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For a thorough look at Energy Psychology research click to energypsych.org/research Alive Again! Depression Free with Energy Psychology:
A Collection of Clinical Data Since 1998 this author’s clients, in a private practice setting in Oregon using energy psychology, methods have been reporting that they were depression free in a very short course of treatment using the combined power of Dynamic Energetic Healing®, with strategies from Healing from the Body Level Up, Tapas Acupressure Techniques and Emotional Freedom Techniques. In addition most of them were able to discontinue their medication. In 2006 at a conference for the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) the ACEP Research Team reported that there was no research evidence on energy psychology and how successful it was with depression. There were gasps from the therapists in the audience who had been seeing the results that this article reports for over a decade. What about the thousands of clients represented by the therapists at the conference reporting that they were depression free? Also, in 1999 Howard Brockman LCSW, and this clinician did a preliminary clinical review and reported in Energy Psychology in Psychotherapy, edited by Fred Gallo PhD. regarding some of these depressed clients. The research team was correct, however, we still had no conclusive hard research evidence. This article is meant to be a first step in rectifying the lack of evidence. This author has reviewed one hundred cases from her practice with the diagnoses of dysthymia, major depression, and bipolar disorder, and is reporting the data on thirty one representative cases, and making recommendations for further research. DIAGNOSIS DATA Of the thirty-one clients reviewed three were male and twenty-eight were female. Their average age was 48.7 years and had the following numbers of clients had the following diagnoses: seventeen, dysthymia (300.4), thirteen, major depression, recurrent episode (296.3) and one had bipolar disorder (296.7). Twenty of the thirty-one also were diagnosed with PTSD (309.81). All of the clients with major depression also had PTSD. Eighteen of the clients had an accompanying physical illness diagnosed by a physician. By the conclusion of treatment most of the clients had no symptoms related to their physical diagnosis or had greatly reduce the symptoms, or was able to manage the illness with an integrative approach of complimentary and western medicine. SUICIDAL IDEATION Seven of the clients had suicidal ideation at the onset of treatment and twelve had suicidal ideation previously. Two had been previously hospitalized. MEDICATION Nine were on medication at the onset of treatment and two remained on medication at the end of treatment. The representative anti- depressants were trazedone, lexapro, celexa, immipramine, and ambient for sleep. The bi-polar client was on tegratol and depacote which were reduced to half by the end of treatment. The person on ambien for sleep was able to discontinue the medication. The low number of clients on medication is not an accurate correlate to the severity of symptoms that many had initially. Many were clients that had tried a number of anti-depressants that did not work or had too many side effects. Energy testing indicated that they were energetically reversed by the anti-depressants, which did not allow for positive effects. Some clients refused medication based on their own principles regarding medicating themselves. ADDICTIONS Addictions were an issue for nearly all of the subjects. Five clients had been recovering from alcoholism for several years. It is this clinicians experience that many alcoholics in recovery continue to struggle with depression and may be sober, but suicidal by five years of sobriety. Five others achieved sobriety while working on their depression. One was able to let go of her marijuana addiction. Six identified a history of over or under eating and found it easier to work on those issues depression-free. Twelve worked on co-dependency as part of their depression recovery. FAMILY PARTICIPATION Eleven had family members in treatment. With a closer examination the clients whose family members were also in treatment with me or other clinicians were those who had a history of depression and trauma since childhood and their family members were deeply impacted. PSYCHO-ENERGETIC REVERSAL At the onset of treatment one hundred percent were energetically reversed as determined by energy (muscle) testing. For those unfamiliar with this concept it occurs when energy is stuck or running backwards in the meridians. Reversal presents as resistance, denial and persistent symptoms that seem to never get better. Twelve were neurologically disorganized as determined by energy testing and the clients initial inability to do cross-crawl marching. For those unfamiliar with neurological disorganization (Gallo 2000) it occurs when the left and right brain are not communicating effectively. It is the neurological counterpart to homolateral energy (Eden, Feinstein 1999) when energy is not crossing over the midline. It results in many of the symptoms of depression but most certainly lack of ability to focus and concentrate. PROTOCOL The protocol used is a comprehensive energy psychology protocol drawing from Dynamic Energetic Healing® (DEH), healing from the Body level Up (HBLU), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Tapas Acupressure Techniques (TAT). We use an intention driven process which with depression is “To one hundred percent heal depression.” We then determine energetic origins to clear—current life, ancestral and soul/karmic. The most important aspects of healing depression in this model are to energy test the origins one by one, and then to tap on the meridians using EFT or to use TAT on the energy of trauma, grief, resentment patterns, and shattered energy fields, the energy of death, dark or other negative energy sources, energetic soul loss, and limiting energetic thought fields. As each of these aspects is healed then there is no longer the energetic structure of depression in the person’s energy field, and it ceases to exist. CASE EXAMPLE Severe Childhood Trauma and Major Depression Joyce worked with me for years prior to my energy psychology training for treatment for the trauma of abuse from her mother and the ensuing depression. Every couple of years she cycled into suicidal thinking. She would resume or up her medication and we would revisit the inner kids. Their trauma seemed endless. One time I called the police to intervene she was so serious about suicide. I thought she would never speak to me again after that! She did not for awhile but then returned. She got better but never fully well. When she heard about my new work, she called and wanted to try again. Over several DEH sessions we established strong energetic boundaries with her past and her mother and healed the energy of generations of abuse on both sides of the family. She visited many past lives which held the karmic energy connected to the intense early abuse. A pivotal healing occurred when we muscle tested to return to a recurring event that we had worked with in guided imagery, EMDR, inner child work, and cognitive work. We both rolled our eyes and exclaimed “oh no” when it came up again. Please tap as you read this and any other disturbing material in this book. There were six children in the family and when one would do something against mother’s irrational rules they would not tell who it was. So she would take them single file down the stairs to the basement and have them face the walk and beat them all with a belt. She could still hear the crack of the belt and the screams of her siblings. She felt pangs of guilt for not being able to protect the younger one,s after all she is the oldest, and she felt utter hate for her mother. We tapped on meridians and chakras, to heal these feelings. We healed the family trauma and her individual and her family’s shattered energy field from this experience. We prayed and rang a sacred Tibetan bell to release the death wish and the dark energy connected to her hate. We released the grief and judgments about her sick mother. We cleared the connection of this trauma with her addictions, and released her negative thinking about her mother and her thoughts of absolute worthlessness about herself. She began to find peace and forgiveness. We have never had to roll our eyes again and face this scene. Her energy was now free to help others. She pursued her nursing career, and supported her four children’s healing from the affects of her PTSD and addictions. She has a healthy, happy marriage albeit her fourth, to a smart and handsome man who sends poetic monthly journals to their community, which I am blessed to be a part of, as they have traveled and now settled in the southwestern US. She maintains her recovery with a strong spiritual life. She recently wrote to thank me for the years of joy since our final DEH session in 1997, and to report on the productive and healthy lives of her now grown children, and her joy at being very involved in her grandchildren’s lives. CLINICIAN CONCLUSIONS The cases reviewed are two to ten years old and the clients still report that they are depression free. All of the clients with PTSD continued in treatment for two to nine months to resolve their PTSD. This data brings up interesting questions regarding the energy of neurology. How can a patient like Joyce need medication for years, because she was told of her biochemical imbalance, and then after a few sessions of energy psychology treatment be free of her depression and her medication? Could it be that chemical imbalance is simply an energy field to be altered? Can energy psychology really change neurology. We believe so. RECOMMENDATIONS The problem with this data is that it is the result of a clinical review of cases rather than conclusive research with a control group and a tight research design. This clinician presents this data to encourage more of us to do energy psychology research on depression with control groups or lab tests that provide physiological data. It seems that most of the time we can cure depression.
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