How breakthrough sessions work

Imagine that inside your mind you have an emotional filing system. These files contain the stored negative emotion from every memory you’ve ever had. So you have files that contain all of your unresolved Anger, sadness, fear, hurt and guilt.

In normal everyday life our emotional filing system manages to cope with the amount of emotion stored in the files. We can’t go through life without experiencing pain, but for the most part with time to come to terms with things and a supportive environment people manage to get by, we cope.

But in other cases either due to one extreme or traumatic event, or if other traumas are stacked on top of ones that you’re still attempting to process then the files in your mind can become full. this causes a ‘spillover’ and causes us to react to life based on whats in the files rather than what’s happening.

People use phrases that describe what I’m explaining here one of them is

“I’ve had it up to here”

Where is someone pointing to when they say that? Is it their ankle? Their knee? Their elbow?

Or is it just below the top of their head?

What they are saying is their is no room left in the file and if any more (usually anger in this case) goes in they will do another expression.

“Blow my top”

Unfortunately your mind and emotions don’t come with an instruction booklet and they don’t teach this in schools. So when these files become full the things we normally do to avoid pain, distraction, ‘keeping busy’, taking our mind of things, suppression, numbing will usually not work or actually make things worse.

Which emotional file is full determines whether the result is Depression, anxiety, panic attacks.

The key to treating most things is to empty the files and return the person to a mental and emotional clean slate.

This can be done without dropping someone back into a trauma and asking them for a detailed description of what happened and how it made them feel.