This story is about applying The Questions deliberately and specifically to pain.

Georgie came into my clinic at the time I was writing this book, limping up to the house, taking very small steps, bent over in pain. From a previous healing session, I knew that some years earlier she had been in a long term violent relationship.

We cleared a couple of old buried emotions, one of which was panic and then went straight into The Questions about those feelings.

Whose fear is it?" I asked.

"Chloe's" she replied. Chloe is her daughter.

"What do you have to know or do about that" I asked.

Make her feel secure" she replied. A simple answer and some of the fear dropped away, but there was still a little left.

Whose fear is it?" I asked again. And we went through the process five more times, each time the fear got less and less, the last one was just a little discomfort in her solar plexis. Once, the fear was her ex-husband's, twice it was her own fear and once it was related to a place where intense violence had occurred.

Her answers to "what do you need to know or do?" were also simple but effective in getting rid of the rest of her pain.

Can you see how Georgie and her ex's unspoken / unacted upon fear and rage became the other person's reality, like it did with Fred and his friend in the much milder story about the horse? Do you see how, Georgie and her ex-husband fed each other's fear and rage with Escalating Upsets until ugly violence was the result? Neither of them had any idea that their fear and anger were messages from their soul about how to get what they had asked for, which was probably a peaceful and happy life.

Georgie is long out of that relationship as a wife and partner, although she still has a relationship with him as her children's father. Can you see how she could change the whole circumstances of that relationship now and avoid Escalating Upsets by asking The Questions every time she feels angry or afraid?

Georgie got off the clinic table, fifteen or so minutes later, with no back pain whatsoever -- completely gone. And I was left shaking my head at another example of the power of our own minds in hurting our bodies and then the power of our own minds in healing them.