Separating Your Emotions

All Courses Reprogram Your Primitive Brain60-03 · Separating Your Emotions

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A Tangled Mass Is Hard to Process

When tapping seems stuck or emotion becomes a bottleneck, several feelings may be woven together. Anger may cover hurt, loss, fear, or grief. Disappointment may include shame, resentment, and longing.

Imagine a bowl of spaghetti and gently draw the strands apart. You are not rejecting any feeling. You are creating enough distinction to work with one at a time.

Tapping: One Strand at a Time

Side of the Hand: Even though so much is coming up together, I appreciate
that my system may trust me enough to show me more, and I do not have to handle
it all at once.

Top of the Head: This tangle of emotions.
Eyebrow: Anger, hurt, fear, grief, and disappointment.
Side of the Eye: I can separate the strands gently.
Under the Eye: Which feeling is most present right now?
Under the Nose: Where is it in my body?
Chin: What specific event or aspect belongs with it?
Collarbone: The other feelings can wait without being abandoned.
Under the Arm: I am giving one emotion clear attention now.

Specificity Restores Choice

After one strand shifts, check what remains. The next emotion may become clearer, or the whole tangle may loosen. Pause if capacity is reached. More material appearing is information, not an obligation.

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Module 1 — Engaging the Primitive Brain

Module 2 — Safety and the Primitive Brain

Module 3 — Taking Steps

Module 4 — The Heavier Emotions

Module 5 — Primitive Brain Reactions

Module 6 — Breaking Through and Moving Forward

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