In Brief
Meridian Therapists are getting organised!
In the US, the ACEP has been formed and talks for a European Umbrella
organisation are under way. If you are active in Meridian Therapies in the
UK, we would like to hear from you now so we can be sure of United Kingdom specific representation.
amt@meridiantherapies.org.uk See also the article on "How ACEP came to be" in this newsletter.
AMT Group Membership
There is now an option for groups of practitioners to become part of the AMT
UK. For details, please mail Chris Hardisty chris@hardisty.force9.co.uk
Organise your own regional seminar!
AMT members are available to give one day trainings on request for your
practise group or in your workplace. E-mail us at
amt@meridiantherapies.org.uk for details and to discuss your requirements.
Psychological Reversal
(or, how to heave a deep, great sigh of relief at not having to struggle
along on will power any more!)
For me, one of the most wonderful ideas in the meridian therapies is the
concept of psychological reversal. There's much debate amongst the experts
as to what's going on, but it seems that shock, trauma, or repeated
learnings and teachings can cause the energy flow relating to a particular
subject to become reversed; ie it does the opposite of what you want it to
do.
For example, most people have one or more, or a single massive reversal on
health related issues. If they were muscle tested, they would test weak on
"I want to be healthy" which means they don't believe it, and for them, that
isn't actually true at all.
These are the people who struggle endlessly with substance addictions,
weight - and fitness problems and the like. These are the people who are
trying to fight themselves using "will power" to overcome their own internal
programming that runs to the reverse of what everyone - including parts of
themselves - are telling them they "should" or "should not" be doing.
The problem with using will power when there is psychological reversal is
this: will power was never meant for long term use. It was designed
originally to allow the mind to override the body, briefly, in moments of
emergency and necessity, such as being able to run into a burning house to
save a child, or to override fear in order to face fighting a lion.
Using will power, therefore, to try and overcome problems and force oneself
to be doing certain things on a long term basis has two possible outcomes,
both of which are problematic to say the least.
One outcome would be to succeed, and to continuously override the parts that
are reversed. This continuous exertion of will power drains the system and
the body of energy, creates rigidity in mind and body, and can have serious
repercussions for long term health - the conflict doesn't go away, it may
just go underground and express in all kinds of dis-eases instead.
The other outcome is that the one who is trying to override a psychological
reversal with will power simply can't keep it up. As we've mentioned above,
"running on will power" drains enormous amounts of energy from the system,
and if there are other demands on this energy, or low energy states such as
feeling down or depressed one day, feeling a little ill, picking up a bug,
that's all that's needed for the will power to collapse and the reversed
parts to take over once more - that's the "recovering alcoholic" in a moment
of crisis who turns to the bottle, or the fat lady who's had some bad news
and makes straight for the fridge.
The long term effects of this are a terrible toll on the person's self
esteem. Every time this happens, they berate themselves for being weak,
useless, hopeless and for "having no will power".
Many therapists too, spoken or unspoken, tend to share society's view that
people who can't control themselves are somehow weak, less worthy, that
they're not trying hard enough, or that they want to suffer.
Energy reversal takes all that emotional blackmail out of the process. And
treating for energy reversal is easy and profoundly effective - there are
two specific points that correct a reversal within minutes.
Together with all the meridian therapies' excellence at uncovering root
causes, and helping to build true self esteem, no matter what presenting
problems there are in a person's life, here now there is a whole world of
techniques available to take pain and suffering out of long standing
problems that have caused intense pain and terrible internal battles for so
many.
Even long standing psychological reversals can be re-reversed and habitual
patterns undone; and best of all, as Gary Craig says, "It's not a character
fault, it's just something that happened", finally taking the burden of
guilt and shame from those afflicted by nothing more, or nothing less, than
a simple psychological reversal.
Healing Blocks
(Or: "When the SUDS won't budge")
Whether you're working with clients, or using energy therapies on yourself,
there's always the odd occasion when there appears to be no noticeable
change. More often than not this happens when the SUDS have already come
down to a more comfortable level, but it can happen at any time, and even
with people who usually find relieving their symptoms a breeze.
With energy therapies, it's often possible that clients think immediately,
"Oh it doesn't work", but what has usually happened is that the process has
become "stuck" in some way. Knowing strategies to "unstick stuck states"
makes the difference between a "8 out of 10" success rate, and a near
perfect one.
Here are some suggestions sent to the meridiantherapy@egroups.com discussion
group
recently:
Thanks to Susan Courtney (UK), Chrissie Hardisty (UK), Silvia
Hartmann- Kent (UK), Christine Vincer (AUS)
- Address Deep Level Reversal - Tap GV-27, UN, while repeating 'I deeply
and completely accept myself even if I NEVER get over this problem' Another
powerful wording is, "Even if I loose my identity if I get over this
problem, I deeply & profoundly accept myself".
- Switch modalities and go for a metaphor on the problem first;
- Address Parts Problems;
- With Clients: Take over the tapping and tap them yourself; if you're
stuck, have someone else tap you instead;
- Have a drink of water (and/or get client/self up to drink);
- Rub sore spot or both K27's while tapping EB to UA;
- Slap points below wrists (inner gate?) and above ankles;
- Cross crawl;
- Ground;
- Change location or face another direction;
- Change set-up statement;
- Physically "re-align" clients energy flow or have someone re-align yours;
- Break state after each round, perhaps having the client/self stand up and
move around a little or even look out of the window.
- Use collar bone breathing or variations on 9 gamut;
- Use Larry Nimm's BSFF with the statement: "I am now elimanating all the
roots and the deepest belief system for this problem."
- Create "personal algorithm" by feeling all the points and concentrating on
those that appear tender or feel unusual;
- Combine with deep relaxation/hypnosis;
- Talk/think about why it's important to keep the problem from getting any
better, first, or tap for "Even though I don't know why I'm stuck on this, I
deeply and profoundly accept myself".
HOW THE ASSOCIATION
FOR COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY WAS BORN
The time had come.
We all knew that our rapidly expanding field of Energy Psychology
has needed to establish credibility among health care and mental health
professionals. And we all knew that a crucial ingredient for this success
was to unify the Energy Psychology field. Knowing time was of the essence,
and with all this in mind, three psychologists joined together to become
catalysts of the next step in the maturation of the Energy Psychology
field. In the Fall of 1998, Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Ed.D., R.N., Rebecca
Grudermeyer, Psy.D. and David Grudermeyer, Ph.D., started to create the
structure for The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP).
The three believed that it was time for the Energy Psychology field to move
toward mainstreaming, and that, to do this, splintering and parochialism
within the field needed to be avoided. They knew they had the
administrative backgrounds to be able to facilitate the birth of a
professional organization. And they hoped that their differences in
training would set a tone of collaboration rather than factionalism.
Dorothea, one of the developers of Healing Touch and the author of two
books on psychoenergetic healing approaches, was an expert in biofield and
chakra (energy center) diagnosis and treatment. The Grudermeyers were
highly skilled in diagnosis and treatment of the meridians (energy
pathways) and their related acupoints. All three were Continuing Education
providers approved to teach Energy Psychology courses to mental and
physical health professionals. Dorothea, Rebecca and David brought their
organizational know-how to bear in developing the policies and structures
necessary to file in the USA to have the Association awarded non-profit
status. They developed a marketing plan and lent their skills in acquiring
Continuing Education Credits approval to this fledgling organization. And
they brought the ACEP Internet web site online (http://ww.energypsych.org
) ACEP was born in December, 1998, when
non-profit status was legally applied for. Approval arrived in early 1999,
in time for ACEP to be publicly unveiled at the first international Energy
Psychology Conference, which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, in April
1999. The instant and enthusiastic response brought ACEP to critical mass,
as though its birth was being awaited. People came forward to chair and
participate on a number of committees, including the all-important Research
Committee, the Publications Committee (beginning to develop the Collected
Papers of ACEP), the Conference Committee, and the Humanitarian Services
Committee. (There are six more committees being developed as this is
written, to round out the Association's functions.) Before the conference
ended, requests were being made to develop ACEP Regional Chapters. These
are now being developed as well. ACEP has received enthusiastic
endorsements from leading figures in the field, who have also agreed to sit
on its Advisory Council: Nahoma Clinton, Gary Craig, Tapas Fleming, Fred
Gallo, Greg Nicosia and others. The daily continuing rush of requests and
membership applications from around the world that have been received since
the Las Vegas conference, has re-confirmed to Dorothea, Rebecca and David
that, as they believed, the time has indeed come for an international
association whose purpose is to help congeal the Energy Psychology
profession into a respected and sought-after area of expertise. On behalf
of the steadily growing membership of ACEP, we hope you will learn more
about this organization, and that what you find will encourage you, too, to
join in this effort to bring much-deserved credibility to Energy Psychology
treatment approaches. Sincerely, David Grudermeyer, Ph.D., Rebecca
Grudermeyer, Psy.D. and Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Ed.D., R.N., co-founders of ACEP ACEP Web Site: http://www.energypsych.org ACEP E-mail: acep@energypsych.org
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Copyright GoE UK July 1999
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