Beyond Emotion Code: When Energies Aren’t Yours or From Your Genealogy

Not for the first or last time, I stretch an energy technique farther than it's designed to go

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When I couldn't figure something out with EFT I figured it was a limitation of the method—but when I couldn't balance something with Eden Energy Medicine, I assumed it was a limitation in myself.

Things Get Weird in a Conference Room

My Year Two classes for Eden Method were held at an adorable hotel in a very cute mini-neighborhood in Phoenix, Arizona. I'd arrived, with my bangin' energy-medicine-themed pedicure (rainbow colors with white infinity signs), ready to delve in and get good at energy theory and powerful techniques. The four-day class consisted of lectures with about 60 students, and practice breakout sessions where groups of 12 or so would practice techniques on each other in smaller rooms with 6 or 8 massage tables crammed into them.

You'd think, knowing I'd never thought I'd be a bodyworker, that the practice sessions would have been the sticky area for me. But no, it was the lectures. Not because of the content! The content is perfection: Concepts made simple, relatable and skilled teachers, approachable vibes, impressive anecdotes.

The problem for me was the chairs.

The room was pretty—for a conference room. And the chairs were pretty, light blue velvety ones. But they were too tall for me. Do you know why? Because conference rooms are for business, and business is for men—hardly for women at all, and definitely not for women who couldn't even bother to grow to at least 5' 6".

The thing about energetic experiences is that it does not matter whether or not your complaint is especially important, or externally seen as reasonable and valid. If an energetic experience is happening, it’s happening.

I was pissed at the existence of conference rooms and everything they stand for. I sat cross-legged on my too-tall chair for much of the weekend and fumed. The material covered that weekend was great, I enjoyed it, and I slept hard. But I started getting a weird buzzy kind of feeling on the left side of the top of my head, and none of the energy techniques I tried could make it feel normal again.

I went home, figuring it would clear up on its own. Lots of weird things do! But no.

Differential Diagnosis of Weirdness with Emotion Code

I started to feel worried. Had I caught something creepy? I had a fearful image of a black predatory thing just squatting on my head. I got a recommendation for an Eden practitioner who could see energy and was skilled at removing "entities" (the category of squatting black thing I feared). We had a session, and the practitioner said that's not what was happening . . . but that something was happening.

Weeks passed. I tried tapping. I did figure 8s with my hands over the area to stabilize it. But the strange, stretching, buzzy feeling persisted.

Then one day in therapy, I asked my therapist to do Emotion Code on it. In Emotion Code, you energy test to see if there is an emotion to be released, and usually the emotion is yours, but sometimes the emotion is inherited through an ancestor.

We tested that there was something to be released from that part of my head, but we couldn't find what it was: Was it mine? No. was it inherited? No. Had I picked it up from someone else, maybe at class? No, no, no, no.

Finally I said, "Is it the emotion of the outgoing archetype of Things That Happen In Conference Rooms that our new ways of doing things is going to replace?"

Yes!

We did the normal Emotion Code procedure to identify and remove the emotions of that archetype, and the sensation I’d had for weeks on my head quieted down to nothing.

From then on, I’ve used this adapted version of Emotion Code testing to identify off-book, seemingly impossible sources of energetic complication in my energetic journey.

A note about “the feelings of archetypes.”

Carl Jung, great early theorist about archetypes, thought (or perhaps, saw) that archetypes form in the collective unconscious when enough individual humans do a thing for it to have a collective identity.

At first, individual people are doing something that doesn’t exist yet as a big thing in the collective, being outliers. But as more people do it, the archetype forms, and exists as a reference for all future people who move in that direction. It’s always faster to become something that people believe in and have a reference for!

But until this weird thing happened to me, I’d never thought about archetypes as being conscious. I’d thought of them as labels for reference, nothing more. But the feelings we (my therapist and I) identified and removed through Emotion Code were emotions I’ve never had to remove before or since. That outgoing archetype is clearly terrified of annihilation. So if you’re somebody who is doing something new that would make a new archetype, this is good to know.

It’s one thing to do something new and just feel bad that it’s not catching on yet. But it’s another thing to realize that part of the shift that is happening is deep in the collective unconscious, and that the thing that needs to make room for your new thing is very, very scared of not existing and will do its best to hang on as long as it can.

So if you’re doing something new, be cool! And keep dropping your gifts onto that big cosmic scale. We’ll all know when the scale tips.

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