EMDR has featured prominently in the news recently, with Prince Harry’s disclosure that he has undergone this form of therapy. Many clinicians moved to acupoint tapping and other forms of energy psychology after first exploring EMDR and find the two to be rather similar and to combine well.
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NICE Recommendations for EFT
What do we mean when we say NICE has found EFT to be clinically- and cost-effective for PTSD? What was the process? In the UK, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (formerly National Institute for Clinical Excellence – NICE) is responsible for the evaluation of all treatments and therapy to be recommended for […]
Read MoreDoes EFT Tapping Really Work? Is It Evidence-Based?
Does EFT Tapping really work? You’re not the only one asking if EFT tapping actually works. Google says it’s one of the most common search queries connected with the technique. Most people who hear about EFT have a hard time rolling with the idea that it’s a reputable self-help technique. There’s no shortage of articles […]
Read MoreThe 10 Day Trauma Window
The 10 Day Trauma Window; New Research Demonstrates Long Term Effects of Acute Stress
Read MoreThe Demon Inside; Who is Ultimately Responsible?
“The ACEs study, first published in 1998 has been followed by over 57 other publications since then. It is likely the largest and most important public health study that you have never heard of. Of the more than 17,000 people studied, over 87% had a score greater than one. Over 12% of those studied had ACE scores of four or more…”
Linked ArticleChildhood Trauma, Neglect and Adverse Childhood Experiences
When we are born we are hard-wired to connect with our caregivers. Human beings mature slowly, our brains learn through social interaction and we are dependent upon our parents for our survival longer than any other mammal.
Linked ArticleCan Attachment Theory Explain All Our Relationships?
“Secure adults tend to value attachment relationships and are able to describe experiences coherently, whether negative (e.g., parental rejection or over-involvement) or positive, says Main. Dismissing adults tend either to devalue the importance of attachment relationships or to idealize their parents without being able to illustrate their positive evaluations with concrete events demonstrating secure interaction. Preoccupied adults are still very much involved and preoccupied with their past attachment experiences and are therefore not able to describe them coherently. Dismissing and preoccupied adults are both considered insecure.”
Linked ArticleResolution, Not Conflict – Energy Psychology Treatments May Open New Frontiers in Therapy
“This article describes the series of interventions that energy therapist Dale Petterson utilized over the course of one session with one highly sensitive 10-year-old boy. Note that energy techniques seem to yield especially rapid changes with children. Adults have accumulated more layers of negative life experiences and bad habits. Their treatment therefore, while it uses the same techniques, sometimes takes somewhat longer.”
Linked ArticleMindfulness and Meditation Changes Brain Structure in 8 Weeks
“It is fascinating to see the brain’s plasticity and that, by practicing meditation, we can play an active role in changing the brain and can increase our well-being and quality of life,” says Britta Hölzel, PhD, first author of the paper and a research fellow at MGH and Giessen University in Germany.
Linked ArticleNew Insights on Therapeutic Touch (TT) and Osteosarcoma
“Our purpose is to discuss the study design and innovative approaches that led to finding significant effects of one energy medicine therapy, Therapeutic Touch (TT), on cells.”
Linked ArticleHealing Trauma With Our Dreams
“Researchers at UC Berkeley have found that when dreams occur during the REM (rapid eye movement) stage of sleep, our stress responses shut down, and the neurochemicals responsible for stressful feelings stop being released.”
Linked ArticleStudies Find How Heart Can Affect How We Feel Fear
“We hope that by increasing our understanding about how fear is processed and ways that it could be reduced, we may be able to develop more successful treatments for [anxiety disorders], and also for those, such as war veterans, who may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.”
Linked ArticleLearn Your ACE Score: Adverse Childhood Experience or “ACE”
“The more types of childhood trauma a person has – i.e., the higher the ACE score — the higher the risk for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune disease, as well as depression, violence, being a victim of violence, and suicide.”
Linked ArticleBonghan Channels in Acupuncture
“[In 1991, Russian Researchers] found that the light-conducting ability of the human body exists only along the meridians, and can enter and exit only along the acupuncture points. This finding has been confirmed by a 1992 study in the Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a 2005 study in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine where moxibustion and infrared thermography were used to trace meridian pathways.”
Linked ArticleSymptoms: A Choice Between Suppression And A Search For Meaning?
Our self-healing capacity has been greatly underestimated by our culture and our medical system. It is the true answer to the health care crisis, and it has been available to us all along, although well-hidden and obscured by the drug companies that profit from our ignorance of our own powers.
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