Effective healing for a wide range of problems can be enabled by the energy psychology methods integrated into psychotherapy and are probably better experienced than explained.
For an introduction to energy psychotherapy see this post. An introduction to Energy Psychotherapy
A thorough account of science and efficacy can be found in here, Energy Psychology: Efficacy, speed, mechanisms by David Feinstein. It is deeply interesting and satisfying that science, spirituality and psychology meet in the theory and practice of energy psychology.
Very briefly, holding or stimulating meridian points and chakras while holding a problem or trauma in mind can provide very effective relief. I will introduce the methods in the course of a session when we identify a problem and its roots. Once they make sense to you they become part of the flow of traditional talk therapy enabling insight, free associations and self discovery. They integrate well with Jungian and psychoanalytic theory.
There are many different schools of energy therapies and I have trained over many years in several of them, four in particular[1].
Emotional Freedom Technique is the most extensively researched [2]and the principles that inform EFT are common to them all.[3] EFT is recognised in the NHS and the National Institute Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines that are evidence-based recommendations for health and care in England.
Many us are inhibited by materialist and cultural assumptions [4], to those with a spiritual practice the methods will not seem strange. Contemporary neuroscience, biology, and quantum field theory coincide with spiritual and indigenous knowledge [5] in affirmation of their effectiveness.
I, and an increasing number of colleagues [6] who have trained and practiced in the talking therapies are discovering in energy psychology the subtle matrix of body, spirit and psyche familiar to the body psychotherapies. “The experience of many, many body psychotherapist trainees and clients.... [is that] the more deeply one goes into the experience of embodiment, the more strongly one becomes aware of the spiritual and subtle aspects of reality. This is not primarily a theoretical process, but an experiential one. Body psychotherapy, it seems, cleanses the ‘doors of perception’ which Blake and Aldous Huxley describe” (Totton, N., 2003). The humanist traditions have embraced the inter-relations of body, mind and spirit, traditional psychoanalysis has been cautious as have the traditional Jungian associations of Analytical Psychology. This is despite Jung’s courage to follow his own paths of research and learning to assert the presence of the imaginal as well as the material world and the equivalence of their realities.
[1] The following have been my teachers in the past fifteen years since I discovered the energy psychologies, theirs are the most thumbed books in my energy psychology collection! What I have made of these teachers, how they inform my practice in my responsibility.
Phil Mollon Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy https://www.philmollon.co.uk
Howard Brockman Dynamic Energy Healing https://www.dynamicenergetichealing.com
Asha Clinton Advanced Integrative Therapy
[2] Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis James L. Oschman Churchill Livingstone
The Science Behind Tapping Peta Stapleton Hay House
The Healing Power of EFT & Energy Psychology David Feinstein, Donna Eden & Gary Craig.
Mindsight Dan Siegal One world Publications
[3] Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis James L. Oschman Churchill Livingstone
The Science Behind Tapping Peta Stapleton Hay House
The Healing Power of EFT & Energy Psychology David Feinstein, Donna Eden & Gary Craig.
Mindsight Dan Siegal One world Publications
[4] "The basic limitations of consensus reality are an unspoken, unacknowledged part of our everyday experience and our minds are conditioned to believe that consensus reality is absolutely “real.” A more total view of reality would include what is consented to plus what is experienced, but not consented to. In other words, what we count plus what we discount" Arnold Mindell, Quantum Mind: Deep Democracy Exchange 2012. P.29
[5] https://www.miriamrosefoundation.org.au/about-dadirri https://www.thewayofmeditation.com.au/aboriginal-stillness-healing
[6] https://www.confer.uk.com/depth-courses/energy2023.html