This is a summary of the book Mental and Emotional Release (MER) by Dr. Matt James. MER works as a near subset of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) which the book doesn't really cover much but is more fyi in case you want to look it up. MER is a guided meditation that can be done by oneself or by another person. The author claims that MER has healed all types of physical, mental, and emotional issues quickly and permanently. I've just started using it and it seems to help people so far.
To start there are a couple things that are important to understand:
Our first experience of an emotion sets a pattern of how we experience that emotion in the future, named a Gestalt. Releasing the emotions from the first experience disrupts the pattern and allows for the release of subsequent experiences of the same emotion.
Emotions can only be experienced in the present. We can't experience emotions in the future as they haven't happened yet although we can experience emotions about the future in the present.
Engaging in degrees of visual dissociation allows for enhanced processing without getting overwhelmed.
MER is a guided meditation about your life timeline. You picture (or feel) your timeline and allow yourself to float back to the first time you experienced a particular emotion or belief that you want to get ride of. This can be before, during, or after your birth (reincarnation and generational ties have been cited to have healed people in this process. If you don't believe in that, just let it be a metaphor your mind is using to process). Once identified you allow yourself to float back a bit further on the timeline to before you experienced the emotion. You then ask your subconscious mind if there is anything you need to learn from the experience or if you're ready to let the emotions be released. If you need to learn something from the experience, repeat asking what needs to be learned until the subconscious is ready to release the emotions. At that point direct your subconscious to release the emotions from the event until they are all gone. Once they are, position yourself in your timeline to float above the event and release again, then place yourself in the event and do the same. Float through your remaining timeline releasing all emotions of that type until the present moment. That's the general structure of MER.
In order to do MER, you release 5 specific emotions in the order listed: anger, sadness, fear, hurt, and guilt. For each emotion you repeat the exact same process until all are done. If any remaining events or beliefs are causing distress after addressing the main 5, repeat the same process for the specific emotion or belief.
Dissociation is used to help the process. For people who are able to visualize their timeline, it is suggested to use one's elevation above their timeline to facilitate release. In other words, if it's too distressing, float up higher above your timeline until you feel comfortable enough to release it.
If an emotion is not being released it's suggested to either go back further in the timeline assuming that there must've been a previous experience at work, ask the subconscious if there is something that needs to be learned from the experience before release is possible, and use height to dissociate from the experience more. Other techniques to promote relaxation may also be integrated as applicable.
PTSD and phobias use an extra visualization when they arise in the timeline of a given emotion or belief. The meditation is to visualize oneself watching their experience as if in a movie theater from the perspective of a second self in the projector room of the theater. The scene is played from start to finish in black and white in this fashion. Then, the individual goes into the event itself and plays it backwards in color. The meditation vacillates between the first and second viewpoints until all emotion is released from the trauma or phobia.
As an incredibly simple meditation I don't see how this method can do anything but help and thus far it's helped people who have been resistant to other methods of healing. Might as well give it a try and see if it works.
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