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Docresults
02-23-2009, 09:09 PM
Hello Everyone,

Skip has started a great tread on Modeling and I wanted to get this out but I didn't feel Skip's Modeling Discussion was the most appropriate place.

I was coaching a young man this past month who had lost what he considered everything (250 mortgage brokers, a thriving Real Estate business) due to the economic situation in the US at this time. He had been getting coaching from others but he could no longer afford to pay for it. I happen to be a member of ITEX, a barter organization and he contacted me.

He was stuck, unable to do much of anything. He knew in his head all the right steps as he had been receiving great coaching advice about what he should do and the action steps he should take. BUT he just couldn't do anything.

I told him I would be glad to work with him (coach) but that it would be different from any coaching he had ever received before and that it wasn't like the people he was used to being coached by. I told him they were all good coaches but the work we would do would be on a deeper level and have a more profound effect on all areas of his life.

At the end of the 3rd session he talking about all the changes that were taking place in his life and how he wasn't doing any of the heavy lifting (he wasn't doing much of anything, i.e physical action steps.) He wanted to do the work I did as he said it was the most amazing, the most unique coaching experience he had ever had in his life. And I hadn't really done much Matrix with him at that time. I had given him tools to be able to manage, direct and/or eliminate the charge that comes with all emotions so that he could have freedom of choice as to which emotion to use in any particular situation depending on what his goal or outcome was.

I said all that to say the following at the 6th coaching session I gave him a new (for me also) metaphor to model, as it can up in the moment.

A useful understanding of emotions are they are gauges or indicators of where one is heading. However most people experience emotions as a reaction to another person.

So I asked the young man have you been enjoying this mastery of emotions you have been playing with? And would you like to model something that is designed to teach you how to use your emotions more effectively?

"YEAH!", was his response.

I replied, as you are experiencing, 'emotional charges are gauges... indicators' that your body gives you to let you know if you are aligned with who you really are or if you are thinking thoughts that are getting you out of alignment with who you are...

When you get in your car and you are driving down the street, do the gauges on your dashboard indicate or tell you ANYTHING about any of the other cars on the road? Do the gauges on your dashboard indicate whether ANY OTHER car on the road needs gas or oil or water? Do the gauges on your dashboard indicate where any other car on the road should be, do or have? Do they indicate where another car should turn, park or look like? Do they indicate the right color for any other car? Do they indicate how right, wrong, good, bad any other car is on the highway, by-ways or parking lots?

Is there any car the gauges on your dashboard indicate about other than the car they are in?

Well when we think our emotions are telling us if another person is right, wrong, good bad, to fat, to thin, to short, to tall, the wrong color, creed or orientation. Remember emotions are only indicating what's going on with the engine (Mind/body - thinking/feeling) of the one having the emotions. When we think our emotions are telling us... we are not getting it, we are wrong, we are depressed, we're stupid, we're dumb,we're empty, etc. IT can't be true as emotions are ONLY indicators of the thoughts we have been thinking. Emotions are the gauges, the indicators to inform us to choose a thought that feels a little better, that gives a little bit of relief and then think another thought that gives a little more relief and then again, and again until the gauges indicate full and/or balance.

So you may want to model the gauges of my car or if you prefer model the gauges of your car.

To Your Best,
Doc Houston

Poodle
02-23-2009, 11:00 PM
I sure hope our person in Quebec reads your post and can figure it out for himself. What a lovely solution to what the docs label "depression" and how one can over generalize.

Connie
02-23-2009, 11:42 PM
Fill her up! With ethol!

(I don't know why I said that, that's a sound bite from my childhood. My mom getting gas at the gas station--in the pre-pump-yourself days. I also don't know what grade of gas "ethol" was--when I was a kid I thought she was saying "Ethel" as in the woman's name.)

I think I'd like to fill myself up with the highest grade possible. That means surrounding myself with thoughts, ideas, and people that drive (pun) good emotions.

skip
02-24-2009, 12:39 PM
She was saying ethel.

Connie
02-24-2009, 01:15 PM
Okay! :)

From her attitude, I gather that was the "good" gas. :)

skip
02-24-2009, 01:59 PM
My first 'real' job, if you dont count delivering news papers, was as a gas jockey, at 16.

Service stations needed people just to pump gas, so the mechanics could concentrate on working, uninterrupted.

We wore uniforms, including a spiffy hat, cleaned your windshield. checked your oil, tire pressure, gave green stamps for buying our gas, and virtually any minor repair you wanted done.

It was a 'skill position' because the gas nozzels didnt have the automatic cut offs they now have. So you had to be able to 'hear' when the gas was beginning to come up the filler pipe, and shut it off. Otherwise you had gasoline spilled everywhere and a mad customer.

Ethel was an octane grade. If memory serves, the choice was regular at 21 cents a gallon or ethel at 25.

One of the prevailing chauvinistic jpkes at the time was, "I had a job pumping gas until they caught me out back pumping ..."

I was making $4.00 an hour and spent my entire first paycheck on an 8 track tape player and two speakers, for my 1960 Ford Galaxy.

I was the bomb!

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

skip

Poodle
02-24-2009, 05:49 PM
there were those "young ladies" of us that frequented the gas stations to date the so-called jockey and then get a very large discount on our gas if not for free if the owner were not around. :p

You bought an 8 track player. I bought a pair of contact lenses with just exactly enough money left to purchase a Jantzen sweater. That was 9 hours/night every night all summer long. :D

$4/hr. is very close to the minimum wage here now and about double that of those that also receive tips.

Connie
02-25-2009, 10:07 AM
You're still pumping (people up), Skip! And it's a good thing. :)

skip
02-25-2009, 12:04 PM
Yes but now they sound different as the filler pipe gets full.

;)

skip