by June Milligan, M.Ed., CCHt |
By using certain acupressure points and a few descriptive words, in less than a minute, you can remove the negative emotions from any traumatic scene or memory you have ever experienced. As the remembered scene changes, the emotions change. At the same time, the place where that trauma has settled within your body changes as well. You can actually feel it leave your body. Many scientists are now aware that all traumas settle in the cells somewhere. Most massage therapists have had the experience of a client breaking out into tears or suddenly recalling something that happened decades ago, with no apparent reason. It seems strange, but as that part of the body is massaged, sometimes the memory or emotions return.
Research at Harvard Medical School and the University of Ohio showed that the part of our brain we call “limbic” is directly connected to our meridian system, along which 400 acupoints reside. These points are used in both acupuncture and acupressure to heal, soothe, remove pain and reduce anxiety and stress. This new procedure uses the most potent acupoints, while adding a new twist: the right phraseology. The result is quick, astounding and long-lasting. EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) was the first combination of acupressure and language, used for the purpose of healing, that has become widely known in the West. No one really knew why it worked, but people who use it regularly know that it is a powerful stress reducer.
Research also revealed that the fight-or-flight part of our brain seems to be responsible for our holding onto the emotions associated with the traumas we experience as in, “I’d better remember that, it might save my life someday.” The problem is that we do not really need to vividly remember most of the sadnesses and traumas we’ve experienced. Maybe in saber tooth tiger days it was beneficial to remember those, but not today. The problem is that part of our brain is still functioning like it did thousands of years ago. It stored all of the traumas we experienced since infancy, and is dutifully giving those emotions back to us, as a warning, when anything happens that is vaguely similar to a past trauma.
As a result of research on the meridian system and its brain and neurological connections, it is now possible to remove the negative emotions from any scene or memory you have ever experienced. By massaging only a few acupoints and by stating only a few simple descriptive words, the original scene or memory changes or disappears. The emotions that were associated with that scene then change or disappear, and the place where it has been impacting your body changes or disappears; in under one minute. Do you still have the memory? Vaguely, but it does not seem important now. Do you still have the emotions that were connected to the memory? No. What do you feel in your body? Relief and stillness.
Does this work on any scene, any memory? Yes, if you want to get rid of the negative emotions associated with that scene or memory. Whole books have been written about the power of intention; and your own personal desire to be rid of those emotions now and forever are powerful. They seem to be like a “switch,” which allows the process to work. It is up to you. If you want to hang onto those bad or sad emotions, the mind will simply not release them.
For example, if you were the victim of a crime, that scene or memory may still be vivid in your mind. You might even dream about it. You may have become hyper-alert, always on the watch for situations where you could be vulnerable. That fear is affecting your home life, your job, your willingness to travel alone, your relationships and your health. You may have developed chronic aches or pains that defy diagnosis.
Most people don’t know that they have a built-in healing system that they were born with…the meridian system. Through utilizing certain powerful acupoints and certain simple descriptive words, you can remove the emotions from any scene or memory for good. That frees you up in many different ways and makes you feel as though that trauma never happened. Do you then want to walk in dangerous parts of the city at night? No, because the learning that came from the negative experience stays with you; you don’t go out and do stupid things. But the emotion of fear that was ruling your life is now gone. Any negative emotion that is the result of a bad experience or trauma can be removed.
Why does this work? We live in a physical time/space reality, but our mind does not. It lives in a timeless place, and can easily go into the past or what it imagines as the future. At any second in time, we could have chosen dozens of probabilities of what we wanted to do in that instant. As the seconds tick by we choose what we want to do, or as in the above example, we may be in the wrong place at the wrong time at a particular second, and therefore have a traumatic experience. Because your mind lives in a timeless place, it can go “back in time” and change the past, and because of this procedure, as far as your subconscious mind is concerned, it has changed the past, with the help of certain powerful acupoints and just exactly the right words. There it is: your built-in healing system at work! Once you learn how to use it, it’s free!
References:
- Gach Ph.D, Michael Reed. Acupressure for Emotional Healing. Bantam Dell, 2004.
- Kober A. Scheck T., et al. Acupressure as a Treatment for Anxiety. Anesthesiology June 2009 (6): 1328-1332
- Hui K, Liu J, Makris N. et al. Acupressure modulates the limbic system and subcortical gray structures of the human brain: evidence from fMRI studies in normal subjects. Human Brain Mapping 2009: 9:13-25
For more info, contact June Milligan at (775) 786-9111.
