Emotional Healing in Minutes: Simple Acupressure Techniques For Your Emotions. Paul Lynch
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Название: Emotional Healing in Minutes: Simple Acupressure Techniques For Your Emotions

Автор: Paul Lynch

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Общая психология

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СКАЧАТЬ and screams ricochet in their heads day and night. Sometimes only drugs ease the ever-present aches of war.

      ‘They sweat. They cry. They have headaches and anxiety attacks. They are depressed and in pain. They have fears and phobias and are afraid to go to sleep at night because of their nightmares. Many have been in therapy for 20 years … with very little relief.

      ‘I still remember how thrilled I was when the Veterans Administration invited Adrienne and me to bring EFT to our soldiers. They gave us free rein to counsel with these men in any way we wanted. This would be the ultimate test regarding the power of EFT. If all it did was make a modest, but noticeable, difference in the lives of these severely disabled men, most people would have considered it successful. In fact, it did much more. One of the video cases was about Rich, who had been in therapy for 17 years for his PTSD. He had:

      

Over 100 haunting war memories, many of which he relived daily.

      

A major height phobia, aggravated by having made over 50 parachute jumps.

      

Insomnia – it took him three or four hours to get to sleep every night, even under quite strong medication.

      ‘After using EFT with him, every trace of those problems vanished. Like most people, Rich had a hard time believing that those rather strange-seeming procedures would work. But he was willing to give them a try. We started with his height phobia and after about 15 minutes with EFT it had gone. He tested it by going several storeys up in a building and looking down over a fire escape. To his amazement, he had no phobic reaction whatsoever. We then applied EFT to several of his most intense war memories and neutralized all of them within an hour. He still remembers them, of course, but they no longer have any emotional charge. We taught the techniques to Rich so he could work on the rest of his war memories by himself. Within a few days they were all neutralized. They no longer bothered him. As a result, his insomnia went away. Two months later I spoke with Rich on the phone. He was still free of the problems. That’s real emotional freedom. It’s the end of years of torment. It’s like walking out of a prison. And I had the privilege of handing him the keys! This is the promise of EFT.’

       Chapter 2

       EFT – How It Works

      ‘The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system’ Gary Craig

      THE MERIDIANS

      The meridian system is an intricate web of energy pathways that flow through the body. These pathways closely resemble the nervous system and they are responsible for channelling energy through the physical body.

      Traditional Chinese Medicine maintains that physical vitality and peace of mind are reliant upon the clear and even flow of these invisible energies. If disturbed, disease or emotional problems may result. Therapies such as Acupuncture and Acupressure directly stimulate, balance or unblock the meridian channels to relieve physical illness and promote psychological health.

      There are 14 major meridians that form an interconnected circuit – 12 of these pass through the main organs of the body. Identical sets of meridians are found on each side of the body. The two remaining meridians control and modify the supply of energy within the entire circuit.

      The two end points of each meridian channel appear close to the surface of the skin. Spaced along each meridian there are key points, which act as amplifiers or gateways. These are commonly known as acupuncture or acupressure points. EFT uses the end points of each meridian.

      ENERGETIC DISRUPTION

      EFT views our emotional reactions as the direct result of disturbances within the energy system. The first indication of an emotion is a change in the body’s energetic or electrical state. Conventional methods focus on treating distressing memories or thought processes that cause us emotional pain. Roger Callahan discovered that an additional stage occurs between accessing a painful memory and the resulting negative emotion. This is that traumatic memories and thoughts cause an energetic disturbance within the body (Fig. 1). This disturbance is then experienced as a negative emotion. Once the energetic disruption is released, memories cease to hold the original emotional intensity, enabling negative feelings to be resolved quickly. This extra dimension is the vital link within emotional healing. In essence, the energy system holds the key to unlocking your troubling emotions.

       Figure 1 - The Chain Reaction

      When our energies are flowing smoothly we feel calm and peaceful. When the energy system is disturbed we become out of balance and emotional. Blockages within the body’s energy can lead to all manner of negative reactions and experiences. Energetic disturbances can limit your functioning, creativity and potential. They can be likened to boulders in a stream creating a blockage within the channel, preventing a free flow of energy around the body. Removing the boulders allows balance and equilibrium to return. Energetic disruption can be caused by any stimulus that triggers a painful memory or upsetting thought. For instance:

      

Sounds – the tone of someone’s voice, accents, a piece of music, emergency sirens, machinery, explosive noises, the dentist’s drill, a child screaming.

      

Smells – someone’s favourite perfume, the fragrance of certain flowers, tobacco smoke, disinfectant and anaesthetic smells, vomit, foods, alcohol on the breath.

      

Sights – colours, a person who resembles someone from the past, a film on television, blood, syringes, the sea, uniforms, violence, scenes of war, broken glass.

      

Objects – jewellery, electronic appliances, mementos, weapons, gas masks, clothing.

      

Environments – thunder, poor driving conditions, boat trips, places that remind us of a trauma, lifts and confined spaces, darkness, wide-open spaces, heights, tunnels, flying.

      

Animals – insects, bees, wasps, spiders, worms, frogs, dogs, jellyfish, snakes, bats, birds, cats, rodents, reptiles, horses, cows, maggots.

      

Trigger Words – language that holds certain associations, such as, ‘No!’, ‘Shut up!’, ‘You’re stupid, ugly, fat’, ‘Four eyes’, ‘Sissy’, ‘It’s all your fault’.

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