Introducing the work of Tom Stone

[Anthony]

I've been familiar with this author for a while now and decided to post a sort of introduction
to his work. It definitely helps with cleaning the machine (the author calls it debugging our inner software).
I'll present two techniques that he introduces, and will post more if asked for.

CORE - Center Of Remaining Energy

We tend to hold the patterns of incomplete
experiences in our bodies. These incomplete
experiences are made of energy and the field of
this energy typically feels kind of like a hurricane.
The intensity of the energy is stronger at the
center and weaker at the edges.

Allowing yourself to experience the core of the
most intense part of the energy of an incomplete
emotional experience is like sky diving right into
the center of the eye of the hurricane. There is a
stillness in the middle of it. It is actually safest and
easiest to place your attention in the center of the
most intense part of the energy of the feeling.

This technique is the most powerful, quick and effective
way of resolving incomplete experiences I have found. When
you put your awareness into the core of the most intense part of
the energy of the incomplete experience, you allow yourself
to complete the experience efficiently. When you stay out
at the edges or even avoid allowing yourself to experience
the energy of the incomplete experience at all, you tend to
hold onto it and it remains incomplete and becomes

Listen to the author guide you - http://greatlifetechnologies.com/audio/CORE_Ex01.mp3
or read my description.

So how you do this excercise is basically, first notice that there is some energy in your body,
become aware of it. Now instead of just being aware, locate the center of it and then dive in, really feel the
center of it, the most intense part. The energy may start moving, it might change in intensity, but just stick with it
for as long as it takes. Your attention should be sharp and pointed directly at the center of the most intense part
of the energy. Your goal when doing this is not to get rid of the emotion but to allow yourself to complete the experience.

The biggest mistake you can make with the CORE Technique is also caused by
our early childhood conditioning. Sometimes, especially when people are first
learning how to do the CORE Technique, they will feel into the feeling for a while
and it will become less. Instead of completing the experience they will open
their eyes and say, “It’s better.” The biggest mistake you can make with the CORE
Technique is to NOT complete the experience of the energy that is being held
there in your body. It is our conditioning—the Core Dynamic of Resisting Feeling
Things Fully that causes us to want to go away from where the feeling is intense.
You feel like you want to stop and not feel it any more under these circumstances.
Therefore, it is very important to understand this dynamic and to keep feeling
down into the center of the intensity of the sensation until there is nothing left to
feel.

Notice that going to the center of the emotion probably doesn't come naturally to you, and
here's the author explaining why.

Most poeple go completely away from where the energy of the emotion is intense due to the
preverbal conditioning of Resisting Feeling Things Fully. When we are very young we all get emotionally overwhelmed,
and I've yet to find anybody who liked that experience. We hate it so much that we make a “feeling-level decision” to
put a lid on accessing our innate capacity to feel in order to try and avoid being overwhelmed. Now it doesn't really work,
we still get overwhelmed, but it's the best we can do as a little kid, and it seems to be a universal reaction:
everybody seems to do this. So we develop a sense of identification with our limited capacity to feel.
And this is a setup for becoming really lousy at resolving trauma, anxiety fear, anger and all kinds of intense emotions.
We become so afraid of being overwhelmed by emotions that we make the decision to do our best to just avoid them.
We become a feeling-avoidant person and this decision is made before we really have developed enough language to put this decision into words.
It is essentially a pre-verbal decision. Now a fascinating thing happens. We grow up a little more and we start to become verbal. We develop language skills and we start to relate to the world in terms of language. We become so fascinated with the new world of language and meaning and being able to communicate ideas and needs and wants that we forget that we made this preverbal decision to Resist Feeling Things Fully because there are no words associated with

Now for some science.

In October 2010 we did a small pilot study with eight people who had post-traumatic stress, very significant anxiety and trauma-type symptoms. This was a one-day, six-hour training for this group. We taught them the CORE and SEE Techniques and we used the techniques to resolve some of the worst of their PTSD symptoms during the six hours.

As you can see in the table, the overall symptom severity reduction was around 63% after the six-hour training. One week later, the symptom severity level went down another 10 points to 73%. This is really remarkable. It takes the Veteran’s Administration six months of their forms of therapy to get a 60% reduction of symptom severity with veterans with PTSD and that is leaving out the worst cases. Those are just the milder cases. The civilians in our study had various forms of PTSD. One woman had her husband die in her arms and she was quite traumatized by that. She had nightmares and many of the common symptoms of PTSD. She reported that her nightmares were gone after this one day training. That was very gratifying. The important point here is that not only does the reduction of PTSD symptom severity last, it gets better over time because they are learning new life skills, techniques that they can continue to use on your own. The techniques are simple enough that you can incorporate them into your life and use them whenever they might be needed. This is not a therapist-dependent model. There is just too much trauma in the world for any therapist dependent model to work. There just aren’t enough therapists to go around. We need to train people to become more emotionally competent.

GAP - Greater Awareness Place

http://greatlifetechnologies.com/audio/The%20GAP%20Exercise.mp3

The GAP Technique shows you how to experience Pure Awareness as the background of silence in which your thoughts occur.

When you notice thoughts occurring in the mind, the next step is to notice that the thoughts are occurring in a background of silence. An analogy may be helpful here. Think of looking up at the sky on a partly cloudy day. You can see the clouds and you can see the sky. The way you see the sky is very simple, you just look off to the side of the clouds and there it is.

The book can be found here - http://www.amazon.com/Live-Continuous-Experience-Wholeness-Experiencing-ebook/dp/B006W7L7LQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382296039&sr=8-1&keywords=Tom+Stone

alternatevly get his Pure Awareness book or The Power of How. I'd stick with the one I posted above since it's
extremely underpriced for the value it brings.

 

[Anthony]

Update on Spindle Cells:

New brain scanning devices have allowed scientists to discover
that certain cells in the brain are responsible for processing
emotional experiences. Experiments were conducted
whereby emotional stimuli were given to subjects while in the
scanners to see which cells were activated. These brain cells are
called spindle cells. The scanners showed increased blood flow to these cells during
the emotional stimuli. These recent findings have now made brain researchers quite
confident that spindle cells are involved with the processing of emotional information

In addition, it was discovered that there are relatively few spindle cells in our brain
during infancy. Thus, we really don’t have a great deal of capacity to feel and process
our emotions – we don’t have the “physical hardware” to do it when are very young.
Between infancy and adulthood there is apparently about a seven fold increase in the
number of spindle cells in the brain – and thus a substantial increase in our capacity
to experience a wider range of emotions. So, essentially as we grow, our bodies and
brains acquire more and more “hardware” for processing feelings. However, due to
our conditioning of Resisting Feeling Things Fully, this increased capacity tends to be
grossly under utilized.

As a result of this under utilization of our innate capacity to feel things fully, we tend to not complete
intense emotional experiences. This tends to cause us to accumulate “emotional baggage.” We
walk around with suitcases filled with these old unresolved, painful, intense feelings still held—
seething inside of us. Whenever life settles down for a few moments, there they are: pressing up to the
surface, wanting to be felt and healed.

Remarkably, as we mature, we acquire the spindle cells necessary to process
our emotions… even the painful ones. But we are running on a three-year-old’s
decision to avoid feeling things fully so, we don’t access and utilize the natural
innate capacities for feeling that we already have.

Session 30, January 2010

(Psyche) I have a question. When we were discussing with I**** some type of cells that are located mainly in the frontal lobe of the brain, it seems that nobody knows what they are for. They are called spindle cells or "von Economo neurons" if I remember the name correctly. What are their function?

A: Consciousness orientation.

Q: (Ailén) Hmm.

(Andromeda) So I guess having a lot of those would be good?

(Burma Jones) So, is that like a registration bin for consciousness to figure out how to keep itself...

A: Energy directors.

Q: (Joe) Can you get more of them?

A: You may.

Q: (Joe) I wonder if those cells have anything to do with the third eye, like when you do the breathing and you look up...

A: Close, more like a "homing device".

Q: (Joe) A homing device for aliens?

A: Wave reader. {Cs refer to souled humans as “Wave Reading Consciousness Units.}

Q: (Ailén) I**** was saying that they're huge cells. Right? (Psyche) Yeah. She was wondering if they could be related to psychopathy, like the lack of those cells...

A: Oh yes.

Q: (Andromeda) Hmm...

(Ailén) She said there were some studies about schizophrenics not having so many of them also.

(Psyche) They have been studied in whales too.

The author did a session with one client using his techniques for trauma release while connecting a client to an ICAP EEG monitoring device so that they might see the effect that the technique had on the client's brain waves.

Here's what it looked like on the screen (with my notations added). The red line is the signal from the first 3 minutes of the exercise. The while line is the scan of the second three minutes. She was starting to get it towards the end of the red line, then even more during the first 30 seconds of the white line. At about 45 seconds into the white line portion of the session she completely let go of the knot of stress that she had been holding onto. Later she said that it was the cumulative stress of the entire past year and that she felt transformed during these few minutes.

[full story here: http://greatlifetechnologies.com/ICAP.shtml]

 

[l apprenti de forgeron]

It seems very interesting. I will read the book. Thanks for sharing, Anthony.