Like Drs Goleman and Damaso, Shapiro recognizes: ” that powerful

negative emotions can serve an adaptive role, such as impressing upon us how to avoid danger. Shapiro believes that our information-processing systems provide a natural method for integrating distressing events, allowing us to maintain mental and physical balance and to function effectively. However, she believes that strong emotional events can overwhelm our natural mechanism and cause the processing to become stuck in our nervous system.”

The above has made me a fan of Cognitive Therapy. ” Cognitive Therapy ultimately changes our emotional responses by changing our core beliefs.”
“Core beliefs are the inner instruction manual we unconsciously refer to in order to determine our responses. They are the source of the ingrained automatic thought patterns that dictate our responses to daily events and circumstances. Our automatic thoughts trigger our responses so quickly that we often register only the emotions, and not the thought that provoked it.”
” Changing thoughts through Cognitive Therapy is not for sissies. It is kind of like bending steel, mechanically shaping through sheer will and effort. It takes the unproductive thought and slowly bends it so that it’s altered.”

The good news is that ‘Instant Emotional Healing’ offers practical exercises to help. “We are not working to change the stubborn thoughts themselves. We are clearing the disturbance in the body’s energy that keeps them trapped and produces the physical stimulus that leads to emotional distress. We are clearing a path by which they can exit.”