Dr. Fred Gallo Speaks on Energy Perturbances!

[Guest guest]

How can we account for the therapeutic results of stimulating

acupoints while attuning a psychological problem, such as trauma?

What does the tapping really do?

 

There are many possible explanations. Placebo effect is one

suggested mechanism. However, since acupoint stimulation produces

highly consistent results, it would seem that placebo has little to

do with it. Around 30 percent of people show improvement after

given placebos and the results with energy tapping are significantly

higher than that.

 

Another explanation is that tapping simply distracts the patient.

While it is difficult to maintain complete focus on the problem

while tapping, this explanation is insufficient since relief

continues after the treatment has been completed.

 

Cognitive restructuring is also an explanation, since changes in

thought and perception regularly occur with these treatments.

However, it seems that the cognitive shifts occur after the negative

emotion has been relieved. While a positive shift in cognition can

serve to support healthy psychological functioning, energetic

treatments do not directly address cognition as the lever for

change.

 

Since acupoints are used in energy psychology, possibly

neurotransmitters and endorphins play a role in the treatment

effects, similar to what has been proposed with acupuncture. While

it is likely that acupoint stimulation activates the central nervous

system to release neurotransmitters and endorphins, this does not

preclude the involvement of energetic effects. There appears to be

a signaling mechanism associated with the acupuncture meridians that

figures into such action.

 

My preferred explanation is that many aspects are involved in this

treatment. While the brain, neurochemistry, unconscious and

cognition are implicated in trauma and other psychological problems,

these conditions are also energetic. After all, everything in our

physical reality is fundamentally energy.

 

Trauma is energetic information, similar to the electromagnetic

information adhering to audiotapes and computer hard drives. I

imagine a traumatic event is like throwing stones into a pond and a

trauma being the resultant splashing and ripples. Of course ponds

are highly proficient at getting over trauma quickly, while humans

are proficient at capturing and maintaining trauma. It is as if we

are ponds that freeze at the moment of impact and the informational

ripples become frozen in time. Our nervous system, cells, and

energy system capture and store the trauma information. Since

nature constructs complex structures from simple fractals, at the

most basic level trauma, like everything else, is a field. By

disrupting the field, the system smoothes out and then leaps to a

higher order.

 

This informational field is also called a thought field and it is a

physical reality. It is composed of subtle energetic markers or

perturbations that are the basic cause of negative emotions.

Perturbations are similar to what theoretical physicist David Bohm

called active information. When the trauma thought field is

attuned, these perturbations are available for treatment.

Simultaneously, all of the aspects involved in trauma are

activated. This includes brain structures, neurochemistry,

unconscious, cognition, behaviors, energy, etc. Through energy

psychology it is possible to elicit the thought field, analyze its

structure, and collapse the perturbations.

 

Thought fields, similar to other systems, are maintained within a

range of energy balance—too much or too little energy causes a loss

of order. A loss of order is a loss of information. Physically

tapping on acupoints disrupts the system by overloading the adhesive

energetic field. The system looses its order and collapses. The

pond with its informational ripples begins to thaw. The traumatic

event can now be viewed calmly and the calmness is incorporated into

one's life. The memory is the same; the emotional experience and

meaning has changed. You view the event from a higher perspective,

with neutrality or deeper positive feelings. Mindfulness prevails.

The shaman declares that the soul has returned home.

[Guest guest]

thanks for this. it's great to have different people's ways of interpeting

the process - it facilitates the process ofe xplaining to clients why it

works....more models to choose from .-

" docspeed2001 " <docspeed2001

 

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:34 AM

Dr. Fred Gallo Speaks on Energy

Perturbances!

 

 

How can we account for the therapeutic results of stimulating

acupoints while attuning a psychological problem, such as trauma?

What does the tapping really do?

 

There are many possible explanations. Placebo effect is one

suggested mechanism. However, since acupoint stimulation produces

highly consistent results, it would seem that placebo has little to

do with it. Around 30 percent of people show improvement after

given placebos and the results with energy tapping are significantly

higher than that.

 

Another explanation is that tapping simply distracts the patient.

While it is difficult to maintain complete focus on the problem

while tapping, this explanation is insufficient since relief

continues after the treatment has been completed.

 

Cognitive restructuring is also an explanation, since changes in

thought and perception regularly occur with these treatments.

However, it seems that the cognitive shifts occur after the negative

emotion has been relieved. While a positive shift in cognition can

serve to support healthy psychological functioning, energetic

treatments do not directly address cognition as the lever for

change.

 

Since acupoints are used in energy psychology, possibly

neurotransmitters and endorphins play a role in the treatment

effects, similar to what has been proposed with acupuncture. While

it is likely that acupoint stimulation activates the central nervous

system to release neurotransmitters and endorphins, this does not

preclude the involvement of energetic effects. There appears to be

a signaling mechanism associated with the acupuncture meridians that

figures into such action.

 

My preferred explanation is that many aspects are involved in this

treatment. While the brain, neurochemistry, unconscious and

cognition are implicated in trauma and other psychological problems,

these conditions are also energetic. After all, everything in our

physical reality is fundamentally energy.

 

Trauma is energetic information, similar to the electromagnetic

information adhering to audiotapes and computer hard drives. I

imagine a traumatic event is like throwing stones into a pond and a

trauma being the resultant splashing and ripples. Of course ponds

are highly proficient at getting over trauma quickly, while humans

are proficient at capturing and maintaining trauma. It is as if we

are ponds that freeze at the moment of impact and the informational

ripples become frozen in time. Our nervous system, cells, and

energy system capture and store the trauma information. Since

nature constructs complex structures from simple fractals, at the

most basic level trauma, like everything else, is a field. By

disrupting the field, the system smoothes out and then leaps to a

higher order.

 

This informational field is also called a thought field and it is a

physical reality. It is composed of subtle energetic markers or

perturbations that are the basic cause of negative emotions.

Perturbations are similar to what theoretical physicist David Bohm

called active information. When the trauma thought field is

attuned, these perturbations are available for treatment.

Simultaneously, all of the aspects involved in trauma are

activated. This includes brain structures, neurochemistry,

unconscious, cognition, behaviors, energy, etc. Through energy

psychology it is possible to elicit the thought field, analyze its

structure, and collapse the perturbations.

 

Thought fields, similar to other systems, are maintained within a

range of energy balance-too much or too little energy causes a loss

of order. A loss of order is a loss of information. Physically

tapping on acupoints disrupts the system by overloading the adhesive

energetic field. The system looses its order and collapses. The

pond with its informational ripples begins to thaw. The traumatic

event can now be viewed calmly and the calmness is incorporated into

one's life. The memory is the same; the emotional experience and

meaning has changed. You view the event from a higher perspective,

with neutrality or deeper positive feelings. Mindfulness prevails.

The shaman declares that the soul has returned home.