Trump
Imaginary Trump doing the Emotion Elevator process
- You seem to be quite angry again. (becoming aware of the emotion)
- Indeed I am!
- Where in your body can you feel it? (reducing the emotion to a feeling in the body)
- It tightens my head.
- An the reason(ing) is? (becoming aware of the thought fueling the emotion)
- All this sucks. The system sucks, fake news suck, all these shit deals really suck. And the foreigners..they are going to destroy our country, take our jobs, bring in drugs and terrorism.
- And what would you like to do? (becoming aware of the desire fueled by the thought/emotion)
- Ruin the deals, ruin the system, build the Wall. Make America great again.
- Ok. Let us do so! Just in our imagination. Let us take a deep breath, hold it and during that one breath imagine that the old deals and the system fall, fake news turn to truths; Let us see The Wall to rise and America to become great again. And let us tense our heads more. The moment we cannot hold our breath any more, we just let everything go. (reducing the charge through limited allowance of the desire)
- What emotion is there under the angriness? (becoming aware of the next emotion)
- Some kind of uneasiness. As if I would like to run, towards something and ram. Very hard.
- Ok. Le us do it - but just in our imagination. Let us take a breath, hold it as long as we can and during that one breath tense our body as much as we can and imagine that we run toward something and ram as hard as we can. The moment we cannot hold our breath any more, we just let everything go. (reducing the charge through limited allowance of the desire)
- What emotion is there under that? (becoming aware of the next emotion)
- Emptiness. Really weird emptiness, emptiness without any deals at all.
- Let us take one more breath, hold it as long as we can and tense our whole body as hard as we can The moment we cannot hold our breath any more, we let even the emptiness go.
- What is there under the emptiness?
- Peace. Total peace.
- If you now, from this state of peace, think about your desires you had a few minutes ago…what do you think about them now?
- Well, maybe they are not good deals at all. The world might work in a more complex way that I thought. I have to think about it.