The Little Pocket Intensifier can be added to the process to intensify feelings after you are well versed in the process.
*To scale the level of resistance/acceptance of a target use the Acceptance/resistance scale which is basically a rating scale of resistance/acceptance, ranging from overwhelming hate/can't stand your feelings to loving and fully appreciating them.(This scale could also be used instead of the SUD Scale for measuring progress in emotional processing and integration work). Here goes:
RESISTANCE/ACCEPTANCE SCALE
(10) Overwhelmingly hate/Overwhelmingly can't stand my feelings.
(9) Strongly hate/ Strongly can't stand my feelings.
(8) Hate my feelings/can't stand my feelings.
(7) Mildly hate.
(6) Very much dislike my feelings.
(5) Dislike my feelings.
(4) Experiencing some negativity toward my feelings.
(3) Putting up with and not quite accepting my feelings.
(2) Accept/have some appreciation for my feelings.
(1) Love/have strong appreciation for my feelings.
*Use a body scan to locate initial feeling targets for your Heartbeat Integrator. Ask your body: "What's most important to be felt right now?"
Have fun, Steve