Hi Julie,
I purposely do not distinguish between EMDR and other "energy" therapies.
Other modalities such as TAT, WHEE, TFT and some others are quite formal and require some practice. To become certified in EMDR last time I checked it requires only a weekend or two workshops and a degree in psychology of some sort.
EMDR is simple and elegant, no rocket science required. Its results are uncontested by everybody that has used it properly.
All these therapies do the same thing and work with the same principle. The tapping, hand positions, the eye movements stimulate both hemispheres of the brain to work in a coordinated manner and thus allow release of traumas major and minor very quickly.
My personal experience with patients is EMDR brings about miracles, EFT works better and is faster. TAT is even better. Combining TAT with WHEE is amazing. Emotrance is in a class of its own, bypassing the conscious mind enableing the client to make large shifts quickly.
As an acupuncturist I clearly cannot buy the explainations of meridians or acupuncture points relasing "energy". This led me to the discovery that all these modalities are nothing but different ways of working with the same underlying principle.
We all may have our favorite therapy, some of us simply work better with one modality over another.
Stephen
--- On Fri, 11/13/09, ju1iedeb <ju1iedeb_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
From: ju1iedeb <ju1iedeb_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: [ET2] Re: EmoTrance is Psychobabble?
To: emotrance2_at_yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 2:25 PM
Hi Stephen
For the sake of accuracy I think you will find that the practitioners of EMDR do not class it as an energy therapy. In fact its full name (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) hints at the precision and formality of the technique.
Regards, Julie
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> For nearly a century, psychology as moved at less than a snails pace. Patients can go through therapy for years and gain important insights into their mental health. However, they continue in therapy with little evident change.
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> My first contact with "energy therapies" was with EMDR and the results I saw were amazing. Patients were overcoming blocks that therapy has been unable to change. These changes comes very quickly, a few sessions can accomplish more than many years of sitting in a psychotherapist' s office.
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> Psychology has been dragging a loaded sleigh through dry rocky river beds for decades and suddenly they see amateurs and children driving by with Humvees. Its may be a threat to their livelihood. They may feel uncomfortable to ask themselves, "Has my many years of education and practice been all in vain?"
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> Being used to dragging the loaded sleigh and seeing very little progress in their professions, EMDR, EFT, TAT, and Emotrance must seem bizarre, woo woo, or something to attack at all costs.
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> Yet nearly 90% of all patients see dramatic results and I fail to encounter a single properly trained practitioner of energy therapies to quit and go back to the old unproductive ways.
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> The critics are the ones that have never tried to use an "energy therapy". What "science" misses, the little children clearly see.
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