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THE EMOTIONAL CLEARING PROCESS / Questions about meditation
« Last post by virginia on April 29, 2025 »
Hi John,

Thank you so much for your books, and for this forum. I am someone who practiced Falun Dafa for over ten years, so I do have some experience with meditation. However, last year I developed chronic neck pain, which I finally managed to get under control using an emotional exercise called Journalspeak. I realized through reading Dr. John Sarno’s books and listening to Nicole Sachs’s podcast that my neck pain was a product of suppressed emotions. I also realized that part of the reason I had been suppressing my emotions was because of my understanding of Falun Dafa, which does teach that the emotions are something to be overcome. The problem is there is very little real guidance as to *how* we overcome our emotions. Long story short, I left off my ten year practice of Falun Dafa, a very painful and drawn out process. Sometime along the way I came across your work, and your books have really resonated with me, and I feel like they are offering me a new way forward. So thank you very much.

I have a question about the meditation. Maybe I’m just not good enough at it yet. But I’m having trouble when bringing up an event and associated emotion to drop the event or person who caused the emotion and focus only on the emotion. It’s like once I’ve dropped the event or person and try to drop the blame I lose the emotion. So it’s difficult to have the direct experience when I’m not thinking of the particular event. The same thing happens when I enter the witness. At that point we are supposed to detach from the emotion, though, so maybe it’s okay that I lose touch with the emption at that point? Infind that when I try to enter the witness the feeling that sometimes comes up is compassion. I feel really sorry for myself. Like I see myself as though I were an observer and I feel pity for myself. Is that okay? I feel like this may not really be the witness? I hope my questions makes sense.

Once again thank you for this wonderful resource, and I look forward to hearing back from you.
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THE EMOTIONAL CLEARING PROCESS / Re: Current emotional grief
« Last post by pauken25 on February 19, 2025 »
Thank you for taking the time to respond. That makes perfect sense, as I gave up all agency in order to not rock the boat and was walking on eggshells for years. I'm working my way through the book and practicing ECP every day.
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THE EMOTIONAL CLEARING PROCESS / Re: Current emotional grief
« Last post by John Ruskan on February 19, 2025 »
If there are intense feelings, we can usually assume that suppressed material is being stirred up by circumstances or has even contributed to attracting those circumstances, which we call projection. The important thing at this point is to acknowledge that you are in contact with core feelings – the rejection in the heart center. You take the feelings that you are aware of through the steps of the EC Process, as described in the Deep Clearing book. As you work with them, other feelings and past circumstances may come into view if necessary. An intense experience such as you are describing indicates a predisposition towards excessive emotional attachment and dependency. Processing the feelings that are coming up now is the opportunity to clear that condition.
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THE EMOTIONAL CLEARING PROCESS / Current emotional grief
« Last post by pauken25 on February 18, 2025 »
I recently discovered the emotional clearing process and fell that I've finally found what I was looking for. I stumbled upon some YouTube meditations that were very effective and brought up lots of emotion. The question that I have is that since I am now dealing with a very painful breakup that I did not initiate, the only emotion that I can access is the current pain and rejection, which is extremely intense, since my wife was triggered by something and abruptly devalued me and wants no contact.
Since the process deals with suppressed emotions, I'm wondering how to practice, since my emotions are not suppressed.
Once I enter the alpha state, the only emotion that rises to the surface is the pain of the rejection. I'm assuming that this pain is so intense, because besides the obvious current situation, I must have a suppressed rejection and inadequacy emotions. Is this projection, or just the pain of my current situation?
Any advice?
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THE EMOTIONAL CLEARING PROCESS / Re: Guided course recordings
« Last post by John Ruskan on January 18, 2025 »
You can use the programs as you see fit. Whatever you intuitively feel is probably best for you.
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THE EMOTIONAL CLEARING PROCESS / Guided course recordings
« Last post by ceejay1962 on January 17, 2025 »
The guided course instructions suggests to use the "five conditions" recording for a while after completing the six week course. Is there a specific reason to use this recording, rather than, say, the  "witnessing" session. I quite like that one, as it gives more time to access the third eye at the end, which seems to align more to the books.

I suspect that I'm overthinking this - any thoughts?

Thanks
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Thanks John, I appreciate your response
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This is a common problem. I don’t think you are doing anything wrong. I think it does get better over time as you continue with meditation, breathwork, and bodywork if that appeals to you. In our terminology, we would say it relates to dormant right-brain capabilities. I briefly discuss how to, over time, stimulate the right-brain with general activities in the beginning of the Deep Clearing book, but one of the best ways is to develop a dedicated Hatha yoga practice, which of course I also talk about in the books. If you are overlooking yoga, I would recommend this to start developing feeling ability.

The essential point of a yoga practice is to keep your attention focused on BODY SENSATIONS as you hold the poses. It's not about doing the poses correctly as much as feeling in the body what’s happening as you do them. These body sensations are a type of feelings that are generally easily accessible. As you focus on them, you are training and developing your capacity for feeling in general and this starts to tie into emotional feelings. The poses can also contribute to emotional releasings.

There is a page on the emclear.com site about the yoga connection, where I explain how to proceed and have a suggested sequence. You don’t need yoga studios, except maybe for a ‘Yin’ class.

As you are feeling body sensations, you should be conscious of whether you are in ‘the moment’ or not. Being in the moment is what you develop with meditation practice. It’s where the mind / thinking / left-brain completely stops, and you are focused completely on a body or emotional feeling or maybe nothing. That’s when suppressed feelings can pop into view and then you apply the EC Process to them. If you are still in the left-brain, perhaps even unconsciously, that can keep the right-brain unaccessed and prevent emotional feelings from coming forward. So that’s another way of looking at the basic problem – left brain is still dominating.
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Dear John,

I've found both of your books deeply insightful, and they've been valuable guides on my personal journey. However, I'm struggling with accessing and experiencing my emotions and feelings.

Despite knowing that I carry significant pain and suppressed emotions (which is reflected in my current life circumstances), I find it difficult to connect with these feelings. I'm practicing all the recommended techniques - maintaining a calm mind, breathing slowly, and cultivating witness consciousness through meditation. Yet when I try to access these emotions, it often feels like there's nothing there to find or feel.

I'm wondering if I might be doing something wrong in my approach. Could you offer any guidance on this? Could this just be part of the learning process? Maybe I need to be patient as I develop my emotional awareness over time?

Best regards

Charlie
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