EMO Case Story: Physical & Emotional Pain - Part Two

This case involved a woman who I was seeing for an unrelated urological problem. I noted on the chart that she had severe fibromyalgia and chronic pain. I asked her about this and mentioned that, while the pain is real, and is due to chronic muscle tension and spasm, and also nerve hypersensitivity, that at a higher level of truth, these things are oftentimes related to life stressors.

She mentioned that her mother lived with her (for the past 20 years), didn't treat her well, and this was a source of ongoing stress each and every day. We did Emotrance for this. I like to keep the setup simple and said, "When you think ABOUT your mum, where do you feel that in your body?" By the way, the word "about" is very trance inducing; it allows the client to go inside themselves, think about things in the special way that they do, and come up with a feeling. She could feel it in her chest, and we did ET for it.

Some helpful languaging that I use involves saying, "Put your hands on where you feel that in your body. I want you to notice the raw, physical sensation, in this moment. We aren't going to label it with the name of an emotion, we aren't going to think about it or try to figure anything out. Just notice the raw sensation in this moment. That feeling is the feeling of stuck or blocked energy in the body. And energy is meant to flow. Gently hold the intention, soften and flow, find a way through and out of me."

We ran this through several times until all blockages related to her mother were gone, then we reached an energized end state. I saw her two months later and she looked like a different person. All of her pain was about 70% better, she was off of all pain medications, and her mom had actually moved out of the house. She had had a few brief conversations with her mother in which she was so powerful and congruent, that her mother changed how she was treating the daughter.