The Exploration Insight Process
by Roedy Green ©1996-2008 Canadian Mind Products
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recommend book⇒Gathering Power Through Insight and Love |
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| ISBN10: | 0-915972-13-1 |
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| ISBN13: | 978-0-915972-13-5 |
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| publisher: | Love Line |
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| published: | 1993-01-01 |
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| by: | Ken Keyes Jr. with Penny Keyes |
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| gets down to the brass tacks. All the various exercises you can use to help get rid of addictions. |
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Ken does his deepest discussion of The Exploration
Insight Process in Gathering Power Through Insight and Love.
Sometimes you are extremely upset and may have hundreds of addictions triggering
simultaneously. The EIP (Exploration Insight Process) is a
way to sort it all out so you can work on each addiction individually. The
clarity you gain also helps you feel not so overwhelmed, even if you can’t
manage to reprogram anything.
You can do this orally, with a partner or on paper.
- Describe the incident in a Dragnet Sergeant Joe Friday manner, completely
without any emotion or judgement, just the facts — no motives. Get it down
to one sentence. e.g. A male stranger held a baseball bat over his left
shoulder and shouted "I am going to kill you." When you are done,
a stranger reading your sentence usually would have trouble guessing exactly
what emotion you were feeling and why. e.g.
- Jimmy hung up the phone.
- G. closed the bedroom door.
- R. opened a bag of chocolate chip cookies.
- Mom gave me a bag of licorice all-sorts.
- The man at Rockwell said "Fuck you, we are going to use it anyway".
If you find yourself rambling, answer these questions as tersely as possible.
- Who is involved?
- Where is it happening?
- What is happening?
- What is being said?
- Describe the physical sensations in the various parts of your body, and the
emotions you are feeling. Don’t describe why you feel this way, or what is
happening to make you feel that way, just list the sensations and emotions
(See the emotions list of emotions) e.g. a
prickling sensation in the back of my neck. Stomach muscles tense. Fear.
- What Am I telling myself? Just write down everything running through your mind
without censorship. Don’t be afraid to complain, whine, look ridiculous or
exaggerate. There are no rules here; you can run on for pages and pages. Don’t
try to be conscious. Just tell it like it is. To keep this flow going, ask
yourself questions like:
- How do I want things to be?
- What is bothering me the most?
- What are my models of how things should or should not be?
- If things go the way I want, what does it mean about me?
- If things don’t go the way I want, what does it mean about me?
- What are other people going to think?
- Spend maybe twenty minutes collecting these thoughts, though for a major
addictive snarl you might dedicate a few hours.
- Now go through the material in the previous step and look for addictive demands,
and formulate them in canonical form e.g. I create the experience of fear
because my programming addictively demands that the stranger not hit me with the
baseball bat.
- Then go through that material looking for your positive
intentions, and formulate them in canonical form, e.g. My intention
is to feel safe.
- Now use any of the Living Love methods on the addictions that you found. For
example you might choose to use Pathways 2 and 4, and Centres of Consciousness,
on one addiction, the ICD on another, and link the suffering on a third, and
schedule some EMDR work for a nasty traumatic fourth.
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