R E A D I N GSOME CLOSING THOUGHTS ON THEORY AND
PRACTICE
Hi, you.
I hope I’ve been successful in explaining to you what you need to know
in order to try this approach to healing your pain. In closing this course,
I’d like to leave you with a concept that will keep you centered as you
move forward in this process, and that’s a theory which can work with
any diagnosis: Emotion Substitution (ES). Keep this theory in your
pocket as you go forth on this epic and lifesaving journey.
Your pain is REAL. Your symptoms are exactly what they are. Your body
may react in ways that are so physical, you can see them, like Mickey’s
swollen ankle. When you have an issue, your diagnosis is your diagnosis.
For example, if you have a bad back, you have a bad back. If you have
IBS, you have IBS. If you have migraines you have migraines. And so on,
and so on.
You can have your diagnosis. We people need our diagnoses; we are
defined by them. We resent being told that pain can be connected with
emotion because it feels like someone is saying that we are making it up,
or it’s our fault, or somehow the agony we’ve been experiencing isn’t
real. If doing this work towards healing means we can't say we suffer
from migraines, it makes us feel as if the lives we've led have been a lie.
We’ve been fighting those migraines for years! We feel stupid.
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I so totally get it, so just remember:
There is simply more than one way to reach the same conclusion. Open
your mind. You can believe you have a bad back because something is
structurally wrong with your back, or you can believe that you have pain
in your back because of a process I like to describe as Emotion
Substitution (ES).
ES a process by which our pain is derived from having too much
emotional suppression in our mind/body system, as you have learned.
When the amount of emotion we need to deal with in our lives and from
our histories reaches a critical mass, and we don't understand how to
manage it without continuing to push it down, we experience ES. Our
emotional overload is channeled into bodily pain, therefore tricking us
into believing that we can control the situation by dealing with the
physical aspect of our pain.
Yet, in the end this doesn’t resolve our pain OR our emotional upset.
When we busy ourselves with doctor's appointments, researching new
treatments, and obsessing about our limited lives, we have an illusion of
control which oddly makes us feel empowered. But the reality of our
lives is that they are miserable when we are preoccupied with pain. Fear
begins to dominate as we define our existence as a function of
navigating around our pain.
The best news, as I have done my darnedest to explain here in this
course, is that ES is a condition which can be treated without medication
or surgery or physical treatments of any kind!
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When we work this program and thereby give a voice to the suppressed
emotions, it's like dipping a ladle into the emotional reservoir of rage,
fear, anger, sadness, resentment, and shame which lives within us, which
has been necessitating the pain… and dumping it out into the loving
universe which is happy to absorb it. After all, we are all the same. In
our deepest nature we desire for other humans to release their pain,
and to heal.
As our bodes adjust to this change, the symptoms associated with our
given diagnoses secede, allowing for a painfree life. This is the greatest
secret. This is the wisdom of the ages which will set you free. Know it,
own it, use it, embrace it, and take back your bleeping life.
Some closing instructions as you move forward:
1) Follow the directions on the box. Journal every day for 20 minutes
until your pain is gone. If it creeps back in from time to time, just go
back to this practice.
2) Begin by moving through your lists. Put a bullet from one of your lists
at the top of the page once a day, and just JournalSpeak your way
through it until the alarm goes off. It doesn't matter if the bunny trail
starts at your mother and ends at “That time in third grade.” There is no
wrong way to do this.
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3) If you are agitated on any particular day, you can take a break from
the Lists and simply put at the top of the page, “Why am I so angry
today?” and then let it rip. The same goes for “Why am I so sad,
ashamed, embarrassed, scared?” Etc.
4) Remember that pain can move around as you begin to heal. Initially,
this can trick you into believing that something else is “really wrong with
you.” If you started with back pain and after your brave and thorough
work you develop headaches, DO NOT FEAR! This is totally normal. Just
point your laser focus of personal excavation in the direction of those
headaches and bid them farewell. Remember that ES does not
discriminate. Of course you really have a headache. There is just more
than one way to reach the same conclusion.
5) Keep in mind that we hold onto pain for many reasons, one of which
is that it makes it easier to “rest” or feel worthy of other people caring
for us. Talk directly to that wounded child within, and reassure him or
her that you will still be loved. In fact, you can learn to ask for that
nurturing in healthy ways once the pain is not diverting your attention
all the time!
6) Remember always that you are not alone. People just like you and
nothing like you all over the world are suffering the same, right at this
very moment. Your resolve to heal helps them too. We are all
connected.
7) If you haven’t read my other stuff and want to hear my story in detail,
check out my book: The Meaning of Truth. Easiest way to get it:
amazon.com.
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As always, I send you off with a heart full of love, and a spirit which is
fiery and unwilling to let you suffer for one day more than you need
to. Carry on, warrior. I’m so proud of you.
With much love,
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Nicole