Resolving
Emotional Baggage
There are two
ways to deal with this baggage, from the top-down and from the bottom-up.
Traditional talk therapy is primarily a top-down approach. This is where you learn to re-conceptualize your problem, to use your thinking mind to control your feeling mind, to use your logic and understanding to prevent emotional baggage from the past from interfering with your life. This is an important approach, however the underlying baggage does not actually heal and so problems can develop later on.
The bottom up approach focuses on healing the underlying baggage, clearing the emotional channels so that you can think more clearly. The goal of the bottom-up approach is to eliminate or at least drastically reduce the upset that you feel when you vividly recall the worst parts of the memory. Obviously if you get to the point that you can’t get yourself upset by purposefully thinking of the memory you won’t get upset when something merely reminds you of the memory.
At MCH / Russell Associates, LLC we use a blend of bottom-up techniques that we have refined over the past 15 years. For more information on the approach we use click here.