Emotional Clearing Process Summary
The Emotional Clearing Process is a cutting-edge, holistic
therapy developed by John Ruskan from personal consciousness work
and the synthesis of Eastern and Western psychological philosophies
and techniques. It is a spiritual, feeling-oriented method of facilitating
emotional release and growth within the therapist/client setting.
The basic premise of Emotional Clearing is that the emotional self
will heal as it is embraced with complete acceptance and fully experienced.
1. DEEP RELAXATION
BODY FUNCTION: In Deep Relaxation, brainwaves slow down to the Alpha level (8-13 cps) or deeper. This corresponds to a quieting of left-brain, ego-based activity: Thinking, reasoning, planning, judging, worrying, and above all, doing, diminish. Consciousness starts to shift to the right-brain, the seat of authentic feeling. The right-brain Alpha state is essential for emotional healing. The quieting of the left-brain mind allows you to operate on the feeling level, accessing and releasing the deep, hidden, core feelings that are behind the painful events you draw to yourself.
2. AWARENESS
INTELLECTUAL/KNOWING FUNCTION: Basic
awareness of the inner feeling motivating a certain behavior or apparently
"caused" by some other person or event in the outside world;
recognition that the feeling has been suppressed but continues to
motivate the client to non-productive behavior, or that the feeling
has been projected onto the outside event, even attracting the event;
taking responsibility, without self-blame, for the feeling and the
event; "owning." Clients are often unconscious of their
real feelings and how they are motivated by them. Awareness of feelings
is facilitated by the Emotional Clearing Facilitator through both left and right-brain
approaches: Dialoguing, which includes conscious listening and feedback;
and altered-state techniques, which include breathwork, body awareness,
and Alpha-State work.
3. ACCEPTANCE
MENTAL/BEHAVIORAL FUNCTION: Ceasing
resistance to the feeling. Normally, feelings are unconsciously blocked
from awareness by various behaviors prompted by the attitude of resistance,
resulting in self-rejection on the feeling level. These behaviors
include avoidance, blaming, acting out, dependency, controlling, judging,
and addictions. When the client becomes aware of how these behavioral
mechanisms are ultimately self-destructive, behavior becomes modified.
Self-acceptance is awakened leading to self-love, and the gate to
direct experience of feeling is opened. The Emotional Clearing Facilitator provides the
support needed to make this energetic shift. The concept of acceptance
is a key part of this work. As long as the client continues to resist,
the feeling cannot be integrated. Resistance is what caused the feeling
to be suppressed in the first place. Acceptance is made easier if
the client understands how feelings have been projected; how the other
is not really responsible for the client's perception. Working with
acceptance begins to open the client to the spiritual aspects of Emotional Clearing work.
4. DIRECT EXPERIENCE
BODY/FEELING FUNCTION: Entering the
feeling center or being in the moment with the feeling; "processing"
the feeling. Feelings are allowed "to be" without resistance,
analysis, or blame. Any of these mind-sets takes the client out of
the feeling center and impedes integration of the feeling. Feelings
are experienced on the body level until the energy is cleared. There
is no need to outwardly "express" the feeling. Processing
usually takes place in Alpha, modulated by the breath. Clients
are asked to experience feelings in the present, including present
feelings about past events. If images or fantasies spontaneously occur,
the client is encouraged to let them unfold in trance, to experience
the feelings evoked, and to tell them to the facilitator. If no feelings
spontaneously emerge in trance, the facilitator will bring the client
back to a certain event, or introduce a certain thought, or work more
with the breath in order to access feelings. The client is directed
to give priority to body awareness, and to bring attention to all
body sensations emerging in trance, breathing into them. Care is taken
not to expose the client to more emotional material than can be successfully
integrated, but there is also reliance in the Higher Self ultimately
guiding the session and revealing to the client only what is appropriate.
Negative feelings, especially emotions, are the prime focus of the
experience.
5. TRANSFORMATION
SPIRITUAL/TRANSCENDING FUNCTION: In
this step, facilitator and client both connect to a Higher Power during
Alpha, using whatever concept for this that may be appropriate
for the client. Having accepted feelings as they are, the client turns
their resolution over to the Higher Power. Personal agenda is set
aside; faith and trust prevail. The Higher Power provides the healing
energy for transformation. The transpersonal intelligence guides the
process of integration, resulting in internal catharsis and unexpected
creative external change. Adjustment occurs spontaneously, without
conscious control. The client's position becomes that of the Witness,
simply watching feelings as they go through the various stages of
integration. Witness consciousness is a psycho-physiological altered-state
that can be brought about by certain esoteric techniques involving
the "Third Eye" chakra. Facilitator and client both invoke
the Witness, channeling healing energy from the Higher Power to the
client.
