The four strategies were outlined in the Introductory part of this manual. Some aspects of these strategies can be clarified by use of the map.
To either CELEBRATE or to use TARGET PRACTICE people need to be wide awake and to have plenty of free attention. In terms of the feelings-map, Celebration and Target Practice need to start in the northwest quadrant:
As people do not spend all their lives lively and distress-free, it is not surprising that co-counselling methods result in movement across feelings-space. ATTENTION SWITCHING for example can be represented as moving our focus from "nasty" to "nice." Thus:
Precisely where the beginning and ending are depends on the circumstances and on which attention-switch is used.
The process of DISCHARGE is also one of emotional transformation, and hence of motion over the map.
Discharge takes people from certain distressed states (aroused, nasty and attention focused) to being more relaxed, feeling nice, with plenty of free attention. So we move from the northeast quadrant (aroused and nasty) to the southwest quadrant (nice and quiet).
Other aspects of discharge can now be added. E.g. the process occurs most readily when there is awareness both of Distress and of present safety: when there is a Balance of Attention. Typical bodily events associated with Discharge, such as tears, shivers, bellows, yawns, can also be added to the feelings-map.
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