FITS-ME Model

Ideas and concepts are continually emerging into our consciousness. The growing edge of our awareness is that twilighty area where we receive inklings and gists about things or people. Gavin de Becker wrote a brilliant scary read called "The Gift of Fear" where he details how our unconscious processes package up whole scenarios after thousands of computations and give us a flash awareness of what to do in threatening situations. It's a read about dramatic instances where intuition-acted-on can be life saving. In a less threatening environment we ask the question "what is going on for you?" How do we respond? Which information, input do we attend to in order to answer this question?

I developed the FITS-ME Model because it contains the key elements that can help us literally describe our experience.

FEELING. What is the dominant feeling?
IMAGES. Are there any images that are connected or recurring?
THINKING. What is the thought/s connected to or associated with this experience?
SENSATION. How and where is this experience being registered in the body?
MEANING. Can you describe what this experience means to you?
ENERGY. Is this experience expanding/contracting or increasing/decreasing your energy level?

Working through this model when clarity is not readily available allows us to expand and catalogue, or "unpack" more information about the experience being encountered.

Try working through a particular issue or experience using it and maybe write down as many key words as you can for each letter and see where you end up. It's a cyclical idea so you can "run it" again to see how you have integrated the information.

Dan