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The Association for Meridian Energy Therapies

Yearbook 2003

Edited by
Susan Courtney & Alex Kent

Published by Dragon Rising


ISBN 1-873483-52-X
The AMT Yearbook 2003

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WELCOME TO ENERGY 2003….................................................... 6

INTRODUCTION ARTICLES........................................................... 7
The New Meridian Energy Therapies ................................................ 7
Emotional Freedom at your Fingertips ............................................ 10
The Two Minute Release Technique ............................................... 15
Energy Psychology: A Powerful New Paradigm for Change ....... 16
Learning Meridian Energy Therapies - A Guide for Newcomers. 30

EFT – EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES............................ 34


Gary Craig ............................................................................................ 34
What is EFT? ....................................................................................... 34
The Complete EFT Protocol.............................................................. 37

TAT- TAPAS ACUPRESSURE TECHNIQUE ............................... 43


Tapas Fleming ..................................................................................... 43
Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT).............................................. 44
How to do TAT: The TAT Pose......................................................... 45

ET – EMOTRANCE ENERGY HEALING ...................................... 49


Silvia Hartmann ................................................................................... 49
Introduction To EmoTrance ............................................................... 50
A Simple EmoTrance Trial for You................................................... 55
EmoTrance Self Help Protocol.......................................................... 56

BSFF – BE SET FREE FAST ........................................................ 59


Larry Nims ............................................................................................ 59
BSFF Theory........................................................................................ 60
BE SET FREE FAST Treatment Steps ........................................... 66

TFT – THOUGHT FIELD THERAPY ............................................. 70


Roger Callahan.................................................................................... 70
An Introduction To Thought Field Therapy™ ................................. 71

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ALLERGY ANTIDOTES ................................................................ 74


Sandi Radomski .................................................................................. 74

FURTHER MERIDIAN ENERGY THERAPIES SYSTEMS............ 78


Seemorg Matrix Work......................................................................... 78
CHART Conscious Healing and Repatterning Therapy................ 79
EDxTM – Energy Diagnostic & Treatment Methods...................... 80
HBLU – Healing From The Body Level Up ..................................... 81
TEST – Thought Energy Synchronisation Therapy ....................... 82

TESTING, TESTING: THE ROLE OF MUSCLE TESTING IN


ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY.............................................................. 83
Muscle-Testing Preparations ............................................................ 84
Basic Muscle-Testing Technique...................................................... 84
Energy Imbalance Corrections.......................................................... 86
Testing for General Reversal ............................................................ 87
Self-Testing .......................................................................................... 88
Muscle-Testing in Therapy ................................................................ 88

INTRODUCING THE AMT ............................................................. 90


The Association for Meridian Energy Therapies ............................ 90
The AMT Practitioner Certification Trainings.................................. 91
The AMT Advanced Practitioner Certification Trainings ............... 94
Trainer's Individuality .......................................................................... 96
In Conclusion ....................................................................................... 97

CONTACTS & REFERRALS......................................................... 98


AMT Trainers ....................................................................................... 98
AMT Practitioners.............................................................................. 101
AMT Contacts .................................................................................... 117

RECOMMENDED TRAINING MANUALS & PRODUCTS........... 118

BSFF - Be Set Free Fast .................................................................... 118


The BSFF Training Manual by Dr Larry Nims .............................. 118

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EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique............................................ 119


Adventures in EFT by Dr Silvia Hartmann .................................... 119
Original EFT Training Videos by Gary Craig ................................ 119
The Advanced Patterns of EFT by Dr Silvia Hartmann .............. 120
The Art & Science of Emotional Freedom by Ananga Sivyer .... 120

ET - EmoTrance ................................................................................... 121


Oceans of Energy – Patterns & Techniques of EmoTrance by Dr
Silvia Hartmann ................................................................................. 121

General Books & Products............................................................... 122


Allergy Antidotes by Sandi Radomski............................................ 122
The Energy Odyssey: New Directions in Energy Psychology by
Willem Lammers & Beate Kircher .................................................. 122
The Gentle Touch by Paul Newcomb ............................................ 123
The Seemorg Matrix Work Manual by Nahoma Asha Clinton .. 123

TAT - Tapas Acupressure Technique............................................ 124


You Can Heal Now - The Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT)
Workbook by Tapas Fleming .......................................................... 124

TFT - Thought Field Therapy ........................................................... 124


Tapping The Healer Within by Roger Callahan, PhD.................. 124

TRAININGS & EVENTS DIARY 2003 ......................................... 125


The 3rd European Energy Psychology & Energy Therapies
Conference......................................................................................... 125
AMT Trainings 2003 ......................................................................... 130

ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY GLOSSARY OF TERMS ................... 135

YEARBOOK SPONSORS ........................................................... 140

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Welcome to Energy 2003…


If you're new to the field of Meridian Energy Therapies, Energy
Psychology and Energy Field Therapies, welcome, you're about to discover
a new and exciting world of personal growth, professional techniques, and
mind/body healing.
If you already have some experience of these innovative, powerfully
effective approaches, you'll find yourself wanting to learn even more as
you read these pages.
With contributions from many of the major innovators and developers in
this field, The AMT Yearbook is an introduction and reference guide to a
field which has been called "the most important innovations in mind/body
health and personal growth today."

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Introduction Articles
In this section, you can find a range of introduction articles by AMT
members and trainers, explaining the history and basic principles of the
field of Meridian Energy Therapies and Energy Psychology.

The New Meridian Energy Therapies

Mind and Body Healing for the New Millennium

In 1976 a remarkably well preserved body, approximately 5,200 years old,


was discovered in a glacier. It bore tattoos marking the major meridian
treatment points. When this discovery became public, everyone was
astonished - apart from the acupuncturist communities around the world,
whose classic textbook on the subject was by then just under 3000 years
old. Acupuncture, the ancient Chinese health care system that works by
stimulating these mysterious meridian points with tiny needles, was
already well on the way to becoming acceptable practise in the field of
modern healthcare.
But there were others investigating how to stimulate and balance the
meridians, and to find further ways that meridian based treatments could
bring positive benefits to health in body and in mind.
In 1964, chiropractor George Goodheart began to pursue links between
muscle strength, organs, glands and meridians and developed diagnostic
muscle testing, later naming it Applied Kinesiology. One of his students,
John Diamond, saw the potential for using the balancing effect of meridian
work for psychotherapy, and another psychologist Dr Roger Callahan,
discovered a whole new approach to working with mental health and
meridians.
One of Dr Callahan's long-term patients at that time was a woman called
Mary, who suffered from a water phobia.
Dr Callahan later explained, "Her fear of water was so severe that she had
to draw the curtains when it rained, and could not stand more than an inch
of water in her bath. I treated her weekly for two years, using every
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taught her that she could stand more fear than she previously thought
possible. She could sit in a deck chair, ten yards from the swimming pool,
but she was white-knuckled with terror in spite of everything we did."
When Mary described the "knot in her stomach" that accompanied her fear,
Dr Callahan reached over to tap below her eye with his fingers on a point
connected to the stomach meridian. "It's gone!" she exclaimed, and has
been free of her fear ever since.
Dr Callahan devoted his life and practise from this moment onwards to
developing a treatment approach to help people overcome crippling fears,
phobias and mental problems of all kinds. His approach is called TFT or
Thought Field Therapy and is still in use today. TFT uses just 14 basic
meridian points, and the order and sequence of how they are stimulated by
lightly tapping upon them is diagnosed through muscle testing for
individual problems.
In 1996, Gary Craig, a successful businessman and a student of Dr
Callahan's had the brilliant idea of creating a simple technique that would
cover all the 14 points by default - this removed the need for extensive
muscle testing and diagnostic training and provided a comprehensive
therapeutic tool which is unprecedented in its ease of use, and in its
astonishing effectiveness.
Gary Craig's Emotional Freedom Techniques - EFT for short - is one of the
easiest and most effective and efficient therapeutic approaches imaginable,
providing fast, effective and usually permanent relief for psychological,
physical and neuro-physiological problems. These techniques have been
described as one of the most important breakthroughs in the area of mind-
body healing in the last hundred years. Already thousands upon thousands
of people all over the world have benefited from using EFT, and it is
rapidly becoming known as a modern day miracle, capable of dramatically
relieving emotional disturbances and physical problems.
Thousands of professional therapists testify to EFT's unique ability to bring
rapid and permanent relief from:
Addictive cravings, allergies, anxiety & panic attacks, anger, compulsions
& obsessions, depression & sadness, dyslexia, fears & phobias, grief &
loss, guilt, insomnia, disturbing memories, nightmares, pain management,
physical conditions & healing, post traumatic stress disorder [PTSD,

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sexual abuse issue, limiting beliefs and blocks to self-esteem and peak
performance in business, the arts, and sports, and many, many more.
EFT, the "Ambassador of Meridian Therapies", has one further and most
remarkable aspect. It is designed so that once you have learned this simple
technique, you can easily use it at home at any time, in any place, in any
situation, without any further training - which represents a tremendous help
for ongoing problems such as addictions, weight loss, and depression
where relief is needed at home and on a regular basis. In spite of its
apparent simplicity and ease of use, EFT produces highly beneficial,
lasting results in 85% - 95% of cases.
All meridian energy therapies are gentle, rapid and startlingly effective.
It is not uncommon for long-standing or chronic pain to be released
entirely in less than half an hour. Similarly, psychological pain such as
anxiety, depression and addictions, caused by traumatic incidents or
childhood memories can often be relieved fully in a single treatment
session.
Since Thought Field Therapy revolutionised the way psychological and
neuro-physiological problems are being treated with its unprecedented
success rate, many other forms of meridian-based healing have proven
themselves to be highly effective. As more and more innovative therapists
move into the rapidly expanding field of Meridian Energy Therapies, new
and different approaches are being developed.
Other Meridian Energy Therapies include:
ƒ BSFF – Be Set Free Fast
ƒ TAT - Tapas Acupressure Technique
ƒ Seemorg Matrix Work
ƒ ET - EmoTrance Energy Healing
The basic ideas and approaches involved in Meridian Therapies are
stunningly simple, and the techniques lend themselves perfectly to be used
by professional therapists in combination with their existing mind-body
healing modalities.

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To learn more about this rapidly developing field, please visit the website
of The Association for Meridian Energy Therapies for free downloads,
articles, diagrams and links to international conferences and professional
trainings at http://TheAMT.com.

Emotional Freedom at your Fingertips

by Silvia Hartmann PhD

What would you say if I told you I know of a simple method that can make
emotional stress, upset, anger, fear, concern and distress simply melt away
in a few minutes and all you had to do to achieve this is simply touch a few
special points on your face and hands?
One of the most important innovations in psychology for the last 20 years
is about to come to the awareness of the public – Emotional Freedom
Techniques or EFT for short.
Based on the ancient Chinese system of body meridians, it doesn’t use
needles but instead soothes and stimulates the energy flow by gently
tapping on main acupuncture points.
EFT is so simple that even a young child can learn to do it in minutes.
It is so profoundly relaxing and re-charging that even therapists of 40 years
experience or more simply shake their heads in wonder and declare they
have never seen anything like it.
EFT has such beneficial effects on physical systems and overall mind-body
health that thousands of healing professionals are training in the new
meridian therapies to offer relief from insomnia, anxiety, depression, stress
related illnesses, tension-induced pains and aches, migraines, headaches
and much, much more.

So Simple, So Easy ...

Like many profoundly useful things in this world, EFT is extremely


simple. A straightforward protocol, designed by Gary Craig to cover all of
the most important meridian points in a treatment lasting about five

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minutes, ensures that users need know nothing at all about meridians or the
finer points of traditional Chinese medicine to experience profound relief
right away.
What’s more, the basic EFT protocol is absolutely free and freely available
to try out and for you to share with friends, loved ones and anyone else you
wish to share it with.
“This is just too good to keep to ourselves,” says Gary. “Everyone should
know about it and have a chance to be able to help themselves in a moment
of crisis or of desperation.”

How EFT Works

When someone is calm and relaxed, the flow of energy through the
meridian system likewise is calm and steady.
Emotional upset of any kind – anger, rage, fear, panic, unhappiness, stress
– affects the energy flow immediately since both are intimately linked and
part of the same system. The energy flow becomes disturbed and distressed
as our thoughts and emotions spiral off the calm centred state. In the
1970’s, Dr Roger Callahan found that instead of trying to control our
thoughts or emotions which is such a difficult thing, you could re-create
the calm state of Even Flow by touching the meridian system instead. Once
the meridian system has calmed, the mind and body cannot help but follow
and tranquillity and balance are restored as if by magic.

The Benefits of Acupuncture, Acupressure & Massage

Everyone who has experienced the calm and restful state that follows a
good massage, or has been treated with acupuncture for example, knows
that working directly with the meridian system really produces profound
changes in how we feel inside.
The great advance of the new meridian therapies, of which EFT is the
ambassador, is to focus the mind on a particular disturbance whilst
stimulating the energy system at the same time. By thinking about your
problem, you automatically target the right parts of your meridian system
and even without years of study, that’s something anyone can do.

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Perfect for Emotional Crisis Management and First Aid

And what could be more appropriate than having something that can help
you right in a middle of crisis? That is the time when your mind is
absolutely focussed on the problem; in many cases such as physical pain or
severe upset, it is the only thing we can think about.
Whilst we are in the crisis we are in the perfect place to use EFT to target
the root causes of the problem and help alleviate the symptoms and
disturbances swiftly.

A Miracle Technique?

EFT has certainly been described in those terms, and not just once but ten
thousand times, by very different people with very different problems, by
professionals and simple folk alike, all around the world. In general, at
least half of those who try it for the first time experience immediate relief
and relaxation; another quarter will experience this profound release with a
little more practise. It doesn’t work for everyone, but even if it just
manages to take the edge off an anxiety, a fear, or an anger for you
personally, that could be a starting point to a whole new level of happiness
and health. As the basic protocol is freely available, I encourage you to
simply try it for yourself. It has helped me immensely and I cannot rate
EFT highly enough. You have absolutely nothing to lose, but you could
gain the very real possibility of absolute “Emotional Freedom at your
Fingertips”.

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When to Use EFT

EFT is basically a content-free process that can be applied to any human


problem that has an emotional component. This includes virtually any kind
of mental problem or disturbance, and many physical problems that are
neuro-somatic in nature. In many other cases of physical illness, reducing
emotional stress, fear and pain can significantly aid and speed recovery.
Here are some examples where typically EFT is highly effective:

• Addictive Cravings • Fears and Phobias


• Allergies • Grief and Loss
• Anxiety and Panic Attacks • Guilt
• Anger • Insomnia
• Compulsions and Obsessions • Negative Memories
• Depression and Sadness • Nightmares
• Dyslexia • Pain Management
• Enhance Your Self Image • Peak Performance
• Sexual Abuse Issues • PTSD

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Who uses EFT?

EFT is used by an ever growing number of people, first of all on a very


personal basis. Being able to release one's own negative emotions, as well
as past and current traumas, free oneself from haunting memories and from
negative beliefs and conditioning has been described many times as "a
priceless gift".
Professionals who seek to help their clients are the second group of people
to whom EFT has proven to be one of the most useful and most globally
applicable techniques they have learned. In many cases, EFT’s ability to
rapidly release pain and suffering and the fact that client can continue to
treat themselves once they have learned the simple technique, has brought
a new dimension to the effectiveness of many different forms of healing,
from homeopathy to reflexology, and from hypnotherapy to NLP.
Here are some of the fields of expertise our existing members combine on
a daily basis with Meridian Therapies such as EFT:

ƒ Acupuncture ƒ Reiki
ƒ Aromatherapy ƒ Spiritual Healing
ƒ Hypnotherapy ƒ Herbalism
ƒ Reflexology ƒ Massage Therapy
ƒ Life & Performance ƒ Body Work Therapy
Coaching ƒ Neuro-Linguistic
ƒ Clinical Psychology Programming
ƒ Transactional Analysis ƒ Neuro-Semantics
ƒ Holistic Counselling ƒ Psychotherapy
ƒ Classical Homeopathy ƒ Health Care
ƒ Kinesiology ƒ Victim Support & Trauma
ƒ Touch Healing Treatment

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The Two Minute Release Technique


To experience the transformative power of meridian energy therapies for
yourself, become aware of any sense of tension you may feel as you think
about a problem area in your life or an area you want to expand into in
greater depth.

ƒ Touch the beginning of the eyebrow and take a slow, deep breath in
and out.
ƒ Touch the outside corner of your eye and take a slow, deep breath
in and out.
ƒ Touch under your eye and take a slow, deep breath in and out.
ƒ Touch under your nose and take a slow, deep breath in and out.
ƒ Touch under your mouth and take a slow, deep breath in and out.
ƒ Touch the third eye point and take a slow, deep breath in and out.
ƒ Take a moment to reflect on how much calmer you feel and how
much more open you are to whatever it was you might have feared.

The 2 Minute Release Technique was designed by Silvia Hartmann. It is an abbreviated form of
Touch & Breathe (TAB) by John Diepold, which is based on Gary Craig's EFT - Emotional Freedom
Techniques, which is derived from Roger Callahan's Thought Field Therapy (TFT). It is a gentle and
mindful first introduction to the concepts of the Meridian Energy Therapies for with those who find
tapping too “strange”.

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Energy Psychology: A Powerful New


Paradigm for Change

by Susan Courtney BA, CTAMT

An abbreviated version of this article was first


published in Caduceus Journal – Summer 2002

Energy psychology offers a revolutionary paradigm


shift from conventional models of psychological
dysfunction and therapeutic change. It is based on the understanding that
every distressing memory, upsetting emotion, or limiting thought is
associated with a corresponding disturbance in our subtle energy system –
that invisible vibrational matrix which permeates and surrounds us and
which we identify as the meridians, chakras, aura and other levels of the
universal life-force. Energy psychology techniques facilitate the healthy
processing of archaic beliefs, emotions and unconscious patterns which
‘drive’ us, by intervening in the subtle energy system.
Most energy psychology approaches are adjuncts rather than
comprehensive schools of psychotherapy, and they are used by
professionals already trained and experienced in many modalities of
counselling, psychotherapy, alternative/complementary therapies and
healing. Several are also used widely as self-help techniques for personal
development work. Although they share important holistic and humanistic
principles and goals which are at the core of much current therapeutic
practice – and their results are ultimately in the same healthy direction of
change and growth – they differ radically from conventional approaches in
their apparent action, and in the power, speed and gentleness of their
effects.
The pace of conventional therapy and personal development work can
sometimes be frustratingly slow for both therapist and client, like a film
seen just one frame at a time, with interruptions from daily life events and
crises, flashbacks, fantasies, and shifting viewpoints sometimes
contributing to and sometimes confusing the process as it unfolds over the
weeks and months and, sometimes, years of work. Energy psychology

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techniques enable the therapeutic process to flow so much more quickly


and smoothly that entire scenes, acts, and themes can unfold and be
resolved in a single session.
Profound insights often follow, and previously distressing dysfunctional
behaviour patterns change naturally in a healthy direction.

Transforming anger

‘Kelly’ experienced this for herself on a practitioner training course during


which the participants were practicing, EFT (Emotional Freedom
Techniques), using as their issue something that had occurred during their
journey.
‘I am so angry,’ she began. ‘I just hate being late. I always have.’ Kelly
had planned her journey that morning so that she would have ample time to
get to the course venue, allowing something like fifty percent extra for
mishaps. And the mishaps had indeed occurred, conspiring to make her
arrive at the conference centre some forty minutes late. I asked her to rate
the intensity of her anger as a number between zero and ten. Kelly
promptly named a figure off the top of the scale. I then guided her through
tapping several times on a sequence of her acupuncture points, while she
stayed in touch with her anger. After one round of tapping, I asked her to
rate her anger again.
She looked rather puzzled, and said, ‘Well, maybe that isn’t really the
problem. The problem is actually one of embarrassment. I cannot stand
going into a room and being the centre of attention.’
She had, of course, arrived some forty minutes late that morning. You can
picture the scene. The door opens. Apprehensively, someone peers in. The
speaker stops speaking. All eyes turn to the intruder. The unfortunate
latecomer treads on a few feet, handbags and brief cases and blushingly
and gratefully falls into a seat. This revised problem was also a ten on the
scale of anguish. After a round of tapping on the pressure points, I asked
Kelly how she felt now. Again she looked a little confused.
‘Well, that's not bothering me anymore. Now, I'm rembering how hurt I
felt at being made to attend a birthday party when I was six years old,
shortly after my mother had died.’

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It's easy to imagine how such an experience would have made a deep
impression on a little girl, raw with grief, with everyone treating her a bit
'differently.' So, off we went again, with Kelly repeating the key word
‘hurt’ as she moved through the treatment sequence. On completion of that
round, I asked her again how she felt.
‘Now, even that doesn't seem to be the problem,' she responded again.
‘Can you tell us what it is, now?’ I probed, gently. Looking a little
bewildered by the revelation, Kelly replied, ‘Yes, What I'm in touch with
now is how much I hate my father. It seems as if I always have.’
After another round of tapping on the hatred towards her father, Kelly’s
eyes filled with tears as she connected with her grief as a six-year-old. ‘All
I wanted was comfort and closeness’ she whispered. And following a
further round of tapping, her face glowed with wonder and warmth as she
said, ‘My poor dad. He had his own problems at the time. What a pity
I’ve held that against him all these years. We both cut ourselves off from
the one person we could have been closest to. Now I want to call him and
see what we can do to re-connect.’
And this is exactly what she did after the close of the workshop, and, with
shared tears of regret and relief, she and her father found their way back to
each other.

Far-reaching effects

Such experiences of moving quickly from an apparently simple, superficial


problem into a profound connection with deeper experience, and effecting
rapid, gentle and powerful healing there are commonplace using energy
psychology approaches.
How is it that such an apparently content-free and mechanical process can
have such profound and far-reaching effects?
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), there is a saying, ‘Where there is
resistance or disruption there is pain. Where there is no resistance or
disruption, there is no pain.’ In the TCM context, the resistance and
disruption are located in the acupuncture meridian system and the pain is
generally in the physical body.

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Many who have experience in psychotherapy and personal development


work have learned that this is also true at the emotional level. Tears of
grief flowing freely are surprisingly less painful than those choked back
and swallowed down into a lump in the throat and a headache.
There are connections as well as parallels between the dynamics of the
subtle energy system and psychological processes. Bob Flaws, the prolific
western writer on Traditional Chinese Medicine says that our emotions are
our subjective experience of the flow of Qi in our bodies. So painful
emotions are useful indicators of blocks or imbalances in the flow of
energy. If this is true, and these systems are indeed interactive, then it
holds out the hope that balancing the flow of Qi may also affect our
emotions.

Thought Field Therapy

One Westerner in pursuit of that hope is California psychologist Dr Roger


Callahan. In the early 1970’s, Dr Callahan began to integrate the
knowledge and skills of clinical psychology, Traditional Chinese
Medicine, Applied and Behavioural Kinesiology, and the theoretical work
of quantum physicist David Bohm and biologist Rupert Sheldrake to
develop, Thought Field Therapy. Callahan discovered that the simple act
of stimulating a number of acupuncture points while connecting with the
unhelpful emotion, thought, impulse or memory can initiate a cascade of
healthy neurological, chemical, emotional, cognitive, and physical affects.
One of Callahan’s most important contributions to this field has been the
concept of psychological reversal, the energetic cause behind much of what
has conventionally been seen as therapeutic resistance or self-sabotage.
Callahan discovered that these apparently willful negative behaviours are
often caused by reversals in the flow of energy through the meridians. He
devised simple treatments, including tapping on the ‘karate chop’ side of
the hand, to correct these reversals, thus allowing many clients to free
themselves from the doomed struggle between their willpower and the
power of reversed energy.

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Intention

The theory supporting energy psychology is constantly evolving at the


leading edge of new science and subtle energies research. One framework
for understanding the power of these techniques is offered by Stanford
professor Dr William Tiller, following 30 years of practical research into
subtle energies. Tiller posits in his book, Science and Human
Transformation, that the subtle energy system operates on the special sort
of physics which governs homeopathy. This implies that the more subtle
the level of intervention, the more potent its results may be. Tiller also
characterizes subtle energies as having essential properties of intentionality
and coherence.
The issue of intention stimulates great debate in this field. Many therapists
have discovered that after working with these approaches for some time, it
becomes as effective to direct focused intention to the meridian points or
chakras as to stimulate them directly. And focusing our intention on the
issue which needs to be brought into balance is the defining difference
between energy psychology and many other energy healing methods.
Experienced mental health practitioners frequently express confusion,
saying that their intention to help their clients to heal was just as strong and
clear before introducing these methods into their practice. How, then, do
these techniques make that intention so much more rapidly and powerfully
effective?

Working intentionally with subtle energies enhances the


effectiveness of all we do

Tiller suggests that certain practices are capable of increasing the


coherence of our energy system, reducing the level of destructive
interference. It is destructive interference that, for example, causes light
from a normal light bulb to spread widely in all directions and fade rapidly
over distance. Energy psychology practices bring our energies into phase,
like the light waves of a laser, exponentially increasing both their power
and focus. Because our physical and energy bodies are constantly being
renewed and the pattern they take is determined by the intention-field we
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gradually and cumulatively aligns more and more of us with our intentions,
increasing the coherence and congruence of our system at all levels,
enhancing the effectiveness of all we do. This clarity of intention and
congruence is often seen among experienced meditators, healers and
martial artists, as well as among some professionals in the creative arts and
others who also pursue a daily discipline of focused attention to their inner
process and connection with the Source of healing and inspiration.

Capacity for greater complexity

According to Dr Richard Gerber in Vibrational Medicine, the Tiller-


Einstein model (it was Einstein who coined the term ‘subtle energy’ and
who also said 'The field is the only reality') indicates that subtle energies
are negatively entropic in nature. This means that, in common with all
living biological systems, they develop in the direction of increasing order
and complexity, and with increasing ability to dissipate the entropy, or
disorder which is causes the gradual and eventual breakdown of non-living
systems. So, working with subtle energies also helps us to develop
increasingly complex internal structures to order and store these flows of
subtle energy and to allow those energies and forces which are disordered
to flow through and out of our system, like the by-products of digestion. At
a practical level, this ever-increasing capacity for energy fluxes means that
we can handle more and more of what life offers us, increasing our range
of experience.
To try an abbreviated version of one of these approaches for yourself right
now, go back and follow the quick Release Process described on page 14.
You will balance the flow of energy through a number of your body's main
meridians by touching the points or tapping on them gently. It helps to say
out loud what life issue or feeling you wish to release as you go through
the sequence. The process is deceptively simple and yet, you will be able
to appreciate for yourself how profound its effects are. And you can use
this technique at any time, for emotional crisis management, releasing
blocks, and opening yourself to embracing a greater range of experiencing.

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Varied approaches

For many conventionally trained health professionals, these approaches


have proved to be the bridge to a deeper, more holistic, multi-dimensional
understanding of life and human nature. Medical doctors, nurses,
psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and counsellors, many of
whom would once have thought the entire concept of subtle energies was
entirely too unscientific to bear consideration, have experienced the
indisputable, practical results of energy psychology techniques for
themselves and their clients, and are now applying their rigorous scientific
skills and professional experience to developing empirical research and
increasingly effective applications of these approaches to heal human
suffering.
Dr Roger Callahan’s original development of Thought Field Therapy has
blossomed into a rich variety of approaches now included under the
umbrella term of energy psychology. Some of these, like Gary Craig’s
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Larry Nims' Be Set Free Fast
(BSFF) are directly derived from Callahan’s work. Others, like TAT
(Tapas Acupressure Technique), Seemorg Matrix Work and EmoTrance
have independent origins. Each makes a special contribution to the field,
and each is highly effective with a full range of psychological work, from
fears and stress to trauma and abuse, from shame and anger to addictive
cravings, from depression, pain management and even some physical
ailments, to performance enhancement.

Allergy Antidotes for EnergyToxins

Naturopath Sandi Radomski has translated the work of the Nambudripad


Allergy Elimination Technique into the field of energy psychology to
correct the effects of energy toxins and substance sensitivities, which so
often have neurological and emotional effects. Following the World Trade
Center disaster last September, when much of the East Coast of the USA
was affected by airborne debris and much of the country was in shock and
depression, Sandi and her colleagues discovered (using muscle-testing
borrowed from Applied Kinesiology) that many clients were showing a
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basic elements of life, as well as to the mercury, hydrocarbons, and other


fumes and particles released into the atmosphere from the smoldering
ruins. Sandi created vials containing the energetic signatures of these
substances and distributed them widely. Clearing these sensitivities with
her innovative techniques, including spraying the auricular acupuncture
points with the light of a laser, resulted in instantaneous lifting of ‘brain
fog,’ malaise and depression for many who were suffering from those
after-effects of the terrorist attacks.

Seemorg Matrix Work

Asha Nahoma Clinton, a specialist in trauma and abuse developed


Seemorg Matrix Work. It combines energy psychology, psychodynamic
psychotherapy, psychoneuroimmunology, and transpersonal psychotherapy
to treat psychological disorders, physical diseases, and spiritual impasses.
Starting from the understanding that all upsetting events are types of
trauma, Seemorg Matrix Work involves anchoring one hand on a selected
chakra, and holding the other hand over the remaining chakras, one at a
time, until they all test clear on the comprehensive protocols developed to
treat particular issues. Then, using prescribed meditations and by actively
reawakening positive beliefs and qualities, it turns the client toward a life
focused not on suffering, but on growth and joy.
One client described his experience of working with Seemorg Matrix Work
in this way, ‘I had worked with a number of therapists for more than a
decade to rid myself of narcissistic behaviors that had plagued me all my
life. While my ability to understand and analyse my behavior grew much
deeper and subtler, I was still incapable of rooting it out or controlling it.
When I completed the first stages of working through the Emotion and
Core Belief Protocols, I felt as though a transparent wall around me – one I
hardly knew existed – had suddenly vanished. I could sense the individual
presence of others with a clarity and intensity I had only rarely experienced
before. This new sense has stayed with me for more than a year, and has
changed completely the way I relate to others.’

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BSFF - Be Set Free Fast

Along with the alphabet soup of techniques in this field, comes a plethora
of acronyms, of which BSFF takes the prize. The full title, Be Set Free
Fast is itself an acronym for Behavioural and Emotional Symptom
Elimination Training For Resolving Excess Emotion: Fear, Anger, Sadness
and Trauma. BSFF was developed by another of Callahan's early students,
Dr Larry Nims, a California psychologist whose enthusiasm and dedication
are legendary in the field. Nims first developed a shortcut tapping
treatment focused on releasing all the trauma, anger, fear and sadness
associated with a problem, and treating all the emotional roots and the
deepest cause.
Eager to miss no opportunity for making life better, more enjoyable, and
'free,' Dr Nims has become famous for introducing "you can treat that," as
a catch phrase. I recall a lunch at which I heard that gentle reminder
numerous times as I fumed over the slow, neglectful service. To make on-
the-spot treatment as quick and easy as possible, Nims sought a virtually
automatic technique and developed the first "instant" treatment.
Practitioners and clients are amazed by the way the use of a simple "cue"
word can trigger quite remarkable changes, making this approach ideal for
discreet use in pressured situations in public, as well as for tracking
quickly through the many layers and networked elements of problems to
reach all the emotional roots and the deepest cause.
Recently, Don Elium, an American colleague and developer of integrative
States therapy, was given the opportunity to be the "relationship therapist
expert" on a reality television programme. He wrote, " I am SO grateful
for BSFF and my instant cue word. When on camera (two to three hours at
a time, and then only a few minutes are actually used for the final show),
often I have found myself 'out of my body' looking down on the scene,
only to sound the BSFF cue word, and pop, I am back inside myself.
BSFF has helped me perform under incredible pressures as I have gone
inward, sounded my cue word, and been able to bring myself back to the
present. The constant changes, the constant conflicts, the constant
challenges and the constant newness of the experience pressures me to shut
down over and over again, but BSFF helped me do my best."

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EmoTrance

The newest technique in this rapidly-developing field is EmoTrance,


developed by UK researcher Silvia Hartmann, PhD and presented at
Oxford University at the second European Energy Psychology Conference
in 2002.
EmoTrance is a straight-forward healing system for both self-help and
professional therapeutic interventions. It is the natural way to handle our
emotions and the flow of energy in our bodies in direct response to what
happens in the present moment. It is also a gentle and profound way to
help ourselves and others to dissolve the oldest and hardest of hurts from
the past. There’s no reliving of old trauma, just energy being set free to
once again flow as it was always designed to do. And it is wonderfully re-
vitalising and invigorating as we re-learn how to open ourselves up to
absorb the full spectrum of energies available to every one of us.
EmoTrance also functions as a personalised teacher and guide to each
person's individual energy system. The basic process teaches us about the
channels through which energy flows in our personal energy system, our
own energy body’s needs, and how we can start to meet those in a whole
new way. And while it is doing this for us, it also extends our abilities to
work with other people’s energy systems, to really understand and read
them correctly.
It is based on the principle that our energy bodies have their own unique
nutritional requirements, and that, as with our physical bodies, nourishing
energies need to be allowed in, be processed and flow on through us and
out again. When we don't allow this to happen, the equivalent of energetic
constipation or malnutrition take place. We feel painful emotions, and we
try to treat those, when the cause of our pain is a block somewhere in the
energy system, old energies held out, held back, or held onto. We feel a
hunger and try to alleviate it with chocolate or lots of attention, hard work,
success, sex or many other distractions. But we can't feed the energy
system with chocolate. Many people are finding that if they feed their
systems on energy instead, if they allow the energies of their encounters,
their environment, their lives to flow through them naturally, clearing
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other symptoms simply fade away. This is as true of apparently negative


energies as it is of all others.
One of the most convincing experiments we did while developing
EmoTrance involved exchanging insults. Here’s how it works. What’s the
worst thing anyone could say to you? "You’re stupid! You’re ugly! You
don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re just an imposter." Here’s
how we deal with such things using EmoTrance. I was working with one
of the participants on a training course, who believed that she was pretty
and intelligent, but feared most of all that she was shallow. I briefly
described the process, and then guided her through it.

First, I said to her scornfully, “You are pathetically shallow! You’re


nothing but a pretty face” She stepped back as if I had struck her a
physical blow and then crumpled in on herself. I asked “where are you
feeing that in your body? Put your hands there now, and understand that
this is simply an energy, an energy that is blocked from its natural
pathways. Can you let that go through so we can re-establish the even
flow? We’re working just with the energy behind that sensation, not the
emotions, not the memory of what your father said to you 30 years ago,
just the energy, and giving that energy the support it needs to soften and
move and find its natural pathways out of the body, without any argument
or struggle at all – it’s just gone.”

Within a very short time, her hands had described a pathway down from
the original constriction in her chest, to her solar plexus, then out to the
sides of her body and around to her back, then up her spine and out the top
of her head. To continue the process, I repeated again, “You are such a
pathetic and shallow person,” she flinched a bit, and found more energy
blocked in her chest. Again that flowed down, around and back up her
spine and out the top of her head. I said it again, and this time she actually
smiled a bit, and her hands moved very quickly and smoothly down,
around and back up to the top of her head. And when I said it to her one
more time, she was grinning as the energy moved so swiftly and smoothly
through her that she could barely follow it with her hands. And she just
stood there looking extremely pleased with herself, feeling happy, and
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Many of our healing systems have their basis in a variety of maps, codified
ages ago. Most of us are familiar with the detailed meridian charts from
Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Thai use yet a different set of energy
pathways? And there are as many others as there are healing cultures: the
Ayurvedic, Jin Shin Jitsu, reflexology and auricular acupuncture, the
neuro-lymphatic and neuro-vascular systems and many others. Rather than
select or combine these maps, with EmoTrance we rely on direct feedback
to guide us through the uniquely individual energy systems of our clients.
EmoTrance uses direct kinaesthetic feedback to localise the actual position
of the disturbance in the energy body which has been causing the
emotional pain. It then treats this energy disturbance with the application
of intention, which moves energy and restores even flow, leading to
symptom alleviation and improved functioning of the energy system. It
helps us to use the systems we have been given to naturally process all the
energies we encounter. Every time we do EmoTrance, we are clearing the
channels, restoring the even flow, opening up our energy systems to be
able to accept and make use of more and more of the vital energy nutrients
available to us in this Universe of abundance.

Tapas Acupressure Technique

Another method is Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT), a process-


oriented approach developed by acupuncturist Tapas Fleming from her
work with Traditional Chinese Medicine and rooted in Taoist and Buddhist
principles. Holding the hands steadily on acupuncture points and vision
centres at the front and back of the head, while allowing the attention to
first ‘be with’, the problem, then with its opposite, then its origins and
several other aspects, TAT creates space for whatever arises during the
treatment steps in a respectful and attentive way, drawing it all into the
process of healing. Tapas says, ‘Every time we say ‘No’ to reality, we put
ourselves into the state of separation. As we move through the TAT steps
towards acceptance and healing, we are drawn back into the whole.’ As I
watched one client recently work through a life-long issue with TAT, I saw
tears of joy pouring down her cheeks, and her face transformed from
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described her experience as ‘like breaking through clouds, into the


sunlight.’
Many people find their lives blighted by traumatic memories, from
emotional and physical abuse within the family or school, accidents and
attacks, or events on the global stage of terrorism and war. Dick Morrill
was an Air America pilot in Vietnam, and his experience of speaks
eloquently of TAT’s gentle power to heal trauma.
‘During a TAT seminar, I closed my eyes and was back in Vietnam in the
back seat of a helicopter on a training flight. Several B-52’s had dropped
hundreds of 500 pound bombs in the distance. I took a deep breath as I
remembered the helicopter slowly tilting back as it began to skid into a
simulated emergency landing with an engine failure, but this time we were
VERY tilted. In one moment my knees were above my head, and the next
the tail rotor blades plowed into the ground. When the helicopter finally
skidded to a stop, it was upside down. The frame of my seat was pressing
on the back of my helmet, forcing my face into the dirt and solidly pinning
both my arms and my face into the ground. I was trapped! Everyone else
was dead or unconscious. With the engines still running we were sure to
burn or explode. I was going to die. Eventually, another helicopter that
had seen the crash came to the rescue.
‘Whenever I remembered this, my chest would get tight, my arms would
feel tingly and heavy, my palms would sweat, and, if I was telling the
story, my voice would change as my throat tightened with terror. But as I
held the TAT pose and stayed with the steps of the process, all of a sudden
I was aware that I had survived that crash! And I was suddenly aware of
something else: there was NO HELICOPTER on top of me. Even as I had
the thought, it seemed silly. Of course there wasn’t a helicopter on top of
me, but I sat there amazed by my new awareness of that reality.
‘For a brief moment, I saw the crash scene from above. Although it was
just a flash, I noticed that it looked different. It looked lighter. I closed my
eyes. It WAS lighter. It had always been kind of dark in my memory, as if
there were a giant shaded Plexiglas dome covering the site.
I then became aware that as I was thinking about the crash, my chest, arms,
throat and hands were relaxed. All I was having was a memory of an event
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next thought I had was that I wanted the tension back. I had lived with it
for so long that it had seemed a part of me. I closed my eyes again, but it
wasn’t there, and I couldn’t get it to come back, no matter how hard I
focused on the memory.’
To see such rapid and deep transformation in someone’s face and posture
as the burden of a past trauma or current fear is resolved, to hear their
voice become steadier, firmer, more confident as they let go of the past and
connect with what now becomes possible for them - this is what moves
many sceptics from incredulity to amazement as they learn how energy
psychology enables this to happen again and again.
In the hands of professionally-trained therapists, energy psychology
approaches provide a quantum leap in psychological healing. As self-help
techniques, they are always at our fingertips for emotional first aid even in
our darkest hours at 4 am, when no therapist, friend or priest is available,
and whenever we are ready and willing to work on our own healing and
growth.

Susan Courtney practices as a holistic, healing psychotherapist in Central London


and Kent and teaches Energy Psychology in professional trainings and personal
development workshops. She is an Executive Director and Licensed Trainer for the
Association for Meridian Energy Therapies and European Regional Co-ordinator for
the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology. She can be contacted at
SusanCourtney@TrueChange.org and on 08700 767015.

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Learning Meridian Energy Therapies - A Guide for


Newcomers

by Silvia Hartmann, PhD

When someone first encounters the sparkling new field of Meridian


Energy Therapies, they are amazed at the variety of techniques, the many
books and innovators, the huge array of articles, protocols and not to
forget, the famous MET systems abbreviations – TAT, EFT, TFT, ET, and
all the rest.
This article is both a welcome and a guide to give you some idea of how
you can structure your learning curve and get the very best from these
fantastic new approaches which will undoubtedly change your life, just as
it has changed many others.

Let’s Get Started!

The great majority of currently active therapists, contributors and even


innovators in the field have started with EFT, Gary Craig’s Emotional
Freedom Techniques. I am among them and even after having gained
experience with the other techniques and systems, I highly recommend
EFT as the first step in the journey – and this is regardless of whether this
journey is primarily for self help, or if it includes others in a healing or
teaching capacity.
The reason for this is that EFT really does not require any previous
knowledge of anything at all – neither of psychology or counselling on the
one hand, nor of meridian systems and the energy body on the other.
EFT is very easy to learn and simple to do, with the protocol mapped out in
a few easy steps; it is entirely content-free and allows the user to put their
own problems into the treatment as easily as it is to name them but for all
of that, EFT combines the most important principles of all MET systems,
namely:
ƒ Working with the energy system directly; and
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You will find a full EFT protocol in the “Techniques & Protocols” section;
this is quite enough to get you started, to try it out for yourself and to get a
sense of the power of this seemingly simple technique.
To learn EFT properly and to understand the principles behind its use as
well as to learn how to apply EFT for many particular situations, the
Association for Meridian Energy Therapies recommends “Adventures In
EFT” by Silvia Hartmann, PhD, which provides a solid foundation for self-
help as well as for practitioners beginning to use EFT with clients.
The AMT also recommends Gary Craig’s DVD/video series (available
from www.emofree.com) which is full of practical examples and live
sessions.
A good grounding in EFT is the best springboard to begin to explore the
other major MET systems.
In practise, MET therapists and healers rarely use only one MET approach
but indeed, have a range of techniques at their disposal to suit individual
client preferences.
It is also recognised that treating clients in a professional setting with
METs requires very different approaches and mind set from traditional
counselling and psychotherapy; so for healing practitioners who wish to
use METs with clients, the next step is to seek out a practitioner
certification training.

The AMT Practitioner Certification Training

All the meridian energy therapies systems have in common that they can
produce profound changes very rapidly; they can uncover unconscious
materials, bring about insights and cognition and very strongly impact
clients' emotional states and behaviour.
The techniques and systems, even though they are diverse, are grouped in
this field because they are all working with the underlying principle that
disturbances result from problems in the energy system, and all the systems
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Although the means by which this healing is delivered are different – for
example, EFT and TFT tap on the points; TAB and TAT hold certain
points; ET uses purely intention and BSFF utilises the power of the
unconscious mind to make changes in the energy system – the underlying
principles are the same and it is these underlying principles and how to
work with clients in a whole new way to resolve their issues with these
new techniques that the AMT practitioner trainings concentrate on.
Using EFT as the example, the AMT practitioner training prepares a
professional to be able to add all and any of the other energy therapies to
their repertoire. You could think of these trainings as the framework into
which all the many systems fit in a perfectly modular fashion.
The Advanced Practitioner certification trainings do just that and add the
modules of TAT, BSFF, and ET to be integrated into a rich and extremely
powerful set of healing systems at the practitioner's fingertips.
More Information about the AMT Meridian Therapies Practitioner training
can be found on page 91.

Learning The Systems

It is important to remember that mastery in Meridian Energy Therapies


systems does not derive from knowing which points to tap, but from how
to go about solving problems in the context of each individual’s
psychological ecology and in the right context, order and sequence for each
person who uses them.
The main systems are as different as their creators and it is largely a matter
of personal preference which you are drawn to explore and in which order.
Normally, after the initial contact with your “first meridian energy therapy”
which was the doorway to this entirely new and truly exciting domain of
mind-body healing possibilities, each person finds their own path which
eventually tends to lead to have experience of and knowledge about all the
systems. For anyone interested in healing, psychology, personal
development or human potential, this field is a veritable buffet of
wonderful variety, waiting to be explored.

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An excellent way of getting a very personal idea of the systems, the


innovators and the field overall is to attend one of the three annual
international Energy Therapies & Energy Psychology conferences.
For three whole days, you have the opportunity to learn from leading
innovators in the field, ask questions, attend introduction workshops and
hear about the latest discoveries; but more importantly even, you can
exchange information and insights with other people on a friendly peer
basis - others who are also excited about the many, many possibilities for
healing and growth that simply were not available before these systems
were developed.
For those seeking professional qualification trainings, a range of pre- and
post conference full length certification trainings are also offered in
conjunction with these conferences; please see “Trainings & Events” for
further details.
Now, an overview, introduction and trial protocol for each of the six main
Meridian Energy Therapies/Energy Psychology systems featured in this
yearbook:
• EFT – Emotional Freedom Techniques (Next Page)
• TAT – Tapas Acupressure Technique (Page 43)
• ET – EmoTrance (Page 49)
• BSFF – Be Set Free Fast (Page 59)
• TFT – Thought Field Therapy (Page 70)
• Allergy Antidotes (Page 74)

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EFT – Emotional Freedom Techniques

Gary Craig
Gary Craig, Developer Of EFT -
Emotional Freedom Techniques
Born April 13, 1940 in the US, Gary
Craig is a Stanford University trained
engineer, successful businessman and
professional coach, ordained minister
and NLP Master Practitioner.
He was a student of Roger Callahan's
TFT and devised EFT as a "one size fits
all protocol" that would cover a
multitude of problems by virtue of the
concept of total redundancy - tapping every point for every problem, rather
than to match an order and sequence of some of the points to specific
problems.
Please visit the award winning EFT site http://www.emofree.com

What is EFT?

by Gary Craig

In simplest terms, EFT is an emotional form of acupuncture except that we


don't use needles. Instead, we tap with the fingertips to stimulate certain
meridian points while the client is "tuned in" to the problem. We are still
learning why EFT (and its many cousins) works so well. The existing
theory is that "the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the
body's energy system."
The subtle energies that circulate throughout the body have been largely
ignored (until recently) by western scientists. As a result, our use of them
for physical, emotional and spiritual healing has been sparse at best. With
EFT, however, we consider these subtle energies to be the front running
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beyond those of conventional methods. Even a cursory review of the case


histories on the web site will reveal that.
Further, EFT often provides relief for a very wide range of physical
symptoms. This, too, is abundantly clear in our case histories, which
provide unmistakable evidence of the link between our physical ailments
and our emotional issues.
EFT is a Doorway to the new Healing High-Rise. It is where a growing
number of newcomers to this exciting field get their start. We now have
thousands of practitioners using EFT throughout the world.
I hope this doesn't sound too grandiose, but I've been doing energy healing
work since 1991 and my jaw still drops at the results. I've lost count of the
number of phobias, traumatic memories, guilt, grief and physical ailments
that have been elegantly relieved (often in minutes) by this procedure.
Even though EFT violates just about every conventional belief out there,
the results remain remarkable. EFT isn't perfect, of course. We don't get
100%. But it usually works well and the results are sometimes
spectacular. It often works where nothing else will.
Compared to other techniques, EFT is usually quite gentle and substantial
relief is often achieved with little or no pain. This is not true for everyone,
however. Some people's issue are so intense that the mere mention of them
causes emotional or physical pain. Although truly serious instances of this
(sometimes called abreactions) is most likely to occur in seriously
emotionally damaged people (best estimate is less than 1% of the
population), newcomers to EFT are advised to exercise common sense in
this regard and not go where they aren't qualified.
Please know that I am neither a psychologist nor a licensed therapist.
Rather, I am a Stanford engineering graduate and an ordained minister and,
although we don't pound the table for God here, I do come at this
procedure from a decidedly spiritual perspective.
My ordained ministry is with the Universal Church of God in Southern
California which is non-denominational and embraces all religions. I am
an avid student of A Course In Miracles but at no time is any EFT'er asked
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I was born April 13, 1940 and have been intensely interested in personal
improvement via psychology since age 13. That was when I recognized
that the quality of my thoughts was mirrored in the quality of my life.
Since then I have been self-taught in this field, seeking only those
procedures that, in my opinion, produced results.
EFT is my latest finding, the core of which I learned from Dr. Roger
Callahan. I also have high regard for Neuro Linguistic Programming
(NLP) in which I am a Certified Master Practitioner.
Hugs & Blessings,
Gary
Gary Craig
http://EmoFree.com

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The Complete EFT Protocol

The EFT Treatment Points


0 = The Sore Spot - On your
chest where you would pin a
medal or a brooch. Gently push
with your fingertips to find an
area that feels tender, rather
than sore.
1 = Start Of The Eyebrow -
Where the bone behind your
eyebrow turns into the bridge
of your nose.
2 = Corner Of The Eye - On
the bone in the corner of your
eye.
3 = Under The Eye - On the
bone just below your eye, in
line with your pupil if you look
straight ahead.
4 = Under The Nose -
Between you nose and your
upper lip
5 = Under The Mouth - In the
indentation between your chin
and your lower lip
6 = Collarbone - In the angle
formed by your collarbone and
the breastbone
7 = Under Arm - in line with a man's nipples on the side of the body
8 = Thumb - all finger points are on the side of the finger, in line with the nail bed.
9 = Index Finger, 10 = Middle Finger, 11 = Little Finger
12 = Karate Chop Point - on the side of your hand, roughly in line with your life line.
13 = Gamut Point - just behind and between the knuckles of your ring and little finger.
Take a moment now to find and touch each point in turn.

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You may notice that some feel slightly different from others, or you may
not. When you get to work on various issues, you will feel that some of the
points "feel" different when you tap them, and you will notice that the shift
or release will occur with one or more points, depending on the reason for
using the technique at the time.

Tapping the Points

In EFT, these points are stimulated by tapping on them. Try now tapping
the point under your eye, with your index or index and middle fingers,
quite rapidly* about seven to nine times or as many times as it takes for
you to take a normal breath in and out. The strength of tapping should be
comfortable, but you should be able to feel a resonance from the tapping
spreading out across a reasonable part of that side of your face.
* I have noticed that different people have different speeds of tapping. We
generally show a tapping speed in line with the rhythm of "Jingle Bells".
In spite of this, some people develop a kind of woodpecker action after a
while, and others tap quite slowly. I would suggest that what feels right to
you probably is right for you.
For practise, tap all the points from the Eyebrow to the Karate Chop point
now, just to get the feel of doing it.

Contacting The Problem

To direct the releasing effects of the tapping to the required area, we


focus the mind on the problem by using a statement of the problem: "I
am afraid of heights."
Preferably, this is spoken out loud to engage as much of the neurology as
possible and to contact the problem as directly as possible.
In a moment, take a little time to think about a problem that you have, a
pain, a fear, an illness or perhaps a phobia, something that always makes
you depressed when you think about it, just generally any negative emotion
you are happy to release now and forever. Choose a statement that rings
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The more concrete, direct and truthful you can be, the more profound
a change you will experience.

The Set Up

Now that we've named the problem, we can start with the Set Up.
For the opening statement, we use the following routine:
Find the sore spot on either side of your chest; rub it round gently and say:
"Even though I (insert problem statement),
I deeply and completely accept myself."
For example, if you decided your problem was "My back is killing me",
you would say as your Set Up Statement:
"Even though my back is killing me,
I deeply and completely accept myself."
Repeat this three times, rubbing the Sore Spot continuously as you do so,
and please do endeavour to put some meaning and energy into the "I
deeply and profoundly accept myself" part.

The Sequence

Following the Set Up, we now tap all the points, starting from the top
(Eyebrow) and ending up with the Karate Chop Point on the hand.
As you tap each point, repeat a shortened version of the Set Up
Statement which is called the reminder phrase; so if your set up
statement was,
"Even though I hate and despise my boss,
I deeply and profoundly accept myself",
… you say the reminder (shortened version) phrase:
"I hate and despise my boss"
… on each point at the same time as you tap.

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The 9 Gamut

This is the middle part in what is sometimes called the EFT sandwich:
After tapping all the points about 5-10 times from the top, at the eyebrow
to the karate chop point, tap continuously on the Gamut point, while doing
the following:
ƒ close your eyes
ƒ open your eyes and look straight ahead
ƒ look hard down to one corner
ƒ look hard down to the other corner
ƒ move your eyes in a big circle in one direction, and then back again
ƒ hum - Happy Birthday To You (or another tune or just a scale) for
about one bar;
ƒ count - one two three four five
ƒ hum again
Take a deep breath in and out.
The eye movements are linked to various brain functions and the reason for
the humming-counting-humming manoeuvre is to switch between
hemispheres quite quickly. Both are designed to "wake up" your
neurology so the tapping can go to work on the problem in every part of
the brain.
Then, repeat the Sequence one more time, tapping all the points from the
eyebrow to the karate chop point, while repeating the Reminder Phrase
once at each point. Take a deep breath and allow yourself a moment to
reflect on how you feel now. This completes one full round of tapping.

Testing Your Changes

A great way to ascertain from yourself or others just how you feel is to put
a number on it. The technical term is taking a SUD Level or SUDs scale
reading, which stands for Subjective Units of Disturbance.

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What that means is you ask yourself:


On a scale of 0 to 10, 10 being the worst imaginable pain/freak
out/fear/sadness/discomfort, and 0 being completely calm, pain free,
tranquil, relaxed and happy, how would you rate what you are
experiencing at this moment?
This works for emotions as well as for physical sensations and even for
beliefs which might be a problem:
On a scale of zero to ten:
ƒ how depressed are you right now?
ƒ how painful is your leg?
ƒ how bad is your fear of heights?
ƒ how distressing is this memory?
ƒ how much do you hate this person?
Before you begin tapping for any subject or problem, take the time to
take a SUDs rating and make a mental note of it. Then, when you have
completed a round of treatment, ask the question again to find how much
has changed. It's a good way to be able to assess how well the treatment
has worked and if you need to repeat the treatment.
Sometimes, the problem can go from as high as 10 to as low as 0 in a
single Sandwich treatment.
More often though, you start with 8 or 9, and after a round of tapping, the
severity is reduced to a 4 or a 5.
This means that the treatment is beginning to work but there's more to be
done.

Subsequent Treatment Rounds

If the original set up statement was something along the lines of, "Even
though I have this problem" and you have tapped a first round on "this
problem", and upon checking with yourself, this problem is not as severe
anymore but still noticeable, change the start up affirmation to:

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"Even though there is still some of this problem remaining”, or


"Even though I still have some of this problem".
When you're down to a rating of "Oh its a tiny little bit now" which would
be a 2, 1 or a half on the subjective rating scale, a third round can be done
with the opening statement of,
"I want to completely overcome this problem
and I deeply and completely accept myself".
And that's it!
It's as simple as that. There's no need for you to worry about getting it
wrong, or getting the wrong statement.
ALL TAPPING YOU DO IS GOOD FOR YOU.
Any tapping you do stimulates the meridians, relaxes you, calms you and
makes you feel a little better, even if you get totally the wrong opening
affirmation and the original problem has not yet shifted.
Just try again with a different start up phrase, or think about what the truth
about the problem might be.

EFT Protocol Courteously donated by Silvia Hartmann, PhD


Excerpt from “Adventures In EFT” (see page 119)

* EFT Introduction Workshops & EFT+ Practitioner Trainings


In Conjunction with The 3rd European Energy Therapies
Energy Psychology Conference, Brighton, August 8-10, 2003
See Trainings & Events for further details.

* Related Manual: Adventures in EFT


See Training Manuals & Training Materials for further details.

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TAT- Tapas Acupressure Technique

Tapas Fleming
Tapas Fleming, L Ac began her search for Truth at age
15. For many years her focus was on enlightenment and
emotional release. After losing premature twins and
nearly dying herself, she learned acupuncture and
focused on her own healing. In 1994, Tapas created
Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT). Tapas now has a
private practice and travels worldwide to give TAT
trainings.
TAT is an elegant, process-oriented energy psychology
treatment. While simple to use, it is as thorough and comprehensive as it is
gentle and powerful. Based on Taoist principles of balance and wholeness,
using TAT brings a sense of integration, connectedness and oneness. It
heals our relationship with Reality at deep and profound levels. The TAT
process creates space for whatever arises during the treatment steps in a
respectful and attentive way, drawing it all into the process of healing.
TAT resolves inner conflict, frees limiting beliefs, unblocks stuckness,
heals trauma and treats allergies. It links the acupuncture meridians with
the vision centres to change our point of view about the problems in our
lives, transforming both our vision and our position, and bringing us into a
harmonious and balanced relationship with all aspects of our experiencing.
Contact: TAT International, P.O. Box 488, Lake Elsinore CA
92531-0488, (909) 609-1288, fax (909) 609-0677,
email tapas@unstressforsuccess.com
website www.unstressforsuccess.com

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Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT)


Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT)™ is a welcome to the embrace of
Divine inner peace. With one simple pose and a few short steps, you cross
the bridge that leads from mental and emotional turmoil to the calm repose
of your true Self.
Developed in 1993, TAT has lifted the spirits and brought emotional ease
and empowerment to people suffering around the world. TAT-trained
professionals and lay people alike have delivered health and happiness to
people in diverse situations including:
ƒ healing migraines and traumatic stress after auto accidents
ƒ the loss of a loved one - including pets
ƒ the loss of home, family and work after natural disasters
ƒ fear of going to the dentist
ƒ multiple sclerosis (MS)
ƒ allergies of all types - even those suffering with seasonal
affective disorder (SAD)
ƒ genetic and inherited weaknesses including life-threatening
allergies and fears of going in the water to swim
ƒ making peace with God
The basic pose and steps of TAT are easy to learn and simple to teach.
Based on the ancient teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine and yoga,
TAT is easy to assimilate by diverse cultures because of its basis in natural
healing. It can be taught to hundreds of people at a time, imparting its
grace and healing like a Divine Mother. It leaves people empowered.
Children regain strength and steadiness very quickly with TAT. Animals
have been soothed in lightning and thunderstorms.
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How to do TAT: The TAT Pose

With one hand, lightly touch the tip of the thumb to


the area I/8 inch above the inner corner of your eye

With fourth finger (ring finger of the same hand,


lightly touch the tip of the finger to the area I/8 inch
above the inner corner of your other eye.

Both finger tips are now on either side of the bridge


of your nose.

Place the tip of the middle finger at the point midway


between, and about I/2 inch above eyebrow level.

You now have all three finger lips lightly touching the
three points.

Now place your other hand on the back of your head,


with the palm touching the head so that the thumb is
resting at the base of the skull just above the hairline.
The palm cradles the occipital rone. If you are
holding your hands in the TAT pose on someone
else, the same area at the base of the skull is
covered; however, your little finger will be just above
the hairline.

Both hands should be resting gently. No pressure is


necessary.

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Once you are in the TAT pose, you put your attention on a short set of
seven steps which have been proven to be highly effective in eliminating
the negatively empowering aspects of a trouble. A trouble can be a
negative limiting belief, a stuck emotion, an allergic reaction and
sometimes even a physical pain. After being in the TAT pose and doing the
steps, you are delivered to a place of inner freedom, relaxation and peace.
This process usually takes about 15 minutes.
The underlying understanding explaining how TAT works is easy to
recognize based on each of our life experiences. In the situation of trauma,
we often say "Oh no This can’t be happening?" The moment we do that, a
point of view springs into existence along with a projected reality of "how
life is" based upon that particular point of view.
For example, if a child loses their parent in a car crash they lived through,
some of the points of view that might spring up at their "Oh, no!" moment
could include:
ƒ "I don’t deserve to live."
ƒ "I can’t count on support from anyone, anywhere."
ƒ "My nearest and dearest will be suddenly taken from me."
ƒ "I’m alone in the world now."
ƒ "No one can understand how devastating this is."
ƒ "My heart is broken."
Once all of the points of view are born, they become like glasses this child
views the world through. What they see as real in life corresponds with
their points of view. They would have difficulty connecting with people.
They would want to care and connect, but fear that the person would
suddenly be taken away from them. They would naturally draw people
who fit that view into their life. They would have an underlying lack of
ease and the thought "I don’t deserve to live" would silently haunt them.

Over time, this child would probably also develop chronic pain related to
the accident. Healing would be difficult throughout their life.

How does TAT help this person?

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By simply being in the TAT pose, the Divine healing energy of life
appears, embodied within as intelligent, attentive, fast-as-light healing
energy. When our child is in the presence of that loving energy, all
resistance naturally melts away. The energy reigns supreme. The resistance
and stress, the points of view and corresponding projected "that’s the way
life is" reality cannot stand in the effulgent light of the Divine energy. All
that remains is the inner pleasure of contact with that love and the relief of
everything else having melted into love.
The life manifestation of this transformation is that the person can instantly
connect with others without fear, feeling happy to be alive at their deepest
core and full-hearted living. The correspondent physical pain associated
with the crash also begins to spontaneously heal.
This type of profound healing is typical with TAT. Practitioners often cry
for joy along with their clients at the beauty and grace of the experience.

As a person does the TAT process, they usually experience greater peace
with each of the seven steps. Occasionally, a person experiences an
intensifying of stress. This usually lasts up to 15 seconds and then breaks
into peace like a rainstorm suddenly ending just as the sunshine bursts
through the clouds. The person does not have to repeat the work they have
done. It is usual to see increased light emanating from a person’s face upon
completion of TAT.
Teaching TAT is an extraordinary pleasure. To empower people with a
simple technique that gives so much is wonderfully fulfilling. You will be
able to learn TAT in a two-day workshop. In the workshop you will:
· Learn all the basic information you need in order to successfully do TAT
by the end of the workshop. You'll learn how to do TAT for traumas,
allergies, healing your relationship with money, helping an attached
being move on, and how to work with children, animals and groups of
people. You'll learn how to do several types of energy field testing
(muscle testing), surrogate work and the key to developing your intuition
to become a better healer.
· Receive an introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine (the basis of
acupuncture and the meridian system) and find out how it explains the
energy of emotional trauma and physical pain.

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· Identify when not to use TAT. You'll watch demos and do practicums,
which will give you the experience with TAT you need in order to
successfully, bring TAT into your life and your practice.
· Enjoy opportunities for personal healing and rejuvenation.
· Learn a new way to discover and heal the trauma that is causing a person
the most trouble.
· Experience the personal peace that TAT can bring.
· Have fun and know you have a simple new tool that delivers greater
health, vitality and happiness.
It is my pleasure to share TAT with you.
With love,
Tapas Fleming
www.unstressforsuccess.com

* Introductory workshop on TAT


in conjunction with The 3rd European Energy Therapies &
Energy Psychology Conference, Brighton, August 8-10, 2003
See Trainings & Events for further details.

* Related Manual – You Can Heal Now


The Tapas Acupressure Technique Manual
See Training Manuals & Training Materials for details.

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ET – EmoTrance Energy Healing

Silvia Hartmann
Silvia Hartmann, PhD is a highly qualified and experienced trainer of
Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Energy Therapies and Neuro-Linguistic
Programming, author, international lecturer and motivational speaker.
She is the Co-Founder and Trainings Director
of The Association for Meridian Energy
Therapies, the acting Moderator of the oldest
established MET newsgroup, Meridiantherapy,
Contributing Editor to Gary Craig's EmoFree
List, author of numerous highly acclaimed
original works in the field, including Project
Sanctuary and Guiding Stars 2002.
Dr. Hartmann's best-selling EFT training
manual Adventures in EFT has to date been
translated into four languages and is
universally acknowledged to be "the best book
on EFT". The in-depth Advanced Patterns of
EFT for experienced MET practitioners and
researchers has been hailed as “a major contribution to the field”.
After studying and researching Energy Psychology and Meridian Energy
Therapies approaches in-depth for four years, Dr. Hartmann created
EmoTrance™ in 2002, a groundbreaking and entirely innovative approach
to working with the human energy system for mental and physical health.
Contact and Further Information:
http://StarFields.org - Full catalogue of manuals & training materials
http://Sidereus.org - Articles, patterns & protocols
http://EmoTrance.com - The EmoTrance community portal – practitioner
listings, trainings & events, related materials, newsgroup & more.

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Introduction To EmoTrance

by Silvia Hartmann PhD

After having worked for four years intensively with EFT and having
observed, experienced and facilitated the very real miracles Meridian
Energy Therapies can produce especially in the treatment of all things
which have a basis in emotional "disturbances", I had developed a healthy
respect for METs. I had also come to learn many things about the human
energy system and the energy body along the way - and all of these things I
learned entirely by watching and observing, making changes and testing
the responses but NOT by studying acupuncture charts or ancient texts.
The original METs relied on a limited number of points to produce change
in the energy system which by extension, leads to change in how a person
feels, acts, behaves and experiences their lives after the treatments. EFT
uses a "total redundancy" approach to clear all the major channels during a
session which is extremely successful, especially if repeat treatments are
used to catch aspects that were missed or to address further energy
blockages. I'm not sure why it took me so long but in 2002 I had an instant
insight into the relationship between the energy body, emotions and the
physical body - namely, that all emotions are nothing more (and of course,
nothing less!) than simply feedback devices to alert us to the existing
conditions in the energy body, just the same as physical pain is nothing
more (and certainly nothing less!) than a feedback device to alert us to
existing conditions in the physical body.
It is well known that repeatedly experiencing the same strong emotions has
a very direct correlation to the onset of physiological symptoms and this
was the bridge I used in the system I called EmoTrance in order to show
and demonstrate clearly to everyone concerned just exactly where in a
person's body the disturbances occur at the energetic level.

Back To Physicality

When conditions change in the energy body, subtle feedback exists


immediately which we generally are not aware of at all as we are too busy

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with our attention elsewhere all through the day. It is only when these
subtle sensations turn into strong feelings that we are made to take notice.
We really only become aware of the strongest emotions as they turn into
absolute physiological sensations.
A simple example would be like this. Someone gets told unexpectedly,
"You are FIRED!" and they will report that "it felt as though they had been
punched in the stomach".
That is not some kind of metaphor or a psychosomatic aberration, but a
complete and correct recognition and diagnosis of a real and severe
disturbance in this person's energy body. The physical sensation tells us
exactly where this disturbance lies - in EmoTrance, the one who is working
on their problem or disturbance will be asked to "show me with your hands
where that is" - "that" being the problem, the bereavement, the anger, the
pain, or whatever label of emotion is causing the problem.
It is crucial to EmoTrance to know that we work from the assumption that
people's energy bodies are NATURALLY DESIGNED to handle just
about any kind of existing energy in this world. That there are channels and
pathways which, if they are clear and functioning properly, can and will
channel even the most powerful of energies we can imagine into us,
through us and out in an Even Flow movement.

Re-Establishing the Even Flow

EmoTrance works to re-establishing a full and functioning flow of a very


wide range of energy types in, through and out of a person's body in three
ways:
1. Firstly, by teaching and learning the basic EmoTrance™ technique to
find the pathways for energies that need to flow rather than be stuck, held
on to or deflected out;
2. Secondly, by softening and releasing old energy blockages (which show
up directly and uncontrovertibly through the medium of sensations in a
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3. Thirdly, by repairing channels, networks and areas of the energy body to


enable these areas to once again allow a smooth flowing of incoming
energies into, through and out of the system.

Repercussions & Energy Nutrition

When EmoTrance was originally being developed, the intention was to


reduce firstly the physiological sensations related to high stress emotions,
secondly and as a direct effect of this, to entirely release the emotional
experience and finally, to basically re-teach the energy body to begin
flowing energy again in, through and out as it was always designed to be
doing and to do so automatically and in reflexive response to the
environmental conditions which we may expect to be challenging often
and constantly as we live our lives.
But very early on it became apparent that there were unexpected "side
effects" to working with the underlying energies in the energy body in this
way.
Rather than simply "not feeling the negative emotion and pain anymore"
from incoming or self-generated energies, it turned out that when these
energies were being taken into the system and "tranced through" their
correct and requisite channels, it produced a huge increase in a person's
actual energy levels - expressed through laughter, delight, pro-active ideas
and thoughts; in other words, through the movement of energy from intake,
through the systems and release, something very important was being
gained in the process.
As people were learning to once again, open themselves to energies from
people for example, such as can be found in expression of admiration,
gratitude, praise and so forth ("You are beautiful." "You are intelligent."
etc), they finally were able to derive what can only be described as long
needed "nutrition" for their energy bodies which expressed itself in very
different mental states, body postures and thoughts after an EmoTrance
treatment.
But this extended much, much further than just "positive" energies.
Allowing negative forms of incoming energies into the energy body too, to
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produced even more profound state changes and shifts in return. Being able
to handle an incoming (or self generated) thought form energy such as,
"You are ugly." and to simply trance it through and out directly causes
people to feel stronger, much more balanced, much less afraid of criticism
and of failure, more determined and more resourceful.

Playing in "The Oceans Of Energy"

Doing EmoTrance to release easily and without much ado (because we are
working directly with the energy/physical body and NOT in the head with
thoughts, metaphors or other logical contortions) old burdens, blockages,
shards, hurts and pain, does a number of very beneficial things for a
person.
Firstly, users and practitioners of EmoTrance report that they become far
more attuned to what is happening in their bodies and how their emotional
states are actually expressed in their body. This is a very grounding and
healing change of attention and for many, a first re-connection to how
much their bodies have been crying out to them for help and release at last.
Further, in the act of learning or re-learning to move these energies and to
let them flow, every person who practises EmoTrance begins to learn about
the actual realities of their own energy body - where the main channels are
in their body, main centres and entry and exit points for energies and much,
much more besides.
Secondly, and once we start moving beyond immediate trauma and
emotional drama reduction, it becomes very clear just how much energy
there is around us for us to use to heal, grow, have, be and do.
Opening oneself and "drinking in a sunrise" fully and completely, for
example, is an extraordinary experience and physiological sensation.
Opening oneself fully to energies from plant life, from animals, from the
sun and the sky, from the Earth and indeed, from every little thing around
us makes every day quite extraordinary and provides literally ENDLESS
and totally abundant sources of energy for life, work and play.
Learning to "take the energy from a thing" rather than trying to possess or
ingest or own the thing itself is a wonderful gift in and of itself - it can
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out of possibility and has inordinate applications for addictions of all kinds,
and even radically reduces food and shopping bills into the bargain!
There is also the magical aspect of deliberately raising energies such as, "I
am a healer" and being able to trace and track any blockages, smooth them
out and have this - and basically, ANY - form of energy flow powerfully
and very intentionally through our systems.

Endless Possibilities, Endless Applications

EmoTrance is at its most basic level, an incredibly simple and intuitive


method because it relies upon naturally existing systems of the human
totality - the intention of the conscious mind, the feedback devices of
emotion and sensation from the physical and energy bodies and the co-
operation of the unconscious systems and the body mind. Simply put,
bodies love EmoTrance. Because it is entirely natural and following the
direct evidence of physiological feedback, EmoTrance is amazingly easy to
learn and easy to do.
As EmoTrance is entirely and strictly focussed on the movement of energy
in, through and out the energy body, it is "content free" in the best sense of
the word and can be applied to just about anything that humans can think,
worry or feel pain about - this includes past resolution, forgiveness,
bereavement, relationship issues, old wounds, burdens and pains, current
instabilities, feelings "in the moment", and all things future related,
including goal setting, planning, self identity and so much more besides.
For psychologists and psychotherapists, EmoTrance can be the bridge into
energy psychology and healing as it does not require touching, tapping, or
muscle testing and although it is in effect, a pure energy healing modality
it is also close enough to a "talking therapy" to be easily accepted and
accessible.
For healers of any kind, EmoTrance offers a new doorway to exploring
energy healing with direct feedback rather than to have to guess or rely on
intuition. It does not demand any special talents or abilities from either the
healer or their partner in healing, and represents a beautiful, experientially
based system for a healer to develop their natural healing skills which
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The EmoTrance systems and techniques are not at all an end product but
rather, a starting point and learning tool to how much more we can all do,
be, have, achieve and experience right here, right now - simply by re-
learning to use the systems we already have and once again, stepping back
into a true appreciation of the Even Flow.
To learn more about EmoTrance, please visit http://EmoTrance.com

A Simple EmoTrance Trial for You


First, can you accept the idea that any feeling or sensation that does not
have an actual physical reason for being there in the now (for example,
something really pushing you, or your heart beating strongly because you
are really running) is the result of an underlying disturbance in your energy
body that gets transmitted straight to your awareness through the “feelings”
system of the physical body?
If the answer is yes, then we can proceed.
The basic idea of EmoTrance is that all energy needs to flow, and that we
have specific channels in our body to take the energies of the Universe in,
through and out.
When this energy flow gets blocked or disturbed badly enough, we feel
pain – normally emotional pain as we think of it but there are always
corresponding body sensations, such as a pressure in the head, butterflies
in the stomach, a weight on the chest, a tension in the back of the neck and
so on.
As intention works beautifully and very effectively with energy flow, we
can simply encourage the flow of any incoming energy through its rightful
channels. Now, most people who see an EmoTrance demonstration for the
first time are quite amazed and say, “But isn’t it really difficult to move
energy like that? How do you know which way it wanted to go? How do
you learn to do that?”
The truly wonderful and surprising thing about doing this is that it is
completely natural and easy – apart from a very few highly disassociated
individuals who also cannot make any of the other energy therapies work
(such as EFT, TFT, TAT and so forth), the vast majority of the population
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Even and especially small children simply respond to the suggestion or


idea that this stuck thing could be softened and allowed to go where it
needed to will simply nod and say, “Ok, yes, it’s beginning to move ...”

EmoTrance Self Help Protocol


I would now invite you to try the following exercise for yourself.
Get a piece of paper, and on that paper write down something you really
don’t like to hear about yourself or that people have said to you in the past
and which has caused you pain, if not agony. Good candidates are
comments such as, “You are useless.” – “You are ugly.” – “You are
worthless.” – “You are stupid.” – “I don’t love you anymore.” or any
suchlike energy messages that you would experience as being very painful
to you and best prevented from ever coming your way again.
This piece of paper will broadcast the energetic message to you in the
absence of a helpful other who can shout the words at you with meaning.
Write out the statement in the “you” form as suggested above, turn the
paper face down and take a deep breath.
Now, turn it right side up, allow the energy of the statement to come to you
and take note as to where you feel this in your body.
If you feel nothing at all as you are reading such a statement, you will need
to back up and find something really hurtful to you personally. Perhaps
you have body image issues that could be used with this such as believing
you have a big nose, your hips are too wide or your arms too puny. Perhaps
your parents, caretakers or teachers had a particularly nasty phrase with
which to hurt you on a regular basis; use that for this exercise.
The important first step is to feel the response to the incoming energy in
your body.
With EmoTrance beginners, we use these negatives because many people
are used to not paying attention to body signals of this nature or have
trained themselves to block them out or ignore them completely; a heavy
shot across the bows provides a clear cut experience for a first trial and that
is always very useful in order to give you both the confidence and the
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Now that we have located the place where you feel these sensations in your
body we turn our attention to this erea. You might like to place your hands
on that place to help you keep your focus and now, consider that these
sensations are simply caused by a disturbance or blockage in your
energy body and that the channels absolutely exist to move this energy in,
through and out very successfully.
Pay attention and ask yourself, “Where would this energy like to go?”
Most people get an immediate idea – it might want to go up or down, left
or right, it matters not. If you do not get such an indication, read your
statement again to bring the sensations right back to full strength and this
time, be ready to soften the energy which is causing these physical
sensations (when there is actually nothing physically visible at all touching
you in physicality) around the edges, just a little bit, like a little steam
would come off a block of ice and as it rises, it will show you the channels
that were supposed to take this energy if it was in flow (but cannot take or
transport this energy in the form of a big blocked up ice cube, if you will).
Then, you let it soften more and flow out entirely. It is helpful to support
the movement of the energy by moving your hands with it, and to describe
aloud what you feel happening and where it is as it moves.
Repeat this process until you can look at the statement on the paper, and
the energy flows freely and readily into you, through the requisite channels
and out, leaving you feeling energised and entirely undisturbed by this
particular form of energy.
If you have a friend to try this with, so much the better – they can say the
statement repeatedly to you and also help you move the energy with their
intention too.
Have a play – EmoTrance is easy, natural and amazingly versatile. Best of
all, you cannot do it wrong and it becomes a habit so that emotions that
used to disturb you will simply flow away without even having to pay
much attention with a bit of practise.

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You can also draw in energy from just about anything around you, and
don’t forget to play with positive statements. Try it in the mirror with
affirmations and make them really flow through your system. The
possibilities of healing and growth are really quite endless.
Delighted to share this simple but very, very useful system with you,
All the best,
Silvia Hartmann, PhD
http://StarFields.org
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* EmoTrance™ Practitioner Training & Trainers Training
in conjunction with The 3rd European Energy Therapies & Psychology
Conference, Brighton, August 8-10, 2003
See Trainings & Events for further details.

* Related Manual – Oceans Of Energy


The Patterns & Techniques of EmoTrance, Vol. 1
See Training Manuals & Training Materials for details.

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BSFF – Be Set Free Fast

Larry Nims
Dr Larry Nims, PhD. is a clinical psychologist who
developed the BSFF system over a period of time,
noting that the unconscious mind can make the
adjustments that physical tapping on the points
achieves, if it is so instructed.
BE SET FREE FAST™ (BSFF™) is a highly
focused Energy Therapy method for eliminating
the negative emotional roots and self-limiting
belief systems which are embedded in the
subconscious mind, and which are "locked"
together by specific energy circuits. These
unresolved negative emotions and beliefs create and maintain
psychological and physical symptoms which can result in life adjustment,
mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual problems, including medical, and
health problems.
BE SET FREE FAST is a descriptive acronym for "Behavioral &
Emotional Symptom Elimination Training for Resolving Excess Emotion:
Fear, Anger, Sadness & Trauma."
BSFF readily eliminates the same emotionally-based problems as all of the
Energy Therapies. It is believed that BSFF works at deeper psychological
levels than other Energy Therapies by specifically and purposefully
treating the unresolved emotional roots and the belief systems which are
operating automatically in the person's subconscious mind.
Please visit the BSFF website for further information:
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BSFF Theory
Problems are caused by unresolved negative emotions and beliefs
Thoughts, feelings and behaviours are controlled and limited by
subconscious programming.
Beliefs determine the purpose, timing, duration, and frequency of
psychological symptoms and behaviours.
Dysfunctional belief systems and emotional roots must be eliminated in
order to achieve psychological freedom.
A complete history of all psychological issues is recorded in the
subconscious mind.
The subconscious mind is our obedient "faithful servant."
Subconscious information can be accurately accessed through skilful use of
muscle-testing and clinical insights.
Conscious identification of a problem is not necessary for effective
treatment. Notice it - treat it!
Every specific problem, including psychological reversals, can be
eliminated instantly with a single treatment.
BSFF can effectively treat every psychological, physical, or spiritual
problem that has emotional roots.
In BSFF, a “problem” is defined as a set of unresolved negative feelings
that arise from a long series of traumatic and emotionally painful
experiences. An “issue” is a set of problems, which occur together. These
experiences begin in the early months of life, even before we can verbalize
them.
I refer to these experiences and to the associated accumulated negative
feelings simply as “emotional roots,” which eventually have gotten locked
together with a belief system.
The belief system then makes the “problem” occur at a specific time, for a
specific duration, with a specific intensity, for a very specific purpose, and
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consciously and logically might prefer a different outcome. Your


subconscious mind does this on “automatic pilot.”
That is, the belief system essentially says to your subconscious mind: “Do
this, at this time, and make this happen in my experience. That is, in my
mind (or in my body/emotions/spirit/work/finances/success/skill
development/athletic performance/achievement/relationships, etc.)”
Whenever the triggering situation occurs in your experience, your
subconscious mind, as your neutral “faithful servant,” immediately
recreates the unpleasant problem or personal limitation.
There can be many layers or levels of secondary, tertiary, and even deeper
sets of problems that accompany any problem that we consciously notice.
These hidden problems indirectly help to set up or feed into the
consciously detected or identified problem.
With just one use of your cue word all levels of roots and beliefs involved
with each treated problem are eliminated simultaneously, along with the
identified problem that you intend to treat.
No matter how many emotional roots are involved, your “faithful servant”
(your subconscious, psychological mind) will eliminate all of the roots and
the belief system at all levels for each individual problem that you treat.
Amazingly, this constitutes the entire BSFF treatment. Notice that your
subconscious mind does all of the actual treatment work. You just cue it to
do so by using your word(s) and by your intention to eliminate the
problem.”
Now, choose a word or short phrase that you want to use for your cue to
your subconscious mind.

Choosing a cue word:

Now choose a single word, or a very short phrase that you want to use as a
cue to your subconscious mind. It can be any word, from any language, or
you can make one up. You can then add any other cues you wish at any
time by just telling your subconscious, “I am adding these words as
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Use your cues inter-changeably as your mood dictates. You cannot have
too many cues for your subconscious mind to handle. You just use any one
of your cues for each problem you treat. Your subconscious mind will fully
accept this instruction and implement the BSFF procedure every time you
use any of your cues for any specific problem.
You can use as many words as you wish in your cue. But, I recommend
keeping it concise so that you can do it quickly. Just one word will be fine.
It may be humorous, serious, whimsical, spiritual or whatever. Or, you can
have a variety of cues. It can be in any language.
The following are some examples of cues that my clients are using:
Freedom Light Safety
Release it. Apples. Emmanuel.
Praise. Lord. God is/God you are...
Now. Boom.
Horse. Vanilla. Eliminate.
Ocean View Love.
Get outta' here! Michael and Patricia (this mother’s children).
Baruch Ha Shem (which is Hebrew for Bless the Name).
Any cue word or phrase that is meaningful to you will do the job instantly,
right on the spot, without anyone even knowing that you are doing it, and
without having to wait to BE SET FREE FAST.
If you think or say any cue word in your normal activities without noticing
some problem to treat, or when not consciously wanting to treat a problem,
a treatment won’t automatically be initiated. So, no treatment will occur.
You will simply be using the word as part of your normal language.
Each person must become accustomed to doing BSFF in all types of
circumstances, whether alone or with others. That simply means a little
practice, plus using it to eliminate any subconscious blocks to doing it
alertly and readily. Many of my clients and people around the world are
using it with excellent results. You can, too.
I have found that I can easily do BSFF while talking or listening, and I can
still stay in touch with people and my surroundings. If someone, or
something, is bugging me or causing me some stress, or if I brought some
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treat as much as necessary until I am back in balance and fully in the


present situation.
This instant treatment can be done so quickly that it is actually much less
disruptive to my ability to be fully present with someone than if I did not
treat myself immediately. Not treating it would allow the distress or the
distraction to impair my attention to the client and my clinical judgment.
This treatment process is usually so fast that it hardly interrupts anything.
Of course, it may not be as easy to take the time to forgive yourself or
someone else when you are interacting with someone. But, you can treat
for any anger, at least, and do the unforgiveness later.

The BSFF Instructions to your Subconscious Mind

Give this instruction only one time (ever) to your subconscious mind. It
will always agree to do everything that you have told it to do for you from
then on. You will never need to give these instructions again. They will
continue to be operative for years, unless you tell your “faithful servant”
not to do this for you anymore. (But I can’t imagine why anyone would
cancel it.) Now, here is the entire set of instructions to give to your
subconscious mind.
“These instructions are to my subconscious mind. Whenever I consciously
notice any problem that I intend for you to eliminate and I just think or
speak my chosen cue/trigger word/phrase you will do the entire BSFF
treatment for me for that problem. The cue that I choose to use is
_________.
“This means that you, my subconscious mind, will eliminate all of the
negative emotional roots and all beliefs involved in each problem that I
choose and intend for you to treat. You will also, simultaneously, eliminate
every Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) factor that is associated with and has
been triggered in each emotional root experience involved in every
problem that I treat.
You will thoroughly resolve these PTS effects so that they no longer cause
me any sort of discomfort. The PTS factors that you will eliminate include
all seven of the following negative effects on my entire human system and
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Shock to my system
Trauma to my system
Stress to my system
Distress to my system
Upset to my system
Disturbance to my system
Bother to my system
“You will do all this for me whether or not I consciously know what the
problem is, and even when I cannot identify, describe or label the problem
with words. I need only consciously notice the problem that you will treat.
“You will simultaneously treat and eliminate any and all other problems, at
all levels of my entire life, experience and being, and at all levels of my
mind, which may directly or indirectly in any way contribute to, feed into,
help cause, or in any way maintain this problem that I have noticed and
intend for you to treat.
You will do all of this for me no matter what combination of mental,
emotional, physical or spiritual experiences that I may have been having at
the time each of these related problems were being established or re-
experienced.
“You will completely and permanently eliminate each and every problem
that I treat-- whether or not I have been programmed subconsciously to
keep them, to take them back, to allow them to come back, to permit them
to return, or, to passively accept or receive them back in any way, shape or
form.
You will simultaneously also eliminate each and every problem that would
make me vulnerable to any treated problem returning in any way or at any
time in the future.
“You will do all of this for me from now on, for any problem that I ever
consciously notice and intend to treat, whenever I initiate the treatment
with any one of my cues. You will do this for me with any and all cues that
I ever tell you that I want to use. I simply need only to notice a problem
and initiate the treatment with my thought or with my voice by using any
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“You will include, in every treatment, the very first to the last time that I
ever experienced any and all parts of whatever problem that I am signalling
you to eliminate.
“Whenever I treat for any anger, judgment, criticism and unforgiveness or
any other negative attitudes that I may have toward myself you will include
in each of these treatments every anger and unforgiveness toward myself
that I may not have treated in previous treatment sessions. You will do this
update treatment work no matter how long ago I did the previous
treatments.
“Subconscious mind, you will always do all of these things for me from
now on, no matter what condition, circumstance or situation that I am in or
what problem I may be imagining or remembering. And I thank you for
being my faithful servant.”
This is the entire instruction to your subconscious mind. Yes, it is a long
statement, and it is meant to be thoroughly comprehensive. It is crucial to
eliminate everything that is in any way contributing to each problem, and
leave nothing to be triggered that might signal the subconscious mind to
rebuild the problem or issue.
The important point is to be thorough in treating every related problem
involved in the issue that you have noticed. Many situations are often a
mixture of many different issues and/or individual problems.
Be alert for this possibility and treat everything! Don’t leave any problems
untreated that may be involved in whatever situation you are in.
If any problem in an issue is left untreated, it can be a “hook” for the whole
issue to be reconstructed. This has been a major limitation of all
conventional psychotherapies for the past fifty years. We did not have the
tools for totally and permanently eliminating all the problems involved in
the person’s life. Now we do.

These treatments always eliminate each problem. And they do so instantly.


While it is possible for a problem to return, it is not very likely because of
the thoroughness of this work. Of course, any problem can be readily
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Much muscle testing and individual subjective experience has confirmed


that everyone's "faithful servant" will always instantly do this entire
treatment for every individual problem.
Do recognize that some "issues" may be comprised of many problems.
Each separate problem will need to be eliminated as well.
Sometimes muscle testing will indicate that multiple problems in some
issue can be eliminated simultaneously in only one Instant BSFF treatment.
The important thing here is to be thorough in treating every related
problem involved in the "presenting problem" that is noticed and reported
by the person. "Presenting problems" often are a mixture of several
different individual problems.

BE SET FREE FAST Treatment Steps


Here is the exact process of doing BSFF work. Please do all ten steps in
this sequential order to get the fully effective results that are possible with
BSFF. If you still have questions about the procedure, please contact me.
I do want you to learn to use BSFF skilfully so that you, too will get the
wonderful results and freedom that it gives.
1) Notice the problem with your conscious mind. You do not have to
describe, identify, or label the problem. If you have words or labels for the
problem, fine, but it is not necessary for totally effective treatment. You
only need consciously to notice that you have a problem. Just notice and
treat. And, remember - treat everything!
2) Treat each problem. that is, think, whisper, speak, visualise, write, etc
your cure word to treat that problem. Your subconscious mind does the
actual treatment work - immediately and instantly - for you. It thoroughly
eliminates each specific problem with just one use of your cue.
Remember, your subconscious mind is always monitoring everything that
you experience, including what your conscious mind is noticing and doing.
It knows the entire history and purpose of each problem you are noticing,
and it will faithfully respond to your intention to treat each problem when
you signal your 'faithful servant' by using your cue word.
3) Treat all angers and unforgiveness that you may have toward another
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Likewise, treat any anger at God, the world, or life, as it arises. And also
anger at yourself.
4) Treat each problem involved in every issue until you feel a sense of
peace and comfort in relationship to the problem/issue you are working on.
that is, keep treating until, when you tune into it again, you have no more
negative experience of any kind about it at all (in your mind, emotions,
body and spirit) as you think about each problem or issue on which you are
working.
5) Treat all problems that you have time for in your session, whether
working with yourself or a client. Be sure to treat every problem involved
in each issue that you work on during your session. This includes treating
for any anger or unforgiveness (as it comes up) toward each person that
you are working on.
6) Treat for these common problems. They appear for everyone, due to old
subconscious programming in all of us. Treat all possible variation of
these 'stoppers' that you or your client may have.
• I am afraid that these treatments won't work for me.
• I am afraid that these treatments won't last.
• I doubt that they will work
• I doubt that they will last.
• I don't trust myself to do things effectively in these new ways.
• I doubt my ability to live these changes out in my life.
Notice that self-doubt and self-distrust are extremely common problems in
everyone. So, treat every instance of these that you can discover.
7) At the end of each treatment session it is imperative to clear up all anger
and unforgiveness toward yourself that is related to the problems you have
been working on in that session.
8) forgive yourself for all of the problems that you have been working on
in that session. Again, do just one forgiveness treatment for the combined
total of unforgivenesses toward yourself in all the problems you have been
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treat all angers and unforgivenesses toward yourself each time that you
treat for them.
9) Use whatever spiritual method you have to clear up (in your relationship
to your Creator/God) the negative spiritual effects of the judgmental,
critical and unforgiving attitudes you have been holding with the problems
you have just treated. This is crucial in order to help insure that treated
problems do not return.
10) Dust yourself off, get up, and go enjoy your new freedom! Azp
anything else that comes up as you go on in your life of new freedom and
personal effectiveness.
There are other things to learn about using BSFF that can deepen this
work, for example, the "Fail-Safe" treatment sequence and the treatments
for self-image and self-confidence. But, you can do far more with just this
simple method than you ever could before. Study the BSFF Manual. TAke
a BSFF training. You will discover many ideas, strategies, examples and
methods for being set free and for creating your new life of freedom and
choice.
Use BSFF for everything. Keep using it. You will be delighted with what
you can do with it to help yourself. Now, with BSFF, you can eliminate
unresolved problems quickly and thoroughly.
That's it. BSFF is deceptively simple, yet very profound in its
effectiveness. Just do the treatments thoroughly for each issue and you
will have wonderful results for most every type of problem, including
many physical symptoms and illnesses.
Keep in mind that you do not have to believe that BSFF works in order to
be hugely successful with it. It does work. We simply did not know how
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So, go for it! You do not have to settle for the vast majority of
psychological and physical problems, post-traumatic stress, and personal
limitations that have been programmed into your subconscious mind. Now
you can do the thorough treatment work that you have always wanted to do
- with yourself and for others.
I am very excited and deeply gratified to bring this wonderful treatment
method to you. It is a gift from God to you and to me. It is my fervent
desire that you will use BSFF and BE SET FREE FAST. May you be as
blessed I am with it.
Warmly, Larry
Larry Nims, PhD
http://besetfreefast.com

Introduction to BSFF Workshop


in conjunction with the 3rd European Energy Psychology &
Energy Therapies Conference, Brighton, August 8-10
* Related Manual: The BSFF Training Manual
See Training Manuals & Training Materials for further details.

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TFT – Thought Field Therapy

Roger Callahan
Roger J. Callahan, PhD, Founder and
developer of the Callahan Techniques®
Thought Field Therapy, is a clinical
psychologist. A graduate of the University of
Michigan, he received his Ph.D. in clinical
psychology from Syracuse University. Dr.
Callahan is author of It Can Happen to You:
The Practical Guide to Romantic Love (a
Book-of-the-Month Club selection), The
Callahan Anxiety Pictures (a projective test to
measure anxiety), the Five Minute Phobia
Cure (published in USA - Enterprise, France &
Germany), The Anxiety Addiction Connection (published in USA, France
& Germany), The Rapid Treatment of Panic, Agoraphobia and Anxiety,
and Why Do I Eat When I’m Not Hungry? (Doubleday and Avon), Stop the
Nightmares of Trauma (Professional Press), with Forward by Jack
Canfield, co-author Chicken Soup for Soul® Series, and the newly
released Tapping the Healer Within (Contemporary/McGraw-Hill). This
latest book is soon to be released in the United Kingdom and Japan.
Past President of the American Academy of Psychologists in Marital and
Family Therapy and the Michigan Society of School Psychologists, Dr.
Callahan has taught at the University of Michigan and Syracuse
University. He was an Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University,
a Research and Clinical Psychologist at Michigan’s Wayne County
Training School, and he is a current Fellow of the American Academy of
Psychotherapists Treating Addiction. Dr. Callahan has had private
psychotherapy practices in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, Indian Wells,
and La Quinta, California.
Dr. Callahan has demonstrated the Callahan Techniques® Thought Field
Therapy on radio and television shows all over the USA including Good
Morning America, Cable Network News(CNN) and Evening Magazine,
Regis Philbin, Tom Snyder, and LEEZA as well as many others. Phil

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Donahue devoted an entire program to Dr. Callahan and his work on


"amouraphobia".
Currently licensed in New York and California, Dr. Callahan heads the
Thought Field Therapy Training Center in La Quinta, California (a Palm
Springs community). The TFT Training Center conducts trainings in
Callahan Techniques® TFT and publishes a quarterly newsletter, The
Thought Field. Dr. Callahan is Chairman of the Board for the professional
organization Association for Thought Field Therapy.

An Introduction To Thought Field Therapy™

By Peter Delves

Roger Callahan is one of the true pioneers in the field of psychology for
developing Thought Field Therapy (TFT). TFT introduces the whole
notion of subtle energy systems into the psychotherapeutic process. For
some, this can be hard to rationalise, because it is beyond their existing
belief system. Nevertheless the results are impressive, whether you believe
it can work or not.

A Turning Point in the History of Psychology

First a story. Callahan was a psychologist who had a “traditional” practice;


while at the same time studying applied kinesiology. One of his clients
was a woman called Mary who had a phobia of water. Callahan had
worked with her for over a year using cognitive and behavioural
approaches to try and relieve the problem. This had achieved only limited
success.
Mary had commented on uncomfortable feelings in her stomach even just
thinking of water. From his Applied Kinesiology training, Callahan knew
that there was a meridian of energy associated with the stomach which had
an acupuncture point just beneath the eye. He decided to tap that point
with his finger to see if he could relieve the feelings in the stomach. The
story goes that after a few taps Mary exclaimed that it had gone and they
went out of the house and down to Callahan’s swimming pool! There she
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disappeared completely. This heralded the birth of Thought Field Therapy.


Some 20 years later, Mary is still free of the phobia and has appeared on
various US TV programmes telling this story.
Callahan recognised that simply tapping one point would not always
produce the desired results so he proceeded to develop procedures, or
algorithms, for tapping different sequences of points depending on the
problem to be resolved. Callahan maintains that the correct sequence of
points is important. This became the basis of Thought Field Therapy or
Callahan Techniques®. Therefore there are different points and sequences
for issues such as trauma, addictive cravings, pain relief, anxiety,
depression, panic, phobias etc.
Here is an example algorithm, for Traumatic Stress.
ƒ EB – Eyebrow Point
ƒ UE – Under Eye Point
ƒ UA – Under Arm Point
ƒ CB – Collar Bone Point
(For Point location, please refer to the EFT Chart)

How TFT Works

According to TFT, emotional problems exist because there is disturbance


or “perturbation” in the thought field of energy. Before tapping any points,
the client has to think about the problem or “tune in” to the specific
thought field. The tapping then clears the perturbation and restores
balance. By balancing the thought field in this way, the emotional problem
is released.
Callahan discovered that treatment could be inhibited if the polarity of a
person’s energy were in a state of reversal; something he called
“psychological reversal” or PR. He developed ways of correcting PR,
making the overall effectiveness of TFT even greater.
If a problem returns after treatment then a TFT diagnostically trained
therapist will suspect energy toxins being present, and test for whichever
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contact with, either through eating, drinking, touching or inhaling. Once


identified, the toxin can be avoided so that TFT treatment can be resumed
successfully.
Callahan has also developed an approach called Voice Technology™
which he claims improves success rates, by being an even more accurate
diagnostic tool.
Some of the people who trained with Callahan in the early days went on to
adapt the techniques. Gary Craig, for instance developed Emotional
Freedom Techniques (EFT) which gives less importance to the notion of
energy toxins, specific sequences of tapping points and the TFT diagnostic
methods. However Callahan continues to maintain that the highest success
rates will only be achieved when the correct sequences are used and
diagnostic methods are employed.

For Further Information About TFT & The Callahan Techniques,


Please Visit http://TFTrx.com

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Allergy Antidotes

Sandi Radomski
Sandi Radomski, N.D., L.C.S.W., M.S.S.W. is a
psychotherapist and naturopathic doctor. Her background
includes teaching in the medical school at the University
of Wisconsin for 8 years, doing biofeedback with pain
patients for 10 years and conducting research in
psychoneruoimmunology with children with cancer. Her
experience in energy work includes TFTdx, EFT, TAT,
and BSFF, and techniques from allied fields including
NAET, TBM, Biokinetics, NET and JMT.
Currently specializing in allergy work, Sandi has written the manual
Allergy Antidotes™, The Energy Psychology Treatment of Allergy-Like
Reactions. Allergy Antidotes™ is a comprehensive system to identify and
eliminate the physical and emotional symptoms caused by substance
sensitivities. Sophisticated muscle testing procedure pinpoints hidden
sensitivities. Five basic treatment protocols utilize Energy Psychology
principles to reprogram the patient’s body to no longer react negatively to
the offending substances.
Contact: Tel 215-885-7917, Fax 215-572-1175, sandiradom@aol.com
www.AllergyAntidotes.com

Allergy Antidotes: Identifying & Treating the Psychoenergetic


Effects of Energy Toxins

Are your energy psychology treatments as effective as you would like them
to be? Do you, your family members, or some of your clients have vague,
confusing, or undiagnosed emotional or physical symptoms? The solutions
to these problems can be found in the Allergy AntidotesTM system.
Allergy AntidotesTM is a comprehensive system for assessing, identifying
and treating the psychoenergetic effects of energy toxins.
Allergy Antidotes stems from the discoveries of Dr. Roger Callahan,
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cases when TFT failed to eliminate symptoms as well as when negative


symptoms reoccurred, Dr. Callahan discovered that certain people undergo
psychological reversal and treatment failure when exposed to substances to
which they are particularly sensitive. Callahan calls these substances
“energy toxins” since they are poisonous to or weaken the body’s energy
system.
While Callahan advocates avoiding these problem substances, for many
people this is often difficult, impossible or undesirable. For example, it is
difficult to avoid dust, perfumes or formaldehyde. It is impossible to avoid
hormones or implants in one’s own body and it is dangerous to avoid
vitamins or minerals. The Allergy AntidotesTM system presents an easy to
learn, non-invasive treatment method for eliminating the physical and
emotional symptoms caused by exposure to these reactive substances.

Allergy AntidotesTM is a 3 step process:

1. Assess whether substance sensitivities are a possible cause of symptoms.


2. Identify specific reactive substances.
3. Use energy psychology techniques to reprogram the body to no longer
react negatively to the reactive substances.
The Allergy AntidotesTM two day workshop teaches all three steps of the
process. In addition to lecture and demonstration, hands-on practice makes
participants comfortable and ready to immediately begin integrating
techniques into their practice.
Each step in the process can be greatly beneficial for your clients.

1. Assessing Symptoms
Reactions to various substances can produce a myriad of symptoms
including ADD, anxiety, depression, arthritis, respiratory problems,
menstrual difficulties, digestive problems, chronic fatigue, brain fog, panic
attacks, headaches, weight gain, learning disabilities, hyperactivity, and
aches and pains. Severity of symptoms runs the gamut from nasal
congestion to psychosis. As clinicians, our job is to assess whether a
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ask whether the symptoms are better or worse at particular times of the
day, week, month, or year, and dependent on what a person is doing or
eating.
Merely being open to the possibility that a sensitivity reaction may be
causing symptoms can alter our evaluation of a client’s behaviors.

2. Identification of Energy Toxins


Any symptom can be from a substance sensitivity. In turn, any substance
can potentially weaken the body’s energy system. Possible culprits range
from toxic chemicals such as petrochemicals, to non-toxic substances such
as eggs and vitamin C. Since everything is suspect, a methodical system is
required to assess whether a particular substance is weakening a person’s
energy system.
Energy toxins can be easily identified using non-invasive muscle testing.
This variety of muscle testing, adapted from Applied Kinesiology, involves
the patient holding or thinking about different substances while applying
consistent pressure to the patient’s outstretched arm.
If the arm “gives way” it is an indication that the held substance is
weakening the muscle energy system.
Identification of an energy toxin alone can afford a higher quality of life
for a sensitive person who can now avoid the reactive substance.
However, in those cases where avoidance of the substance is difficult,
impossible or undesirable it is necessary to alter the body’s reaction to the
substance.

3. Treatment of Substance Sensitivities


Energy psychology treatments help to reprogram the body so that it no
longer reacts negatively to the substance. The reprogrammed body no
longer views the substance as a poison.
All treatments are done with the patient’s focus on the reactive substance.
The patient holds the substance, or holds a tube with the energetic
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substance, or says or thinks about the substance. Stimulating acupuncture


points eliminates the energy imbalance in relation to that substance,
thereby ending the body’s negative reaction.
Clearing the effects of energy toxins is analogous to TFT and EFT
treatments to eliminate negative emotions. The reactive substance causes
changes in the body’s energy system similar to the disturbance caused by a
negative emotion, thought or scene.
The energy system is then balanced in relation to the substance by
stimulating specific acupuncture points as is done in TFT and EFT. Other
treatment modalities utilize reflex points or various points of the body to
again regain balance of the body in relation to the offending substance.
In summary, energy psychology practitioners can easily integrate the
Allergy AntidotesTM system into their practices. We already see many
clients who suffer from the detrimental effects of energy toxins.
We have the clinical skills to do detective work to uncover possible
reactive substances. And we know the muscle testing skills to identify
specific substance sensitivities. Finally, we are experienced in using energy
psychology techniques to balance the body’s energy system.
Using these techniques will improve the effectiveness of our work.
Sandi Radomski
www.allergyantidotes.com

* Allergy Antidotes Training With Sandi Radomski


In Conjunction with The 3rd European Energy Therapies & Psychology
Conference, Brighton, August 8-10, 2003
See Trainings & Events for further details.

* Related Manual – The Allergy Antidotes Training Manual


See Training Manuals & Training Materials for details.

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Further Meridian Energy Therapies Systems

Meridian Energy Therapies and Energy Psychology have provided the


breakthrough into whole new levels of effectiveness for many dedicated
researchers and specialists from many diverse backgrounds of mind-body
healing.
In this section we are introducing just some of the many varied and
specialist approaches which are making full use of the power of the new
paradigm healing systems to resolve old burdens and problems.
Although these systems and treatment methods come under many different
names, they all have in common that they treat the energy system in order
to give relief from long standing physical and emotional pain.

Seemorg Matrix Work

Asha Nahoma Clinton

Asha Nahoma Clinton LCSW, PhD was impelled to


become a therapist and healer after a near-terminal illness.
After years of private practice, she felt dissatisfied with
the "sadder but wiser" results of traditional psychotherapy.
She learned various forms of healing, became a practicing
student of Buddhism and Sufism, and learned the
emerging energy psychology techniques.
Seemorg Matrix Work is the synthesis of more than twenty years of
training and clinical practice. A former Princeton University professor, Dr.
Clinton is internationally known for her clarity and insight as a presenter
and supervisor, and her skilfulness in treating trauma, abuse, physical
illness, and spiritual blockage. Her Seemorg Matrix Manual - Level 1 was
published in 1999.
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CHART Conscious Healing and Repatterning Therapy

Paula Shaw

Paula Shaw, C.A.D.C. a graduate of Long Beach State


University in Education and Communications, taught
Elementary School, worked in Sales and Marketing for
an Idaho ski resort, and was a Location Manager for
Motion Pictures before going back to school to do her
training for Alcohol and Drug Counselling. In addition,
she did specialty training at Loyola Marymount
University and became a Certified Grief Specialist. Grief
became the central focus of her work because it is so
critical an issue in addictive dysfunctional behaviour.
As Director of Outreach Programs for the Grief Recovery Institute, she
started the first weekly Grief Recovery support groups in the San Gabriel
and San Fernando Valleys. She moved on to develop a private practice and
her own Grief Support programs called Beyond Loss. Over the years they
have helped hundreds of people, many of whom are recovering alcoholics
and addicts. In addition, she conducts Grief workshops and trainings for
nurses, social workers, and therapists that focus on giving these
professionals skills that enable them to work with grieving people. Paula
also developed a speciality program for teachers called "Kids 'N' Crisis,"
which empowers them to deal effectively with the emotional impact of
crisis on children. Paula added Holographic Repatterning to her tool bag in
1997. It opened her awareness to how quickly and effectively Energy work
could shift people with all kinds of issues. Particularly exciting to her was
the success with loss, loneliness, and self-esteem issues that are major
contributors to the development of self-destructive, addictive behaviours.
Attendance at the International Energy Psychology Conference in May of
1999 initiated a whole new level of interest and emphasis in her work. She
now uses Energy work with nearly all of her clients and has developed her
own Energy Psychology system called Conscious Healing And
Repatterning Therapy (CHART).
For further information, please visit http://chartpsychology.org

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EDxTM – Energy Diagnostic & Treatment Methods

Dr. Fred P. Gallo

Fred Gallo, Ph. D., developer of EDxTM, has been a


psychotherapist and psychologist for over 28 years and
has specialized in the applications of neo-cognitive
therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Ericksonian
Hypnosis, EMDR, TFT, Emotional Freedom
Techniques (EFT) and a variety of energy-based
therapies. He has authored many professional papers
and articles that focus on TFT and other breakthrough
therapies in publications such as The Electronic Journal
of Traumatology, Anchor Point, and The Family
Therapy Networker. He is the author of Energy Psychology and Energy
Diagnostic and Treatment Methods and edited Energy Psychology in
Psychotherapy. Dr. Gallo has been training professionals in Energy
Therapies since 1980.

An Introduction to EDxTM

Founded by Fred P. Gallo, Ph.D., Energy Diagnostic and Treatment


Methods is an advanced energy causal diagnostic and treatment system,
incorporating principles of applied kinesiology, bioenergy, consciousness,
and cognition to efficiently treat a wide array of psychological problems.
EDxTM involves manual muscle testing, enhanced intuition, and
techniques to assist practitioners in tailoring interventions to rapidly
alleviate psychological problems, including anxiety, panic, PTSD/trauma,
depression, personality disorders, addiction, overweight, relationship
problems, physical pain conditions, blocks to peak performance, and a
wide range of other conditions.
Embedded in the assumption that bioenergy operates at the very essence of
physical and psychological health, EDxTM offers means of assessing
bioenergy information, thus aiding the practitioner in applying precise
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of the targeted condition. EDxTM also involves elevating thought


recognition and consciousness so as to promote ongoing well being.
EDxTM includes power tools that can be used in concert with many other
therapeutic approaches. Many practitioners have integrated EDxTM with
psychodynamic approaches, transactional analysis, cognitive-behavioral
therapy, couples and family therapy, etc. EDxTM significantly enhances
the practitioner's effectiveness and efficacy in providing therapy,
consultation, peak performance enhancement, and education.

For Further Information, Please Visit www.energypsych.com

HBLU – Healing From The Body Level Up

Judith Swack

Judith Swack Ph.D. is a biochemist, immunologist


and a Neuro-Linguistic programmer. She is the
originator and developer of an innovative, rapid, and
powerful new mind/body/spirit methodology called
Healing from the Body Level UpSM (HBLU). Judith
Swack developed HBLU by integrating biomedical
science, Neuro-Linguistic Programming,
psychology, applied kinesiology, energy psychology
techniques, shamanic techniques, and spiritual
practices. She combined these techniques with her
original research on the structure of complex
damage patterns and did years of follow-up testing
to confirm the results.

For further information, please visit http://jaswack.com

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TEST – Thought Energy Synchronisation Therapy

Gregory J Nicosia

Dr Gregory J. Nicosia, Ph.D., B.C.F.E. is a licensed psychologist and the


founder of Advanced Diagnostics, P.C., Pittsburgh's premiere center for
the thought energy based psychotherapeutic treatment of trauma and
remediation of cognitive dysfunction. He has helped to explore and
elaborate the newest psychotherapies in the last 25 years including
biofeedback and behavioral medicine, EMDR, and most recently Thought
Field Therapy. Dr. Nicosia has trained thousands of healthcare
professionals throughout the U.S. in the use of TFT, and in his more
recently developed Thought Energy Synchronization Therapy diagnostic
and treatment procedures that have significantly expanded the range of
effective application of energy psychology. He has authored a score of
professional papers and articles, including publications on TFT and EMDR
and was nominated as Pittsburgh Man of the Year in Science and Medicine
for 1997. Dr. Nicosia is a Member of the American Psychological
Association, a Fellow of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association and
the American College of Forensic Examiners, and a Member of the Board
of Directors of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology.

For further information please visit http://www.thoughtenergy.com

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Testing, Testing: The Role of Muscle Testing in


Energy Psychology

By Susan Courtney

On a balmy evening in the mid-1970’s, successful California psychologist,


Dr Roger Callahan, was giving a barbecue. One friend and colleague
arrived late, because he’d spent the day at a training in a new approach
called Applied Kinesiology.
"Wait until you see this" he said, full of enthusiasm for the new techniques
he’d been learning. "Hold out your arm and keep it there. Now think
about something you enjoy."
Callahan did so, while his friend pressed down on his arm, which easily
held firmly horizontal.
"Now think about something that disturbs you." Much to his surprise,
Callahan found that he could no longer hold his arm up against his friend’s
pressure.
Intrigued by this graphic and practical demonstration of the mind-body
connection, Callahan undertook the 100-hour AK training himself.
Applied Kinesiology was developed in the late 1960’s by the brilliant
American chiropractor Dr. George Goodheart, who developed a diagnosis
and treatment system based on correspondences between specific muscles
and the organs, acupuncture meridians, neuro-lymphatic reflexes and other
systems of the human body. From his understanding of AK, his long
experience in many psychological approaches, and his further work with
Australian psychiatrist John Diamond, who added emotional
correspondences and affirmations to Goodheart’s map, Callahan developed
Thought Field Therapy, and fathered the field of Energy Psychology,
which now has many offspring and includes cousins of many different
lineages.
Muscle testing is a simple way of using the mind-body connection to
access information from parts of ourselves beyond the conscious mind. It
is used by many, but by no means all, practitioners, in a variety of ways
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developing personalised treatment sequences, from uncovering the root


causes of a problem to determining which treatment will be most suitable,
from diagnosing psychological reversal to measuring progress. The basic
principle involved, which has been validated by neuro-muscular research,
is that when we make a statement which our system experiences as true,
the muscle being tested will stay strong against pressure. When we
experience the statement as false, the muscle will apparently lose strength.
In fact the muscle itself does not weaken, but the strength of the signals
stimulating the muscle appears to be diminished.
There are many different muscles that may be used (and some people
prefer to use a dowsing technique). Here is an introduction to the basic
technique

Muscle-Testing Preparations
• Have both client and therapist drink sufficient water to ensure they
are not dehydrates, which will interfere with successful testing
• Focus your intention on valid results. Disengage expectations
• Do not make eye contact just before or during testing
• Check that the client has no injuries to the neck, shoulder or arm
that would make testing uncomfortable.

Basic Muscle-Testing Technique


In order to get a feel for each client's uniquely individual muscle-responses
and to ensure that their system is sufficiently clear of psychological
reversals and polarity switching to allow accurate testing, calibrate using
the following steps.
• Ask the client to hold one arm straight out to the side, palm down,
hand open
• The therapist may stand behind or in front of the client. Place one
hand on the client’s opposite shoulder for stability
• To get a feel for this client’s muscle-strength, ask them to say ‘Yes’
• Instruct them to hold their arm steady

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• Place 2 fingers on the client’s outstretched arm, just above the wrist
and press down with about 2 pounds of pressure for about 2
seconds. This will give you a feel for their strong response
• Instruct the client to say ‘No’
• Tell them to Hold,
• Press down again with 2 fingers, for 2 seconds with 2 pounds of
pressure. This will give you a feel for their weak response.
This is not a contest of strength,
Muscle-testing is a collaboration between therapist and client to
develop a common vocabulary for accessing information from the
body.
Only enough pressure and resistance are necessary to be able to tell the
difference between a strong and weak response.
Continue this calibration exercise by asking them to say several true/false
statements, testing each one
• 2+2=4
2+2=5
• My name is (give false name)
My name is (give true name)
• The sun is shining
It’s dark now
You can support the client’s arm between statements. Allow them to lower
their arm and rest at times so they don’t tire. Or switch arms when they do.
One further test is for polarity switching, which can interfere with accurate
muscle testing.
• Ask the client to put one hand above her head, palm down.
• Test the other arm. This should test strong.
• Have the client flip the hand above the head over so it is palm up.
• Test again. This should be weak.

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If at any point in the testing you have had confused responses (strong-
strong; weak-weak; or reversed – weak where you expect strong), then
there are energy imbalances present, and corrections are needed.

Energy Imbalance Corrections


Dehydration is the most common cause of muscle-testing problems, so first
have both you and your client drink water, then test again. This should
clear most difficulties. The Zip-Up, Cook’s Hookups and Three Polarities
Unswitching are other helpful corrections.
Zip-Up
• Have the client place one hand level with the pubic bone, palm
towards the body.
• Have them draw the hand up in a zipping motion to the lower lip.
• Move the hand away from the body before lowering it so as not to
unzip again.
Cook’s Hook-Ups
• Cross the left ankle over the right
• Extend arms out in front and cross right over left.
• Clasp hands and draw them down and in to rest on the chest
• Relax and breathe gently and deeply for about a minute

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Three Polarities Unswitching


• Have the client place three fingers in their navel and keep them
there throughout the procedure
• With the other hand, tap simultaneously on both collarbone points
(just below the collarbone and just outside the central notch) for
about 10 seconds
• Then tap under the nose for about 10 seconds
• Then tap under the lower lip for about 10 seconds
• Then tap (or rub) the centre of the coccyx, just above the cheeks of
the buttocks
These should correct most problems with muscle-testing.

Testing for General Reversal


• Ask the client to say, ‘I want to be well and happy’
• Test. (We expect them to test strong)
• Ask the client to say ‘I want to be miserable’
• Test. (We expect them to test weak)
If the results are reversed, they are said to have a general reversal
(sometimes referred to as a global, or massive reversal). To correct for
this, have them rub the tender spot on the chest (between the breast and the
collarbone) while repeating three times
Even with all my problems and limitations, I deeply and completely love
and accept myself.

It is possible to test any of a number of other muscles in the body, and it


is also possible to self-test.

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Self-Testing
The principles in self-testing are the same as in testing others. One muscle
is isolated and resists pressure put upon it after being challenged with a
statement which may be true or false. One simple technique is the O-Ring:

O-Ring

• Make an ‘O’ by touching the tips of the thumb and index finger of
your non-dominant hand
• Insert the thumb an d index finger of the opposite hand into the O
like a pair of closed scissors
• Open the ‘scissors, trying to force apart the fingers making the O.
• Calibrate this, by testing with yes, then no in order to determine
whether the strong response is in the O fingers having the strength
to remain closed or in the scissors fingers having the strength to
open the O.

Muscle-Testing in Therapy
There are many, many ways to use muscle-testing in therapy. Each
therapist, after a period of practice, develops their own style. Remember
that we are working with subtle energies, which respond to the use of
intention. It is important to set a clear and consistent intention in your
testing. Many therapists make an intention at the beginning of each
session that the work (including muscle-testing) be for the highest good of
the client. You can also make the intention, by stating it clearly aloud or
silently, that the muscle-testing give you answers that are clear accurate,
and helpful. Responses are most clear when testing uses statements, rather
than questions, and when the statements are concrete and specific.
When deciding whether to use muscle-testing in a session, it’s a good idea
to begin by testing the following statements.
• It’s OK and helpful to use muscle-testing
It’s not OK to use muscle-testing
• It’s OK and helpful to muscle-test about this issue
It’s not-OK to muscle-test about this issue

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Remember always to test using paired opposite statements, for example,


• I’m afraid of heights
Heights don’t frighten me
• My distress level is 2 out of 10
My distress level is 0
• The cause of this problem is a childhood trauma
The cause of the problem is not a childhood trauma;
• The most helpful treatment will be EFT,
The most helpful treatment will be TAT
Always support muscle-testing with your own clinical observations and
therapeutic skills.
Muscle-testing is a useful skill, and one best developed by professional
training and plenty of practice. AMT trainings* include a good grounding
in manual muscle-testing on clients, self-testing, and surrogate testing.
____________________________________________________________
* AMT Practitioner Trainings
In Conjunction with The 3rd European Energy Psychology &
Energy Therapies Conference, Brighton, August 8-10, 2003
See Trainings & Events for further details.

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Introducing The AMT

by Silvia Hartmann, PhD, founding director

The Association for Meridian Energy Therapies, The AMT, was formed in
1998 as the first non-profit umbrella organisation for the emerging field of
Meridian Energy Therapies.
Full membership is open to practitioners officially certified through the
Association's comprehensive training programme and Associate
Membership to anyone who has an interest in the wider field of Meridian
Energy Therapies in both theory and practise.

The Association for Meridian Energy Therapies


The AMT was formed specifically to safeguard this extraordinary field
from its inception. This includes keeping the definition of Meridian Energy
Therapies wide open to include not only the currently developed and
developing approaches, but to encompass future developments with
structural ease, thus fostering an attitude of continuing growth, exploration
and innovation.
The AMT is the certifying body for the Certification Trainings in
comprehensive Meridian Energy Therapies. With a fully structured,
encompassing training programme which includes the Practitioner level,
the Advanced Practitioner level, the Master level and the Trainer's level,
the AMT Certification Trainings are designed to familiarise with, and help
develop towards excellence, the new practitioners in this revolutionary
field.
Born of the understanding that the new Meridian Energy Therapies are at
every level applicable to and useful for ALL members of all societies or
regions of this world, from simplified self-help versions to the specialist
and intricate high-end work of professional therapists, The AMT offers
resources to anyone wishing to explore and gain benefits from using the
new Meridian Energy Therapies.
A very important aspect of The AMT is the work of publicising the
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therapists and to the general public on a global basis. The AMT's library
portal at http://TheAMT.com is the central resource to this end, containing
multi-lingual instruction documents in many different formats.
The AMT website portal is both a catalyst and a meeting place for all the
many and constantly evolving, new and different approaches to Meridian
Energy Therapies and Energy Psychology. Continuously updated with new
materials and the latest results and work-in-progress in the field, with
international practitioner listings across the range of the METs, cross-
contextual trainings and conference announcements, it provides a focal
point where cross-fertilisation for the entire community takes place.
The AMT sponsors the European Energy Therapies conference which is
one of the most outstanding platforms for world-wide exchange of
learnings, advances and new discoveries in this exciting new field.

The AMT Practitioner Certification Trainings

History

In 1998, a dedicated group of experienced therapists and trainers came


together to create a set of trainings that would go beyond the confines of
any one existing Meridian Energy Therapy system and teach the principles
of theory and practice in the entire field in such a way that it would
encompass all the many techniques.
The main objective behind the training design is to enable practitioners to
understand and use meridian energy therapies in their totality, above and
beyond each of the many individual techniques - those existing now and
those still to be developed in the future.
To this end, information and structure were assembled and the training was
created by Silvia Hartmann who brought together input, information and
original materials from Silvia Hartmann, Gary Craig, Chrissie Hardisty,
Willem Lammers, Susan Courtney, and Tom Bolton. In 2002, the
Advanced Practitioner, Master Practitioner and Trainer's Training
Programmes were added with input by Christine Sutherland, Larry Nims,
Tapas Fleming, Silvia Hartmann, Willem Lammers and Susan Courtney,
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The AMT trainings have since been taken by many hundreds of therapists
and health workers from Europe and all around the world and are
universally accepted for the thorough, cross-contextual grounding they
provide in the emerging field of Meridian Energy Therapies and Energy
Psychology.

The Training Design

This outstanding licensed training in 8 modules consists of three interactive


components that together create the understanding and competence
necessary to conduct professional interventions, with an absolute focus on
training a practitioner who will support others in a safe, cohesive, ethical
and effective manner.
These interactive components are as follows:
1. The lectures, materials and information presented by the trainer in the
correct order and sequence and including unique, custom-made protocols
for addiction treatments, memory retrieval, safety with clients and health
issues.
2. The exercises that are designed to install the understandings received
through the information presented and to bridge these understandings into
practical action and congruent knowledge and ability.
3. The Certification paper, which brings a full review of the material
covered in the training as well as taking the training from the learning
environment and connecting it firmly to the actual practical environment of
the practitioner through carefully designed questions and a client case
history.

Training Contents

The Practitioner Certification training pre-supposes at the minimum a


working knowledge of EFT from the participants. To this end, the trainers
offer introductory trainings for groups of health workers who are not yet
familiar with the field, often in conjunction with or before the start of a
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Contents Of The MET Practitioner Certification Training

Module 1 - Welcome to Module 5 - Health & Physiological


Extraordinary Healing Symptoms
· Course Overview · Safety Procedures
· A Brief History of Meridian · Medical Protocol
Therapies · Pain Protocol
· Ambassador EFT · Emotional Components in Physical
· Therapeutic Applications Manifestation
· Teaching EFT · Primary Gain & Secondary Gain
· Circuit Work Module 6 - Addictions & Cravings
Module 2 - Contacting the Problem · General Addictions Protocol
· The Quick Anxiety Stopper
· Statement Formulation · Conditions for Releasing Addictions
· Observation and Calibration Skills · Cravings Protocol
· Telephone Consultations · Homework
· Contacting the Problem without · Ecology, Future Pacing
Words · Algorithms
Module 7 - Flexible Approaches
Module 3 - Aspects & Testing
· Client-Centred Interventions
· Working with Aspects
· Add-On Techniques, Other Points
· SUD & VOC; IE Scales
· Advanced Techniques
· Testing Results
· Muscle Testing
· Treatment & Testing in Context
· Psychological Reversal
· Corrections
Module 4 - Working With Memories
· Creating Personalised Algorithms
· Safely Releasing Memories · Short-Cuts
· Safety Notes - Choosing When To
Module 8 - Tools for Therapists
Refer
· Dealing With Objections & Client · Therapist's Maintenance
Resistance · Beliefs Protocol
· Pin Point Work · Personal Development Applications
· Phobia Protocol · Transference & Projection
· The Story Release · Structuring Treatment Sessions
· Client Safety – Preventing & Treating · Intake Forms
Abreactions · Homework Protocols

Practitioner Exam & Certification (Optional)

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Certification & Qualification

Practitioners certified through these trainers have the right to use the letters
C.P. AMT which stands for Certified Practitioner of Meridian Energy
Therapies through The Association for Meridian Energy Therapies.
Although this certification does not in and of itself convey license to
practice counselling or psychotherapy, it is recognised to qualify an
existing practitioner for additional practice insurance to cover Meridian
Energy Therapies.
The practitioner training is designed to provide a thorough grounding in
the basic principles of the developing field of Meridian Energy Therapies
and to prepare the practitioner to practice these unique forms of mind-body
treatments with confidence and excellent success.
It is highly recommended that this training be taken for it brings together
the underlying principles of Meridian Energy therapies and is the first step
towards true mastery of not just one technique, but the entire field and all
its rich and varied individual contributions.

The AMT Advanced Practitioner Certification Trainings

History

The Advanced Practitioner Certification Training is designed to be taken


no sooner than 3 month after completion of the Practitioner Training to
broaden and widen the practitioner's range and scope.
The Advanced Practitioner Training introduces three further and very
different forms of METs, namely TAT, BSFF and ET. It also includes
Advanced EFT protocols, add-ons and applications.
It represents the outstanding opportunity for the practitioners who are
already firmly grounded in the principles of MET work with clients to
experiment, to learn and to try out many different approaches and
techniques for themselves and to be able to discuss how and when to use
these approaches to maximum benefit with fellow experienced
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The Advanced Practitioner Training also includes more information on


Kinesiology muscle-testing and very importantly, energetic states and
clean and precise use of language, and introduces metaphor work that in
conjunction with any of the MET approaches represents some of the most
powerfully healing interventions known to date.
As the basics and most important core concepts of treating others with the
new forms of Meridian Energy Therapies has already been established,
there is no exam for the Advanced Practitioner Training. However, the
trainers reserve the right to withhold or delay certification if they believe
that this would be in the best interest of a participant and their clients.

The Advanced Practitioner Syllabus

Module 1 – Kinesiology Module 5 - Tapas Acupressure


Technique
The Role of Kinesiology in MET
Treatments Introduction to TAT
Kinesiology & Energy Flow Demonstration
Exercises In Kinesiology TAT Exercises
Discussion
Module 2 - Advanced EFT 1
Module 6 - Be Set Free Fast
Slow EFT
Special Points Protocol Introduction to BSFF
Combination Techniques BSFF Demonstration
Conflict Resolution BSFF Exercises
Choices Method Discussion

Module 3 - Advanced EFT 2 Module 7 - EmoTrance


Proxy (Surrogate) Work Introduction to EmoTrance
The Vortex EFT Pattern ET Demonstration
Interface Work ET Exercises
Gauge Work Discussion

Module 4 - Metaphor & Language Module 8 - METs & The Public


Trance States & Clean Language Techniques & Client Preferences
Metaphor Elicitation & Use In Conducting Introduction Workshops
Treatment & Testing METs in professional practice
Metaphor Exercises Marketing & Promotion

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Trainer's Individuality
The training contents are standardized to ensure a cohesive quality of
training and yet of course, allow room for the trainer's individuality, to add
their own uniqueness to the trainings and to allow the flexibility to respond
to the group on the day in the most supportive fashion.
Here is a list of currently licensed AMT trainers.
These are the only licensed trainers in the field who are delivering these
outstanding, foundational and cross-contextual trainings:
ƒ Susan Courtney (UK)
ƒ Paul Cutright (US)
ƒ Peter Delves (UK)
ƒ Christina Elvin (UK)
ƒ Lubbertus Fletcher (TH)
ƒ Kjell Försberg (SE)
ƒ Chrissie Hardisty (UK)
ƒ Silvia Hartmann (UK)
ƒ Sandra Hillawi (UK)
ƒ Joan Hitlin (US)
ƒ Marianne Källblad (SE)
ƒ Willem Lammers (CH)
ƒ Dr Michael Millett (UK)
ƒ Maya de Vries (DE)
ƒ Ananga Sivyer (UK)
ƒ Florrie Widen (SE)
ƒ Reto Wyss (CH)

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In Conclusion
The AMT Certification Trainings represent a thorough and most
importantly, cross-contextual grounding in working with Meridian Energy
Therapies at the professional level.
The AMT Certification Trainings are recognised around the world.
Completion of the all-important, foundational Practitioner Level
certification enables the successful participants to become a full member of
the Association for Meridian Energy Therapies with all benefits and
rewards this entails.

For details of forthcoming trainings, please visit http://theamt.com or


consult this yearbooks listings on page 125.

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Contacts & Referrals

AMT Trainers
Susan Courtney
True Change Energy Psychology, London and Kent, England
Tel: 08700 767015
Email: info@TrueChange.org
http://www.TrueChange.org

Mr Peter Delves
39 Randall Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 1JX, England
Tel: 01926-856-746
Email: info@delves.co.uk
http://www.delves.co.uk

Maya de Vries
Kochsgut 27, 51427 Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Tel: ++49-2204 303 840
Email: info@emofree.de
http://www.emofree.de

Christina Elvin
12 Kimble Close, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN4 0RF, England
Tel: +44 (0)1604 768 343
Email: Christina@oesassociates.co.uk
http://www.oesassociates.co.uk

Lubbertus Fletcher
Sukhumvit, Bang Na Bangkok, Thailand
Tel: 749 0080
Email: lubbertus22@hotmail.com

Kjell Forsberg
Småskolevägen 38, Lund, Sweden
Tel: +46-46-323025
Email: kjell.forsberg@minpost.nu

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Ed Grimshaw
Generative Business Solutions, 388 Mosey Sea Road, Wrightington,
Wigan, WN6 9RZ, England
Tel: +44 (0)1257 453 577
Email: mail@generative.co.uk
Chrissie Hardisty
21 Richmond Avenue
Handforth, Cheshire SK93
01625 522613
Email: chrissie21uk@ntlworld.com

Sandra Hillawi
Passion for Health Centre, 96 Sydney Road, Gosport, Hampshire,
PO12 1PL England
Tel: +44 (0)2392 433928
Email: sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com

Joan Hitlin
Besler Building
4053 Harlan St, #315
Emeryville, CA 94608
510 652-7089
Email: joan@besler.org

Marianne Källblad
Torstensonsgaten40
503 42 Boras, Sweden
Tel: (46) 33 129618
marianne.kallblad@boras.mail.telia.com

Michael Millett
Claddagh, 1a Leopold Road, London, NW10 9LN, England
Tel: ( 44|0)2084 530 426
Email: michael.millett@which.net
http://www.elevatedtherapy.com

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Nicola Quinn
3 Kenya Court Windlesham Gardens Brighton , West Sussex BN1 3AU
United Kingdom
Email: tutor@sidereus.org
http://sidereus.org

Ananga Sivyer
Chandra PDS, Richardsons Farm, Crowhurst Lane, West Kingsdown,
Kent, England
Email: info@chandra-pds.co.uk
http://www.chandra-pds.co.uk

Christine Sutherland
Perth, Australia
Tel: 61 8 9246 1977
Email: Christine@lifeworks-group.com.au
http://www.lifeworks-group.com.au

Florrie Widen
Hjortstigen 3, 18143 Lidingö, Sweden
Tel: 46 8765 2407
Email: florrie.widen@athenafilm.se

Reto Wyss
Praxis für Therapie und Coaching, Terrassenweg 33, Herzogenbuchsee,
Berne, Switzerland
Tel: 41 62 961 9212
Email: retowyss@emofree.ch
http://www.emofree.ch

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Advanced Practitioners

Susan Courtney
True Change Energy Psychology, London and Kent, England
Tel: 08700 767015
Email: info@TrueChange.org
http://www.TrueChange.org

Mr Peter Delves
39 Randall Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 1JX, England
Tel: 01926-856746
Email: info@delves.co.uk
http://www.delves.co.uk

Eilean Drysdale
21 Winds Point, Hagley, Worcs, DY9 0PL, England
Tel: 01562 886635

Christina Elvin
12 Kimble Close, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN4 0RF, England
Tel: +44 (0)1604 768 343
Email: Christina@oesassociates.co.uk
http://www.oesassociates.co.uk

Lubbertus Fletcher
Sukhumvit, Bang Na Bangkok, Thailand
Tel: 749 0080
Email: lubbertus22@hotmail.com

Kjell Forsberg
Småskolevägen 38, Lund, Sweden
Tel: +46-46-323025
Email: kjell.forsberg@minpost.nu

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Jo Goss
15 Gordon Street, Hopeman, Elgin, Moray, IV30 5SF, Scotland
Tel: 01343 835 705
Email: JoGoss@compuserve.com

Ed Grimshaw
Generative Business Solutions, 388 Mosey Sea Road, Wrightington,
Wigan, WN6 9RZ, England
Tel: +44 (0)1257 453 577
Email: mail@generative.co.uk

Chrissie Hardisty
21 Richmond Avenue
Handforth, Cheshire SK93
01625 522613
Email: chrissie21uk@ntlworld.com

Sandra Hillawi
Passion for Health Centre, 96 Sydney Road, Gosport, Hampshire,
PO12 1PL, England
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
Email: sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com

Mary Jones
The Future Starts Now, 55 Avondale Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 9JT,
England
Tel: +44 7803 616107
Email: mary@thefuturestartsnow.com
http://www.thefuturestartsnow.com

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Marianne Källblad
Torstensonsgaten40
503 42 Boras
Sweden
Tel: (46) 33 129618
marianne.kallblad@boras.mail.telia.com

Michael Millett
Claddagh, 1a Leopold Road, London, NW10 9LN, England
Tel: ( 44|0)2084 530 426
Email: michael.millett@which.net
http://www.elevatedtherapy.com

Nicola Quinn
3 Kenya Court Windlesham Gardens Brighton, West Sussex BN1 3AU
United Kingdom
Email: tutor@sidereus.org
http://sidereus.org

Ananga Sivyer
Chandra PDS, Richardsons Farm, Crowhurst Lane, West Kingsdown,
Kent, England
Email: info@chandra-pds.co.uk
http://www.chandra-pds.co.uk

Christine Sutherland
Perth, Australia
Tel: 61 8 9246 1977
Email: Christine@lifeworks-group.com.au
http://www.lifeworks-group.com.au

Florrie Widen
Hjortstigen 3, 18143 Lidingö, Sweden
Tel: 46 8765 2407
Email: florrie.widen@athenafilm.se

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Reto Wyss
Praxis für Therapie und Coaching, Terrassenweg 33, Herzogenbuchsee,
Berne, Switzerland
Tel: 41 62 961 9212
Email: retowyss@emofree.ch
http://www.emofree.ch

Practitioners

Deborah Ackroyd
Karuna, 13 Dilmore Avenue, Worcester, Worcestershire, England

Brian Ackroyd
Karuna, 13 Dilmore Avenue, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR3 7TQ,
England
Tel: 01905 455 484
Email: BODDHISATTVAS@msn.com

Jaki Allen
Rose Cottage, The Lane, Pershore, Worcestershire, WR10 3HH, England
Tel: 01386 710 678

Linda Armit
Stationhouse, Moy, Inverness-shire, IV13 7YF, Scotland

Anne Bell
The Centre For Natural Therapies, 31 Acfold Road, Handsworth Wood,
Birmingham, West Midlands, B20 1HD, England
Tel: 0121-357-0701

Fran Bush
Jembush Natural Therapy, PO Box 571, Horsham, West Sussex,
RH12 3ZQ, England
Tel: 01403 823924
Email: jembush@tismans.freeserve.co.uk

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Christina Channon
14 Wimpole Road, Bramcote View, Beeston, Nottingham, England

Nancy Cooper
Kirkaldy, Fife, Scotland
Tel: 01592 592191
Email: nbse05176@blueyonder.co.uk

Susan Courtney
True Change Energy Psychology, London and Kent, England
Tel: 08700 767015
Email: info@TrueChange.org
http://www.TrueChange.org

Mrs Jackie Crooks


Beacon Hypnotherapy, 44 Denman Lane, Huncote, Leicestershire,
LE9 3BS, England
Tel: 0116 286 5983
Email: info@BeaconTraining.org

Mrs Polly Cunningham


3 Grand Parade, Old Portsmouth, Hants, PO1 2NF, England
Tel: 02392 291 161
Email: polarstars@lineone.net

Mr Martyn Dawes
2 Cardwell Close, Emerson Valley, Milton Keynes, England
Tel: +44 (0)1908 506 776
Email: martyn@livelifefree.com
http://www.ilivelifefree.com

Mr Peter Delves
39 Randall Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 1JX, England
Tel: 01926-856-746
Email: info@delves.co.uk
http://www.delves.co.uk

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Alison Doonan
15 Bankton Way, Murieston, Livingston, Westlothian, EH54 9EG,
Scotland

Eilean Drysdale
21 Winds Point, Hagley, Worcs, DY9 0PL, England
Tel: 01562 886635

Irene Dymond
Inner Inspiration, Berkshire, England
Tel: 0778 9913121
Email: inner.inspiration@btopenworld.com

Mrs Sonja Eckl-Riel


The Health Oasis, 38 Lower Breakish, Isle of Skye, IV42 8QA, Scotland
Tel: 07010 714 316
Email: sonja@isle-of-skye.org
http://www.isle-of-skye.org/shiatsu

Christina Elvin
12 Kimble Close, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN4 0RF, England
Tel: +44 (0)1604 768 343
Email: Christina@oesassociates.co.uk
http://www.oesassociates.co.uk

Lesley Evans
Holladyke, Grange, Keith, Banffs, AB55 6LL, Scotland

Corrine Evert
70 Fosse Road. South, Leicester, LE3 0QD, England
Tel: 0116 285 7833

David Fleming
1 Ashburn Gate, Gourock, PA19 1NR, Scotland

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Lubbertus Fletcher
Sukhumvit, Bang Na Bangkok, Thailand
Tel: 749 0080
Email: lubbertus22@hotmail.com

Kjell Forsberg
Småskolevägen 38, Lund, Sweden
Tel: +46-46-323025
Email: kjell.forsberg@minpost.nu

Su Francis
Community Drug Team, Paget House, 2 West Street, Leicester, LE1 6SP,
England

Carole Gordon
31 Binghill Park, Milltimber, Aberdeen, AB13 0EE, Scotland
Tel: 01224 732 464
Email: carole.g@virgin.net

Jo Goss
15 Gordon Street, Hopeman, Elgin, Moray, IV30 5SF, Scotland
Tel: 01343 835 705
Email: JoGoss@compuserve.com

Mrs Joy Gower


Dial House, 79 Plumstead Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR13 5BU, England
Tel: +44 (0)1603 700578
Email: j.gower@hypnotherapists.org.uk
http://www.hypnotherapydirect.co.uk

Ed Grimshaw
Generative Business Solutions, 388 Mosey Sea Road, Wrightington,
Wigan, WN6 9RZ, England
Tel: +44 (0)1257 453 577
Email: mail@generative.co.uk

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Fiona Grossart
5/2 Ravelston House Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3LN, Scotland

Chrissie Hardisty
21 Richmond Avenue
Handforth, Cheshire SK93
01625 522613
Email: chrissie21uk@ntlworld.com

Crystal Hawk
360 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Canada

Dr Birgitta Heiller
More House, 13 Warwicks Bench, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3SZ, England
Tel: 01483 574 304
Email: BirgittaRHeiller@aol.com

Alison Hill
Amazing Balance, 42 Christchurch Road, Worcester, WR4 9QB, England
Email: Amazingbalance@aol.com

Sandra Hillawi
Passion for Health Centre, 96 Sydney Road, Gosport, Hampshire,
PO12 1PL, England
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
Email: sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com

Kallie Hirschi
68 Wenzel Slough, Elma, Washington, 98541, US

Elaine Hodgson
Anam Cara, by Culburnie, Kiltarlity, Beauly, Inverness-shire, IV4 7JJ,
Scotland

Eric Jevons
7 Barnton Park Crescent, Edinburgh, EH4 6ER, Scotland

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Yvonne Jevons
7 Barnton Park Crescent, Edinburgh, EH4 6ER, Scotland
Tel: 0131 336 4136
Email: yvonne.jevons@virgin.net

Eileen Jones
Maple Leaf Clinic, 20 The Green, Twickenham, Middlesex, TW 2 5AB,
England
Tel: 0208 255 9666
Email: eileen@jayvant.fsnet.co.uk

Mary Jones
The Future Starts Now, 55 Avondale Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 9JT,
England
Tel: +44 7803 616107
Email: mary@thefuturestartsnow.com
http://www.thefuturestartsnow.com

Marianne Källblad
Torstensonsgaten40
503 42 Boras
Sweden
Tel: (46) 33 129618
marianne.kallblad@boras.mail.telia.com

Janette Kidd
Stronachie Healing, Stronachie Lodge, Near Forgandenny, Perthshire,
PH2 9DW, Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)1577 861817
Email: janette@holistic-reiki.com
http://www.holistic-reiki.com

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Linley King
Rivermeade, 61 Burford Road, Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 3AG,
England
Tel: 01386 484 23
Email: reflex@rivermeade.clara.co.uk

Ernest King
EK Curative Centre, 105a Union Street, Oldham, Manchester, OL1 1QH,
England
Tel: 0161 620 2165

Pauline Anne Lague


20 Rosamund Road, Furnace Green, Crawley, Sussex, RH10 6QF, England
Tel: 01293 530 085

Richard Llewellyn
103 Richmond Hill Court, Richmond, Surrey, TW10 6BG, England
Tel: 0208 940 4726
Email: r.llewellyn@virgin.net

Mrs Francoise Lotery


113 Quebec Road, Gants Hill, Ilford, Essex, IE2 6AW, England
Tel: ( 44|0)208 518 3741
http://www.loteryhypnotherapy.co.uk

Mr Shehzad Malik
Paget House, 2 West Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 1LW, England
Tel: 0116 212 6173
Email: s.malik4@ntlworld.com

Karrie Marshall
4 Glaick Cottage, Ardross, Ross-Shire, Scotland
Tel: 01349 880 942
Email: karriemm@ecosse.net

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Sarah McCloughry
362 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7PP, England
Tel: +44(0)1865 558 561
Email: sarah@mccloughry.freeserve.co.uk

Denise Messenger
17 Carey Way, Olney, Buckinghamshire, England
Tel: ( 44|0)1234 713 425

Michael Millett
Claddagh, 1a Leopold Road, London, NW10 9LN, England
Tel: ( 44|0)2084 530 426
Email: michael.millett@which.net
http://www.elevatedtherapy.com

Patricia Moreby
12 Heycroft, Gibbet Hill, Coventry, CV4 7HE, England
Tel: 02476 418 202
Email: patricia.mga-coatings@virgin.net

Ms Debbi Morgan-Jones
43 Tedder Road, Halton, Bucks, HP22 5QF, England
Tel: 01296 620 724
Email: meridiantherapy@aol.com

Gunnar Moritsen
Gronlokke 5, 4622 Havdrup, Denmark
Tel: 4618 6029
Email: change@tdcadsl.dk
http://www.energychange.dk

Ms Caroline Morris
12 Kessington Road, Bearsden, Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
Email: cam-luz@ntlworld.com

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Ms Grace Peyton
Quantum-Change, 38 Larchwood Drive, Tuffley, Gloucester, GL4 0AJ,
England
Tel: ( 44|0)1452 381 751
Email: sq27@dial.pipex.com
http://www.quantum-change.co.uk

Nicola Quinn
3 Kenya Court Windlesham Gardens Brighton , West Sussex BN1 3AU
United Kingdom
Email: tutor@sidereus.org
http://sidereus.org

Ms Judy Richardson
The National Health Centre, The Gill, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 7BJ,
England
Tel: 01229 580 6959
Email: judyrichardson@onetel.net.uk

Mrs Lynn Rose


5 Gibralter Crescent, West Ewell, Surrey, KT19 9RS, England
Tel: +44(0) 208 394 1153

Christine Ross
41 Ross Lyn Avenue, Rutherglen, Glasgow, G73 3HA, Scotland
Tel: 0141 613 3362

David Rowbotham
12 Buckstone Bank, Edinburgh, EH10 6PW, Scotland
Tel: 0777 39 29 479
Email: reconnect@dr.com
http://www.healthypages.net/th1.asp?ID=2562

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Mr Malcolm Ruddock
Create Change Now, 13a, Murray Road, Northwood, Middlesex,
HA6 2YP, England
Tel: 01923 836 440
Email: malcolm@createchangenow.co.uk
http://www.createchangenow.co.uk

Mr Michael Schofield
8 Hardy Road, Lymm, Cheshire, WA13 0NX, England
Tel: +44(0)1925 75 9559
Email: mschof@btopenworld.com

Mrs Jane Selmon


36 St Thomas Drive, Pinner, Middlesex, HA5 4SS, England
Tel: 0208 428 1172
Email: jselmon2@aol.com

Ananga Sivyer
Chandra PDS, Richardsons Farm, Crowhurst Lane, West Kingsdown,
Kent, England
Email: info@chandra-pds.co.uk
http://www.chandra-pds.co.uk

Denise Stoneham
Courcy Cottage Holistic Centre, 4 High Street, Stogursey, Bridgwater,
Somerset, England
Tel: 44 (0) 1278 732127
Email: denisestoneham@wowmail.com
http://www.denisestoneham.mybravenet.com

Mrs Karen Stratton


70 High Street, New Sharlston, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 1BE,
England
Tel: +44 (0)1924 864 523
Email: karen@changes2000.freeserve.co.uk

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Christine Sutherland
Perth, Australia
Tel: 61 8 9246 1977
Email: Christine@lifeworks-group.com.au
http://www.lifeworks-group.com.au

Miss Parameswari Thiyagarajah


Integrated Psychotherapy Service, Gemini House, 31A Compton Road,
Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1 9QP, England
Tel: +44(0)1902 575 206
Email: Raji.8@virgin.net

Robin Trewartha
1, The Coppice, Off Sheppard Way, Attleborough, Norfolk, NR17 2PY,
England
Tel: 01953 456 418
Email: robintrewartha@homechoice.co.uk
http://www.counsellingpsychology.net

Jennie Trisnan
Jennie Trisnan, Banstead Village Clinic, 146 High Street, Banstead,
Surrey, SM7 2NZ, England
Tel: 01737 373684
Email: jennietrisnan@aol.com

Mrs Susan Uwins


3 Pondfield Road, Rudgwick, West Sussex, RH12 3EN, England
Tel: 01403 822428

Sorcha van Westerop


Flat 3, 6 Dyfrig Street, Canton, Cardiff, CF11 9LR, Wales
Tel: 029 2039 5909
Email: EFT@radheshyam77.fslife.co.uk

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Pamela Walker
64 Trinity Road, Amblecote, Stourbridge, West Midlands, D48 4JJ,
England
Tel: 01384 379 459

Mr Kerin Webb
EOS Professional Training, Jasmine House, 2 Lechlade Gardens,
Bournemouth, Dorset, BH7 7JD, England
Tel: 01202 424 991
Email: kerin@eostraining.co.uk
http://www.eos-professional-training.co.uk

Mr Marcus West
3 Balaclava Road, Roath, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, CF23 5BB, Wales
Tel: ( 44|0)29 2049 7994
Email: MarcusJWest@compuserve.com
Tom White
TSW Holistic Therapies, 39 Mossbank Crescent, Newarthill, Motherwell,
KY1 2UP, Scotland
Tel: 01698 860 570
Email: tswholistic@blueyonder.co.uk

Mr Tony Whitehead
The Gables Guest House, High Street, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 9DR,
England
Tel: 01935 862 237
Email: tony.whitehead@genie.co.uk

Florrie Widen
Hjortstigen 3, 18143 Lidingö, Sweden
Tel: 46 8765 2407
Email: florrie.widen@athenafilm.se

Linda Rosemary Wilkinson


The Cottage, Boggis Farm, Boyton Cross, Roxwell, Chelmsford, Essex,
CM1 4LS, England
Tel: 07956-161-663 / 01992-523-316

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Mrs Norma Winnert


The Insight Health Partnership, Sunny Down, Hightown Hill, Ringwood,
Hampshire, BH24 3HG, England
Tel: +44 (0) 1425 479 360
Email: normawinnert@freezone.co.uk

Reto Wyss
Praxis für Therapie und Coaching, Terrassenweg 33, Herzogenbuchsee,
Berne, Switzerland
Tel: 41 62 961 9212
Email: retowyss@emofree.ch
http://www.emofree.ch

Patricia Young
18/3 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh, EH3 6HW, Scotland

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AMT Contacts

Chrissie Hardisty
21 Richmond Avenue, Handforth, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
Tel: 01625 522613
Email: chrissie21uk@ntlworld.com

Dr Silvia Hartmann
The Sidereus Foundation, 18 Marlow Avenue, Eastbourne, East Sussex,
BN22 8SJ, England
Email: info@sidereus.org
http://Sidereus.org

Susan Courtney
True Change Energy Psychology, PO Box 6, Tonbridge, TN10 1AG,
England
Tel: 08700 767015
Email: info@TrueChange.org
http://www.TrueChange.org

Ananga Sivyer
Chandra PDS, Richardsons Farm, Crowhurst Lane, West Kingsdown,
Kent, England
Email: info@chandra-pds.co.uk
http://www.chandra-pds.co.uk

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Recommended Training Manuals & Products


The Association for Meridian Energy Therapies recommends the following
books and videos for students of the field. Not sure where to start? The
AMT thoroughly recommends Adventures in EFT by Dr Silvia Hartmann
(Page 119) for the energy therapies beginner.

E-Books: Some of the publications listed are available as eBooks. These


publications require access to a computer and are downloaded via the
Internet.

Advantages of eBooks usually include:

ƒ Instant delivery - No waiting for your product to come through in


the post;

ƒ Cheaper - You are paying for information rather than expensive


production, packaging and postage costs; and

ƒ Free upgrades - Some eBook publishers give you free upgrades


when the book is updated.

Hard Copy: This term refers to all forms of "hard books" sent through the
mail and includes spiral bound manuals, traditionally board backed bound
books & paperbacks books.

BSFF - Be Set Free Fast

The BSFF Training Manual by Dr Larry Nims


BSFF is a wonderful tool to accomplish major changes very rapidly and
painlessly. The 173-page Manual is laid out in a very readable form with
easy to follow protocols, examples, treatment strategies, self sabotage
"stoppers," checklists of treatment issues and troublesome feelings.

ƒ E-Book Available From http://TheAMT.com


ƒ Hardcopy Available From Larry P. Nims, Ph.D. 1431 E. Chapman
Avenue, Orange, CA 92866-222, USA, http://besetfreefast.com

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EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique

Adventures in EFT by Dr Silvia Hartmann


The Essential Emotional Freedom Techniques EFT
Training Manual by Silvia Hartmann (foreword by Gary
Craig)

For Self Help and experienced practitioners alike,


Adventures In EFT contains literally hundreds of
techniques, tips, suggestions and approaches to make the
most of Gary Craig's outstanding EFT. Now in the 5th
expanded and revised edition, this book is the essential
field guide and reference companion for anyone using EFT in self help or
with clients.

Written by one of the most experienced EFT practitioners in the world,


Adventures In EFT includes A-Z of EFT applications; Using EFT with
memories; Glossary of Terms and much more.

ƒ E-Book Available From http://StarFields.org


ƒ Hard Copy Softback - ISBN 1-873483-635 available from
DragonRising, 18 Marlow Avenue, Eastbourne, East Sussex,
BN22 8SJ, UK and all good bookshops.
ƒ Phone: 01323 729 666 Web: http://www.DragonRising.com
Email: info@DragonRising.com
ƒ All Major Credit Cards Accepted

Original EFT Training Videos by Gary Craig


Contains over 13 hours of quality video instruction on all the EFT basics as
well as the "art of delivery". This is the foundational course from which
thousands of professionals and lay people alike have learned EFT. Plays
on any reasonably modern computer and thus allows you to "instant
replay" for ease in learning. You can begin using EFT after the first video.
The rest of the videos help you refine your skills.

ƒ Computer CDs - Price $50


ƒ Web http://emofree.com/eftcourse.htm

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The Advanced Patterns of EFT by Dr Silvia Hartmann


The Advanced Patterns of EFT" by Silvia Hartmann is a
thorough and comprehensive work that should be
required reading by anyone who considers themselves a
serious practitioner of EFT. This book provides a wealth
of practical tools for taking EFT beyond the relief of
simple anxieties and phobias. Silvia Hartmann reveals her
breadth and depth of knowledge in a completely
accessible and useful style.

ƒ E-Book Available From http://StarFields.org


ƒ Hard Copy Paperback - ISBN 1-873483-686 available from
DragonRising, 18 Marlow Avenue, Eastbourne, East Sussex,
BN22 8SJ, UK and all good bookshops.
ƒ Phone: 01323 729 666
ƒ Web: http://www.DragonRising.com
ƒ Email: info@DragonRising.com
ƒ All Major Credit Cards Accepted

The Art & Science of Emotional Freedom by Ananga Sivyer


Comprehensive EFT Manual by Ayurvedic Meridian
Specialist Ananga Sivyer with special emphasis on the
Meridian System with many helpful illustrations and
diagrams. Highly recommended for EFT and MET
students and therapist who need an introduction to
meridians and the acupuncture/acupressure heritage of
the New Meridian Energy Therapies.

• eBook & Paperback Available


• Price £14.95
• Chandra PDS, Richardsons Farm, Crowhurst Lane, West
Kingsdown, Kent. TN15 6JE
• Phone: 01474-853-576
• Email: info@chandra-pds.co.uk
• Web: http://www.chandra-pds.freeserve.co.uk

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ET - EmoTrance

Oceans of Energy – Patterns & Techniques of EmoTrance


by Dr Silvia Hartmann
EmoTrance is entirely client driven, entirely client led
- No hallucinations, no guesswork, no detective work
required. EmoTrance takes care of all of that and
makes Energy Healing so easy that a child could do it.

EmoTrance is entirely flexible and deceptively simple


- EmoTrance can be performed as the most esoteric
and magical of healing modalities on the one hand,
and on the other it can sound as though it is just a talking therapy - thus
making Energy Healing available even to those who work in negative
allopathic environments and under the strictest of supervision.

EmoTrance is intuitive, natural and easy - EmoTrance is without a doubt


the easiest of all Energy Healing modalities to learn to do and to learn to do
with others. It is so simple that a child of three can do it for themselves
AND assist another in their healing in return!

EmoTrance is absolutely and completely content free - there is no need for


the practitioner to ever know what the problem was to be able to assist a
client to get the most remarkable shifts in life long, deep and complex
problems and issues.

EmoTrance is a superb Healing Tutor - designed to "teach energy healing


and intuition", EmoTrance literally makes a healer out of every regular
user - and simply by the experience of doing it.

ƒ E-Book Available From http://StarFields.org


ƒ Hard Copy Paperback - ISBN 1-873483-732 available from
DragonRising, 18 Marlow Avenue, Eastbourne, East Sussex,
BN22 8SJ, UK and all good bookshops.
ƒ Phone: 01323 729 666 Web: http://www.DragonRising.com
Email: info@DragonRising.com
ƒ All Major Credit Cards Accepted

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General Books & Products

Allergy Antidotes by Sandi Radomski


Substance sensitivities is a far more pervasive problem
than most people think. It touches most families and is
a contributor to a long list of ailments--many of which
may surprise you. Fortunately, energy procedures have
shown to neutralize the effects of these irritants in a
wide variety of cases.

This extensive, comprehensive and highly acclaimed training manual gives


you a good sense of the problems and the energy related approaches for
healing them.

ƒ Available as an eBook & soft-back


ƒ Price $24.95 - 144 pages
ƒ Allergy Antidotes, 1051 Township Line Road, Jenkintown,
Pennsylvania, USA
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The Energy Odyssey: New Directions in Energy Psychology


by Willem Lammers & Beate Kircher
This excellent overview to Meridian Energy Therapies
includes contributions on their latest discoveries,
techniques and methods by Dorothea Hover Kramer,
Joan Hitlin, Alan Handelsman, Larry Stoler, Greg
Nicosia, David Feinstein, Marla Brucker, David
Grudemeyer, Sharon Toole, Pat Carrington, John
Diepold, Thomas Weil, Jim Durlacher, Sandi
Radomski and many, many more.

ƒ E-Book Available From http://www.theamt.com/lammers


ƒ Hard Copy Paperback - ISBN 1-873483-42-2 available from
DragonRising, 18 Marlow Avenue, Eastbourne, East Sussex,
BN22 8SJ, UK and all good bookshops.
ƒ Phone: 01323 729 666 Web: http://www.DragonRising.com
Email: info@DragonRising.com

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The Gentle Touch by Paul Newcomb


The Gentle Touch has been relieving pain for well
over a hundred years now. It is a little-known, all-
natural technique that has been passed down from
one generation to the next. I can be learned,
practiced, and shared by anyone and is now being
taught in South Africa and Costa Rica to help Third
World people relieve their pain without expensive
drugs or procedures.

ƒ Available as an eBook - Price $19.77


ƒ Web http://gentletouchpainrelief.com
ƒ Email questions@gentletouchpainrelief.com

The Seemorg Matrix Work Manual


by Nahoma Asha Clinton
The Manual that lets you learn about the new
transpersonal energy psychotherapy that treats difficult
issues - even personality disorders, auto-immune
diseases, and spiritual blockage. Seemorg Matrix Work
is the exciting new transpersonal energy psychotherapy
that provides permanent relief from many difficult-to-
treat psychological disorders, physical diseases, and
spiritual impasses as well as individual symptoms.

Starting from the understanding that all upsetting events are types of
trauma, Seemorg Matrix Work quickly removes the after effects of such
events: disturbing emotions, negative beliefs and attitudes, destructive
desires and fantasies, addiction, compulsions, obsessions, dissociation,
spiritual blockage, physical abreactions, sensitivities, and disease.

ƒ Available as an eBook
ƒ Price $19.77
ƒ http://TheAMT.com
ƒ Nahoma Asha Clinton, 885 East Road, Richmond, MA 01254, USA
ƒ Hardcopy available from http://seemorgmatrix.org

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TAT - Tapas Acupressure Technique

You Can Heal Now - The Tapas Acupressure Technique


(TAT) Workbook by Tapas Fleming
This workbook will teach you an easy, simple way to get rid of stress, end
allergic reactions and let go of core negative beliefs without re-living the
past. This is the essential workbook for learning how to transform your
health and happiness by using TAT.

You'll learn how to use TAT to help friends, family and clients, including
children and groups. You'll find out how to let go of old emotional
baggage. You'll gain an easy way to overcome loss, fears, and inner
darkness so that you can receive and express more love. In this workbook,
Tapas Fleming will show you how TAT can help you feel more happy.

ƒ Available as an eBook & Soft-Back - Price $21 ($17 eBook)


ƒ TAT International, PMB 7000-37, Redondo Beach, CA 9027, USA
ƒ http://www.tat-intl.com - Tapas@unstressforsuccess.com

TFT - Thought Field Therapy

Tapping The Healer Within by Roger Callahan, PhD


The first book on "TFT" by its founder Thought Field
Therapy (TFT) has already changed the way thousands of
people have overcome emotional problems. Now the
founder of TFT shows readers how to harness its healing
poser on their own, to overcome phobias, anxieties,
addictions, and other common psychological problems.
The process combines principles of Western and Eastern
healing methods, using energy points in the body to release
emotional distress.

ƒ Available in soft-back - Price £$22.95 – ISBN 0-7499-2232-X


ƒ Piatkus Books, 5 Windmill Street, London, W1P 1HF
ƒ www http://www.piatkus.co.uk – Email info@piatkus.co.uk –
Phone 02076-310-710

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Trainings & Events Diary 2003

The 3rd European Energy Psychology


& Energy Therapies Conference

Brighton, England

August 8-10 Main conference

August 6-7 Pre-conference trainings


August 11-13 Post-conference trainings

Are you ready for a quantum leap?


The European Energy Conference is an inspirational space, where anything
can happen! Where serendipitous connections will expand your horizons.
Where fresh perspectives will suddenly open your thinking to new
possibilities. Where new experiences will propel you to a higher level of
awareness and transform your life.
Who knows when your quantum leap will take place. It could be triggered
by an insight during one of the many outstanding workshops, a comment
from a speaker or colleague over lunch, or simply in the sense of coming
home and belonging in this very special community, which is so warm in
spirit and generous in the sharing of knowledge and skills.
Read on for more information on the workshop programme and the daily
activities. Visit the website www.TheAMT.com to explore all of the
presentations and speakers in depth and register online. And remember to
look at the pre-conference and post-conference professional trainings,
which give you the chance to take your skills to an entirely new level and
make your practice more successful than ever before.
I look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to Brighton on August
8th!
Susan Courtney
Conference Chair

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Conference Activities

Begin the days with energising morning warm-ups.


Plenary sessions with stimulating speakers, demonstration treatments,
energy made visible and a panel discussion.
Enjoy the delicious three-course lunch provided every day in the hotel.
Learn new techniques you can use immediately in more than 30
workshops.
Advance your professional development in the pre- and post-conference
trainings.
Visit the exhibition hall for many fascinating and relevant products,
including cassette recordings of all the main conference presentations.
Browse the conference bookstore for specialist books, manuals,
audiotapes, videos, and CD's.
Take home the book of the conference proceedings with handouts from
every main conference workshop - a professional reference for a lifetime.
Learn more in optional Friday evening workshops
Unwind with your new friends in the hotel bar, take a stroll along the
seafront and the pier or discover Brighton.
Meet with the presenters and share with like-minded colleagues all the
excitement of this fast-growing field during meals, breaks and free time.
Raise your energy at the Saturday night energy disco.
Stay in one of the luxurious bedrooms at the Brighton Hilton Metropole
and enjoy the full English breakfast and access to all hotel facilities at the
deeply discounted conference special price, or walk from one of the many
hotels and B&B’s nearby.

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Keynote Speakers/Plenary Sessions

Friday morning, August 8


Susan Courtney Welcome
Lynn McTaggart The Field
Damaris Drewry Fun with Frequencies:
Getting on the Same Wavelength

Saturday morning, August 9


Thornton Streeter Making Change Visible with PIP
Peter Delves EFT Treatment Demonstration
Paul O'Connor TAT Treatment Demonstration
Sandra Hillawi EmoTrance Treatment Demonstration

Sunday morning, August 10


Dietrich Klinghardt, D. Med. The Seven Levels of Healing

Sunday afternoon, August 10


Panel Discussion (topic and panel participants to be
announced)
Damaris Drewry Ending on the Same Wavelength
Susan Courtney Closing

Presentations are subject to change

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Workshops August 8-10

Presenters Topics
Maarten Aalberse Treating Questions: Living with Uncertainty
Pati Beaudoin Sex with Patients and Clients: Why Not?
Meryl Beck Energized for Life
Sarah Bird The Role of Healing in Energy Psychology
Mary Jo Bulbrook Healing Families
Susan Courtney Working with the Supernatural
Jaqui Crooks Turbocharge your EFT with Powerful Language
Peter Delves The Trouble with Money
Daya D'Sa The Trust Index: Trusting your Muscle-Testing
Christina Elvin The ABC of EFT
Michael Galvin EMDR and Energy Psychology
David Grudermeyer Healing 'Separation from God' Stories
Alan Handelsman Muscle-Testing
Andrew Hahn Guided Self-Healing
James Hardiman Develop your Own Technique
Julie Hewson Soothe & Mend Early Fractures in Relationship
Sandra Hillawi EmoTrance
Dorothea Hover-Kramer Putting Energy Psychology into your Practice
Mary Hunt/Miriam Orris Born of a Strange Intelligence
Chris Kaday Building a Successful Therapy Practice with Ease
Lynn Karjala Dissociation 101
Madison King Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine
Johann Lechner Dialogue with Inner Consciousness
Paul O’Connor &
TAT – Tapas Acupressure Technique
Tom Wynn
Barbara Stone &
Integrated Energy Therapy
Meyer Kirkpatrick
Mary Wheeler Creative Energy Therapy
Lori Wilson Healing Past Lives
Elaine Woodall Be a Psychological Intuitive
Brad Yates Integrating Energy Therapy with the Twelve Steps
Jan Yordy Indigo Children

Presentations are subject to change

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Friday Evening Workshops

Damaris Drewry Sound Psychology: The Incredible Human Voice in


Energetic Healing
Alan Handelsman Romance Finance and Resonance:
Using the Resonance Tuner
Jerry Pegden Light Language: Sacred Geometry from the
Mayan Masters

Pre-Conference Trainings

August 6-7
AMT Practitioner Certification Training Peter Delves
Pivot Technique Daya D'Sa

August 7
EFT for Children Jan Yordy

Post-Conference Trainings
August 11-12
EmoTrance Sandra Hillawi
Working with our Shadow David Grudermeyer
Guided Self-Healing Andrew Hahn

August 11
Integrated Energy Therapy Barbara Stone &
Meyer Kirkpatrick

August 12
AMT Trainers' Training Silvia Hartmann

August 13
EmoTrance Trainers' Training Silvia Hartmann

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AMT Trainings 2003

May, 2003
2 - 9 May Chateau Bellenau Detox Week with Normandy,
Sandra Hillawi France
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com
8 - 10 May ACEP 5th Annual International Arizona, USA
Energy Psychology Conference
www.energypsych.org
24 - 25 May Meridian Therapies Practitioner with Hampshire,
Sandra Hillawi England
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com
24 - 25 May Meridian Therapies Practitioner with Central-
Susan Courtney London,
Tel: 08700 767015 England
Email: info@TrueChange.org
http://www.TrueChange.org

Jun, 2003
7 - 8 Jun Meridian Therapies Practitioner with Warwickshire,
Peter Delves England
Tel: 01926-856746
Email: info@delves.co.uk
http://www.delves.co.uk
21 - 28 Jun Chateau Bellenau 7 Day Detox Normandy,
Relaxation & Healing Sandra Hillawi France
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com

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21 - 22 Jun EmoTrance Practitioner Training with Gloucestershire,


Susan Courtney England
Tel: 08700 767015
Email: info@TrueChange.org
http://www.TrueChange.org

Jul, 2003
12 - 13 Jul EmoTrance 2-Day Practitioner Hampshire,
Training with Sandra Hillawi England
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com
12 Jul EmoTrance - Personal Development Hampshire,
Day with Sandra Hillawi England
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com
19 Jul EFT Introductory Workshop with Hampshire,
Sandra Hillawi England
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com

Aug, 2003
6 – 7 Aug Meridian Therapies Practitioner with Brighton,
Peter Delves England
at the European Energy Therapies
Conference
6 – 7 Aug Pivot with Daya D’Sa Brighton,
at the European Energy Therapies England
Conference
7 Aug EFT for Children with Jan Yordy Brighton,
at the European Energy Therapies England
Conference

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8 - 10 Aug European Energy Therapies Brighton,


Conference 2003 England
Tel: 08700 767015
Email: info@TrueChange.org
http://www.TrueChange.org
11-12 Aug Working with the Shadow Brighton,
With David Grudermeyer England
at the European Energy Therapies
Conference
11-12 Aug Guided Self-Healing with Andrew
Hahn
at the European Energy Therapies
Conference
11-12 Aug EmoTrance Practitioner Training Brighton,
With Sandra Hilawi England
at the European Energy Therapies
Conference
12Aug AMT Trainers’ Training Brighton,
With Silvia Hartmann England
at the European Energy Therapies
Conference
13 Aug EmoTrance Trainers’ Training Brighton,
With Silvia Hartmann England
at the European Energy Therapies
Conference
16 - 23 Aug Chateau Bellenau 7 Day Detox, Relax Normandy,
& Healing with Sandra Hillawi France
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com
Sep, 2003
6 - 7 Sep Health and Wealth Weekend with Warwickshire,
Peter Delves England
Tel: 01926-856-746
Email: info@delves.co.uk
http://www.delves.co.uk

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7 Sep One Day EFT Workshop with Sandra Hampshire,


Hillawi England
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com
27 - 28 Sep Advanced Practitioner in Meridian Warwickshire,
Therapies with Peter Delves England
Tel: 01926-856-746
Email: info@delves.co.uk
http://www.delves.co.uk
27 - 28 Sep AMT Practitioner Certification London, UK
Training with Susan Courtney
Tel: 08700 767015
Email: info@TrueChange.org
http://www.TrueChange.org
Oct, 2003
6 - 12 Oct Body, Mind & Spirit Cruise 2003 with tba, Grecian
Chrissie Hardisty Splendours
Tel: ( 44|0)1625 522613
Email: chrissie21uk@ntlworld.com
9 - 11 Oct Treating Addictions with London,
Susan Courtney England
Tel: 08700 76701
Email: info@TrueChange.org
http://www.TrueChange.org
18 - 19 Oct Meridian Therapies Practitioner with Hampshire,
Sandra Hillawi England
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com
25 - 26 Oct Meridian Therapies Practitioner with Warwickshire,
Peter Delves England
Tel: 01926-856-746
Email: info@delves.co.uk
http://www.delves.co.uk

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Nov, 2003
14 - 16 Nov AMT Practitioner Certification with London,
Susan Courtney England
Tel: 08700 767015
Email: info@TrueChange.org
http://www.TrueChange.org
16 Nov 1 Day EFT Workshop with Sandra Hampshire,
Hillawi England
Tel: (+44)(0)2392 433928
sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com
22 Nov EmoTrance One Day Experiential Self Hampshire,
Help Day with Sandra Hillawi England
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com
22 - 23 Nov EmoTrance 2 Day Practitioner Hampshire,
Training with Sandra Hillawi England
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com
Dec, 2003
5 - 7 Dec AMT Advanced Practitioner Training London, UK
with Susan Courtney
Tel: 08700 767015
Email: info@TrueChange.org
http://www.TrueChange.org
6 - 7 Dec Meridian Therapies Practitioner with Hampshire,
Sandra Hillawi England
Tel: (+44|0)2392 433928
sandra.hillawi@passionforhealth.com
http://www.passionforhealth.com

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Energy Psychology
Glossary of Terms
epdc Reprinted by permission from The Energy Psychology
Desktop Companion, Version 2, by Drs. David & Rebecca
Grudermeyer, © 2000, 2002
Acupoints: Specific nodes along each meridian that can be used to
diagnose or treat a problem.
Acupuncture: The art and science of the ancient Chinese tradition of
working with pathways of subtle energy flow in the body, known as
meridians, via specific access points, called acupoints, to restore balance in
the human energy system.
Alarm Points: Specific acupoints used for diagnostic purposes,
particularly in Applied or Clinical Kinesiology procedures.
Algorithms: Sequences, in which specific sets of acupoints are treated in
order to address a problem.
Applied Kinesiology® (AK): The discipline originally developed by
George Goodheart, D.C., used to diagnose and guide treatment through
measuring electrical output changes in the muscles in response to different
acupoints being activated. AK was expanded by other chiropractors,
including Beardall (Clinical Kinesiology). Much of Chiropractic treatment
today is based on AK, and meridian-based energy psychology treatments
owe their origins to AK.
Aura: Metaphysical term for the human energy field (HEF), or biofield,
that surrounds and interpenetrates with the physical body, its densest
aspect. It consists of distinctive layers that correspond to physical,
emotional, mental, spiritual and subtle aspects of the multidimensional
human being.
Balancing: Term used to describe the realignment of the HEF, or biofield,
to its natural, highest vibrational function and structure.
Biofield: A scientific term for the vibrational emanations that surround and
extend beyond the human body, as measured by SQID and illustrated
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Centering: The process of focusing one’s attention and intention to be


fully responsive and present to one’s client, setting aside personal issues as
well as any outcome expectations.
Ch’i: Preferred spelling is Qi. Chinese term for energy or vital life force
that acts as nourishing subtle energy circulating through the chakras, the
meridians, and the human biofield. Also called prana, ki, or spiritus.
Chakra: Sanskrit word, meaning spinning wheel, used to name the human
energy centers, or vortices. Also known as centers of consciousness due to
the psychological, developmental properties of each center.
Clearing: The facilitator’s hand movements in or above the biofield that
facilitate the release of energy blockage. Synonymous with discharging,
releasing, unforming, letting go, smoothing or unruffling of the HEF.
Clinical Kinesiology (CK): Developed by Alan Beardall, D.C., is an
expansion of the Applied Kinesiology approach that is widely used among
Chiropractors and practitioners of meridian-base energy psychology
approaches.
Comprehensive Energy Psychology: Energy Psychology interventions
that combine all aspects of working with the human vibrational matrix to
assist in emotional, cognitive and spiritual healing, and the
psychotherapeutic process. This human vibrational matrix includes the
biofield, chakra and meridian system (and related acupoints).
Consciousness: The primary human essence, the continuing sense of
oneself, that is present both in waking states as well as in altered states of
awareness, such as meditation, dreaming, trance-states, or near-death
experiences (NDE).
Energy Blockage: A general term referring to the interruption or
constriction of the natural flow patterns in the human vibrational matrix.
May refer to a closed or diminished chakra, asymmetry in the biofield, or
non-polarity and psychoenergetic reversal of the meridian flows.
Energy Center: Chakra (Sanskrit). A specific center of consciousness in
the human vibrational matrix, that allows for the exchange of qi to and
from the Universal Energy Field. In relation to the physical body, the
energy centers convert the inflow of subtle energy into chemical,
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relation to the spine, and minor centers at all bone articulations, in the
palms of the hands, and at the soles of the feet.
Energy Healing: Broad term used to describe interventions that address
the releasing of energetic blockage or imbalance, followed by repatterning,
balancing, and aligning of the human vibrational matrix to higher levels of
functioning.
Energy Psychology: A family of treatments for assisting in treatment of a
range of psychological issues, utilizing one or more aspects of a person’s
energy/electrical system.
Eye Roll (er): A brain balancing procedure used to anchor a treatment
effect at the end of a procedure (also see Nine Gamut Procedure).
Grounding: Connecting to the earth and earth’s energy field to calm the
mind and balance the vibrational matrix.
Healing: The ongoing evolution toward higher levels of functioning in the
multidimensional human being.
Holistic Health: An integrated approach to human wellbeing that
addresses all aspects of the person, physical, emotional, mental and
spiritual, in the interaction with his/her environments.
Human Energy System: The entire interactive dynamic of human subtle
energies consisting of the chakras, the multidimensional field, the
meridians and their acupoints; the human vibrational matrix.
Intention: Holding of ones’ inner awareness and focus to accomplish a
specific task or activity; being fully present in the moment.
Meridians: The subtle pathways of the qi that course through the human
body. Specific “vessels” through which energy is conducted, used in
Chinese health treatment approaches. According to Oriental medicine,
these hundreds of flow lines correspond to specific organs and
physiological systems. Fourteen of the most major meridians are addressed
in “emotional acupuncture” sometimes called “energy psychotherapy.”
Neurologic Disorganization (ND): The term most frequently used by
practitioners to describe the state a person is in when his/her
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Disorganization (ND) causes muscle testing to be Non-Differentiating


(ND).
Neurolymphatic Reflex Spots (NLR): Locations where the energy
system, lymphatic system and neurological system appear to converge.
These spots are connected to specific organs and systems. Chiropractic
procedures often incorporate treatment of these spots. One on the chest is
rubbed during the EFT Set-Up.
Nine Gamut Treatment: A brain balancing/integration procedure used to
anchor a treatment effect while in the midst of a procedure (also see Eye
Roll).
Psychological Reversal (PR): Types of Reverse Polarity (also referred to
as “Energy Reversal”); the three types of PR, in order of severity, are
Global (also called massive or general) PR, Specific PR (relating to an
individual issue) and Criteria-Related PR (relating to blocks to treatment
effectiveness such as un-deserving).
Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI): Medical term for the evolving discipline
that studies interaction between the body and mind, the emotions,
neurotransmitters, and the immune system to understand dis-ease and to
facilitate well-being.
Relaxation Response: Term coined by Dr. Herbert Benson to refer to the
systemic responses and restorative results of activating the parasympathetic
nervous system through meditative, or centering, practices.
Reverse Polarity: A condition in which a person’s
electromagnetic/energy/meridian system output is in the normal range, but
the direction of his/her electromagnetic current flow is the opposite of what
it should be. (This condition is roughly similar to if an artery were
pumping blood back toward the heart rather than away from the heart.)
Sensitive: A person who is able to use the intuitive higher sense perception
to assess the human energy system and other subtle energies.
Switched: Another term for being non-polarized, used by some
chiropractors and acupuncturists.
Universal Energy Field (UEF): Term used by Barbara Brennan to
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all aspects of the Universe. Other terms include Source, All That Is, The
Ground of Being, Creative Spirit, Unity Consciousness, Great Mind,
Nonlocal Mind, and Good Orderly Direction (GOD).
Unruffling: Term coined by Dr. Dolores Krieger to suggest the clearing or
smoothing of a ruffled or disturbed area in the biofield.
Unswitched: Another term for being properly polarized used by some
chiropractors and acupuncturists.

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Handling Difficult People
Fears & Phobias – simply forget them
Introduction to Complementary Therapies
Meridian Therapy Practitioner Training
Coaching Your Own Life
Controlling Your Anger
Meridian Therapies
Positive Thinking
Relationships
Confidence
Past Lives
S.A.D.
For more details, contact Christina on:
Tel: +44(0)1604 768343 Fax: +44(0)1604 706609
Email: Christina@oesassociates.co.uk
www.oesassociates.co.uk
www.create-the-reality.com
Northampton, NN4 0RF England

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Energy Psychology
and Meridian Energy Therapies
Professional Trainings
You are wholeheartedly invited to join us
for these professional trainings.
Learn new ways to make your work even
more effective, more fresh and alive, the
results more deeply life-changing, the process
even more satisfying for you and your clients.
Learn to release mental blocks and
emotional barriers to spontaneity, intimacy
and emotional freedom and feel great!
Join us in this warm and accepting
community where we will support each other
Susan Courtney - Trainer in learning and growth.
• AMT Practitioner Certification (EFT+)
• Healing Trauma
• AMT Advanced Practitioner*
• EmoTrance
• Treating Addictions, Cravings & Habits
*Advanced training introduces BSFF, TAT and EmoTrance

I enjoyed the practical exercises and was amazed by the responses to the
treatment in myself and others. Linda N
I felt surprised at how much I had taken in and understood. I loved the
balance of theory and practice. Rosemary K
A fascinating weekend that made me excited to be part of something that is
clearly growing and going to be BIG. Susan was gentle but firm, highly
intelligent and fun, a lovely mix. – Lesley M
Practical 15-hour trainings accredited by the
IMPC and counting towards the IMPC Diploma

Call now for brochures and training dates


Susan Courtney BA (hons), Dip Couns 08700 767015
Personal Therapy (London, Kent & phone) info@TrueChange.org
Professional Trainings (international) www.TrueChange.org

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