Words to Tap By: the Use of Language in Energy Psychology

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THIS ISSUE Words to Tap By: The Use of Language in Energy Words to Tap By: The Use of Language in Energy Psychology Protocols David Feinstein, PhD, DCEP Psychology Protocols Page 1 Dear ACEP: You Changed My Life By David Feinstein, PhD, DCEP Reginald Wesley Page 5 hen I took my first training in energy psychology From the Desk of the Executive Director with Fred Gallo in 2002, I had already been a Robert Schwarz, PsyD, DCEP practicing psychologist for 30 years. The outcomes Page 8 WI was witnessing during the demos in Fred’s four weekend Profile: Thought Field Therapy in Iraq training series as well as in my own practice sessions were Suzanne Connolly unprecedented in my experience. Combining tapping with the Page 10 kinds of exploration and direction I was already accustomed to offering my clients Holding the Vision – for Energy seemed to supercharge my interventions. Psychology and Beyond Now offering my own trainings, the question I hear most frequently is “How do John Freedom Page 11 you know what words to ask your clients to repeat as they tap?” This is a central concern, and not only to people who are just mastering a basic tapping protocol; it is Moving EP into the Mainstream Page 14 also an ongoing challenge for the most experienced practitioners. Many tapping practitioners and approaches use only minimal or formularized Research Review wordings, having the client instead attune to a pertinent emotion or a “felt sense” John Freedom, CEHP Page 16 about the target problem. It is remarkable, actually, that this is often enough to Book Review: The Science produce strong positive outcomes, even with PTSD. It also makes the approach Behind Tapping wonderfully portable and may be particularly useful for swiftly countering the John Freedom effects of trauma and other emotional wounds. Simple tapping protocols have, in Page 19 fact, been swiftly taught to local care workers in post-disaster situations, with Taking a Breath great success. Page 22 Nonetheless, combining tapping with well-crafted, highly-personalized language leads to a therapeutic tool that many claim is unequaled. When it comes to changing the internal models and patterns that fuel self-defeating thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, effective wording can add tremendous power, precision, and nuance to acupoint stimulation.

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Consider, for instance, the difference between tapping on While watching videotapes of sessions I have guided, an emotion or physical sensation and tapping to remove the I began to carefully track the clients’ responses to my charge on complex issues with wordings such as “I had to statements. I then began to code the statements based on the layer over my vulnerability and get tough!”; “My need to be functions they were apparently intended to serve. This was beyond criticism keeps me always feeling anxious”; or “My fascinating. The specific wordings seemed to shepherd the self-judgment is like training wheels I don’t need anymore.” client’s experiences in therapeutically beneficial ways that When you watch a skilled practitioner bring about profound were often more powerful than was my apparent conscious and persuasive changes, not just in recent trauma or current intention when I was formulating them. stressors but in lifelong patterns — within a relatively brief In the first seven videotaped sessions I analyzed, I tapping session — it can be dazzling. identified 62 functions of the phrases the client was asked I always want to increase my effectiveness. That to repeat. In the next three sessions I watched, however, I perfectionism is both a blessing and a curse, but on the didn’t need to add new categories. My statements in these last blessing side, it has caused me to ask some very interesting three sessions were all aimed at serving one or more of the 62 questions. In the energy psychology arena, I have been functions already identified. puzzling about the impact of the wording I ask my clients I found that these 62 functions of language during tapping to repeat as they tap. That questioning led me to want to sessions fell into three major categories. Each is actually delve into trying to answer the questions raised, through well-represented in the clinical literature, whatever the some sort of systematic analysis, so I decided to engage in a terminology used to describe it: as a therapist, you attune qualitative research study of some of my own sessions. yourself with the client and to what the client desires and Qualitative research is primarily an exploratory form of experiences during your work together; you explore the research, deepening understanding about the characteristics issues related to the client’s needs and goals to deepen your of whatever is being investigated. Qualitative research own and your client’s understanding of them; and you lead is often a first step in systematically examining a topic, the client toward more effective ways of addressing the preceding “quantitative research.” Quantitative research then pertinent issues. gathers statistical or other numerical data about a topic, such These three groupings are particularly useful to organize as using psychological tests to assess symptoms before and the 62 language functions. First, though, to make it easier after a treatment or to compare two treatment approaches. to get a handle on the 62 functions, I sorted them into 10 While much emphasis is put on quantitative research, primary categories, all of which fall under attune, explore, or however, qualitative research is a critical first step to actually lead. The list that emerges is instructive: understanding something about what it is we are studying – and to directing us to the relevant focus for systematic data Attune: collection with larger numbers of subjects. 1. Restate the problem from multiple angles. Energy psychology is wide open for qualitative studies 2. Keep the process safe and aligned with the here and now about any dimension of treatment that might be of interest of the therapeutic relationship. for clinical, scientific, or training purposes. For example, Explore: questions such as, “What do clients report that they actually 3. Identify and examine roots of the problem, its aspects, experienced, when a SUD score for anxiety about driving and related symbolism. goes from a 10 down to a 0? Or, when a specific technique 4. Investigate the problem’s costs or double binds it creates. designed to correct for neurological disorganization has 5. Articulate dilemmas around overcoming the problem. been applied? How does a therapist decide whether a psychological reversal is present, or when to shift the focus Lead: from the presenting issue to its roots in the client’s history?” 6. Enhance emotional safety and self-acceptance. Such qualitative research can provide a deeper look into any 7. Bolster confidence. area of interest, and it leads to more grounded and relevant 8. Build positive meaning or otherwise come to terms with quantitative research. Continued on page 3

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aversive life events. observing the videos of other therapists find similar categories 9. Particularly as arousal decreases, establish effective mental for the functions of the wordings used. strategies for resolving pertinent issues. An issue to keep in mind is that teaching the effective use of 10. Move toward desired outcomes. language to facilitate change is very different from imposing Taking the video analysis findings from an academic exercise the therapist’s agenda. Rather than programming the client like to a practical application, I have been incorporating this analysis a computer, in fact, the art of using tapping protocols involves of the functions of the language used during tapping into some finding language that is so highly attuned to the client’s inner of my training events. For instance, I might show the class a world that the direction of the therapy is dictated by the client’s videotape of a session and hit “pause” at a point that feels like a natural propensities for healing and growth. “teaching moment.” I tell the class members what type of statement I recently published a full-length paper describing this study the therapist will say next and then have them roleplay the next and exploring the questions in more detail (see reference below.) few minutes of the session, challenging them to formulate It describes all the 62 functions of language that were identified, statements that serve the function I have identified. Then we listing examples of each. By arrangement with the journal’s continue the video to see what the therapist actually said and publisher, the full paper is being made available free to readers of again, pause for discussion. This type of active micro-focusing The Energy Field. Click here to get the free download. seems to be quite instructive in helping practitioners develop David Feinstein, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, has received nine more effective languaging skills during tapping sessions. I also national awards for his books on consciousness and healing. He and invite researchers or doctoral students looking for dissertation his wife, Donna Eden, have built the world’s largest organization topics to replicate the study to see if other scorers who are teaching Energy Medicine. EnergyPsychEd.com

Reference: Feinstein, D. (2019). Words to Tap By: The Use of Language in Energy Psychology Protocols. Energy Psychology: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 11(1), 41 - 56.

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By Reginald Wesley This is an edited excerpt of a conversation that Cynthia Joba, ACEP Director of Outreach & Communication, had with ACEP (Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology) member Reginald Wesley. It’s an inspiring and illuminating glimpse into the untold stories of our members, the role ACEP can play in transforming life stories, and the reason we need to keep reaching out to more people.

I started learning about what I was going through by looking through these books and figuring things out. That's all I ever wanted to do — help people. I wanted to help people understand this. But I was feeling things in a different way, too. I could feel people's emotions; how they were feeling their anger, their resentment. I could feel how they felt about me, but I didn't know that their stuff was their stuff. When they were going through different things, I thought that's how they were feeling about me. There was a lot of anger and resentment and pain going on around me, and I felt that from everybody. I thought I was a very bad person because they used to call me a devil child, I guess because of the way I would act, or what their perception Reginald Wesley with Nora Baladerian at the 2019 Energy of my energy was. After a while, I started to believe these things. Psychology Conference I started to think that I was these things. But there was this other grew up in a very abusive situation. There was a lot of part of me that said, "No, they're wrong. That's not how you are. molestation, verbal abuse, physical abuse, mental abuse. I You're a very loving and compassionate young man. They just don't remember a time when there wasn't a situation where don't understand." II was fearing just being present in my own body. I can remember very vividly getting horrific beatings. Part of I was an athlete, so I tried using that to get the frustration and the beatings I would take, because if you cried they would whip the trauma out of me. Needless to say, that didn’t work very well. you harder. I would not remember feeling the pain because I was a very angry young man, very violent. Once, I almost killed there was a presence next to me that was holding me. It felt like, a young man. I lost it, blacked out and woke up with a young "I have you. Everything is going to be okay." man laying on the ground bleeding. That traumatized the hell It was like a presence would come over me and I would just out of me. There was this part of me that I had no control over, be there. I could feel my body feeling something, but I could not that was just angry and I didn't understand why. Well, I knew feel the pain until afterwards. Then the pain I would feel was the why, but there was another level in me that would take over. anger and resentment inside. I didn't understand, so I would From kindergarten on, I was in behavioral classes, learning just sit on the edge of the bed and that's when I would weep. I disability classes. I didn't get a normal education. All my classes would weep until I passed out, but even when I was doing that were designed to just occupy me, so they didn't have to worry there was this presence right there, holding me and saying, "It's about me destroying the room. But this taught me to learn in a okay, everything is going to be all right. You're going to be okay." different way. I can hear, see and feel my way through a lot of I grew up alone, with this light guiding me through life. It things, and I get information from Source. At the time I really would tell me to hang out with this person, don't be around didn't know this. this person, I need you not to go there. It guided my life and I I had a very hard time reading, but it intrigued me. It got to got used to it. It never was wrong about anything, and any time a point where I wouldn't do any work in class because it was so I tried to go against it and something happened wrong, well it frustrating. So they asked me what I wanted to do and I said, would be like, it's in your face. "I just want to read those books over there, those psychology That’s how I grew up and spent most of my life until I got books." And that's what they would let me do. to high school; by myself and with that spirit. In high school, Continued on page 6

I just wanted to be accepted, so I started hanging around the out a little. That's the first time that started. Consciousness came wrong people. To be accepted, I did things that I'm not proud through and said, "Don't worry about this, it's all good." of. I used to beat up people, start fights. I had no will to live, to When I was growing up, people would walk by someone, feel be completely honest. People used to get a kick out of it. I would their energy, and be ready to fight. We didn’t know that we could fight anybody at any given point in time. I was hoping to die. I feel other peoples’ energy — their stuff. If they could know that was in so much pain inside that I just didn't care. the energy they were feeling from the other person was hurt By graduation, I had already tried to kill myself five times. and pain, and not that that person was trying to threaten them, Three of those times were before I was 10. Two of them they wouldn’t feel threatened, and they could be more loving happened when I was in high school. I was institutionalized for and compassionate. I always wondered, "If they could really both. I was just one of those individuals who had no will to live. see what I see, people wouldn't fight each other like that. They I thought I would be dead by 21. wouldn't kill each other. They'd see that we're all just hurting." There is way too much to my story to get into it all here. A whole But that wasn't cool. You didn't talk like that where I come lot more struggle and pain. But let’s fast forward 17 years. I got a from. That would get your butt kicked. I had to play that role certified nursing assistant job working in a hospital. All I wanted growing up, so I did. But I could see all this stuff happening and to do was treat these people with so much love and compassion just wondered if I was crazy. that when they left they would think, "That was the nicest man When I started researching healers, the chakras and biofield, I I have ever met in my life. He was compassionate with me and discovered that what I was experiencing wasn't crazy. I thought, allowed me to heal." Lincoln, Nebraska is not a very diverse place. "Oh my goodness. That's what's been going on. I thought I was There are a lot of people from small towns who come in and crazy. But this is what I'm about; wow." they're not always cordial. They have a perception, or a judgment, As things started developing within me, as I became more or an ideal. I wanted to break every last one of them with so much conscious and aware of what was inside of me, more of this love and compassion that they had to look back at me and think, started happening. It was just happening unconsciously; I "I need to rethink how I perceive that culture." didn't do anything. I would just be standing near someone and I would come at them with so much love; I would spend so it would start happening. Over time, it became pretty crippling much time with my patients. When I bathed them, I gave them to me because I started taking on things, energy, and stuff like extra time. When I cleaned their room, I would converse with that. I was depleting myself and having to balance the energy, them. I wouldn't make them feel like they were just a patient. I doing all this work. It rocked my world to the point where I would talk to them about whatever came up, and after a while was sick. things just started happening around me. People would start I hadn't talked to anybody about all this except a therapist, opening up to me in weird ways. And I thought, "Why are they and I knew that they thought I was crazy. But it was becoming talking to me like this? Why are they acting like this? Why are so heavy on me. I wanted to talk to my wife Jill, a psychiatric they being like this?" nurse, but I was beside myself because I thought, "She’s going to At the time I knew about the heart chakra, but I thought, think I'm crazy. She's going to not want to be with me anymore. “Ha-ha, yeah, whatever.” And then one day there was this very She's going to tell me I need to be on medication." And then bad patient. I sat with them and I sat with them. They were in so one day I said to her, “I need to talk to you. I can heal people." much pain. I just wanted so badly to love them and take the pain She said, "Is that it? You're hysterical like this because you can because they were really good people. All of a sudden, my heart heal people? Don't worry about this. We'll research more and chakra area started looking out and going towards this person. I we'll figure this out together.” So I signed up for a class at the thought, "What the hell? What is going on here?" But I couldn't community college, Energy 101. But I got frustrated. I was move. That presence that's always been there with me and that's seeing and experiencing more things than they were talking always guided me said, "Chill out, we're just about to have a little about, and I wasn’t learning what I could do with it. I thought, fun." And I thought, "Okay." I looked around, making sure it "How dare you give me all this information about what's going was just me and the patient in the room at the time. on and not give me the tools to use what's going on?" This mist started coming out of my chest and going into this I was sitting at the table one day, extremely frustrated, to person. They turned back and looked at me like, "Ahhh." I freaked the point where I started to cry. I didn't want Jill to know, so I

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had my head in my hands on the table. Jill was about to throw a to say I started my own energy practice about four months ago. magazine away into the recycling bin and instead said, "Oh babe, Because of ACEP, I'm able to help others heal themselves, giving I think you may want to see this." It was the ACEP brochure for them the tools they need, so they don't have to feel like they need the International Energy Psychology Conference in San Antonio. to be in pain, or like they have to be dealing with these phobias I opened the brochure and was in awe. I flipped the page and and anxieties. I'm doing workshops anywhere that will let me. thought, "You were right, you were going to send me what I We're just relentless, trying to get this out there because it works. needed. Oh my God, you did send me what I needed! Oh my And that’s because of ACEP. Three years ago I was a CNA, God, how are we going to do this?" And I started screaming at stressed out, didn't know what the heck was going on, didn't Jill, "Jill, Jill this is it, this is what I'm talking about. This is what know what was going to happen. And I came to your conference. I need to go to. This is what I've been asking for." These were all Three years later I have my own practice, wow. Seriously, wow. the things I'd been trying to get hold of, but no one around here That's the power of light. did these things. What do I envision for my future? I will continue to work on Jill had just finished nurse practitioner school, and had just myself with the practitioners that I'm guided to work with, so been hired. I was a certified nursing assistant (CNA). We didn't that I continue to heal. I want to learn as many modalities as I have any money, so we didn't know how this was going to can. I know my community. And I know not everybody is the happen. We had one credit card left that we hadn't put anything same when it comes to healing. That way, when I go in there and on; it was for emergencies. I'll never forget her saying this, I love work with them, I can honor their spirit better. this woman so much. She said, "Honey, if this means so much to I have come to understand that the more I honor people's you, then we've got to go. We'll make this work." spirit, the better the results. And that's mainly just being in that All the people I met at the conference were so loving and space and allowing them to be where they need to be without compassionate. I had never felt that before outside of myself. I any influence. It’s been absolutely wonderful. still get giddy about it. There was a sign at the conference that’s This organization (ACEP) helps the truth come in and it helps still on my refrigerator—HOPE (Hold on, pain ends)—and when people heal their soul. You're just not healing problems; you're I saw that I knew I was in the right place, that I was going to heal healing your soul. the way I needed to heal. There was something spiritual about me I don't know how to show my gratitude because I have so much. that I could not explain or talk to anyone about, but every last one I am so thankful. I am happy. And I wasn't supposed to be here. of these people knew exactly what I was talking about. I wasn't supposed to be happy, I wasn't supposed to experience The first year ACEP reimbursed me for my conference joy and here I am. If I can do it, with the level of trauma I went registration. The second year ACEP gave me a scholarship. The through, without the tools I needed to be a functional person in third year ACEP gave me an honorary scholarship. There would life, everybody can do it. have been no way I could have gone without them. The first time I have peace in my heart, I love myself. I used to beat myself to I wasn't even expecting a reimbursement. I just thought, "You death because I thought I was worthless. I had no hope; now I have know what, universe said go, I'm going because I know you. I hope, I have joy, I have life. I want to give it back to everybody. know that you know that this is what I need. You gave it to me, It's okay to be happy, it's okay to be joyful. It's amazing how and if I don't go, then I am walking away from the life that I was many people don't understand that that's okay. It's okay to feel meant to live." And I sacrificed and I proved to the universe that pain, it's okay to feel hurt, but for a lot of people it's not okay to this is what I wanted and it went, "Okay." feel joy and love and compassion. I had to retrain myself to feel I'll never forget the day I got the check from ACEP that first that it was okay. A lot of us are experiencing that. We feel it's year, reimbursing me for conference tuition. I hadn't received not okay, it's not safe to love and to feel joy. But guess what? I do the email from Bob Schwarz (ACEP’s executive director) telling because of you and your organization. Thank you. me about the scholarship. It went to spam. I got this check in the It is so healing to be able to tell you my story. I lay in bed a lot mail and just started bawling again. just thinking about ACEP, how far I've come, and I feel gratitude. It was the universe saying, “You did what I asked you to And I couldn’t have done it without your organization. So it's like do, now here's your money back.” The level of healing that I wake up to ACEP every morning. There's not a day that goes by has happened since then, working and training with various that I'm not showing gratitude, and I thank you. practitioners — wow. It’s been just three years, and I'm happy

From the Desk of the Executive Director

By Robert Schwarz, PsyD, DCEP

irst of all, if you are reading this, your calendars for the 2020 conference. May 14-18, 2020 at let me say thank you! There is the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. so much going on in the world We’ve just launched our free monthly trainings for ACEP Fcompeting for your attention. I am members. These are presentations from our past conferences honored that you are taking your – audio with slides. Members have the entire month to watch valuable time to read the Energy Field. and listen and then you will get a whole new training the In this edition you will be well rewarded. following month. We are super excited about providing this It would seem that the theme of this edition answers the valuable training to our members. question, “Are we making a difference in the world?” I know For those of you who are not yet members, we hope you this is a question I often ask myself. And I suspect that many of will join the ACEP family. It does not matter what type of you do as well. Now this was not a plan. It’s just how the articles energy modality you practice. I like to think that membership have synergistically come together. I love how that happens. is good for your soul as well as your pocket book. There is I hope you will read all of the articles because they will take even a discount for your first year of membership. Not only you on a trip around the world, from making a difference in can ACEP be your energy family – you will help us make more healing trauma in Iraq, to the personal transformation of a of a difference in the world. traumatized young man into an energy healer, to dreams and I hope you enjoy this month’s issue. visions of ACEP members for a transformed world. Speaking of transformational change, I have to mention Namaste, the conference that took place outside of Albuquerque, New Bob Mexico in May. It was the largest conference we have ever P.S. We are also excited about our new online course coming held. It was incredible. It would seem that we are just getting this October, the Science of Energy Healing 2. It’s all new bigger and better all the time. I certainly hope you will mark material. You are going to love it, so stay tuned to your emails.

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Profile: Thought Field Therapy in Iraq

By Suzanne Connolly

r. Pegah Seidi is a lecturer and a group of authors on a systematic literature review and researcher at Garmian University meta-analysis of lay-counselor facilitated mental health in Kurdistan in northeastern Iraq. interventions in low and middle-income countries. Four of DShe began using Thought Field Therapy these authors are ACEP Research Committee members and (TFT) in 2018 after taking an online all are volunteering their time and talent to this effort. training with Suzanne Connolly. After Dr. Seidi is truly doing important humanitarian work in practicing TFT on relatives and friends she has committed her country and in the world and we are proud that she is herself fully to using, teaching and disseminating TFT. She incorporating TFT in her efforts to help others. recently wrote, “I use TFT almost every day for my clients Check out this article and slide show depicting Dr. Seidi’s and students, and more and more people are asking me current project in a camp for internally displaced persons in about this method every day.” Dr. Seidi added: Northern Iraq: http://www.advanceaccessanddelivery.org/ I'm already writing a case study with one of my colleagues news/2019/1/15/aaampd-team-members-visit-camp-for- in the UNC, where I have put my experiences of more than internally-displaced-people-in-northern-iraq five years of using CBT, and the benefits of TFT as a better Suzanne Connolly, LCSW, LMFT, has trained over 2,000 people intervention for societies who have experienced war and worldwide to use TFT and to integrate TFT into clinical settings. political conflicts, and for low-income societies. She has served on the ACEP Board. Dr. Seidi has designed a project in which she plans to use See page 18 for information on her TFT training. TFT to treat Yazidi women who had been kidnapped by, and subsequently escaped from, ISIS. She is planning to train some of the Yazidi women to use TFT to treat other Yazidi women, who have been victims of various forms of torture. ACEP members and TFT practitioners have raised nearly $4,000.00 toward this future project. Currently she writes that she is attempting to publish a book, a documentary and a few articles that contain TFT content, in order to draw potential sponsors' attention to her proposed project. Dr. Seidi has also generously agreed to work along with

Dr. Pegah Seidi, presenting a talk on TFT in Kurdistan (Northern Iraq).

Holding the Vision — for Energy Psychology and Beyond

By John Freedom

This article grew out of two conference call discussions with our ACEP Research Committee and with FREA: Finding Recovery and Empowerment from Abuse. I felt it would be useful and relevant to share these with our wider audience, to encourage people to engage in “visioning” of their own. As this was a discussion, I have tried to quote people using their own words and ideas.

isions are “big picture ideas,” “outrageous ACEP as an organization?” I invite you to share your own dreams,” long-term goals we’re working to thoughts and reflections with me; my email is below. achieve over the next 50-100 years — or longer — Vwhich excite, move and motivate people to action. Martin “Research is not an end in itself.” It’s wonderful to learn Luther King shared his Vision for a more just society in his about all this stuff and figure it out and understand how famous “I Have a Dream” speech, where he talked about it works, but we don’t do research just for knowledge; we living in a world where people are “judged not by the color do it because, among other things, it enables us to plan of their skin but by the content of their character….” It is and predict, it helps us control the world around us, and it unlikely that this dream will be achieved in our lifetime; alleviates suffering.” some Dreams and Visions may take many generations to “In Jewish mysticism there’s an idea called “Tikkun be achieved. And yet, even while they are not yet realized, Olam,” which translates as “Repairing the World.” An Dreams and Visions motivate and inspire and give meaning ancient myth says that at one time our Universe was like to our lives now, in the present. a great shining mirror, but then the mirror was shattered I find Visions to be useful. When I feel confused about into millions of tiny bits and shards. Each of us is like a tiny what to do, or feel bogged down by the minutiae of life shard still holding the original Light of that mirror. This and ask “Why am I doing this?” My Visions remind me of brokenness shows up as wars and conflicts, divisions and my direction, my values, my purpose, what I’m working separations, hatred and violence and intolerance. So, it is toward, and what is truly important in my/our lives. incumbent on each of us to participate in whatever ways we Whether holding a vision of yourself, your practice, ACEP, can to repair our world: in our own circles of influence with healing in general, or the world, a vision clarifies your sense our clients, families, colleagues, etc.” of purpose and direction. Engaging in it collectively, it also “My Vision is to see TFT accepted by the World Health strengthens our collective consciousness and efforts around Organization. The way to peace is to end trauma. There are healing. It is in this spirit that I offer the following thoughts lots of people working with the WHO to eradicate trauma. – excerpts from our discussions. Most of the studies I’ve been reviewing use professionals, but This article is an invitation for you to ask those questions in low- and middle-income countries most professionals are of yourself: “Why am I doing what I am doing? What is the already over-burdened. So, we need more lay people trained bigger meaning of my purpose? What is my greatest wish and involved. I’ve seen laypeople in Rwanda do amazing work regarding what could come out of my own work, growth or treating trauma. If the WHO would get behind this, then we learning? Of the work of all of us, collectively, are doing? Of could train more laypeople to do this work and treat each

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other and begin to end the cycles of intergenerational abuse.” compassion to all people.” “EP is part of a bigger Vision towards healing a lot of “It’s not just about alleviating suffering, but also about the awful things that have happened. It’s hard for people creating Connection. Where we can all relax out of to be caring and compassionate when they’re stuck in Fight/Flight and co-exist in a larger Field of Compassion their trauma. EP is not just healing people from trauma, and Connection. A question I hold: How do we create but helping people to flourish, to make the leap to better, Connection to our Higher Selves, our Spiritual Nature, to richer and more fulfilling lives of meaning, happiness and our Universe and to each other?” deep well-being.” “I envision a world where these ideas and techniques are “According to David Hawkins’ research, the level of taught in public schools. Where kids learn about energy consciousness of most human beings is only about 200 on and are taught how to regulate their emotions from an early his scale, which is very low. Many humans are stuck at a low age. Where children are taught intuitive skills, and where level of awareness, struggling just to get their basic needs their intuitions are honored. If kids were taught to use met, and don’t have the energy or awareness to do more. My these tools, they might grow up into mature, loving and overarching Vision is Ascension, increasing the vibratory response-able people who relate to each other as adults.” rate of all humans, and from that a greater societal shift “We’re all familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. can take place. If we can raise our collective consciousness Food, clothing and shelter are our most basic needs, then through yoga, meditation, EP etc., all our human activities safety and security needs, and then social and intimacy would arise out of that higher Awareness….” needs. When a person is starving, they can’t think about “Here in the U.S. we’ve had an ideal of ‘rugged their needs for connection or self-esteem, all they can individualism,’ of ‘every man for himself,’ in which we’ve think about is getting something to eat. We can’t satisfy got to fight each other in a ‘dog eat dog’ world of chronic our “higher” needs until our “lower” needs are met. competition. This has been extolled as a ‘virtue.’ The ideals I’m seeing a World where everyone’s basic needs for food, of rugged individualism may have been necessary and clothing and shelter and safety are met, where all humans valuable at one time in the old Wild West, but now this are fulfilling their potentials and flourishing, where all epidemic of unbridled selfishness and narcissism separates people are supported in being all they can be.” people, destroying our planet and causing millions “Much of the seemingly senseless violence and abuse we incalculable pain and suffering.” see in the world is the result of cycles of intergenerational “Rabbi Michael Lerner in Berkeley holds a Vision of what trauma. What would it be like to live in a world where he calls “The Caring Society.” The concept is very simple: PTSD has been eradicated, just as smallpox has Imagine a World where we all care for each other, and where been eradicated? A World where childhood trauma is we all care for our planet. How will our Society be different, recognized and treated as soon as it is recognized. A World when we all care for – and actively take care of – each other? where people are “trauma aware” and “trauma informed,” … And value, and cherish, and support, and love each other?” especially our schools and institutions. A World where “My goal is to help alleviate suffering. There is so much people have access to EP tools, and we are ending the cycles suffering in the world. There are going to be challenges, of intergenerational violence. A World where all humans but there’s no need for suffering. This is a very traditional respect and value and cherish each other, and where all Life Buddhist goal. Every day millions of Buddhists pray: “May is seen as Sacred and valuable.” all beings be happy. May all beings be free of suffering. May “What’s the Tipping Point to effect a massive shift all beings know peace.” We are aligning ourselves with in Consciousness? We’ve all heard about the hundredth individuals, groups, and people throughout the world monkey effect. The TM studies called “the Maharishi who are dedicated to alleviating suffering and extending Effect” needed only 1% of a population meditating to lower

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crime rates in Washington DC. I think shifting the awareness of as few as 10% of the population could trigger a sea-level uprising in consciousness….” “I have a Vision of living in Alignment with Peace: Peace within our own bodies, and Peace in the World. The ultimate Vision is a world of Peace. As within, so without. We begin inside and then that can extend out into the World. We can learn to live in Alignment with our inner nature.” “We have many natures. It’s a process of choosing what part of us we’re going to focus on. There’s an old Native American story that says we’re born with two wolves, one of aggression and anger, and one of Peace and Love. Which one will win? Whichever one we feed. I want us to feed those parts of ourselves that are aligned with Peace.” “A really good model is the Tao Te Ching. When we live in alignment with the Tao, all is taken care of. There is an awareness of the beauty of nature and the natural flow of energy, and when we live in alignment with the way nature is, when it’s time to hunt, we hunt; when it’s time to gather, we gather. There’s a time for every purpose under the heaven.” “Our orientation can be one of connection to Peace, with those parts of ourselves that are Peace-based, and also to support those aspects outside in the physical world that are rooted in Peace and Connection.” “I hold a Vision for a Radical Re-Awakening, the recognition that we are all interconnected, that all human beings are brothers and sisters and part of a greater human family, where all people deserve respect and kindness and cherishing and love. Where there is a recognition that injustice against any of us hurts all of us. We all love our own children and our own families. What happens when we shift our perspective and expand our focus to loving all children and all people as our own family? We would live in a very different world.”

John Freedom is the chair of the ACEP Research committee. [email protected]

Moving EP Into the Mainstream

This column highlights ACEP members’ efforts and achievements in bringing energy psychology to the wider world. It has two purposes. 1. Acknowledge and celebrate these achievements. 2. Inspire you, the reader, to think of ways within your own sphere that you might help make more people aware of • Aviva Chansky Guttmann has initiated a new Holistic energy psychology and its benefits. Support and Connection Group in the Mid Hudson Valley Please let us know about things you or others are doing that in New York State. Twelve practitioners in a wide range of we can share. healing modalities attended. Aviva introduced the group to ACEP and talked about including EFT in her own work. • Ange Finn was invited to be one of a group of practitioners offering wellness resources at the one-year remembrance • Kristin Miller presented ACEP’s new model for emotional ceremony in Santa Fe, Texas. At that event she introduced first aid at the Foster Grandparents Program to 51 people tapping to members of the community, including some of who sit with children in every school in Shasta County and those directly affected by the shooting. 8 who work with elders. She will also be a part at the Unity Church Memorial of the Carr Fire and have a table with • Amy Frost and Cindy Baker have been sponsoring ACEP resources at the Redding Chamber Event around the Community Connector Calls monthly for the Humanitarian year anniversary of the Carr Fire. In addition, she has joined Committee. One regular participant is Chaplain Michael D. a local group in her area, the Shasta Wellness Committee, Thrower, President/Chapter Coordinator of Adopt-A-Cop which is exploring ways to bring energy psychology to all (ACC). Their mission is to assign law enforcement officers the local systems. to a family, group, or individual who will pray for them, and send a note of encouragement, support and a thank you for • Kerri Morrison, ACEP Massachusetts State Rep volunteered their service to the community. What a beautiful way to help as an exhibitor for ACEP during the 19th Annual Youth At increase the use of energy psychology. Risk Conference in Salem, MA. The conference was attended by 300 people from a variety of local service organizations; • Fred Gallo presented on EFT and Tapping in Denver and including law enforcement, the Department of Children Colorado Springs to over 90 health and mental health care and Families, school and community agency providers, and professionals. He'll be presenting next on EDxTM and many mental health providers. 90% of people who came Strategic Energetic Coaching (SEC) in northern Germany. to the table were not aware of energy psychology prior • Jennifer Groebe reports that recently her pet groomer to ACEP's presence at this conference, and many people talked about her experiences with 2 husbands who have indicated that they would be looking into ACEP further. debilitating mental illnesses as well as a neighbor who is an • Betsy Muller volunteered to assist fellow member Lori Afghanistan war vet. The neighbor is self isolating. Jennifer Leyden, PhD with an EFT training for therapists in Parkland, briefly discussed EFT and the benefits for vets. The groomer Florida. It was a deeply valuable experience, especially left with two Emotional First Aid brochures, one for her witnessing how well EFT neutralized very traumatic neighbor and one for herself. memories for many who are working directly with the victims of the Feb. 14, 2018 mass shooting.

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• Prabha Nagaraja attended a recent national meeting of a • Suzan Thompson helped distribute energy psychology- network which works towards reducing domestic violence related materials and Resources for Resilience information in India. "Attended by 47 people from 29 organisations, we to local media following the shooting in Virginia Beach, conducted a session on understanding the importance of VA on May 31. Suzan's practice also assisted in "A Day of burnout prevention and self-care. We were able to make a Healing" on June 22nd for survivors, their families, and first strong case for self-care and also introduce participants to responders of the May 31st shooting in Virginia Beach. The some simple energy techniques — we began the session event was held at a farm, where equine therapy, EFT, Reiki with thymus thumps, the cross crawl, crown pull and figure and other healing modalities were available. eights and ended with the heart focused breathing exercise — all of it was very well appreciated. • Susan Warren shared the heart hold with breathing technique as she was called in to work with 150+ people • Resources for Resilience, a project of ACEP’s Humanitarian affected by an office shooting in Tucson. It calmed everyone Committee, not only has a website that includes videos and down in just minutes. She is also partnering with Samuel instructions for energy practices to address immediate Schoonover to start the “Holistic Military and Veteran trauma and build resilience. The website includes a Project (H-MVP)” which will be on Facebook. They began downloadable brochure available in English and Spanish. teaching in August. You can also order high quality printed versions of the English and Spanish versions of the instructional brochure • Suzanne Velasquez-Sheehy introduced how to use through the website. Check it out here. EP techniques in the classroom at the "Twenty-sixth International Conference on Learning: Learning to Make • Ulf Sandstrom and Gunilla Hamme have founded a a Social Difference" at Queen’s University in Belfast, permanent Trauma Tapping Technique unit in the Kitrinos sponsored by the Learner Research Network. Their mission Healthcare Medical Clinic, in the Moria refugee camp at “is to explore the meaning and purpose of education Lesbos in Greece. with a focus on innovative pedagogies and a view to new social possibilities through education.” The presentation • ACEP Executive Director Robert Schwarz is on the main introduced how to apply basic EFT and how it can be used faculty of the 13th Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to to help with academic stress and anxiety. Hypnosis and Psychotherapy Dec. 11-14 in Phoenix, AZ. He will be doing a workshop on integrating energy psychology • Jondi Whitis held a 2-day tapping practicum for 24 Native and Ericksonian approaches for trauma, a clinical American school teachers, including Emotional First- demonstration integrating EFT with narrative approaches, Aid elements for self-care and student care. Prior to this, and a panel on trauma. while teaching in an indigenous community, a tragedy unfolded, affecting the entire band. She was very happy to • Peta Stapleton presented at the 2019 Nutrition Summit in provide them with ACEP Emotional First Aid brochures Australia in July. Her presentation covered her research in and briefing workshops to support the mental health and using EFT for food and weight issues. She also participated wellness professionals and first responders during this time. in podcast interviews and provided a video for the Australian TV show Medicine or Myth?, all related to EFT.

Research Review

By John Freedom, CEHP

The Ninth Annual ACEP Research Symposium was held on Thursday, May 2 at the 2019 International Energy Psychology Conference near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Symposium was an international event, with presenters from Japan, Russia, Uruguay and the UK as well as the US. Dr. Melinda Connor delivered the keynote presentation “Energy Medicine: Overview of an Emerging Field”. Just as psychiatry is a branch of medicine, so also energy psychology is a branch of energy medicine. She discussed current research on energy healing; caveats regarding the use of the term “medicine”; and initiatives to unify the different schools of energy healing under one banner. In her research presentation Melinda raised the question, “Can energy healing be measured?” She described a study documenting and measuring the effects of subtle energies, and the measurable effects of energy healing. Melinda has developed a suite of empirical tests to measure the effects of practitioners of different forms of energy healing including Reiki, EEM, • “How Do EP Modalities Work? An Energy-Based Theoretical Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, and Reconnection. The tests Model,” presented by Deborah Greene, PhD. include demonstrating the ability to generate DC currents with • “Somatic Emotion Energy Release: An Energy Psychology each hand, demonstrating ability to produce oscillatory effects Protocol to Reduce Somatic Activation: A Pilot Study,” in the RF field, changing the pH of water, and creating changes presented by Susan Kane-Ronning, PhD. in one’s personal field and a client’s field. The publication of this study will be a major step in documenting and validating • “Significant Applications of Thought Field Therapy healing effects of energy therapies. Diagnostic Methods in Clinical Practice,” presented by We also heard the following presentations: Yuriko Kawagishi, MA. • “Making the Case for Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT): • “Evaluation of a Stress Relief Technologically Created Subtle A Review of EFT Case Studies and How To Write and Energy Pattern on Animal Stress Level and Locomotion,” Publish Them,” presented by Elizabeth Boath, PhD. presented by Yury Kronn, PhD. • “Utilizing Community-as-Agent-of-Change: A Systematic • “Changes in Psychological Symptoms After Treatment With Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of Lay Mental a Novel Therapy: The Phoenix Protocol, A Pilot Study,” Health Counselor Facilitated Mental Health Interventions,” presented by Ron Masters, MA and Jess Troxel, LSW. presented by Suzanne Connolly, LCSW, LMFT, LISAC. • “The Efficacy of a New Self-Training Program of Heart • “Effects of SuperBrain Yoga Exercise on Behavior Indicators Rate Variability, Biofeedback and Thought Field Therapy to Leading to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Improve Anxiety, Insomnia, and Quality of Life,” presented (ADHD): A Pre-Post Comparative Study,” presented by by Ayame Morikawa, PhD, Naoko Okamoto, PhD and Maria Elena Garcia-Terra, Lic. Psych. Yokuda Iwao, MA.

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• Suzanne Connolly and her colleagues Jan Warner and Changes in Overweight Adults with Food Cravings after Michelle Vanchu-Oroscco will be submitting their paper Emotional Freedom Techniques. OBM Integrative and on “Utilizing Community-as-Agent-of-Change: A Systematic Complementary Medicine 2019;4(1):14; DOI:10.21926/ Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of Lay Mental Health obm.icm.1901010. https://bit.ly/2UaSX8H Counselor Facilitated Mental Health Interventions,” for Vural, P. I., & Aslan, E. (2019). Emotional freedom publication soon. techniques and breathing awareness to reduce childbirth Our thanks to all the researchers for their tireless efforts in fear: A randomized controlled study. Complementary developing these studies and sharing them at our Symposium. Therapy in Clinical Practice, 35,224-231. DOI: 10.1016/j. ctcp.2019.02.011. Epub 2019 Feb 15. Recent EP Research Publications Yount, G., Church, D., Rachlin, K., Blickheuser, K., Ippolito, C. (2019). Do noncoding RNAs mediate the efficacy The evidence base for energy psychology continues to grow of energy psychology? Global Advances in Health and in both quantity and quality. Here is a list of EP research Medicine, 8(1-8). DOI: 10.1177/2164956119832500 studies and articles published in the first six months of 2019: Bach, D., Groesbeck, G., Stapleton, P., Sims, R., Blickheuser, ACEP Website Research Updates: K. & Church, D. (2019). Clinical EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Improves Multiple Physiological Markers of • We have recently updated the research section of our Health. Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine 24. ACEP website. Research studies with abstracts can be https://doi.org/10.1177/2515690X18823691 referenced chronologically, by condition, and by types of https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30777453 studies (RCTs, meta-analyses, reviews, etc). See: www. energypsych.org/research Church, D., & Clond, M. (2019). Is online treatment as effective as in-person treatment? Psychological change • The Science of Energy PsychologyQuick Facts reference in two relationship skills groups. Journal of Nervous sheet has been updated. There are now over 50 RCTs and & Mental Disease 207(5):315-319. DOI: 10.1097/ over 50 pre-post (non randomized) outcome studies, as NMD.0000000000000975 well as five meta-analyses and 13 systematic reviews of EP studies. Access the Quick Facts. Feinstein, D. (2019). Words to tap by: The use of language in energy psychology protocols. Energy Psychology: Theory, Research and Treatment. 11(1). In service, Nicosia, G., Minewiser, L, & Freger, A. (2019). World John Freedom, CEHP Trade Center: A longitudinal case study for treating Post Chair, ACEP Research Committee Traumatic Stress Disorder with Emotional Freedom [email protected] Technique and Eye Movement. Work, 63(2), 199-204. DOI: John Freedom is chair of ACEP’s Research Committee and 10.3233/WOR-192921. organizes the annual Research Symposium, which is held Stapleton P, Buchan C, Mitchell I, McGrath Y, Gorton before the International Energy Psychology Conference. P, Carter B. (2019). An Initial Investigation of Neural [email protected]

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BOOK REVIEW The Science Behind Tapping: A Proven Stress Management Technique for the Mind and Body By Peta Stapleton, PhD

Reviewed by John Freedom

eridian tapping – Emotional Freedom Techniques — somatic therapies. EFT has (EFT), Thought Field Therapy (TFT) and their three features that distinguish derivatives—needs no introduction to the readers it as a “fourth wave therapy”: Mof these pages. What does often need an introduction is the it is a somatic therapy; it can produce rapid results (in research underlying it. When I am discussing tapping with non- one or more brief sessions); and it can permanently shift energy psychology professionals, they will usually listen politely, outdated emotional learnings via the mechanism of memory wait for me to pause, and then pop the question: “This all sounds reconsolidation, as described by Bruce Ecker and colleagues. very convincing. But, is there any research on this stuff?” I found the chapter on food cravings and weight issues There have been over 100 research studies published in peer- especially fascinating. Stapleton is the world’s leading reviewed journals, and over 200 published articles (including authority on the use of EFT for eating disorders. She delves studies, meta-analyses and review articles). Abstracts of these deeply into the reasons why people overeat, including: studies can be found on the ACEP website, in the research eating as defense, the desire to avoid “wasting” food, and section (www.energypsych.org/research). Over 100 books the dynamics of intergenerational epigenetics. She also have been published on different aspects and applications of explores common themes in overeating, such as feelings meridian tapping, but none have attempted to address the of abandonment, deprivation, inadequacy, loneliness, and research underlying it—until now. The Science Behind Tapping stress; she then demonstrates how to create “setup statements” is the first book to focus on this important area. and eliminate these issues with tapping. Many people have the idea that research is dry, dull and For several years, Stapleton had dreamed of conducting boring. When you can read and decode what researchers are research using brain scans. A high point of The Science Behind saying, the effect is exactly the opposite. Peta Stapleton takes Tapping is the section where she describes her Functional us behind the curtains of scientific jargon and reveals exactly Magnetic Resonance Imaging research. FMRI is a scanning what tapping therapies do and how they work. She describes technology that measures neurological activity in different the history and “how to” of EFT, including case histories and parts of the brain. It works by detecting changes in blood suggestions for success. Stapleton’s style is authoritative, yet oxygenation and flow that occur in response to neural activity. accessible. Whether discussing the arcane details of p values Stapleton and her colleagues conducted a research study with and effect sizes, or concepts like epigenetics and neuroplasticity, 15 obese adults who were randomized into two groups. One she has the gift of building bridges with other disciplines, group received four group sessions of EFT, and the other making research both approachable and understandable. received no treatment. Both groups received fMRI scans early In a provocative section entitled “Are all therapies created in the morning, before and after the treatment schedule, on equal?” Stapleton discusses and challenges the “Dodo Bird empty stomachs (they were only allowed a cup of coffee or a Verdict” — the idea that all therapies are equally effective. coke, to keep them alert) while watching random, repeating After reviewing the first “three waves” in psychotherapy, she images of high-calorie foods. describes EFT as part of the “fourth wave” in psychotherapy The results: scores for craving carbs reduced significantly in

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the EFT group, and the craving for fast-food also decreased colleague introduced her to that “weird tapping stuff.” Since significantly for the EFT group compared to the control group. then, she and her colleagues have conducted numerous The second set of fMRI scans in the tapping group showed a research studies documenting the efficacy of EFT for anxiety, marked reduction in activation of the parts of the brain called depression, food cravings, pain and trauma. Peta is also the the superior temporal gyrus (associated with cognition and author of an online program for teachers called “Tapping in thought) and the lateral orbitofrontal cortex (associated with the Classroom.” reward). The scans of the control group showed no changes. Having served as chairman of ACEP’s research committee This ground-breaking research is the first to document for over ten years, I am intimately familiar with EP research. visually apparent changes in neurological activity before and Yet while reading Peta’s book, I began seeing and appreciating after group treatment with EFT. It also suggests that meridian this field with new eyes. Her love and enthusiasm for research, tapping catalyzes durable neurological changes, as well as as well as her respect for other researchers and professionals, psychological the ones already documented in previous is palpable. The result is a book that is authoritative and studies. (Full color, high-resolution images of these scans can evidence-based, while remaining engaging and enjoyable. For be seen at: www.petastapleton.com). anyone interested in the science behind tapping, this is a Peta Stapleton is a clinical psychologist, associate professor must-read. and director of the clinical psychology program at Bond John Freedom, CEHP is the author of Heal Yourself with Emotional University, Queensland, Australia. She describes herself as Freedom Technique, and the Chair of the ACEP Research Committee. having been a “mainstream clinical psychologist” until a

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