Training to learn the methods and techniques of
the Emotional Clearing Process has had a transforming
effect on my life. I feel it was no coincidence that I was brought
to this unique work at just the right time in my life. The training
has fit nicely into my education as I complete my Masters in Psychology
in March 2004, my Counseling Certificate in September 2004, and finally,
I take my State-licensing exam where I can then begin a therapy practice.
When I first read an article written by an individual
who had gone through the Emotional Clearing experience, I was completely
in awe of the writer's experience, feeling it was very similar to
some of the experiences I had been going through in my life. It wasn't
until 2 years later that I was actually brought to the book itself,
Emotional Clearing, and then another year before I was fortunate enough
to grab onto the professional training as well.
The work has transformed my life in so many positive
and expansive ways. I have become much more in tuned with my body's
wisdom (i.e., whether I am relaxed, whether or not my muscles are
tensing, or my breathing natural?) and understanding my feelings with
more acuity and clarity (i.e., am I blocked? resistant? Is my energy
flowing?). One of the most important things John taught me was to
understand how to own my feelings on a deeper level, rather than trying
to push my feelings onto others in the form of projection, or blame.
Now, if I find myself in judgment of others I am more aware of what
I'm doing and quick to make the necessary changes to move away from
judgment and blame. I now know how important it is to examine at the
deepest level where my feelings are coming from, and why, so that
I can better understand them, accept them, integrate and release them.
I have also learned that the key is not to resist or
rebel against our emotions, or to try to get around them, but to accept
them directly, as they are. That emotions are simply energy in motion,
and need to go somewhere. When we refuse to experience them, we block
them up, and this is where all of us get into trouble in our lives.
I feel it is so important to identify what our emotional baggage is
because we can then view our lives based on current information instead
of being captive by our past. And our feelings are our most genuine
path to this knowledge.
I have learned that our inner guidance comes to us
through our feelings and body wisdom first – not through intellectual
understanding. That the intellect works best in service to our intuition,
our inner guidance or our higher power, whichever term we choose to
use. Another payoff for me is that I am becoming more disciplined
with allowing time on a regular basis for meditation practice. I enjoy
using the breathing techniques as well as The Witness. I also enjoy
using the mother earth energy and the archetype masculine sun energy
in my meditations and reflective quiet times, all of which help to
calm me, relax me, and help me restore peace and balance in my life.
All of this of course, makes me a better person, which rubs off on
my loved ones, my work, my community and ultimately, our world.
Thank
you, John, for bringing this important work to us all. I feel your
work is an opportunity for a New Spirituality to emerge into the world.
I hope others see what I see in this inspiring approach and most hopeful
solution in bringing us all closer to a greater understanding of our
world and ourselves.
Barb Phipps MA, LMHC,
Warrenville, Illinois
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As a professional coach to elite athletes and businesspeople
with 12 years' experience, I've taken many training programs to enhance
my effectiveness. In my opinion, John Ruskan's Emotional Clearing Training is both
revolutionary and invaluable. Most therapeutic or coaching techniques
are really strategies for working with the mind or intellect of the
client; however, John's approach is different because he works at
the level of the emotions and the spirit, where the true barriers
to achievement and well-being lie. Using his methods, I am now able
to help clients learn practices for processing their emotions...this
is invaluable to them from both a healing and a performance perspective.
John
is a marvelous facilitator. His sessions were well-organized and practical,
and I felt very supported as an attendee. He is a wonderful teacher,
and I am grateful I had the chance to be a part of his program.
Lisa Brown
President, Brown Performance Institute,
Calgary, Alberta
I was drawn to Emotional Clearing by my own emotional
crisis and was immediately struck by the clarity of the material.
The theory and fundamentals are so well developed. The process is
grounded in understanding and experience. It is not motivated by the
need to make itself right. Rather, Emotional Clearing builds upon
the best ancient, eastern and more contemporary western spiritual
and psychological thinking and traditions, calmly weaving together
universal truths, explaining how the parts relate and assemble into
holistic completeness, and how we can as individuals – spiritual
beings having a human experience - remember this wisdom and facilitate
our growth through the ages. No small task!
Emotional Clearing's website is an excellent resource
that offers a powerful gateway to the material. Upon learning all
I could from it, I bought the book and simply continued following
a path of wanting to know more, and better. This path has also included
wanting to share the potential of Emotional Clearing, as well as the
personal results achieved, with other people. Thus, enlisting in the
Emotional Clearing Certification Program was a natural next step.
John Ruskan has a deep affection for people and mankind.
His professional training takes the material and organizes it into
a consistent, repeatable modality. The experience of attending the
training is one of amazing energetic connection with both teacher
and fellow students. My own motivation for initiating the training
was to develop a greater facility with the concepts for use in my
own life. This is 
indeed
what is needed before being able to adequately offer it to others,
and John is extremely helpful and attentive in making this happen.
As a result, I have incorporated Emotional Clearing into my consulting
business where it now plays a pivotal role.
Mike Harris,
East Haddam, Ct.
There is a memory in each person, an emptiness, a longing
that the life we are living is not all there is to living a life.
I do not remember when I first noticed the absence of complete
satisfaction. As I began my quest for the good life, my thinking concentrated
on getting things from the outside to fill the emptiness and the longings.
I was grounded in the belief that I was the master of my ship.
I lived for the future always expecting the good life to arrive
when this or that appeared in my life. The situation I was in
never seemed be quite right. Along this road I built a career, established
myself in the material world and raised a family. Busyness took
over my life. The years rolled by with great speed. Time became
the enemy. Rush here, rush there, my life became rush, rush.
The quite desperation was covered by the busy life style I had created
and I longed for more leisure; thinking surely that would help. I
was convinced that if there was more time for something besides the
business of working, caring for my family and caring for my things
I could surely find peace and contentment.
Ah, but the memory is still faintly giving off a soft, subtle fragrance.
This memory reminds us of the emptiness and the longing for
something we know we have lost or missed. This memory is almost completely
lost inside the busyness. Only on sleepless nights, sometimes driving
the car or waiting in line somewhere did it surface to haunt me. Something
was out of step, a little twisted, out of balance in this life I was
galloping through. I had no clue what would make me happy or what
I really wanted; and there was no time to look. I just knew in the
gaps between events there must be something I had lost. I had
something when I was very little that did not exist now. Maybe it
was an aliveness that exists as a presence. Maybe it was simply
being here with curiosity and enjoyment. Just being here with no idea
why and not needing a reason to be here. Maybe just maybe, there
was a way of existing that called for little and yielded much.
The soul is sending messages on a daily basis through body sensations
and feelings. This emptiness and longing is a call from the
soul. The intellect is constantly searching for the answer outside.
Learning to read the messages from the soul and have comprehension
is not as easy task and it requires time out from the outer life.
This work with John, for me, has been an intensive training
on learning to read the messages that come to me moment to moment
moving me into an intimate relationship with the self. It is
deeply experiencing what it means to be a Human Being by learning
to become vulnerable and open to the sensations and feelings presented
in everyday life. This work is subtle and deep; yet John leads his
students in a manner that allows anyone to begin right where they
are gaining benefit through opening to our personal and uniquely packaged
information.
I have lived a normal life of reactions, defensiveness and blocks
to being vulnerable until through the pressures of living they no
longer worked. The jumbled mess of repressed material would no longer
tolerate being ignored. The quite desperation that lived in
the background moved to the foreground. I was moving to live
from the inside out instead of the outside in. The skills for
this journey I did not have. Living in resistance brought me into
conscious contact with a suffering loop. Stepping into the vulnerability
of being Human is the gift John offered me. He took my hand
in a process of self discovery that I will continue through this life.
Not always is it pleasant; there are layers and layers of sensations
and feelings not yet fully experienced. To be fully Human means
for me to be willing to live the process of self discovery moment
to moment. I have developed a curiosity and interest in finding my
personal truth; 
fully
comprehending it and allowing this to transform my life. The
messages arrive in a personal code as I willingly remain present.
I am learning to remain awake to the subtleties of experience.
There are no lights flashing or lightening bolts. Just soft
whispering of the soul, just the faint memories of another way of
being if I am willing to remain open to what is.
Cathy Cash,
Campobello, SC
