Energy Psychology

Energy Body Work, Freedom Now & The Assemblage Point

Freedom Now! The next step in Energy Psychology

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Energy Psychology

Over the last 17 years, a movement called ‘Energy Psychology’ (EP) has emerged to rival in popularity and in effectiveness the tradition of ‘the talking cure’, so long established in the West. It is applied to individual, couple and group issues, and is more ‘holistic’ in its approach, including not only mental/emotional notions and approaches, but also notions of wellness and of the use of the body, and has links to fields as diverse as acupuncture and bodywork in general. Various techniques are used in the field of Energy Psychology, such as Thought Field Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, Tapas Acupressure Technique, Touch For Health, and so on, as described below.

Energy Psychology focuses on the relationships between bio-energy, intentionality, thought, emotion, and spirituality, and does not put a ‘ceiling’ on human experience or investigation.

The recent development of the ‘Freedom Now’ technique puts a new perspective on these worthy predecessors of Energy Psychology.

Types of Energy Psychology

TFT

Thought Field Therapy, devised by Roger Callahan

EFT

Emotional Freedom Technique, devised by Gary Craig

Psych-K

A method of changing beliefs devised by two American Psychologists

TAT

Tapas Acupressure Technique, devised by Tapas Fleming.

EDxTM

Energy Diagnostic and Treatment Methods

ECT

Energy Consciousness Therapy

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing

BSFF

Be Set Free Fast

How their model is insufficient

Generally speaking, these methods have been developed and used by people whose training is in western psychology, a discipline generally doggedly in denial of the spiritual or energetic. So it comes as no surprise that there is a lot of confusion and vagueness about how or why it works. Callahan (who devised TFT) speaks vaguely about Thought Fields, and simply states that it does work, so use it.

Agreed. But I believe we can go a long way in understanding the whys and hows of this process with a clearer understanding of Subtle Energies. Most practitioners, who may be social workers or psychologists with an academic training use the processes rather like a recipe, with a similar hit/miss approach.

Fred Gallo has published a number of books which go into this more fully—his work is worth reading, as he has a much better overview than most others in this field.

Thus the need for an energy model, as described on this site.

The Energy Model

Whether its practitioners know it or not, it depends on an ‘Energy Model’ of the human being, and it is this model which can be applied to the many different issues that can plague us. See elsewhere on this site for more discussion.

My own introduction of clients to Energy Psychology I call Energy Body Work and ‘Freedom Now’.

Energy Body Work

By this I mean my unique work in leading people back into their own bodies and energy bodies. Many people are ‘beside themselves’ or ‘out of their bodies’ due to the repeated habit of stress-induced responses to the various shocks of this world. Over time, people are just surviving, feeling little of what’s going on in the body except pain, dosing themselves with various tranquilising substances to maintain some equilibrium, and in short, retreating from a full and enjoyable sense of being embodied in the world. This happens by stealth, and usually under the conscious radar, so that initial sessions of Energy Body Work often come as a major surprise, as clients begin to realize how little they are experiencing of their bodies, their life force, their energy.

I lead clients on a training that is constantly practiced between sessions, to deepen their experience of themselves, to change the habits of a lifetime, to begin to expand rather than contract as a response to life and to open the way to the wisdom of their bodies, on an energetic, mental and emotional level. This training is the essence of the work I do and it goes very deep—indeed, it is completely open-ended, and simply following the path of this work will eventually lead to the fluidity required to let go of habits of thought and emotion and posture which are the source of our ‘problems’. Crucial to this process too is the importance of ‘entering’ whatever is happening during the session, whether it is discomfort, or some emotion, or a ‘felt sense’ in the body… This is the process called Focusing by Eugene Gendlin, a way of listening to the body/mind/emotions, which are always trying to communicate with us, so that we develop a deep connection with ourselves which allows us to let go of the various blockages and ‘stucknesses’ which have led to the issues which plague us.

One could say that we are using a process of constant expansion instead of contraction, or developing a fluidity of the energy body, or coming into a deeper relationship with ourselves by listening to all the many and varied messages we are being sent by our own systems. The assumption also is that a living system is constantly trying to ‘heal’ itself, to find wholeness and harmony… it is only our ignorance or negligence which stops this process happening.