The Missing Feeling Technique is a method to help identify and strengthen feelings that have been blocked. It involves identifying the missing feeling, practicing expressing that feeling through facial expressions and affect labeling for 10-20 times daily over 5 days with a partner. This aims to rewire brain circuits that previously blocked emotional expression and feeling. It also includes practicing expressing anger in a primitive way with a "Hostility Buddy" to further strengthen circuits related to anger. The technique is meant to help unlock one's natural flow of feelings through emotional fluidity.

1. The Missing Feeling Technique

2. Unlock the circuit
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3. Cycle Tool

4. Natural Flow of Feelings

5. Any “missing feeling” derails
the technique

6. The orphan feeling technique.
• Identify the missing feeling.
• Strengthen implicit memory systems of
emotional expression and feeling the feeling.
• Strengthen explicit memory systems of affect
labeling.
• Includes practicing 10 – 20 expressions daily for
5 days with an EBT Connection Buddy.
• 10 X 10 to rewire allostatic circuits that blocked
emotional expression and feeling the feeling.

7. “Hostility Buddies”
Provider demonstration: A+ Anger (primitive, subcortical, body activation, effective) vs. C- anger
(non-primitive, neocortical, no body activation,
ineffective).
Voluntary. Hostility Buddy. Instruct to stop if not
safe. After 1 – 2 weeks, continue with 10 X 10 on
circuits that blocked anger expression.
Model humor, delight, warmth and gritty joy!