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Energy Psychology

Psychological Reversal (PR)
Kinesiology (Muscle Testing)
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET)
Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT)
Be Set Free Fast (BSFF)

Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET)

The Neuro-Emotional Technique was discovered by Chiropractor Dr. Scott Walker in 1985. Considering Dr. George Goodheart to be one of his mentors (see Kinesiology), Dr. Walker used Kinesiology to test acupoints along the meridian systems of the body to determine which points correlated with which emotions. He discovered a unique use of Kinesiology based on the natural ability of the body to discriminate healthy from unhealthy, and truth from falsehood.

The Energy Psychologist asks the patient to hold their arm out to the side at shoulder height while they apply downward pressure to the patient's wrist. The arm is held rigid. The patient is then asked to repeat a series of statments such as:

I deserve to get over this fear / I don't deserve to get over this fear
I deserve to be punished for what I have done / I don't deserve to be punished

Muscle feedback causes the arm to either give a true or false answer by either holding strong and rigid for a true answer, or by yielding downwards to pressure placed on it for a false answer. This helps the energy psychologist determine negative belief systems which can sometimes by buried in the unconscious. Often, the patient is unaware of deep-stead emotions as they have entered a state of dissociation, therefore this technique is considered a very powerful method used in Energy Psychology for uncovering what has been buried and yet continues to negatively affect the patient. This discovery was considered a major breakthrough in communicating with the subconscious - there had never been a better diagnostic indicator for subconscious reality.

During the same time period, Dr. Walker had also been studying Acupuncture, Homeopathy, nutrition, and other methods related to alternative healing. He attended a life-changing seminar which featured a Chiropractor named Jennifer LaMonica. Dr. LaMonica demonstrated how she had adjusted a patient who had just been in a car accident. After making the adjustment, the patient started talking about the situation that had brought him into her office. Upon retesting the corrections she had just made, she found that the corrections she had just made were immediately out of place, as if she had never made the adjustments at all. She then had the patient think of the accident while SIMULTANEOUSLY again making the adjustments, with the result being that this time the corrections held.

Fascinated by this, Dr. Walker began to focus on how to work with the emotional component of health by making a "correction" while the patient was within that emotional state. using muscle testing, he was able to quickly diagnose the incident that originally created the emotionally-triggered conditioned response. He began to correct emotinonal imbalances simply by having the patient think about the incident while he adjusted the spine. He then began to develop his Neuro Emotional Technique which places pressure on specific acupoints that correlated to emotions as determined by the energy meridians in acupuncture. Dr. Walker began teaching NET in 1988, and in 1994 also developed a line of homeopathic remedies.

For more information, visit the NET Mind Body website.

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