What's New on WHR (Sep 2010)

WHEE-kly articles from July 2010

Creating and Holding A Space for Healing; Your Inner Self Knows the Answers

The careseeker often comes with the expectation that the caregiver will provide the answers to what is causing the problem and the best recommendations for what to do about it. This is particularly true in conventional medical care.

Even when they are ready and eager to share their experiences, views and opinions, careseekers often complain that their doctor does not want to listen to them. This is not an isolated complaint. A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 1984 reported that doctors listen to patients on the average for eighteen seconds before interrupting them.

This is not a new problem. Sir William Osler, at the beginning of the 20th Century recommended to his students and colleagues, "Listen to the patient. He is telling you the diagnosis."

 

I Can't Believe WHEE Can Work So Quickly and Deeply - Part 2

Another consideration when people appear to be ambivalent or opposing a change is to explore whether the person is compliant or defiant. Most therapeutic interventions are based on the expectation that people will go along with the caregivers' suggestions, recommendations and prescriptions. While this is generally true for the majority, there are significant numbers of people who are somewhere on the spectrum of "cussedly independent – oppositional – defiant."

Another giveaway is a smile when people are telling you about how the change was short-lived or only partial. My experience is that confrontation over the smile works only with those who have been in therapy for a considerable time and who have a substantial capacity for self-reflection and insight. Insights offered in therapy are often denied, become the subject of disagreements and arguments, or are thoroughly and denied by those who are defiant.

 

I Can't Believe WHEE Can Work So Quickly and Deeply - Part 1

WHEE works so quickly and deeply that it can be disconcerting and unsettling to people who find immediate, profound relief for seriously troublesome problems that have been present for a long time. One of the ways of dealing with this discomfort is to discount the improvements WHEE has produced. Common statements I hear repeatedly are:

"There must be something more behind this [pain or other symptom]."
"It can't be this easy!"
"I don't believe this could last."

 

Using WHEE for the Memory of Chronic Pain When the Pain Is Not Present

WHEE is amazingly helpful in dealing with chronic pains of all sorts. Grateful users of WHEE report that physical and emotional pains, even when they have been present for decades, can be released very rapidly.

Even with such long-standing pain there are underlying messages that the unconscious mind is working diligently to get us to address. The pain is actually a meta-messenger from the unconscious mind, like a telephone ring, to get our attention. After learning the messages that the unconscious mind wants to have us address, we can then use the WHEE combination of affirmations and tapping to release even more of the pain.