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From the world's population, estimated now at about 6.8 billion people, some 5.7 billion use 7.000 languages to communicate. Historical and worldwide there are now registered some 40.000 languages. This proves that human beings have an in build need to share with each other their happiness and their discomfort. That makes them recognizable, also to themselves.
The universal need to share expresses itself also in the 84 google pages with hints of information about that need. By sharing we connect with people, we check if our observations are real, we hope to get rid of our fear, our unhappiness, or to get a proper answer to other needs. In that way sharing and discharge of painful emotions are close to each other. There is a Dutch phrase: shared grief is halving the grief.
Discharge of painful emotions, from now and in the past, is a relief and plays a major role in CCI co-counselling. John Heron, the major contributor to the CCI approach, calls it the 're-awakening of occluded intelligence to the brink of spirituality'. The release itself, the liberating process, he describes as 'a transmutation of ignorance'. Ignorance in three ways: internal ignorance (not knowing anymore where we came from) and external in its physical appearance (nature forces) and its social counterpart (people hurting people).
The number of languages spoken by CCI co-counsellors increases rapidly. To discharge our emotions we need the silent support of a witness of our own process. A witness who doesn't need to understand the content of the workers process. This 'free attention' John also names 'an intensive spiritual activity'. If I speak the same language as my witness, we use jabber talk. And there are 12 easy to learn signs for support of that process of the worker.
niek sickenga July 2007
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