You’ve probably noticed something frustrating about your emotional patterns.
The same situations trigger the same reactions.
Someone says something dismissive, and you feel that familiar tightening in your chest. A certain memory surfaces, and the heaviness arrives on schedule. You’ve tried reasoning with yourself. You’ve told yourself to let it go, and yet, the feeling persists.
So when you hear someone claim that an emotional release method can “eliminate” negative emotions, you have two reasonable reactions: curiosity and skepticism.
The curiosity makes sense. If there were a way to stop reacting to old triggers, to finally feel free of patterns that have followed you for years, that would change everything.
But you’ve been burned by big promises before. Maybe you’ve tried meditation, therapy, or self-help techniques that helped temporarily but didn’t seem to reach the deeper layers.
Let’s clarify what “eliminating” negative emotions actually means, what real healing looks like, and how the Mace Energy Method takes a different approach.
The Question Behind the Question
When someone asks whether negative emotions can be eliminated, they’re usually not asking what they think they’re asking.
Very few people actually want to become emotionless. What they want is relief from specific patterns:
- The anger that flares disproportionately when they feel disrespected
- The anxiety that shows up before situations that shouldn’t feel threatening
- The sadness that lingers around certain memories, even decades later
- The shame that surfaces in moments of vulnerability
These aren’t just feelings. They’re automatic reactions that don’t match the present moment.
The real question isn’t “Can I stop feeling negative emotions forever?” It’s “Can I stop being hijacked by emotional reactions that don’t match my current reality?”
That distinction matters. It shapes what kind of help actually works.
Why Emotional Reactions Get Stuck
To understand what an emotional release method does, you need to understand why some emotions seem to stick around indefinitely while others pass naturally.
When you experience something painful, especially something you weren’t able to fully process at the time, your nervous system can store that experience as unfinished business.
This isn’t mystical thinking. It’s well-documented in trauma research. The body holds onto experiences that overwhelmed its capacity to integrate them. That’s why you can know intellectually that something from your past no longer threatens you, yet still react as if it does.
Your nervous system isn’t being irrational. It’s doing what it was designed to do: protect you from threats. The problem is that it can’t always distinguish between a real present-moment threat and a pattern that resembles something from your past.
So what feels like an overreaction is often a past reaction misfiring in the present.
The Difference Between Managing and Releasing
Most approaches to emotional difficulty focus on management. They teach you to notice your reactions, breathe through them, reframe your thoughts, or build tolerance. These approaches have value, and they can help you function better and respond more skillfully in the moment.
Management doesn’t change the underlying charge. It teaches you to handle it once it appears.
An emotional release method takes a different approach.
Instead of teaching you to cope with recurring emotional intensity, it aims to reduce the intensity itself: to lower the charge attached to the original experience so that your system no longer reacts as if the threat is still present.
This is the core distinction: management works on the surface, release works at the source.
What the Mace Energy Method Actually Does
The Mace Energy Method is a specific approach to emotional release developed by John Mace.
It operates on a principle that may seem counterintuitive at first: you don’t have to relive painful memories to release the emotional charge attached to them.
Traditional therapeutic approaches often involve revisiting difficult experiences in detail, talking through what happened, how you felt, and what you wished had gone differently. It can be valuable. It can also be exhausting or ineffective at shifting the deeper response.
The Mace Energy Method works differently. It identifies the emotional charge stored in your system and addresses it directly, without requiring you to narrate or re-experience the events that created it.
This makes it accessible for people who’ve found talk-based approaches draining or who have painful experiences they’d rather not revisit in detail. It also means the process can be faster than methods that rely on extensive verbal processing.
What “Elimination” Actually Looks Like
Let’s be direct about what the Mace Energy Method can and can’t do.
It cannot make you incapable of feeling negative emotions. Sadness, anger, fear, and frustration are part of being human. They serve important functions. They tell you when something matters, when a boundary has been crossed, when something needs your attention.
The method can reduce or eliminate the disproportionate charge associated with specific triggers. After working through a pattern, many clients report that situations which used to provoke intense emotional reactions now feel neutral, or at least manageable.
Here’s how one client described the shift after working through stored emotional charge:
The Mace Energy sessions with Ian were impactful and freeing on a deep emotional level. I went from feeling lost at sea to riding life’s waves with more ease, clarity and grace.
I feel more focused, better able to handle stress without harmful coping mechanisms, and freer from self-judgment and judgment of others. I am grateful.
Thank you so much Ian.
Helen P
This isn’t about becoming numb. It’s about your responses matching your present reality instead of echoing past events.
One way to think about it: imagine you have a volume knob attached to certain memories or triggers. Before working with an emotional release method, that knob is stuck at 10. After, it might be at a 2 or 3, or sometimes it doesn’t register at all.
You still notice when something happens. You just don’t get flooded.
Realistic Expectations for Emotional Change
Here’s something most approaches won’t tell you: there’s no way to predict exactly how you’ll respond to any given method.
Emotional systems are complex and highly individual. What works profoundly for one person may work only moderately for another.
The Mace Energy Method has helped many people experience significant relief. Clients often notice more focus, clearer thinking, and a sense of freedom around previously charged topics. But it would be dishonest to guarantee that everyone will have the same experience.
What can be said with confidence is this: if you’ve been managing patterns for years without real change, doing more of the same may not create a different result.
If you’re curious whether it might help with your specific situation, the most practical next step is a conversation where you can discuss your patterns and get a clearer sense of whether this approach fits.
Common Questions About the Mace Energy Method
1: Can an emotional release method make me feel worse before I feel better?
Some emotional healing approaches involve what practitioners call a “healing crisis”, a temporary intensification of symptoms before improvement. The Mace Energy Method is designed to minimize this. Because you’re not required to relive painful memories in detail, the process tends to be less destabilizing than methods that involve extensive emotional processing
2. How long does it take to notice changes?
This varies. Some clients report feeling different after a single session. Others notice gradual shifts over several sessions. What most clients report is that when change happens, it feels genuine, not like a temporary lift that fades after a few days.
3. Is this approach a replacement for therapy?
The Mace Energy Method is not therapy and doesn’t position itself as such. It works differently from talk-based therapeutic approaches. The right choice depends on your situation and what kind of support you’re looking for.
A Different Way to Think About Emotional Change
If you’ve been managing emotional patterns for years, coping with them, working around them, learning to live with their presence, you might have assumed that’s just how it works. That some things don’t fully go away, they just become more tolerable.
That assumption is worth questioning. You may not have to manage this forever.
An emotional release method like the Mace Energy Method offers one path to that kind of change. It’s not magic. It’s not instantaneous for everyone. But it addresses stored emotional patterns directly, without requiring you to revisit painful memories or simply build better coping skills.
If that sounds like what you’ve been looking for, reach out to Ascending Souls. A conversation can help you determine whether this approach fits your situation and your goals.
You’ve managed long enough. It may be time to release what’s been driving it.