READ SAFETY QUESTIONS FIRST!
1. THE SET UP
● You mentioned that something is bothering you or doesn’t feel right.
● I invite you to get a hand towel and put it down by your side.
2. THE PROBLEM
Localize the feeling in the body
● Where do you feel it, notice it?
3. BUILD THE METAPHOR
● If it were something you could touch or see, what would it be?
● What color is it? What is it made of?
● Is It hard? Soft? Is it hot? Cold?
[FACILITATOR NOTE: You want to get to at least one adjective and noun e.g.,
“sharp spike,” or “stinky black ball.” This becomes the <symbol> that they’ll
remove.]
● I invite you to really let yourself feel this <symbol>.
4. INTENT OF THE METAPHOR
● What does the <symbol> want to do to you?
5. THE COMMITMENT: GET OUT COMMAND
● What do you want to have happen to the <symbol>?
[FACILITATOR NOTE: Get the man to explicitly state that he wants the energy out
of him]
● We have a process that will help you remove it.
● Do you want to do that?
[FACILITATOR NOTE: Be conscious of who’s working and their physical and/or emotional limitations. Do they have any injuries? What archetype/stage of life are they in? If he’s an Elder, using Warrior energy may not be the most appropriate. Ask questions, be aware and get creative. An Elder may just need to set it down or let it go. A young or middle-aged man may need to push it out 3 times or more with explosive Warrior Energy! A good facilitator is curious and adaptable.]
I invite you to once again feel this energy in your body.
● In a moment I’m going to have you take that energy, the energy of this <symbol>, and you’re going to transfer it into the towel. Are you ready to do that?
● Pick up the towel and hold it with both hands next to the area where you feel this energy, this belief, in your body.
● Begin to apply a twisting pressure to the towel. As you do, begin to move this energy from your body into the towel.
● Do that now, move the energy of the <symbol> from your body into the towel.
● Now, I want you to summon up to 25% of your power and begin to apply more twisting pressure. Notice as you do that, the <symbol> starts to shift. Apply some more pressure and continue to move that <symbol> to a position in front of your chest. Begin to move this <symbol>, this energy, up in front of your chest.
● Feel the impact of carrying this <symbol>, feel the cost.
● Now, with this <symbol> held firmly out in front of you, in front of your chest, begin to amp up the pressure to 50%. Do that now. <pause>
● Give it a sound, a transformative sound. And focus all of your intention with your eyes, focus all of your intention on shifting this energy out of your body so it’s up in front of you, where you have power over it.
Now give it 75% of your power. Feel that power in your hands and notice the <symbol> is now moving and transforming within the towel under the influence of your power.
● Notice that the <symbol> is now completely under your power.
[FACILITATOR NOTE: Match the energy of the Man Working; think about an increasing energy with the person building toward a peak in which he fully transforms the symbol into whatever and wherever he wants it to be.]
● Now, are you ready to be fully free of this <symbol>?
● Go to 100% pressure, 100% of your power. Give it all you’ve got!
[FACILITATOR NOTE: If necessary, continue to encourage the Man Working using some of the following phrases.]
○ Do it now. Make a sound. Use your eyes.
○ Get it done now!!! Don’t stop until you’re free of this <symbol>.
○ It’s working, keep going, don’t stop now!
● Now, when you’re ready, use all that power, push it away from you and release the towel.
7. COMPLETE EXTRACTION
[FACILITATOR NOTE: Wait for a signal from the Man Working that he’s done; watch for the energy to subside and he goes quiet. Follow up with]:
● Is it all out? [If no, repeat until it is.]
8. HEALING ENERGY
● Notice what that void feels like now.
● What healing, supportive energy would you like to fill that space?
● Name it and bring it into your body.
● Anchor this energy.
9. RITUAL FOR SYMBOL DISPOSAL
[The man may want to dispose of it in a ritualistic or symbolic way.]
● What needs to happen to the <symbol>?
10. COMPLETION:
● From this space, do you have an affirmation or stretch?
● Are you complete?