New brain imaging techniques used by neuropsychology
researchers have established that the brain of the person, who is depressed,
shows more energy in the right prefrontal lobe than the left. The brain of the
person, who feels happy, has more energy in the left than the right.
Here where the science comes for validation. Several recent
extensive scientific studies with MRI scans have positively established that
when people are feeling a sense of well-being, their left pre-frontal lobe is
activated. When they are feeling
depressed, by contrast, the right pre-frontal lobe shows more energy.
SAD, which is Seasonal Affective Disorder, along with
other depression states on the wide range from the minor to the major episodes,
all show this characteristic brain pattern of energy distribution.
When one of the independent therapy professionals, energy
therapist Dale Peterson, read about this research, he decided to explore its
potential therapeutic use. Applying
energy therapy techniques that take just a few minutes to accomplish, Dale
tried switching energy from the right to the left pre-frontal lobe of his
depressed clients to see if that would help them to return to a more positive
emotional state.
The developed energy psychology protocol utilizes the
principle “energy follows intention”. It also uses the principle that
intentions can be magnified by applying additional energy.
Treatment Effect
The first results have been quite impressive. Clients typically feel an emotional shift
within minutes, although some take up to a day or so. They report feeling calmer, more positive,
more relaxed. The results last from
several days to weeks and months.
Additional applications of the technique if the impact wears off bring
the same positive changes. After several
treatments, however, the change to feeling better seems to become solidified.
Role of muscle
kinesiology
Dale begins by training a client's arm to be responsive
to muscle kinesiology assessment techniques. The arm then can give Yes/No
answers to Dale's questions, providing a way that clients' internal knowledge
can guide treatment.
He then asks the patient, via the arm-testing to score
the intensity of the depression on a scale from 0 to 10. That baseline score enables Dale and the
client to know the starting point diagnostically.
Dale asks "Do your two prefrontal lobes have equal
energy?" The arm will then stay
out-stretch to indicate yes or fall, indicating a no answer.
"Does your right prefrontal lobe have more energy than
the left?"
"Does the left have more than the right?"
If there is more energy on the right, this indicates
depression, and that a corrective procedure would be appropriate.
The intervention then is based on the idea that
"energy follows intention."
Verballing that his intention is for an optimal amount
energy from the right prefrontal lobe to shift to the left prefrontal love,
Dale runs a magnet called a "Magboy" down the client's spine several
times. He runs it along the line of what
is often termed the governing meridian. This part of the intervention takes
only a few minutes.
After set of exercises completion, Dale assesses the
outcomes, using muscle kinesiology again. He repeats the earlier questions
asking if the energy is equally balanced or higher on the right or left,
clients respond that it is higher on the left.
Dale then asks if enough energy has been shifted. Typically, 27x more energy on the left than
on the right feels correct to people, at least according to readings using
muscle kinesiology.
How long does this
procedure take?
Altogether, including training the arm for muscle
kinesiology and also testing for and removing if necessary psychological
reversal, the full procedure typically can easily be accomplished well within
one treatment hour.
How much science
backs this procedure up?
This technique for shifting brain energy from the right
to the left prefrontal lobe has not yet been subjected to large scale clinical
studies with double blinds and other standard medical and psychological
research procedures. Dale is not set up
to be able to conduct these kinds of experiments.
At the same time, a quick procedure with no apparent
negative side effects that looks to have an 80% or so success rate merits
reporting and exploring, if only to encourage potential researchers to explore
the project.
Trying to make the theoretical sense from the positive
outcomes of the treatment, we have to remember that 85% of the time, we
function using our left brain. We make sense of things, think of sequences,
analyze language and meaning, interpret information and communication and
absorb new facts from all around us. Although these functions are necessary to
our life, the left side of our brain has its limits and uses pressure to signal
that we need to let go and switch to using our right brain.
The left hemisphere of our brain functions like a
sequential receiver and processor, while the right hemisphere is in charge of
our imagination, sleep (dreams), memory, intuition and all of our creative
functions. We absorb with the left side and create with our right side. The
brain is like battery – the right side charges it and the left side uses the
energy and empties it. Our goal is always keep our mental battery charged.
The best way to change the balance and turn off the
warning signs is to use the right brain more. Fun things we enjoy and love
doing can do this straight way. Laughing, dancing, listening to music, singing,
doing art and playing with animals can make a huge shift in our level of
pressure. If the things we do are easy and familiar, the shift is also very
easy.
The use of the right brain releases endorphins, making us
feel good. Endorphins are “feel good” chemicals that trigger fun, enjoyment,
happiness and relaxation. These chemicals also fight illness very well, help us
boost our immune system and handle pain better.
But if you experience the devastating consequences of
Depression, the mechanism of the energy balancing in the brain may not be
working efficiently. Therapeutic energy balancing may help to reset the left
brain saturation levels and provide the emotional relief.
What else can help
to consolidate these gains?
With regard to the high success rate, Dale generally
performs this one technique as part of a more comprehensive treatment. While
this technique alone does usually give immediate relief, for the results to
completely remove the depression and also for them to be lasting rather than
transient, Dale usually adds further and sometimes equally mystifying
interventions.
Based on the experience with the results on multiple
patients, Dale has found that, by contrast with most of his procedures,
shifting energy from the right to the left side of the brain in most cases has
needed to be repeated several times over a period of weeks before it fully
holds. One treatment gives immediate
relief; several treatments seem necessary for the energy to stay higher on the
left prefrontal lobe, giving lasting relief.
Dale then checks and if necessary adjust the client's
serotonin and oxytocin levels, and also amygdala reactivity.
Using muscle kinesiology Dale finds out, on a scale from
1 to 10, how much serotonin is at in the depressed person's neurochemical
system. If there's significant
depression, the number will be in the 1 to 5 range according to our experience
so far. Normal is 6 to 10.
Dale asks then kinesiologically (via the arm) if it would
behoove us to reset that level. If the
arm, speaking for the subconscious and/or universal knowledge, says
"Yes," which it always has done thus far, he instructs the
subconscious to reset the level of serotonin to a more optimal level, and
reinforces this setting by running the Magboy magnet three times along the
spine meridian, accompanied by the force of intention. The new setting has been virtually always in
the range of 7 to 10.
Dale uses a similar technique to check oxytocin levels
and reset that level if necessary.
Oxytocin impacts trust and bonding.
Insufficient levels seem to accompany depression that has an obsessing
or chronic doubting quality.
Lastly, a hyperactive amygdala can make a person react
with excessive intensity to small triggers. Dale therefore uses the same
techniques for initial assessing and then resetting the amygdala’s
reactivity. The initial setting for
depressed people typically comes out in the 7 to 10 zone. After resetting "to an optimum
level" most people spontaneously reset to somewhere from 2 to 6.
Warning Disclaimer
One word of warning: Because this technique rapidly
brings depression relief, severely/chronically depressed clients may now feel
energized to do the suicidal actions they have long been contemplating. If this
kind of client then suffers an emotional setback from a disappointing life
situation, he or she now will have the energy to act on suicidal impulses. This
danger must be explained to the client. In addition, frequent (daily?) contact
may be a good idea until the client feels solidly consolidated into a happier
life situation.
For clients who have not been thinking suicidal thoughts
however, the treatment can bring rapid relief, making a return to normal
emotional functioning radically faster and easier.
Video Presentation
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