energypsychotherapyclinic.com

I was asked by a client the other day whether there are home study tools that would help him “straighten out” his subtle energy disruptions.  The answer is yes; that is the genius of EFT and some of the other energy therapies–they can be learned and then applied in the moment that the help is needed.  Once these techniques become second nature to us, we will use them almost automatically when we hit a difficult patch of road in our lives. 

But what can we do to maintain our energy systems in top order so that we can weather the storms that will surely come our way, psychologically speaking?  There are a number of helpful practices that serve this end.  Many come from the associated field of energy medicine.  Acupuncture, acupressure massage, energy exercises,  and mindfulness meditation are good ways to keep the body energy flowing.  Presumably this will lessen the likelihood that energy will get “stuck” around difficult psychological problems.  Then there are more specific, and in some cases more technological aids such as binaural beat audio embedded within music or nature sounds to induce learning or particular brainwave states such as focus or relaxation.  There are biofeedback technologies now made into multi-media games that are pleasant to play and teach you to autoregulate your heartbeat, respiration , and muscle tension.  There are particular EFT protocols to help with food addictions and cravings of all sorts in order to regain control of your own physiology.  I have collected some of the best examples of these aids on my website for the convenience of my readers.   Please take a moment to peruse what is available to help you attain peace of mind and peak performance by clicking on the Resources page link from the Website and Beyond list, in the sidebar at the right.  While you’re at it, you can visit the other pages of my website as well.  I hope you find it informative, and I would be interested in your comments.

If you are a person who needs to see it to believe it, I recommend Gary Craig’s new video showing experienced EFT therapists working with veterans who have severely debilitating post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  The rough cut of this video can be found at: www.emofree.com/splash/video_vets.asp  The relief experienced by the people portrayed in the video after being treated with these techniques is plainly visible in their demeanor, speech, and body language.  Particularly striking to me was the vet who said he had thought he was going to have to re-enlist, because he didn’t feel he could live in any environment other than combat, he had been so devastated.

These men could not properly process their memories and couldn’t escape them.  They were engaged in full-scale avoidance of anything that reminded them of the war, but would get blindsided by flashbacks and fears nonetheless.  They had been through years of conventional therapy, hypnosis, medication and social programs to help them re-assimilate into normal society, but these interventions proved to be impotent against the traumatic sequelae of war.  Using EFT, they made huge changes and found lasting relief.

Working with PTSD can be taken as the ultimate challenge to any methodology that makes claims of treating trauma, phobias and anxiety.  The process that lays down traumatic memories, fears, and avoidant patterns of behavior in an individual’s system is stronger, more threatening and more persistent in war than anywhere else in human experience.  But it is the same process that takes place in everyday traumas, albeit on a smaller scale.  If we can treat problems of this magnitude with EFT and other energy psychology techniques, we can probably treat most other anxiety-based symptoms and disorders.  Please look for yourself: www.emofree.com/splash/video_vets.asp

Most of you reading this know of the tremendous phenomenon created by a little DVD called The Secret.  Something about the timing of this market launch of the Law of Attraction was magic.  People were inspired by the simple message that our thoughts and feelings help create our reality.  The most exciting part of this notion, though, was that we have control over this process.  Our thoughts are not in charge of us—we are in charge of our thoughts.  Teachers of meditation tell us that we can have a thought, but not engage it.  We can have a thought, but not believe it.  And we can train ourselves to have thoughts that promote what we wish to achieve and experience in the world.  It’s all vibration, which is another way of saying it’s all energy.  The energy of certain thoughts “pulls in” experience that is consonant with that energy just as a tuning fork attracts vibrations similar to its own.

Now there is another phenomenon waiting to happen that is available to you on another little DVD.  It is the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and it makes use of energy principles and techniques to dissolve energy blocks that are experienced as anxieties, phobias, pain, and dysfunction.  Other than experiencing it yourself, I know of no other more convincing way for you to become acquainted with the promise of EFT than watching the DVD, Try It On Everything.  This video follows a group of people on an EFT retreat with therapists who are accomplished practitioners of the Emotional Freedom Technique.  You get a sense of the range of problems EFT can treat, and the experience of applying the technique.  On their website, the authors also offer a follow-up on the participants so you can get a realistic view of how lasting the gains are and what is necessary in order to make these gains permanent.  The trailer for the DVD can be viewed and the video itself can be ordered through the Resources page of this website (see link in sidebar, on right side of this page).  I urge you to become familiar with what this simple, non-invasive technique can do for you.  After viewing, please contact me if you would like to do some EFT on your own problems.  See my contact page, Reach the Clinic, right sidebar.  I am also interested in hearing from you regarding your impression of the DVD.  You can offer your comments, below.

Many of you are studying A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle on your own, or through Oprah Winfrey’s webcast series every Monday night.  One of the most useful concepts in the book is the notion of the pain body that each of us carries within ourselves, which can become triggered and take control of our behavior even against our better judgement.  That pain body is not directly accessible by way of our conscious minds.  It is irrational, yet extremely stubborn.  Tolle says the pain body seeks pain because it will die without it.  An interesting theory, you may be thinking, but what can I do about it?  We usually try as hard as we can to avoid the discomfort the pain body presents.  However, one very important technique put forward by Tolle is to be present when the pain body is triggered.  Observe but don’t identify with the thoughts that emerge when this is happening.  Perhaps an even more active way to deal with the pain body is to use EFT.  This entails focusing on the pain for a moment and tapping the acupressure points in a sequence as  EFT teaches us.  Because the pain body is only an energy field in the first place, “tapping through” to clear that energy makes perfect sense.  And it is my experience that it works amazingly well.

There is a new documentary movie on EFT, called Try It On Everything.  I have provided a link to the trailer for that movie on my Resources page (found in the sidebar to the right).  I believe that if you watch the trailer you will want to see the documentary in its entirety.  It is available as a DVD for purchase.  If you have been wanting to try EFT, but have held back for some reason, this just might be what it takes to inspire you to give it a try.  If you do not want to get coaching in EFT from a trained practitioner, this is all you need to perform it on yourself in the comfort of your own home.  If you get the DVD and have an interesting story to tell about how it did or didn’t help you, I would like to hear from you.  You can leave a comment at the end of this post.  Good luck on your new adventure.

Although this is my very first experience with a blog, I am hoping it will be a powerful tool to communicate with my clients between sessions and with others who do not have access to the Energy Psychotherapy Clinic, but are nevertheless interested in learning about and participating in the healing process through energy methods. Read more

As I stated in my Welcome post, my personal and professional interest in finding quicker, less invasive methods to help clients be rid of their “daily demons” and get on with their lives led me to the practice of energy psychotherapy.  The appeal of such protocols is that they are so “low-tech.”  That is, they can be learned in minutes and performed at home without equipment or ongoing professional intervention.  Paradoxically, however, ancient “technologies” such as acupressure (upon which energy methods like EFT are based) are often espoused by the same theorists and practitioners as cutting-edge “high-tech” interventions such as brain wave therapies.  The reasons, I believe, are two:  Read more