R E A D I N GSOME CLOSING THOUGHTS ON THEORY AND

PRACTICE

Hi, you.

I hope I’ve been successful in explaining to you what you need to know

in order to try this approach to healing your pain. In closing this course,

I’d like to leave you with a concept that will keep you centered as you

move forward in this process, and that’s a theory which can work with

any diagnosis: Emotion Substitution (ES). Keep this theory in your

pocket as you go forth on this epic and life­saving journey.

Your pain is REAL. Your symptoms are exactly what they are. Your body

may react in ways that are so physical, you can see them, like Mickey’s

swollen ankle. When you have an issue, your diagnosis is your diagnosis.

For example, if you have a bad back, you have a bad back. If you have

IBS, you have IBS. If you have migraines you have migraines. And so on,

and so on.

You can have your diagnosis. We people need our diagnoses; we are

defined by them. We resent being told that pain can be connected with

emotion because it feels like someone is saying that we are making it up,

or it’s our fault, or somehow the agony we’ve been experiencing isn’t

real. If doing this work towards healing means we can't say we suffer

from migraines, it makes us feel as if the lives we've led have been a lie.

We’ve been fighting those migraines for years! We feel stupid.

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I so totally get it, so just remember:

There is simply more than one way to reach the same conclusion. Open

your mind. You can believe you have a bad back because something is

structurally wrong with your back, or you can believe that you have pain

in your back because of a process I like to describe as Emotion

Substitution (ES).

ES a process by which our pain is derived from having too much

emotional suppression in our mind/body system, as you have learned.

When the amount of emotion we need to deal with in our lives and from

our histories reaches a critical mass, and we don't understand how to

manage it without continuing to push it down, we experience ES. Our

emotional overload is channeled into bodily pain, therefore tricking us

into believing that we can control the situation by dealing with the

physical aspect of our pain.

Yet, in the end this doesn’t resolve our pain OR our emotional upset.

When we busy ourselves with doctor's appointments, researching new

treatments, and obsessing about our limited lives, we have an illusion of

control which oddly makes us feel empowered. But the reality of our

lives is that they are miserable when we are preoccupied with pain. Fear

begins to dominate as we define our existence as a function of

navigating around our pain.

The best news, as I have done my darnedest to explain here in this

course, is that ES is a condition which can be treated without medication

or surgery or physical treatments of any kind!

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When we work this program and thereby give a voice to the suppressed

emotions, it's like dipping a ladle into the emotional reservoir of rage,

fear, anger, sadness, resentment, and shame which lives within us, which

has been necessitating the pain… and dumping it out into the loving

universe which is happy to absorb it. After all, we are all the same. In

our deepest nature we desire for other humans to release their pain,

and to heal.

As our bodes adjust to this change, the symptoms associated with our

given diagnoses secede, allowing for a pain­free life. This is the greatest

secret. This is the wisdom of the ages which will set you free. Know it,

own it, use it, embrace it, and take back your bleeping life.

Some closing instructions as you move forward:

1) Follow the directions on the box. Journal every day for 20 minutes

until your pain is gone. If it creeps back in from time to time, just go

back to this practice.

2) Begin by moving through your lists. Put a bullet from one of your lists

at the top of the page once a day, and just JournalSpeak your way

through it until the alarm goes off. It doesn't matter if the bunny trail

starts at your mother and ends at “That time in third grade.” There is no

wrong way to do this.

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3) If you are agitated on any particular day, you can take a break from

the Lists and simply put at the top of the page, “Why am I so angry

today?” and then let it rip. The same goes for “Why am I so sad,

ashamed, embarrassed, scared?” Etc.

4) Remember that pain can move around as you begin to heal. Initially,

this can trick you into believing that something else is “really wrong with

you.” If you started with back pain and after your brave and thorough

work you develop headaches, DO NOT FEAR! This is totally normal. Just

point your laser focus of personal excavation in the direction of those

headaches and bid them farewell. Remember that ES does not

discriminate. Of course you really have a headache. There is just more

than one way to reach the same conclusion.

5) Keep in mind that we hold onto pain for many reasons, one of which

is that it makes it easier to “rest” or feel worthy of other people caring

for us. Talk directly to that wounded child within, and reassure him or

her that you will still be loved. In fact, you can learn to ask for that

nurturing in healthy ways once the pain is not diverting your attention

all the time!

6) Remember always that you are not alone. People just like you and

nothing like you all over the world are suffering the same, right at this

very moment. Your resolve to heal helps them too. We are all

connected.

7) If you haven’t read my other stuff and want to hear my story in detail,

check out my book: The Meaning of Truth. Easiest way to get it:

amazon.com.

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As always, I send you off with a heart full of love, and a spirit which is

fiery and unwilling to let you suffer for one day more than you need

to. Carry on, warrior. I’m so proud of you.

With much love,

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Nicole