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The Drop Down Through Model

The document discusses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) practitioner certification and describes a technique called the "Drop Down Through Model" for dealing with negative emotions like stress. The model involves identifying a negative emotion, dropping down through it to the emotion underneath, repeating this until reaching a void or nothingness, then dropping through the nothingness to emerge on the other side with a positive emotion and physiological shift. The 7 steps of the process are then outlined.

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The Drop Down Through Model

The document discusses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) practitioner certification and describes a technique called the "Drop Down Through Model" for dealing with negative emotions like stress. The model involves identifying a negative emotion, dropping down through it to the emotion underneath, repeating this until reaching a void or nothingness, then dropping through the nothingness to emerge on the other side with a positive emotion and physiological shift. The 7 steps of the process are then outlined.

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COGNITIVE

BEHAVIOURAL
THERAPY

PRACTITIONER
CERTIFICATION

THE DROP DOWN


THROUGH MODEL 
THE DROP DOWN THROUGH MODEL 

Our mind is continuously working towards keeping our body (and our
emotions) in balance. Stress (alongside other destructive emotions) happens
when our thinking moves out of this balance. The stress response is the body
re-establishing balance.

Stress is commonly based upon the feelings that people have of inadequacy
(not being able to cope or low self-worth). Anxiety is a fear based emotion that
stems from when people focus on the worst case outcomes of future events
that haven't yet happened.

Experiencing stress is a common everyday occurrence, it happens to all of us.


There's a good chance that as you're taking this course, you're considering going
on to become a CBT Practitioner. If so, stress will be one of the main reasons that
people come to you. The levels and severity will have huge variances, though.
Small levels of stress can help us, and many people will even say they work
better when under pressure. It’s only when our stress levels become too
significant that it becomes a problem.

In the realms of motivation coaching, it's not uncommon for people to say that
they feel ‘amped’, pumped’ or ‘fired up’. These are an example of low-level
stressors that can help us. In this state we have more energy than normal, feel
more alert and can remain more focused. This type of stress is very common in
sporting situations, during exams, public speaking or when trying a new
experience for the first time. We can be in ‘flow’ or in the ‘zone’ even with a
minimal amount of stress.

As the levels of stress, pressure or anxiety become too high we pass the point
where we can no longer channel the stress in a positive way. At this point, many
people will describe themselves as being burnt out, stressed out, or at the end of
their tether. This is the point we need to find a positive way of channelling the
stress or removing ourselves from the stressful situation altogether. It is not
always possible to remove ourselves from the situation, nor is it in our best
interests, which means we need to find a way of coping.

Because we are all working from our own unique perspective of life, we each
have our own way of handling stress. We also have different threshold levels
when it comes to managing stress, pressure or anxiety. Situations that prove
stressful to some will have little or no effect on others.
THE DROP DOWN THROUGH MODEL 

There is a simple exercise called the ‘Drop Through Model’ that can be used
to deal with negative emotions such as stress. It can be employed during a
stressful event, when thinking about an event that could be stressful, and to
eliminate a negative emotion from a previous stressful event. Bear in mind
that like every technique, it doesn’t work for everybody.

The video lecture demonstrated the underpinning idea behind the 'Drop Down
Through Model'. Outlined below is the full process - there are seven simple
steps that you can use to take yourself or someone else through the process.

1. Elicit the negative emotion that you want to release and try to feel the effect of
that emotion on your body. To do this, you could recall a recent time when you
had this emotion and remember how it felt to have it. Identify the area of your
body where you felt this emotion and place your hand there.

Examples of emotions could be anger, sadness, depressed, anxious, stressed.

Now drop
down through 

2. As quickly as you can drop down through the emotion and as quickly as you
can name the emotion that is underneath.

Now drop
down through 

3. Now, as quickly as you can drop through that emotion. What's underneath
that?

4. Continue to repeat this process until you feel a 'void' or 'nothingness'. Take a
few moments to experience that 'void' or 'nothingness'.

5. Now imagine yourself dropping through this 'nothingness'. What are you
feeling when you come out the other side of the nothingness? What do you see?
THE DROP DOWN THROUGH MODEL 

6. End the chain whenever you reach the second positive emotion. There should
be a noticeable physiological shift as the chain tends to be collapsed at this
point.

7. Verify that the negative emotions have disappeared.

NOTES:

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