Flushing Interview with Geetee by Sahaja

1) What’s your personal drive to work with Flushing?
I love to work with Flushing because it is an effective and complete way of releasing stress or pent-up feelings which give discomfort and prevent you from being open-hearted and happy.
Flushing is an ‘Emotional Awareness Process’ and provides you with insights and awareness about your conditioning, values, thought patterns and believes. By going through the process together with a partner you allow physical and emotional support and comfort. That maximises your healing process. Flushing brings you into your present state of mind and gives you the chance to let go of your past and look ahead to create your future. It increases your ability to give and receive love which results in more self-love towards yourself.

2) Arthur Janov developed Primal Therapy. According to Janov, the patient can rid herself of Primal Pain by learning the proper way to scream.  Daniel Casriel's New Identity Process (NIP) also involves screaming to unblock what's blocked. Veeresh invented the “modern flushing” process which incorporates both screaming and supporting each other by sitting together. What was Veeresh’s idea behind his flushing method?

Veeresh basically condensed the process of “Bonding”, which was created by Casriel, and made it more efficient and effective. He designed the Flushing process in a sitting position, so that both participants would “work and release” at the same time. The therapist offers a ‘key sentence’ to which the participants then start to free associate to. That means they scream out anything that comes to their mind which is connected to the sentence. Instant healing is provided during the process through physical touch and reassurance by both participants. The Flushing experience is then integrated by a verbal exchange of the insights of both partners.

To complete the Flushing process, Veeresh added positive affirmations, which are out spoken and practised while meeting and hugging each other. That gives the participant a new direction to move towards in their life.

 

3) In your workshop we practiced three different ways of flushing; sitting towards a partner, standing towards a partner, and standing back to back with a partner. Could you explain the benefits of each different practice?

The sitting position is a ‘semi regressed’ position which makes it easier for the participant to connect with their past experiences. At the same time it gives a safe feeling because of the physical contact. We call it the “Monkey Position”.

The position, in which you are standing and holding the other participant while releasing, is a more empowered position. You are standing on your own feet and legs and it is easier to access and express emotions.

Standing back to back with arms interlocked is a position that puts a strain on the body. It supports a more specific topic to work with. For example you can use the phrase: “Get off my back!” and then let the participants free associate and work with that feeling and everything that comes up around it.

The position will create a lot of energy within the participant and connect directly a physical sensation to the emotional and mental associations from their past experiences.

 

4) In the group process there was great emphasis on building up sensuality and intimacy amongst the participants. How would you encourage Scandinavians to open more up to intimacy and sensuality in their lives?

Intimacy and sensuality are basic human needs. They bring us love and ‘good feelings’ and make life exciting and pleasurable.

Everybody wants and needs love in their lives. At the same time we are scared of intimacy, mostly because of painful experiences in our past.
Everyone needs to have the courage to live their life for themselves and go for what makes them feel good. That is how one can realise their full potential and pave the way towards happiness and fulfilment in life.

Otherwise people will keep on blaming others for how they are doing and what is happening to them or substitute their needs with TV, computers, alcohol or drugs.
 

5) In your group you asked the participants to dress up in their sexual fantasy. What is the link between Flushing and Sexuality?

The idea behind asking people to dress up in their sexual fantasy was to help the participants explore their attitude towards their sexuality and towards other participants and to create an atmosphere of excitement and fun.

At the same time as moving with the positive aspects of sexuality, negative patterns and conditionings rise to the surface as well. To enjoy sexuality, we need to free our senses from dullness and habits. Our body needs to be purified from repressions and our minds need to be liberated from obsessions. Then a vision free of illusions can arise and we can develop a healthy and nourishing relationship towards our sexuality.

In Flushing you can focus on any topic such as Meditation, Parents, Personal Power or Childhood issues, by creating a theatrical environment around it.
That’s what makes it so exciting for me.

 

6) The tantra specialist Margot Anand says that in order to practice tantra you must first get rid of emotional blocks and negativity. Flushing is part of an ancient tantric practice. What’s the idea behind it?

One of my teachers, Pragit, told me that a process similar to Flushing, as Veeresh has developed it, was used in the beginning of ancient tantric retreats.

In Tantra it is said that ‘man’ can be relieved from his oral fixations through screaming. If you scream your voice penetrates emotional blocks that have accumulated inside of you until you reach a so called ‘break through’ experience. Once the path is cleared, your voice and breath can flow all the way down to your sex centre and stimulate it from the inside.

The result is that all your senses become more pure and vibrant and your mind becomes silent. Inner division is replaced by pure space and you become aware that you can create that same harmony outside you.
In fact, there is no “In” and “Out”, finally it is all one  
Then you can experience “Tantra” at its fullest.
 

7) The Scandinavians are highly influenced by the “Jante Law”. This conditioning often results in people not living their full potential, often because of the fear of sticking their heads out too much. How would you advice Scandinavians to live a more total life and be themselves?

Realize that it is your life that you are living not anyone else’s. You are not here on this earth to fulfil anyone’s expectations other then your own. Life is not a burden but an exciting opportunity, and it is up to you what you make of it.

According to Freud, in order to lead a healthy life style, you need to have healthy relationships (friends), healthy relationship to your work, a healthy sex life and most of all a positive vision or goal in your life.

Veeresh sums it up by saying:” If it feels good, pursue it and if it does not feel good then try to change the situation. If you can’t change the situation then move away from it.”
Here at the Humaniversity we follow the guide lines of Love, Respect and Responsibility and if conflicts occur, we resolve them immediately. Friendship is our goal in living and also in working together. Clear communication is the root of our success.
 

8) In your workshop you emphasized four key words; risk, focus, flow, feedback. How do you practice this in your own life, and why are these devices important?

I have a clear vision for myself and my life. I want to make this world a more beautiful place to be in. That means I have to start with myself and my environment.  Loving and helping people to love is a risk to me because it makes me vulnerable. Every time I take a risk it gives me a lot of energy and excitement. The next step is to gather all this energy and focus it on my goal and what I can do in order to achieve it. That includes my home, my work, my friends and all my relationships.
Once I start moving towards my goal I get into “a Flow”. The energy moves and results start happening, sometimes even without me doing anything to it.
Now I have to be open to feedback, especially since I don’t want to do it all by myself. To be open to feedback means that I listen to the information that comes to me from the people around me and my environment.

The results are that I am adjusting the ways that I am doing things and I am open to learning new ways and meeting new people and I am having fun in my life.
 
 
9) Osho said “The world needs therapy because the world is missing love”. Veeresh says that “Love is always the answer”. What is your greatest motivation in working with people?

Osho and Veeresh are my great heroes. I admire their courage and who they are as human beings. I love their vision for life and the world. Both of them have great influence on the way I live my life and I am very grateful to them.

I am a Therapist because it really turns me on and it is also a great way of giving back and honouring Veeresh and Osho. I carry the love I receive from them out into the world, helping people to change their way of looking at themselves and their lives.

This process alone is a great motivation.

But if the love I share is returned, and people open their hearts to me and let me in, it is just pure bliss.
It is indescribable, the feeling of love, oneness, happiness and joy, everything together…… That’s what I finally pursue in my groups.

For me, that is what life is all about.