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 the Process in detail. For a complete explanation of the Emotional Clearing Process please refer to DEEP CLEARING by John Ruskan on Amazon books. https://www.emclear.com ..read more

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 psychology and the EC Process. That year has now concluded. If you have discovered this podcast anywhere in the middle of the series, I recommend that you go back to the beginning and start with Epis ..read more

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 present is working with the past. The keynote of a regression is the emotional charge associated with it. Childhood events happen in accordance with the child’s karma. Feelings are the bridge into the pas ..read more

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 the other person away. But for ultimate psychological healing, you must move to authentic letting-go, not looking to the future, or hoping for reconciliation. You need to go to the feelings behind th ..read more

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.  ..read more

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 acceptance or rejection. Inducing the energetic transmission to the client. Working with anxiety as a first-level emotion ..read more

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. Marriage is the chance to work out the karmic pattern that first appeared in childhood in this life. A projection usually occurs in marriage. The power struggle is based on the feeling of losing your i ..read more

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 emotional level. We can mis-use affirmations, for example, to try to change our emotional experience. Moving out of the idealistic stage means holding no concepts about ourselves, but just being with wha ..read more

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 Breath ..read more

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 recondition, but the Alpha condition is used to access subconscious suppressed feelings, and then to release them by taking them through the steps of the EC Process ..read more