Re: Different Ways to Spin Feelings: A Discussion with Rob Voyle ↑

metanymous 31 мая 2015, 12:09 в посте Metapractice (оригинал в ЖЖ)

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Steve: Interesting. Again this may be the spinning of the words they are saying to themselves, in contrast to the path of the resulting feeling — something to explore further.

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Rob: I have found that spinning the feeling and resolving the negative mantra has been highly effective in treating most anxieties and phobias, especially when the client has no awareness of a precipitating event for such anxiety or phobias.

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Steve: I think there is probably seldom a precipitating event in anxiety; that it is a cumulative generalization based on repeatedly hearing parents or other adults saying things like, “Watch out!” in a high pitched, rapid “urgent” voice in contexts of danger. The urgent tonality is something that is learned unconsciously, and tends to remain unconscious unless attended to.

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Rob: When the person does report a precipitating event such as an auto accident etc. I will use the movie theater phobia cure to deal with that specific event.

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Steve: Sounds good; that is probably actually a separate process, but easy for a client to confuse with anxiety.

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Rob: I don’t use any formal hypnosis in any of the steps. I used to add a brief relaxation exercise that had elements of trance when resolving the negative mantra, to create a relaxed state, but found I don’t need to do that.

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With regard to spinning a feeling, the best experience was just after I had seen you demonstrate it. I was conducting a coach training and was waiting with a couple of participants for the rest of the group to return from an exercise. I took just a couple of minutes to demonstrate and have them experience spinning an anxious feeling, and then the rest of the group arrived and we went on to other things.

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One of the people who had done the brief exercise had to have an MRI several months later and he realized as he was being prepped to go into the tunnel that he was claustrophobic and began to get quite anxious, at which point he remembered what he had done in the exercise and spun his anxiety in the opposite direction; the anxiety disappeared and he was able to comfortably have the MRI.

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Steve: Others have reported successfully using the spinning feelings process for something that we would usually classify as a phobia. Again this would be something to explore further, to find out if spinning feelings is a valid alternative method for a phobia, or if some apparent phobias actually have the structure of anxiety.

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Further Resources:

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Spinning Feelings and Voice Tempo Shift methods, from Nick Kemp

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http://realpeoplepress.com/blog/some-great-new-methods

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The PTSD Training – a complete online course in effective methods for resolving the many aspects of Complex PTSD. Includes instruction and demo of Spinning Feelings.

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http://steveandreasptsdtraining.com/membership-signup/

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Releasing PTSD: The Client sessions – a complete demonstration of working with a client with PTSD. Includes demo of Spinning Feelings.

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http://releasingptsd.com/membership-signup/