RogerB
Crusader
The question I raise in the title above is a serious one.
Reading the material revealed in the linked article causes me to consider therein may be the answer to the upsets, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and all sorts of other unwanted conditions that folks often went into Scientology to try and handle, as has been noted by some here when posting on personal conditions about "ME" and such.
What stands out as very interesting is that this report cites a number of very successful clinical trials that have been carried out by properly qualified medical, healthcare, and other scientific professionals that validate the successes and workability of this class of techniques.
The self-healing revolution - energy psychology explained
By Brendan D Murphy
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This link, and as in the header is to the full article;
https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/artic...aling-revolution-energy-psychology-explained/
Some highlights to demonstrate the validity of this development . . . also, note it has been a bunch of Aussies behind these developments, hence, for any who are interested, you should be able to easily follow-up out there, if not do it yourself on a self-help basis as explained at the link.
Excerpts:
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The article also cites actual beneficial physical body changes brought about by these procedures. To wit: changes in red blood cell behavior, (before and after microscopic photos shown) and other beneficial physical changes as below:
Lots more at the link . . . . .
This below, is part of what I posted on my Knowledgism Forum concerning the above.
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Reading the material revealed in the linked article causes me to consider therein may be the answer to the upsets, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and all sorts of other unwanted conditions that folks often went into Scientology to try and handle, as has been noted by some here when posting on personal conditions about "ME" and such.
What stands out as very interesting is that this report cites a number of very successful clinical trials that have been carried out by properly qualified medical, healthcare, and other scientific professionals that validate the successes and workability of this class of techniques.
The self-healing revolution - energy psychology explained
By Brendan D Murphy
In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.--Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel laureate in Medicine
Better Ways to Heal Through Energy Psychology
A self-healing revolution is upon us and it turns the standard Western healing model on its head, putting the patientback in the driver's seat, not only making them an active participant in their own healing, but moving beyond the band-aid solutions that pervade mainstream psychiatry and psychology.
A self-healing revolution is upon us and it turns the standard Western healing model on its head, putting the patientback in the driver's seat, not only making them an active participant in their own healing, but moving beyond the band-aid solutions that pervade mainstream psychiatry and psychology.
The current paradigm shift presupposes that, with the right approach, just about anything can be healed or reversed, and that a pain- or drug-addled existence of managing symptoms and eking by is no longer the best option, nor a fait accompli.
This is the revolution that Big Pharma and institutional psychiatry hope you never hear about.
The emergence of energy psychology (EP), including methods such as EFT (emotional freedom techniques), TFT (thought field therapy), Psych-K, and Matrix Reimprinting (to name a few) means that, for millions of people suffering from phobias, self-limiting beliefs, or even major emotional and/or physical traumas, expensive and often ineffective traditional therapies can be eschewed (bypassed) in favour of more affordable (or free) and very often spectacularly successful "new" methods--that can achieve better results in a fraction of the time.
What is Energy Psychology?
Energy psychology describes a collection of novel psychological interventions that "balance, restore, and enhance human functioning by stimulating the human subtle energy system," which includes the acupuncture meridian system, chakras, and nadis. "These techniques...have been observed to catalyze rapid, dramatic, and lasting changes in feelings, beliefs, mental states, and behaviors," as well as physiology and biochemistry. Thus, EP techniques involve "stimulating energy, whether by tapping, touching, or intention."[1]
Energy psychology describes a collection of novel psychological interventions that "balance, restore, and enhance human functioning by stimulating the human subtle energy system," which includes the acupuncture meridian system, chakras, and nadis. "These techniques...have been observed to catalyze rapid, dramatic, and lasting changes in feelings, beliefs, mental states, and behaviors," as well as physiology and biochemistry. Thus, EP techniques involve "stimulating energy, whether by tapping, touching, or intention."[1]
EP therefore traces its roots not just to Chinese medicine and qi gong, but also to the work of modern pioneers such as chiropractor and founder of applied kinesiology George Goodheart, Australian psychiatrist John Diamond, and Thought Field Therapy founder Roger Callahan.[2]
In short, EP modalities use both psychological interventions and energetic interventions together.[3] The result is something far greater than the sum of the parts: EP techniques offer a uniquely powerful way to address and heal the subconscious mind from which around 95% of our thoughts and behaviour originate (and this, in turn, leads to physical healing and restoration).
Snipped . . . . .
This link, and as in the header is to the full article;
https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/artic...aling-revolution-energy-psychology-explained/
Some highlights to demonstrate the validity of this development . . . also, note it has been a bunch of Aussies behind these developments, hence, for any who are interested, you should be able to easily follow-up out there, if not do it yourself on a self-help basis as explained at the link.
Excerpts:
Shockingly Good Results
In 2003 a scientific study by the Australian psychologist Dr Steven Wells et al., detailed phenomenal success in using EFT to treat clinically diagnosed phobias of small animals such as snakes, spiders, bats, and mice. The pre-EFT intensity of the phobias were measured by taking into account several factors: increases in pulse rate while contemplating the feared object; the number of steps they could walk towards the feared creature; written stress questionnaires. Subjects were then briefed for half an hour on the treatment method, including receiving a brief EFT session.
The subjects then had their phobias tested again. On every measure fear had dropped dramatically, and some subjects could even walk right up to the animals that had normally triggered phobic reactions.
and . . .Another study involved taking brain scans of subjects with generalized anxiety disorder. Anxiety and depression, for instance, have specific electronic signatures. EEG readings of participants’ brains taken through twelve energy psychology sessions show enhanced wave-frequency ratios and less dysfunction, especially in the frontal lobes (which are involved in higher mental functions, including humour appreciation, personality, self-awareness, and emotions in general[10]).
Subjects’ brains which were treated simply with antidepressants showed no such improvements, and the group treated with the more widely known cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) required more sessions to achieve similar results to the EFT group, and the effects were not as durable, as revealed by a one-year follow-up.[11]
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In further support of these findings, in February 2013, Dr Dawson Church et al. reported the results of a study of 59 US veterans with clinically diagnosed (severe) post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These were published in the respected Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. In this randomized controlled study (the “gold standard” of scientific research), 30 veterans in the EFT group received 6 separate 1-hour-long EFT sessions (concurrent with standard care), while the control group (n = 29) received no EFT treatment. Measures of the breadth and severity of psychological distress for veterans in the EFT group plummeted. After 6 sessions, fully 90% of the EFT group no longer qualified as having PTSD—an incredible result. In contrast, a month after the initial tests, only 4% of the control group no longer registered as having PTSD. After the wait period, the control group then also received EFT. Again the results were stunning, with huge drops in clinical symptoms.
For the 49 subjects (of the original overall sample of 59 participating veterans) who actually did receive EFT treatment in the end, fully 80% of them remained free of manifest PTSD symptoms (they were “subclinical”) 6 months later. Church reported:
This is the best result for PTSD ever obtained in a clinical trial for any therapy.[12] (emphasis added)
To put this in perspective, many traditional therapists wrongly believe that PTSD is incurable.
The article also cites actual beneficial physical body changes brought about by these procedures. To wit: changes in red blood cell behavior, (before and after microscopic photos shown) and other beneficial physical changes as below:
On top of that, the conventional medical mindset denies that intention can produce such striking effects on typically unconscious physiological processes, thus further disempowering millions of people around the world.
Figure 1. Top: Red blood cell clumping before EFT. Bottom: Red cells evenly distributed after 12 minutes of EFT. Source: D. Church, The Genie in Your Genes, p 235.
The list of physical complaints and symptoms that have reportedly been remedied or reduced with EFT is virtually endless: PMS, lupus, failing eyesight, headaches, allergies, carpal tunnel syndrome, cancer, MS—you name it.[16]
At the 13th International Energy Psychology Conference held in Reston, Viriginia (2011), it was reported that then-current research was additionally demonstrating the effectiveness of EP on “test anxiety, food cravings and weight loss maintenance, public speaking anxiety, optimal test performance, and psychosomatic conditions such as psoriasis, tinnitus, and fibromyalgia.”[17]
Lots more at the link . . . . .
This below, is part of what I posted on my Knowledgism Forum concerning the above.
Alan and I ran into the "tapping" thing, EFT, when it became "the thing" of some folks who were on our Ranch lines around 2000, or so. And to be noted is the point that the guys who were promoting it were the guys who truly had difficulty confronting charge, could not really stay in session, were all figure-figure and "think-about" when they tried to study or process another . . . and were also very "New-Agey" having drunk liberally of that too sweet brew for too long. Basically, today, I'd say they were practitioners of the "avoidance tech" wrong answer solution for getting free from what "they did not want to experience." Alan and I discussed this fully.
EFT does produce change, we saw that at the time, and it is very much validated by the well conducted clinical studies cited . . . but the real deal is four-fold:
- It does NOT handle the underlying charge that is causing the ill effect,
- It does not restore the client to cause over the area/subject or event underlying or causing the condition being addressed,
- It does not restore to the client the knowledge occluded by the incident/event underlying the condition being addressed, and such lack of knowledge leaves the client prone to repeated mishap,
- Hence the client is left uneducated, without restored sovereignty, knowledge, control, responsibility regarding the matter treated.
And further, note the "surrogate" modality they speak of . . . well, I suppose that is one way to create dependency. Many here are familiar with a guy out there creating himself as to be a guru able to "blow"/handle folks spiritual "entities" for them.
But, there is a BIG lesson to be gained from this piece, and that is the validation of the extent to which spiritual address to our physical conditions is very beneficial for positive change. Indeed, note the term Epigenetics. It refers to "expression of genes" . . . that is, what we are doing does not change our DNA or gene structures, but it does change the way/manner in which they EXPRESS themselves.
Ponder that . . . it is important.
For me, this has brought a point of understanding of what I've been experiencing lately . . . I have moved up into hugely positive territory as a spiritual presence, and now I understand the physical changes and experiences I am going through. A point of real AHA! instead of WTF?
What I am now aware of and understand is that, having moved up and out of so much of the old hung up "negative energy" involuntary replication of old, I am now affecting (imbuing) the body with more harmonious "positive" Life-Force . . . and the body is a whole new experience to be using.
Also, it happens, I do have a whole new upper level understanding of what this body is to me . . . it is the vehicle through which I locate and orient my spiritual presence relative to the physical universe and from which I relate to influence the physical universe and its games. But that is a post for another time.
Roger/