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Emotional Clearing: An East / West Guide to Releasing Negative Feelings and Awakening Unconditional Happiness [Paperback]

John Ruskan (Author)
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May 15, 2006
Turning Western psychology inside out, this groundbreaking book shows you how to release negative feelings once and for all.

After years of teaching his Integrative Processing Therapy technique, John Ruskan explains his revolutionary and highly successful self-therapy, designed to enable personal happiness and fulfillment, improved health and relationships, and growth on the path to enlightenment.

With an emphasis on feelings as they are happening right now, Emotional Clearing presents a guide to inner work for experiencing and accepting feelings, and finally releasing them.  Contrary to the Western philosophy in which the expression of feelings is the route to their clearing, Ruskan shows how talking about and acting out negative feelings do not ultimately provide relief.  In fact, these activities can reinforce the very feelings you wish to resolve.

Emotional Clearing teaches you how to get past incessant thinking and reframing of emotions, and get to the core feelings underneath.  It presents an enlightened program for taking responsibility for feelings, opening to them, and experiencing them fully in order to have them cleared from the subconscious, where they have been building and causing havoc.  Combining the Eastern spiritual healing principle of acceptance with the Western idea of the subconscious, Ruskan's theory is a radical departure from the Western paradigm that negative feelings must be disposed of actively.

Covering topics such as feeling through the body, the centers of consciousness and addiction, direct experience, transformation, practical inner work, and breath work, Emotional Clearing will help you integrate your emotions and achieve the functional and spiritual goals you've only wished you could attain.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Ruskan's background as a yoga teacher informs the best (and shortest) part of his first book: clear, detailed instructions for breath, meditation and yoga exercises. Originally self-published in 1993, the rest of this too-long tome offers a mix of familiar New Age thinking posing as psychotherapy. Ruskan espouses "self-therapy" based solely on his personal experience, recommending "accepting dualism" (i.e., taking the bad with the good) and "experiencing feelings" rather than expressing or suppressing them. His counseling method, called "integrative processing," promises the "clearing" of repressed emotions, prompting positive change in one's self, life and relationships. Ruskan adamantly opposes medications for depression and other disorders (a label he rejects) and condemns seeking the roots of emotional pain or self-defeating behaviors in childhood experiences; instead, he relies on astrology and past-lives speculation. Despite the subtitle's claim, there is nothing "groundbreaking" in either the vintage humanist practice of "getting in touch with your feelings" or the integration of Eastern practices and philosophies into Western thinking. At best, Ruskan provides some food for thought and useful exercises, at worst, some potentially dangerous advice for people with serious emotional problems. Agent, Diana Finch of Ellen Levine Literary Agency. (Jan.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Praise for Emotional Clearing by John Ruskan:

"Ruskan has achieved a difficult task, clarifying the interface between Western psychology and Eastern Spiritual tradition."
--Dr. Harville Hendrix, author of Getting the Love You Want

"John Ruskan has accomplished a great work. Step by step, he has clarified a method of self-work that can truly open the way to well-being, wisdom, and the recovery of love for oneself and the world."
--Robert K. Hall, M.D., cofounder of the Lomi School of Psychotherapy

"John Ruskan's Emotional Clearing is a fresh, original work that offers valuable insights to persons seeking tools for self-therapy as well as to professional therapists.  I hope this cutting-edge work will find a wide audience."
--Martha Crampton, Ph.D., director of New York Open Center's Program in Integrative Therapy

"This work is both thoroughly conceived and personal.  A very helpful approach to self-therapy emerges from processing the emotional dialogue between mind and body.  Rarely is Eastern wisdom presented in terms that can be so easily understood by the Western mind."
--Terry Hunt, Ed.D., coauthor of Emotional Healing

"I appreciate what John Ruskan has undertaken in Emotional Clearing and wholeheartedly support him and it.  There is no doubt that the tools and insights presented in this book are vital to anyone who is on a journey of self-actualization."
--Richard Moss, M.D., author of The Black Butterfly and The I That Is We

"Ruskan's book is full of useful insights into emotional healing, and he deserves a wide audience among both psychotherapists and yogis alike."
-- Yoga Journal --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 316 pages
  • Publisher: R. Wyler & Co; Rev Exp edition (May 15, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0962929530
  • ISBN-13: 978-0962929533
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #103,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have used the focusing technique that John Ruskan so eloquently describes in his book. Be aware that it does take some effort, commitment and time. But I agree with the other people who have reviewed John Ruskan's book and say that his technique will change your life. I know that sounds like a paid advertisement, but try the technique over a period of time and see if you don't agree. Not only will you no longer feel like a victim but you will realize that you have everything you need to change and heal inside of yourself.

I have recently started using a similar technique, General Sensate Focusing, which I now prefer. The complete book is located on several websites maintained by Dr. Ilan Shalif. Everything I have said about John Ruskan's book applies equally to the technique taught by Dr. Shalif. It is just a matter of preference and convenience as you can print Dr. Shalif's book off one of his websites.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Having read many self-help books, one tends to become jaded after a while--after all, it seems to work for the writer, but doesn't really work for the reader, right? Not this book. "Emotional Clearing" is the most life-changing book I have ever read to date. The author, John Ruskan, writes in simple terms which, at the same time, seem so important, how can they be this simple? Yet, this book works, his writing works, his method works. Surprise! And, even better, the methods he teaches the reader are easy to do, understand, and continue long after you finish it. That is what sets this book apart from others: the extended use of its methods to accomplish real life change.

Warning: After reading this book, never again can the reader in all honesty blame others or even him/herself again! And please don't read it unless you want real change in your life, and don't recommend it to anyone else you don't want to see change. Just keep going along the way you are now and forget this book!

I'm glad I didn't
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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This is truly an extraordinary book for any spiritual seeker. I have read literally hundreds of books on transformational psychology and Eastern spirituality, but this work is both superior and more applicable to daily life. Ruskan describes in detail a transformational path that you can commence immediately and if you follow his instructions, meaning not to analyze, blame or intellectually mediate, you will experience the liberating effects of this meditative approach. It is groundbreaking!
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great book for understanding yourself and finding help for negative...
Mr. Ruskan is not a light read, and you better have an open mind, this is not Dr. Phil's sugar coated capsules. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Zithic
Good help for helping deal with emotional releases
I was recommended this book and the descriptions of the chakras alone was worth every penny. Kind, gentle, non traumatic approach to helping clients who have emotional connections... Read more
Published on November 8, 2009 by bodyworker
The Goods.
This book is what it is: an unambiguous & insightful summary of why & how we struggle so much. I'm still reading it (trying to savor every sentence), but I doubt I've ever been... Read more
Published on August 30, 2007 by William H. Beacham
This is a very good book.
John Ruskan has put together a very well thought out system of understanding feelings, karma and life. Read more
Published on January 29, 2007 by M. G. Harris
Psychoanalysis + Yoga = Emotional Clearing
If Freud were a proponent of yoga, many more people would be doing "Emotional Clearing" these days. The idea of discovering and re-experiencing highly emotional memories to... Read more
Published on July 10, 2005 by RocksteadyBebop
Enthralling!
Emotional Clearing is my bible! Truly an amazing work. I have read it three times, and each time I read it I learn something new.
Published on August 15, 2004 by M. Kugler
Excellent for the very sensitive seeker
Do you recall which books had a profound effect on you and still look for the other one yet to come which might still open another crack in the cocoon engulfing you? Read more
Published on November 28, 2000 by Al Ameen
how to finally take the brakes off
I bought this book six years ago and unfortunately at the time only scanned through it, not absorbing some of the main points presented in the early chapters. Read more
Published on September 28, 2000 by Great Scott
Begin the begin...
This book is a great tool to understanding the patterns of the human condition. I have read many interesting books about how we make our lives miserable, but what we are striving... Read more
Published on March 6, 2000 by Frank Hannah
Profoundly Helpful
I am not sure Western culture has ever known what to do with the most sensitive among us. This book is destined to be a catalyst for discovering effective and compassionate ways to... Read more
Published on February 21, 2000 by Linda Bryant
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blameful expression, suppressed negativity, toleration point, dualistic experience, suppressed subconscious, suppressed energy, suppressed material, dependent love, core feelings, suppressed pain, emotional clearing, connected breathing, feeling center, suppressed energies, addictive cycle, suppressed feelings, breath techniques
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Higher Self, Integrative Processing, Lower Self, Dualistic Core Feelings, Key First-Level Negative Emotions, New Age, North Node, South Node
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