Once we landed on one unwanted emotion / sensation to be stronger than every other, we did what I call an affect bridge- I asked the client to intensify the unwanted feeling( which often is easier than making it go away) and then following it back to other events in life that resonate with that very same feeling- looking for connected triggers, memories and situations.
I noted that the client found it easy to focus inwards and elicited some subconscious responses- ideomotor calibration of yes / no signals from the fingers of the hands. I used these to ask permission to find the message involved in the unwanted symptoms and to resolve whatever was necessary to make them diminish.
At one point the emotional responses( or the pain) became so strong it blocked further work and when I asked about it the client had an idea about specific life events that may have been involved in creating this pain. When the client indicated a connection to them I switched over to do the Trauma Tapping Technique( TTT) for these events in combination with face Havening with Havening Techniques ®, stroking in patterns over the face around 4 minutes until the symptoms disappeared.
At the same time I used the technique of Swish-patterns from Neuro Linguistic Programming( NLP) to move the visual memories associated with the events into a different position in the visuospatial scratchpad of the clients working memory and making them " foggy "- which seemed to be what the client needed to do for those memories to become harmless. This is an example of working simultaneously top-down( NLP instruction) and bottom-up( Havening the nervous system responses) which is something I find very efficient and that Bessel Van Der Kolk often recommends.
From here we moved into an interesting visualization and metaphor, a soul centered part release in the spirit of Dr Zinser( Soul Centered Healing). In trance she visualized visiting her heart and panicked. It was dead and dark brown and literally scared the shit out of her. After a succession of interventions she did not dare " look again " and we pinned the age of her reaction around 6 years according to her. We moved on to establish a safety mechanism " that her subconscious was certain would be enough "( I never found out what it was) and she subsequently dared to revisit her heart which then " regressed back to the wiggly heart of a young girl " she said " its my heart as if all of my life never happened ".
We reinstalled this new heart and allowed it to " grow back to now " as in her current age, which went well. We then brought her back to every experience where she previously had reacted negatively, now armed with her new heart- and it worked fine. We also took her into the future, into her 117th birthday- here I usually ask my clients to ask themselves, once that they are sure that life