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Proper Targeting While Processing
Max asks: "How important is targeting to any process?"
Proper targeting is every bit as important as the process.
Processes won't work when we target the untargettable
or choose targets that part of us resists.
Poorly chosen targets can be like going on Mission Impossible. Examples: (1) Emotions and moods generated by hormonal and biochemical challenges are unsuitable for processing. (2) Directly targeting a compulsion or worry when the underlying emotions and overwhelm need to be felt and integrated.
The better targets are feelings, emotions, and physical sensations which our body/mind provides us when we inquire. Even when we're processing beliefs, we work with their supporting emotions and feelings. (We also might target behaviors involved with the belief).
TARGETS FOR PROCESSING & INTEGRATION
Let's look at good targets for processing and integrating:
*Emotions, feelings, and physical sensations that our body/mind sends us. Examples: Anger, anxiety, fear, guilt, event related depression, shame, embarassment.
*Beliefs. In belief processing we engage the emotions and feelings that support a belief. When they are integrated, the belief loses its emotional meaning.
*Personality Clusters which are clusters of beliefs with a similar theme, are targeted like other beliefs. Personality Clusters can automatically and powerfully run behaviors, emotional states, and perceptions. Their belief's supporting emotions and feelings are the targets. A personality cluster often may have from 10 to 25 beliefs involved. A complete list of Personality Clusters can be found at Emoclear.com
*Emptiness is exellent target for integration. It can be penetrated and experienced as an essence state. Emptiness or those pit like feelings in the body are areas you may experience inside yourself. These deficits (or so they seem) may stem from abandonment, loneliness, and lost love. To find emptiness, scan your body or noticing a pit like feeling inside yourself. (On rare occasions emptiness may be outside your body in dissociated form). Once you locate any emptiness, allow yourself to stay with it and feel it. Emptiness maybe entered by your awareness and in doing so, you will begin to initiate a profound shift in both feeling and perception. Peacefulness, wholeness, love, and acceptance can be found within emptineness. Feelings contain their opposites--but often we don't go down that far. Folks who've experienced essence states with some of the Emoclear Processes know what I'm writing about here. Even just shifting back and forth from the outside to the inside of emptiness can integrate it. Emptiness is a major target for many
*Severe Traumas: These powerful emotional residuals may come from accidents, wars, rape, love loss, sudden deaths of people important to us, assaults, and painful injury. These are primary targets because of their ongoing impact on our behavior, emotional states, and perceptions.
*Soft Traumas: These are the smaller traumas resulting from a steady emotional pounding or deprivation. Examples are: love losses, school failures, multiple embarrassing situations, steady putdowns by important others.
*Negative Self-Images: These are clusters of beliefs we have about ourselves which regulate our feelings and perceptions about ourselves. They are addressed.
*Painful Memories. Highly emotionally charged events can be recalled and processed from start to finished. Nightmares and painful confabulations can also be processed in the same way.
*Habitual self-defeating behaviors: These targets can be handled by becoming aware of them and their patterns as well as integrating their beliefs, intentions, emotions, urges. (See the Pattern Tree and theHabit Cracker). Further behavioral patterns can be reorganzed.
*Obsessions/compulsions: You'll have better luck integrating these targets after you feel the anxiety driving these thoughts and actions. Obsessions/compulsions often cloaks anxious overwhelm. That anxious overwhelm has to be felt and integrated, then the obsessions/compulsions evaporate.
*Phobias. These are intense fears about animals, objects, situations ect. These are good targets for integration and processing.
*Metaphors: Intutively create metaphors or visual symbols that capture emotionally laden situations. Integrate the metaphor as a visual symbol. See the Metaphor Runner.
*Archetypes. More advanced dream and reverie symbols can be integrated in lucid dreams and in reverie exercises like Emo Active Imagination.
*Polarities: Integrate opposite beliefs, emotions, and physical sensations.
Copyright (c) Steve Mensing
Have fun, Steve