Emotional Clearing

Testimonials

E. Gardenia

Production Designer

“ Working with Langston helps me open a dialogue with my own history. By visiting what was unresolved and often painful, I have felt more confident to struggle in the present.

Emmeline G.

The past is usually behind me, under the surface, it is something I walk with but feel disconnected from. Working with Langston helps me open a dialogue with my own history. By visiting what was unresolved and often painful, I have felt more confident to struggle in the present. Langston guides me through conversations with my younger self, we identify what made her feel powerless and what would give her strength. The question of what I would do as an adult to help my younger self is an important one. These sessions have been instrumental in facing traumas and discovering the ways they repeat in my life. I have new tools to be present with all my emotions. Hopefully, we're all working towards becoming more connected and empathetic adult. If you are a creative person, Langston can help you tear down the walls. I used to deny emotions that were uncomfortable, Langston is helping me turn over all the rocks to see their full potential.

www.emmelinewd.com

Jason Miller

Author, Strategic Sorcerer

“ Langston gives you tools that you can go back to and use time and time again.

Jason Miller

I find [emotional clearing] very useful. Not only does Langston lead you through a session that is useful for what you bring up in that session, but he gives you tools that you can go back to and use time and time again.

www.inominandum.com

Kate Smith

JourneySmith

“ Langston has a special ability to guide me to the root of the problem even when that's the last place I want to go!

Kate Smith

I've worked with Langston for energy clearing several times. Kind, compassionate yet firm, Langston has a special ability to guide me to the root of the problem even when that's the last place I want to go! My process tends to be rather complex with multiple threads weaving through what initially appears to be simple. I'm always impressed with how Langston is able to tease out and track the most critical thread and follow that theme to the end. His ability to hold sacred space as well as to focus despite multiple potentially distracting patterns is really impressive. I feel very grateful and blessed that Langston is in my corner.

www.journeysmith.com

Ernest Obusek

Software Engineer

“ To put it simply, I’ve changed. I’ve gone deep inside to the root of issues, and it’s not just that they cleared, it’s that I've become someone new who doesn’t have the issue.

Ernest Obusek

First of all, it works. Second, it’s pretty easy. There is a little bit to learn, but you quickly get the hang of it. Third, it’s POWERFUL. I can’t say strongly enough how amazed I am at the depth of the changes in me brought about from the class. Fourth, I get to continue using the tools we’ve learned throughout my life.

I already knew techniques for doing emotional clearing (primarily the Sedona Method), but at times I felt that there were things I could not clear. I specifically signed up for the class hoping to be able to clear something that was impacting my life in a big way.

To put it simply, I’ve changed. I’ve gone deep inside to the root of issues, and it’s not just that they cleared, it’s that I've become someone new who doesn’t have the issue. The amount of change that can happen in a short period of time is beyond anything I’ve experienced before.

Langston is the real deal. He teaches a truly powerful and eminently useful system.

Amber Yada

Animator

“ Because of who you are, and how you share your gifts, I am able to better see myself and my gifts, and understand what it means to develop them.

Amber Yada

THANK YOU! What an amazing story that poured out. Because of who you are, and how you share your gifts, I am able to better see myself and my gifts, and understand what it means to develop them. I'm proud of the trust that went into this work. I've felt so much lighter the past few days, and keep turning back to the story. The continuing unfolding layers of this work are remarkable!

Thank you very deeply for bringing this work through, for demonstrating so much of what you teach --- exemplifying authenticity, creativity, responsible boundaries, really hearing what people say. It's very accessible, practical, and life-changing. The tools are not complicated, but they can help to understand and appreciate one's own infinite complexities, and those of others. We should all learn this as kids!

https://vimeo.com/animatormama

Jose Zamora

Permaculture Mentor

“ It's become easier to take care of myself and give some priority to my own needs, and to have more fun, be more relaxed about things and enjoy daily life more.

Jose Zamora

The biggest challenge I faced before working with Langston was not having the necessary resources to truly heal many of my issues and just choosing to focus on the good things and staying OK, but not really enjoying being alive that much. It's become easier to take care of myself and give some priority to my own needs, and to have more fun, be more relaxed about things and enjoy daily life more, and move forward in the integration of shamanic healing that I received a while ago.

You should know that it's OK to just know that you want to heal and grow, even if you don't know how to exactly, and just let Langston guide you to the source of the issues that would benefit the most from his help, because he's a really skilled and caring healer and will just help you move forward from wherever you are.

www.integralpermaculture.org

Eric Shahinian

Filmmaker

“ Langston created a safe space where I could speak my mind freely. He equipped me with tools for coping with emotions and experiences in a nonjudgmental, yet engaged manner.

Eric Shahinian

My experience with Langston felt both restorative and transformative. He has a very attentive, calming presence and he created a safe space where I could speak my mind freely. I also found that he equipped me with tools for coping with emotions and experiences in a nonjudgmental, yet engaged manner. After the session, Langston made me feel more grounded and attuned to my body and mind.

www.ericshahinian.com

Stephanie Blair

Actress

“ I feel so confident and peaceful. I wasn't expecting that at all! Your healing has transformed my life!

Stephanie Blair

I'm in such deep admiration of your work and SO excited to learn from you more. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are a very gifted healer. I got to sit with this healing for a least a week. It was really powerful and mainly, I feel so confident and peaceful. I wasn't expecting that at all! Your healing has transformed my life!

Mara Lee Gilbert

Actress, Writer

“ Working with Langston is the emotional equivalent of the show "Hoarders," now I can see clear steps ahead of me and appreciate the way my emotional body works for me rather than feel it's holding me back in some way.

Mara Lee Gilbert

Working with Langston is the emotional equivalent of the show "Hoarders," in which experts come in and empty all the physical baggage hoarders have collected in their homes. Langston does this on an emotional level, sitting patiently with you as you examine the emotional baggage you have been holding onto and helping you let it go happily and without guilt that you were holding onto it, simply understanding and acknowledging it and then releasing it...a peaceful parting between you and the baggage. He is an expert at helping you see it yourself, and not feeding you insights or emotional prompts, he lets you tell him what's going on and then guides you through your own maze. After working with him, I have been able to understand myself in a way where once there was fog and confusion, now I can see clear steps ahead of me and appreciate the way my emotional body works for me rather than feel it's holding me back in some way. His naturally healing presence and energy also offer a powerfully safe space in which you immediately feel you have come to the right place.

Elana Smith

Executive Functioning Coach

“ With every clearing session I felt a deep aha moment and could never have predicted the resolving wisdom that arose.

Elana Smith

Clearing with Langston is relaxing into the depth of your wisdom, allowing yourself to feel the fullness and complexity of emotions and memories, sinking deeply into your body and releasing the pressure of having to figure it all out or make sense of it as Langston is expertly tracking and guiding throughout...helping you move through stuck places, helping you feel things even deeper than you thought you could, holding space and accurately reflecting back to you...with every clearing session I felt a deep aha moment and could never have predicted the resolving wisdom that arose from the clearing session. Do you wish to surrender into your own wisdom and connect to divine energy to transcend blocks, receive guidance, heal, get resolution and answers? Then clear with Langston!

Mark Tan-Nomadiou

Business Manager, Random Teapots

“ Working with Langston was a decisive change in my ability to listen and love myself in a really wonderful way.

Mark Tan-Nomadiou

Working with Langston was a decisive change in my ability to listen and love myself in a really wonderful way. His presence throughout the work gently supported my journey into a new inner landscape that was like a return to my true home. Langston was a true guide and mirror, asking simple direct and encouraging questions and listening to my responses with the trained ear of someone familiar with the terrain I was experiencing. I have done many forms of therapy and mediation and have often found them illusive or distracting. But working with Langston trained me to journey in a way I could trust and let go. Thank you Langston!

www.5milesapp.com/person/1VRjL6a9oz

FAQ

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What is emotional clearing?

Emotional clearing is a body based practice that allows past trauma, stuck patterns, outmoded beliefs and stories and addictions to be tracked to their root and transformed there. One of the primary tools is learning how to notice the triggers or patterns that arise for us frequently and then learning how to listen to our bodies to understand the past trauma linked to those triggers and transform it, stopping the past trauma from continuing to affect our current lives.
How was emotional clearing developed?

Emotional Clearing is a combination of Inner Relationship Focusing techniques as developed by Ann Weiser Cornell and Eugene Gendlin and Emotional Clearing created by Christina Pratt of the Last Mask Center for Shamanic Healing.

Focusing was developed by Eugene Gendlin through his research of what allowed breakthroughs to happen during psychotherapy. He listened to thousands of recorded sessions and found that the commonality between people who experienced breakthroughs was that they experienced a felt shift in their body as they were speaking. Focusing is a body of techniques that helps one to learn to listen deeply to the body and experience the felt sense, that bodily knowing just beyond words of the issue, trigger or pattern arising in your life and use that as a guide to transform your relationship with the issue itself. Inevitably, when we really see what's arising as our body is experiencing it, it shifts.

The techniques I learned from Christina Pratt work hand in hand with the focusing techniques, but speed up the process and allow deeper patterns to be uprooted at once. Rather than simply coming into presence with the felt sense and allowing it to shift on its own-- we work to track whatever arises to its root whether it be a part of us wounded in childhood, emotional patterns (often appearing as weather, such as a storm in your chest), limiting belief systems or artifacts-- such as a balled up fist in your gut or a stone shell around your heart. We then work with archetypal energies to shift and transform what we find so it comes into alignment with our current level of consciousness and maturity and allows radical change to occur.

The system I use is almost identical to that which Christina Pratt originated. With her blessing, I incorporate Focusing because I find it allows the changes that occur to be more deeply grounded in the body. Rather than simply falling prey to the controlling or judgmental voices inside us that are sure they know what's best for us-- Focusing allows us to truly let the body make decisions rather than our ego and allows us to engage with our inner landscape with true compassion and acceptance for everything that arises. I also find that the techniques of Focusing allow me to better guide people who might be completely cut off from their body or their emotions, have trouble visualizing or don't sense energy, in opening up and having a deeply engaged transformative experience.
Do I need to know what I want to work on before we start?

No. If you have a strong sense of what you want to change or shift or the triggers arising in your life, that's excellent. If not, that's also excellent-- I can simply spend the first 10 minutes of a session guiding you to sense with your body what's most wanting your attention right now. Likewise, if you have many issues arising and are not sure which is most important, we can take a few minutes before the start of the session to discuss and sense into each with your body.
What happens during a session?

Each session begins with me guiding you into your body with a grounding meditation and calling in of the sacred directions and elements to create a container for the transformations that will occur during the session.

Next, we discuss what triggers or patterns you are wanting to work on and I guide you in sensing with your body which most needs your attention right now.

We then dive into the session, starting either the felt sense of the situation you are in or the sensation or pain you are experiencing in your body and allow the felt sense to guide us through the rest of the session, tracking the energies that arise to their root and clearing them as early as we can-- shifting every later iteration of the same pattern in your life. You will speak out loud what you are sensing and I will guide you and give you directions as you speak and track the energies and emotions that arise. This is not an intellectual or abstract exercise, but something deeply felt in the heart and the body viscerally as we adventure together through your emotional landscape.

After we find a good stopping place, often an integration of an energy that results in feelings of radiance, strength, power or joy and energies that have been lost or absent for sometime retrieved and activated-- I guide you through the grounding exercise again. We then take some time to discuss any questions and what your missions for after the session are based on what your body has communicated it needs to fully integrate the energies you retrieved into your life. This could be something symbolic like wearing a beautiful headband that feels like a crown and reminds you of your sovereignty, something that involves skill building like starting to energetically work with boundaries more and only saying yes to something someone asks of you after you give yourself 24 hours to think about it or something that involves ritual-- like performing a grief ritual to release and reconcile a deep loss. I will then email you notes from the session that include what came up and next steps.
What do I need to do to prepare for a session?

If you're having a phone session or computer session, make sure that you have earbuds with a microphone or a headset so you don't have to hold onto your phone and can fully be present to your body. Make sure that you are in a place that is relatively quiet where you can be undisturbed for the length of the session.

If you wish, you can prepare beforehand a brief description of what you most want to transform and/or what challenges you have been facing recently, but if you are unclear we can incorporate sensing into this as part of the session.
Is this therapy?

As I am not a licensed psychotherapist or counselor, Emotional Clearing is not a form of therapy. However, I do have multiple clients that have reported they have experienced more visceral and permanent transformations and breakthroughs in their work with me than with years of traditional therapy. This is not to disparage psychotherapy, psychiatry or psychoanalysis. I find that emotional clearing can work very well in partnership with someone who is in therapy, analysis or seeing a psychiatrist, it simply depends on each person's individual needs. Often, the more comprehensive a support system a person has, the deeper they can transform. What each person needs in a support system is very unique to that person.
How do you define trauma? Is this only for people who have faced extreme situations?

I define trauma as any deeply distressing or disturbing experience from our past that limits our ability to embody the fullness of ourselves in the present. For some trauma is caused by very intense and extreme situations, for others equal trauma can be caused by situations that on the surface seem less extreme. If you feel your life is limited by events that have happened to you in the past, then this work is for you.
How do you you define being triggered? What causes triggers?

I define being triggered as amping up or shutting down in response to something. We react in a way that is out of proportion to what has actually just occurred. Additionally, we often feel much younger than our actual age in these moments. Consciously or unconsciously in these moments, we are projecting our past experiences onto the present moment and thus are unable to see the present moment clearly or react in alignment with our current level of consciousness and maturity.

There are many possible causes of triggers, but a major origin is in our childhood. As children, we sometime have traumatic experiences where we felt like were going to die, so we did something that perhaps went against our instincts in the moment to survive. For a child-- many things feel like a threat of death. For example being annihilated, being exiled, being abandoned, being isolated or simply not being loved. In the moment of facing that perceived or actual threat-- the child makes a decision to survive and a part of ourself is left making that same decision over and over again when we face similar situations as adults. That decision is no longer in alignment with our current level of consciousness and maturity and when in those situations again, we get triggered.

Emotional clearing helps us to track these triggers to where they first originated in our past and clear them there so the same triggers no longer affect us.
Will this help with PTSD?

Emotional clearing can sometimes help with PTSD, but generally true PTSD involves some sort of soul loss which requires shamanic healing. Emotional clearing can then help with the integration process of the shamanic healing once the soul parts are retrieved. Christina Pratt has an excellent podcast exploring this topic here.