The emotion code

[coblerb]

I recently read the book "The Emotion Code" and have been seeking treatment from somebody trained on the process. The results truly have been beneficial. The basis of the book which is much better explained by the book but I'll give it a try, is that throughout our lives we all experience emotions and some of these emotions become trapped within us. After a while the trapped emotion can begin to cause physiological symptoms, and that through releasing them we can heal the emotional and physiological problems. There are many modalities to release such emotions (Western medicine uses talk--therapy and psychotropic meds), but this book uses magnets. I think it's a great book for anyone to read even if it just gives you a different perspective, but for me I have noticed many significant changes in my thought processes and in how I feel.

[mammaP]

That sounds interesting coblerb, I haven't heard of that before. 

[JanCarol]

It sounds similar to the Jungian "shadow self" - the emotions we "do not want" are stuffed away within us, and become the source of much havoc in our lives as they are undealt with, unprocessed.  Each shadow emotion has a bright side that gets locked away with it, for example, when you lock away arrogance, you also lock away self-esteem.  By gently processing them in a safe space (you cannot take them out and look at them in social settings or at work, you have to do it otherwise), you can redeem them, and channel the dark side of the emotion (in this case arrogance) to utilize the bright side (self esteem).

 

Beware anyone wanting to sell you magnets.  They're cute toys but my "BS detector" goes off when I hear a theory of personality to be fixed by magnets, "charged water," Tachyon, or even "special meditation CD's, only $50 each!"  

 

I believe that if psychiatry had followed a more Jungian rather than Freudian model of healing, we would have more awareness of these states of consciousness, and the archetypes to free them.  (not saying it's perfect, merely better)

 

And when did it become all mechanistic, anyway?  When the oil and pharmaceutical companies took over the AMA?