the Emotional Clearing Process

Interview with Brendon Fitzgibbons. John discusses his personal background and how he left engineering for a career as a musical artist and consciousness-seeker. The discussion goes on to examine the theoretical foundation for the Emotional Clearing Process that John conceived in the 1990’s, based on a fusion of Humanistic Psychology and Eastern Mindfulness Practice. John explains the 4 steps of t...

A dramatic artistic presentation featuring Gurudev Amrit Desai and the late John Harris of WBAI New York radio. John Ruskan reads excerpts from his book MOON WALKING and performs the music. From John Ruskan: This episode is the last of the first series of the Emotional Clearing Podcast. When I started this project last year, my goal was to post a year’s worth of interesting episodes about holistic...

From John: Usually, my client work is focused on the Emotional Clearing Process but in conjunction with that I sometimes take clients through a Spirit Releasement session if I feel it would be helpful. Spirit Releasement is concerned with out-of-body psychic entities who have attached to a person and negatively influence them. You have to have an open mind and be somewhat metaphysically inclined t...

The purpose of regression is to access memories that are linked to present-day experience. Regression usually starts with a quick glimpse during meditation or hypnotic trance. EC work is present-oriented, the past is projected on to the present, so that we don’t necessarily need to go back to the past. Present-day feelings are an accurate picture of past experience, therefore working with the pres...

In this EC therapy session, the client’s voice is not audible, but you can still follow along as John verbally reflects the client’s statements: What do we expect to get out of our relationships, and then get resentful when we don’t get it. You have to let go. Even if you are working on the level of manipulation, you have to give the impression of letting go, of not clinging, in order to not drive...

Bringing presence to chronic body pains. Vipassana. Severe anger from noise disturbance overhead in apartment building. Grief from an emotionally abusive and distant mothering experience. Emotional neediness and attachment to children and pets. What is emotional balance? The 2 stages of EC work. Transcending the dualistic positive-negative syndrome.  For a complete explanation of the Emotional Cle...

Excerpt from an EC Facilitator Training: The three types of feelings; How to work with a porn addiction – find the core feelings behind it and process those. Anger with your pet. The experience of invasion and being disrespected and helplessness. Moving into a sense of timeless presence with the experience, in the body. Getting out of the mind, into the moment – your meditative capacity, beyond ac...

In this session, the client’s voice is not audible, but you can still follow along since John always verbally reflects the client’s statements: She’s taking over sexually. In a power struggle, either you feel controlled or you are fixated on being dominant. The ideal might be to alternate power roles, in sexual activity for example. The tendency to relinquish power may have started in childhood. M...

What is Spirituality? Oneness is a central concept. As we go more and more into ourselves, we realize our oneness. Any idealistic concept we hold in our mind about spirituality is self-projected and limited. We condition ourselves into a false notion of spirituality and suppress those parts of ourselves that don’t match. The spiritual tools that we often acquire are inadequate to help us on an emo...

A 10 minute talk followed by a 15 minute guided Breathwork meditation Breath brings in Prana, the basic psychic energy of the Universe. Breath relieves stress and negative emotions. Breath has several components: 1. Breath in and out through the nose. 2. Progressive fill from bottom to top. 3. Breathe in and out 4:4 slow rythem. 4. Tongue on roof of mouth. 5. Letting-go on the exhale. 6. Connected...

Interview with Victoria Wizell. How John came to write his book / Why do people resist emotions? / The problem of suppression / What is depression? / How suppression leads to addiction / Working in the alpha-hypnotic state / Can repressed feelings lead to cancer? / Being ashamed of feelings / How genuine spiritual growth occurs / How and why we attract our experience - the purpose of Karma For a c...

Working with emotions/feelings is the foundation of effective psychotherapy. Trance, hypnosis, and meditation are all basically the same – coming into an Alpha brainwave (8-13 cps) state or lower. Alpha is characterized by a relaxation of mental activity. Hypnosis is usually centered around making suggestions to alter behavior. Emotional Clearing meditation, however, does not attempt to reconditio...

Q & A from workshop participants. Unfortunately at times it becomes difficult to hear participants because of recording limitations, but you can still get a lot from the  talk. John discusses all the ways we self-reject and prevent feelings from clearing. For a complete explanation of the Emotional Clearing Process please refer to DEEP CLEARING by John Ruskan on Amazon books. https://www.emcle...

This is an excerpt from the EC Facilitator training. Psychic negativity builds up in the body and eventually manifests both as distressful emotions/feelings and  physical symptoms/disease. Working with the physical becomes working with the emotional/psychological. The first principle is coming into the moment with body sensation. Connecting to the associated chakra. Bringing in Light or Earth ener...

Witnessing: shifting consciousness with the Third Eye / Breaking identification with the lower self ego / Grounding practice / The possibility of overwhelm / Ineffective, suppressive meditation / Working with depression / Emotion & Art / The 3 stages of creating art / Finding the subconscious in the art / The manic-depressive art experience / Bodywork / John's music: Day By Day For a comp...

The problem with focusing on the positive / How and why does the negative suppressed subconscious attract events? / Expression is not the answer / What is wholeness and integration? / Is Emotional Clearing effective? / Chronic victim mindset / Example of unworthiness and financial issues / Acceptance and wholeness / John's music: Tibetan Lament For a complete explanation of the Emotional Clea...

How world circumstances are a reflection of the collective inner consciousness. How we can use the current world chaos productively to stimulate clearing in ourselves. The advanced spiritual principles that we teach will not be easily accepted by everyone. Inner blocking of suppressed negative feelings also blocks positive experiences. John’s experience as an artist in NYC, being caught in an addi...

Traditional (not power) Yoga, Breathwork, and Meditation as the foundation of a body-based practice for emotional well-being. Focusing on lower chakras to release sexual abuse suppressed feelings. Lower body contractions to stimulate and clear lower chakras. A mini session starting with the Emotional Clearing Induction, but this abbreviated sample session does not go into details concerning specif...

Witnessing is a powerful tool for moving into Spiritual Awareness. Relaxing the mind is a prerequisite to shifting into the Witness. Incessant goal orientation prevents us from going into a deeper experience of ourselves, and moving into the moment. Normally, we are enmeshed or unconsciously identified with our feelings. Moving into Witness consciousness dis-identifies us with the feelings and emo...

Feelings and emotions have became trapped in the subconscious, affecting us and even attracting negative events through projection, or Karma. The three feeling levels: Core feelings, first-level emotions, and reactive emotional impulses. There is always a core feeling behind any active negative emotion. Inner negative energetic holdings can be first discovered through body sensations. The dualisti...

Take advantage of negative world conditions to clear negativity inside yourself. Psychically shield yourself and stay in the Witness so you are not overrun by negativity. The attachment-aversion syndrome. Understanding Bi-Polar behavior. Mis-using creative activity to avoid the negative. VanGogh’s addiction to his art as a means to escape from loneliness. Looking at childhood trauma in terms of at...

Speaking with blame and indignation in your voice. Blame gets in the way of psychological healing, regardless of the conditions you encounter. Taking responsibility for personal qualities, assuming that feelings are stored in the subconscious and are only being projected upon and triggered by the events. Avoiding judgementalism. Moving to a feeling level and taking the feelings through the process...

Accelerated breath can facilitate dramatic breakthroughs. Does excessive crying indicate trauma release or can it be an avoidance mechanism? Handling hysteria. Working with adolescents. The importance of non-reactiveness. Working with left-brain dominant individuals. For a complete explanation of the Emotional Clearing Process please refer to DEEP CLEARING by John Ruskan on Amazon books. https://w...

Working with the body can bring about emotional release. The psychic-emotional body and physical body appear to merge and we assume that trapped feelings are held in the body. Deepening awareness of the psychic-emotional-physical body leads to awareness of the chakra energy centers, which can be correlated with the types of emotions. Emotions occur in the body, it’s not a mental or thinking experi...

John quotes from Osho about the optimal metaphysical attitude towards the death experience. How it must be allowed for, and that fighting death will work against you. John goes on to introduce the simultaneous incarnation concept, in which multiple incarnations are happening at the same time, from a higher-self viewpoint. For a complete explanation of the Emotional Clearing Process please refer to...