The Emotion Elevator process 2-10 minutes

What are emotions?  They are energy wanting to move ahead, to do something. The body is charged or decharged by arousal of certain hormones, which  cause  changes in body functions like heart beat and muscle tension. We feel that in our bodies and call it with different names like love, hate, jealousy or fear. 

Although we often speak about positive and negative emotions, from the viewpoint of our bodies they are just practical emotions. The body always adjusts itself according to the real or imagined situation. it wants to take care of ourselves as well as possible and does so automatically. 

Every emotion has good purpose and is thus positive. When we (for some odd reason, which is totally unclear to me) started to call some emotions negative, we created fear for some of them. That fear gets us stuck in them, because we resist them and their natural flow. 

Instead of calling fex fear, jealousy and anger negative they could be called protective emotions and fex sorrow a liberating emotion. This little change could open up new ways to understand the meaning and help that emotions bring to us. 

There is a certain cycle or a pulse of energy in our bodies. It is totally natural and fast if allowed to flow its natural way. Let us call it arousal - release - cycle.  Something happens. Our body reacts with interpretation (thought) and starts to rise the content of certain hormones. We feel that in our bodies and call it for an emotion. The hormone content rises, the emotion gets more  intense giving us energy to react if needed. When the situation is over, it sets down. 

Emotion Elevator uses this natural cycle to calm down he body. This is how it goes:

1. See the situation/emotion as it is without any judgement: ”You seem to be angry.”
2. Find the reason(ing) behind that emotion (the thought fueling the emotion): ”For what reason?”
3. Normalizing the emotion and the thought: ”In your situation I would feel and think the same. It is quite normal in that kind of situation.”
4. Reducing the emotion to a bodily feeling: ”Where in your body do you feel it?”
5. Becoming aware of the desire fueled by the thought/emotion:”What would you like to do?”
6. Limited allowance of the process. Letting the body to do what it wants to do during one hold breath: ”Let us take a deep breath, hold it and let the body do what it wants (put more tension on the tensed body parts, do pretended hitting or crying etc) and then let it all go.”
7. Becoming aware of the emotion there under: ”And what emotion is under xxx?”
8. Another round 1-7 until the person says: ”Emptiness. Total emptiness.” (now the body has decharged  itself and is ready to be recharged again)
9. Deepening the process: ” Let us take one more breath, hold it and tense our whole body as much as we can and when we cannot hold it any more, we just let the emptiness go.”
10. Anchoring peace: ”Let us now enjoy this paradise for a while. Maybe we can put our hand on our heart.”
11. Redirecting the future: ”When you now, from this beautiful state of peace think about your desire to (hit, fight, take revenge)….what do you think about it?

Now the cycle is complete and the brain of the person is ready to make wise decisions. Maybe totally new thoughts will be born.

I have never experienced that any other emotions than the basic emotions (anger, fear, sorrow, emptiness and peace) would rise under this process. It is always the whole cycle and there is always emptiness before peace.

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