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Energy psychology is the name for a family of approaches that use the ancient Chinese, Vedic or other energy systems as a tool to release emotional and psychological trauma. There are dozens of different energy psychologies, from the well-known EFT (“Emotional Freedom Technique”) to lesser-known approaches based on the meridians, the chakras or the entire body’s energy field. This article features Arlene Anisman, M.Ed., a Toronto psychotherapist who specializes in energy psychology. Arlene is an instructor in “Energy Diagnostic and Treatment Methods” (EDxTM), a method developed by Fred Gallo – the man who first coined the term “Energy Psychology”. Below, she introduces the concept of energy psychology and discusses EDxTM and other approaches.
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Over the past 30 years of practice as a psychotherapist, I have always looked for ways to help my clients feel better and to make the changes they want. Energy Psychology is one of the most powerful ways that I have found.
Energy Psychology is the name for a group of techniques that have been clinically shown to help with a wide range of psychological problems. These tools and techniques can be used on your own to take care of yourself, as well as being useful in psychotherapy, counseling, maintaining physical health, pain management, sports, peak performance, and in education to improve learning.
There are three systems that work together in Energy Psychology:
1. The Energy Pathways - meridians and related acupoints
2. The Energy Centers called the chakras, and
3. The Human Biofield - the systems of energy that surround the body, sometimes referred to as the aura.
I use an Energy Psychology system called “Energy Diagnostic & Treatment Methods” (EDxTM) which was developed by Fred Gallo, Ph.D. EDxTM is a method that focuses mainly on the energy meridians and acupoints on those meridians. I think of the meridian system like the wiring in a house - the meridians are the wiring in our bodies.
Stressful events in our lives, negative thinking, and even chemical imbalances can affect how we feel on a day-to-day basis. If there is ongoing stress in your life, or a sudden traumatic event happens to you, the energy and the physical/emotional impact of that trauma is experienced in electrical impulses in your brain and body that result in feelings like anxiety, depression, fear, and anger - and the energy of these emotions can become lodged in your body’s physical and energy systems. In Energy Psychology, we use tapping on meridian points, accompanied by specific verbal affirmations, to release these emotions from the physical body
Likewise, Energy Psychology can be used to effectively eliminate from your body’s memory - via the meridians - the energies of phobias, bad habits, stressful tension, self-sabotage, doubt, and procrastination, helping to create freedom from the emotional loops and dead-ends of these trapped emotions. By accessing the energetic aspect of our feelings, Energy Psychology can be profoundly helpful in accessing buried emotions and releasing them quickly and painlessly.
EDxTM is a form of Energy Psychology that involves manual muscle testing, a method that allows the body to direct us to the verbal statements and points which will be most effective. These points and affirmations will be different for each individual and each situation for which you use energy psychology, and muscle testing allows us to find the precise points where trauma, stuck feelings, old resentments and self-sabotaging beliefs are lodged in order to change the energy and release old patterns that no longer benefit us. We can then focus on building new patterns that are constructive, empowering and joyful. Once the energetic structure is determined, the treatment is designed to eliminate the feeling, thinking and physical aspects of the problem.
Energy Psychology is a powerful tool that can be used alone or together with other approaches.
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Arlene Anisman is a holistic psychotherapist in private practice in the West end of Toronto. She offers courses and sessions in EDxTM Energy Psychology. For further information on these classes or about her therapy practice, contact Arlene at arlene@web.net or (416) 766-8261.
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Victoria Anisman-Reiner - Victoria Anisman-Reiner is a freelance writer with extensive experience in holistic health care and animal training.
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