When people are introduced to this almost innate skill, and proceed to use it, first during the therapy itself, and then gradually by themselves, in their daily life, a second phenomenon invariably occurs. They gradually over a few months to a year or so, stop being afraid of their feelings. The terror that clients have lived in all their lives, on the one hand begins to recede, and on the other hand becomes seen by them as their doorway into themselves. As such not only do they lose their fear, but they come to see it for what it is, a doorway into the deepest self. In other words, clients finally gain relief from the tyranny of their feelings.
Feelings become tools to be used, instead of objects of terror.
This is not conjecture. It is a fact. If nothing else ever happened within a feeling oriented depth therapy client, this loss of terror alone would be a substantial improvement. This relief from fear, and the rising self esteem which follows from it, would by itself make our kind of therapy extremely worthwhile. Another benefit, which usually comes along with this release, is an ever expanding insight into the causes of our pain both in the present and in the past.