"Miranda's" First Session

"Miranda" came in yesterday.

Her handwriting told me that in spite of her wonderfully upbeat, positive attitude, something in her past was holding her subconscious attention. Her upper case F was facing backward and she was missing the lower loops of all the letters that should have lower loops. When I asked her to write the letter Yy with attention to the lower loop, the loop she did make was very slanted to the left (the past). Clearly she had some unresolved issues from the past that were impacting her present. She was refreshing in her eagerness to do whatever it takes to reach her goals. Many of my clients say they want things to change but chafe at making changes! Miranda was fine with beginning a daily handwriting practice, incorporating the changes I pointed out.

The downside to "positive thinking" is that people will tell themselves that a difficult situation is behind them and that they're "over it." But all they've done is push their real feelings away so that they "stay positive." Those real feelings of disappointment, grief, anger, etc., carve their initials into the subconscious and tend to become increasingly impactful on our minds and bodies. Dating Coach Jeannine Kaiser calls it, "Slapping a happy-face sticker over it." Miranda could feel the releasing and relaxing effects of the EFT as we tapped on a two-year-old experience.

The other thing we addressed was Miranda's difficulty in allowing her body to relax. A high-energy woman, she's constantly in Go! mode. Generally, when people lie down, they automatically move into a slow, easy diaphragmatic breathing. Even lying down, Miranda's breath was very rapid. We worked for a long time to anchor the therapeutic benefits of slow, rhythmic, diaphragmatic breathing into her body so she could practice it on her own.

Miranda was amazed at how much we packed into our time together and was surprised at how the quickly the minutes flew by. And people wonder why I schedule 90-minute sessions!