The techniques for "Your Emotional Power" were developed over a 20 year period and were further improved by the feedback from associates, friends, and folks posting at the Emoclear Forums. Many of the Emoclear integrators were assembled from parts I either created from observing how people naturally integrate or from segments rooted in ancient indigenous processes and modern day exposure methods. I spent much time experimenting with these techniques and got much feedback during their development from others.

Steve Mensing: "Your Emotional Power" is a user friendly book containing new and improved Emoclear techniques and exercises. These techniques and exercises, while based on well researched approaches like exposure, mindfulness, and cognitive-behavioral methods, are unique in their approach. The integrators and exposure methods contain segments making them more far comfortable to use and able to block emotional resistance. These additions make processing more do-it-yourself friendly and will speed the process of integration and exposure.

Very key to this book is the opening chapter on learning to feel feelings and accept them.

The book also contains "The Creator" an envisioning method combining Milton Erickson's "Miracle Question" with chant visualization a method to make visualization far less challenging for many. The Event Reviewer and the Emotional Writing Process utilize whole brain bilateralism along with written exposure to overcome traumas and emotionally charged events. These processes are unlike anything out there at the moment. They are easy to do and are far more comfortable then other forms of exposure.

"Your Emotional Power" contains simplified methods for changing distorted and self-defeating thinking. A new version of the Belief Repeater will be introduced along with a new thought distortions list with potent questions.

Steve Mensing: A fulfilling life can be found by living according to your core values. This fulfilling life can be increased by eradicating distorted and self-defeating beliefs, by learning to integrate or desensitize emotional blocks to the good life, and by taking action on activities that are important, meaningful, and pleasurable, and by forming close and loving relationships. Living your goals and visions of what you prefer will also enhance your fulfillment. Living a healthy lifestyle of eating well,
exercising, and getting enough sleep also helps.

Steve Mensing: I grew up in Germantown a middleclass neighborhood in Philadelphia. My father was a newspaper editor, the head of the local newspaper guild, a campaign manager for Mayor Joe Clark, the city of Philadelphia's Press Secretary, and was involved in the upper level executive management of several manufacturing and engineering companies. My mother was a hospital dietician and taught dietetics to doctors and nurses at Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. My mother was very nurturing and loving for the first 12 years of my life before a brain disease robbed her of her personality and warm nature. After my father separated from her prior to her brain disease, I became her chief caregiver at age 12. Growing up as the head of the house from age 12 on was extremely difficult and forced me to learn to make decisions, to go within, and to get in touch with my feelings. I became very involved with sports and with my buddies. This period was a major growing time which forced me to pay attention to my inner life and to find resources. This was the start of my interest in emotional growth.

One of the areas that kept me above water was playing football. I started my junior and senior years at Germantown High. During my senior season I contracted mononucleosis which left me exhausted. During the season I lost weight going from 200 lbs down to 156 lbs. I had no energy and my muscles shrunk. Every morning I woke up early with a fever, sweats, and a sore throat. In the afternoon I went to football practice and dragged myself from drill to drill and from play to play. Through discipline I made the most of what I could do and held my starting position for the season. I played each play and drill as if it was my last. I learned through this experience that I could stand anything and stay with it no matter how badly I felt. I utilized my creativity to hold my own despite my overwhelming fatigue. I developed creative ways of blocking to compensate for my lack of strength and energy. This time in my life built within me the sense that I could overcome obstacles. It helped me later to face difficulties and stay tough courses.

After high school I briefly attended a small college in South Dakota for a year and a semester before I traveled to Denver, Colorado where I worked as a bartender and wrote stories, interviews, and poetry for an underground newspaper during the late sixties. After a brief return to Philadelphia, I traveled west again spending three and a half years working as a drilling supervisor at an open pit copper mine in Santa Rita, New Mexico. It was during this time I became a voracious reader and studied mindfulness meditation with a Burmese teacher in Silver City, New Mexico. After this intensive period of going within I returned to Philadelphia where I again resumed college. During the middle part of the 70's I turned toward writing books. In the late 70's and early 80's I wrote and sold several western novels. In the mid eighties I returned to college and finished my B.A. in Human Services and a Masters in Counseling. Counseling had become a passion. In 1986 I sold an amateur astronomy book and started work in the counseling field working at Spruce Hill Counseling and later as a counselor in private practice. During this period I became interested in emotional processing. I began collecting emotional processes and meditations from indigenous sources around the globe. I taught classes in mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral self-help methods, and emotional processing. In the late 80's to early 90's I wrote books and manuals on cognitive-behavioral self-help, breathwork, mindfulness, natural self-hypnosis, and related topics.

Steve Mensing: Becoming a counselor was a natural progression for me. I was interested in emotional growth since my early teenage years and later in emotional processing and mindfulness. In my early counseling I used an eclectic approach combining mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral approaches, emotional writing, and a number of my early emotional processes. I was drawn to this work because I am empathetic, enjoy counseling, and find our internal world endlessly fascinating. I also enjoy watching folks grow and learn to utilize their own natural abilities and resources.

Steve Mensing: Hopefully they'll learn about intense and enduring emotions and what they can do to feel, accept and integrate them. They can also learn to overcome emotionally charged events in their life that still haunt them. They can learn to spot and change distorted and self-defeating beliefs as well as envision what they would prefer to occur in their lives. They can know how to take action on these important areas without being emotionally paralyzed.