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The New Meridian Energy Therapies
"Mind and Body Healing for the New Millennium"
In 1976 a remarkably well preserved body,
approximately 6,000 years old, was discovered in a
glacier. It bore tattoos marking the major
meridian treatment points. When this
discovery became public, everyone was astonished -
apart from the acupuncturist communities around
the world, whose classic textbook on the subject
was by then just under 4,500 years old.
Acupuncture, the ancient Chinese health care
system that works by stimulating these mysterious
meridian points with tiny needles, was already
well on the way to becoming acceptable practice in
the field of modern health care.
But there were others investigating how to
stimulate and balance the meridians, and to find
further ways that meridian based treatments could
bring positive benefits to health in body and in
mind.
In 1964, chiropractor George Goodheart began to
pursue links between muscle strength, organs,
glands and meridians and developed diagnostic
muscle testing, later naming it Applied
Kinesiology. One of his students, John Diamond,
saw the potential for using the balancing effect
of meridian work
for psychotherapy, and another then student,
psychologist Dr Roger Callahan, discovered a whole
new approach to working with mental health and
meridians.
One of Dr Callahan's long term patients at that
time was a woman called Mary, who suffered from a
water phobia. Dr Callahan later explained,
"Her fear of water was so severe that she
could not go out when it rained, would have panic
attacks at the sight of bodies of water, and could
not stand more than an inch of water in her bath.
I treated her weekly for two years, using every
approach I could think of, and all I had achieved
in that time was to have taught her that she could
stand more fear than she previously thought
possible. I would have her sit by the side of a
swimming pool and she was absolutely terrified in
spite of everything we did."
Dr Callahan asked Mary to "tap" with her
fingers under her eye - an important meridian
point. She did, looked up and "the fear had
disappeared" - just like that, in an instant,
and it never came back.
Dr Callahan devoted his life and practise from
this moment onwards to develop a treatment
approach to help people overcome crippling fears,
phobias and mental problems of all kinds. His
approach is called TFT or Thought Field Therapy
and is still in use today. TFT uses just 14 basic
meridian points, and the order and sequence of how
they are stimulated by lightly tapping upon them,
is diagnosed through muscle testing for individual
problems.
In 1996, Gary Craig, a Stanford Engineer and a
student of Dr Callahan had the brilliant idea of
creating a simple technique that would cover all
the 14 points by default - this alleviated the
need for extensive muscle testing and diagnostic
training and provided a comprehensive therapeutic
tool that
is unprecedented in its ease of use, and in it's
astonishing effectiveness.
Gary Craig's Emotional Freedom Techniques - EFT TM
- is one of the easiest and most effective and
efficient therapeutic approach imaginable,
providing fast, effective and usually permanent
relief for psychological, physical and
neuro-physiological problems. These
techniques have been described as one of the most
important breakthroughs in the area of mind-body
healing in the
last hundred years. Already thousands upon
thousands of people all over the world have
benefited from using EFT TM and it is rapidly
becoming known as a modern day miracle being
capable of dramatically relieving emotional
disturbances and physical problems.
Thousands of professional therapists testify to
EFT TM's unique ability to bring rapid and
permanent relief from:
Addictive Cravings, Allergies, Anxiety & Panic
Attacks, Anger, Compulsions & Obsessions,
Depression & Sadness, Dyslexia, Fears &
Phobias, Grief & Loss, Guilt, Insomnia,
Negative Memories, Nightmares, Pain Management,
Physical Conditions & Healing, Peak
Performance, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
[PTSD], Self Image, Sexual Abuse Issues and many,
many more.
EFT TM, the "Ambassador of Meridian
Therapies", has one further and most
remarkable aspect. It is designed so that once you
have learned this simple technique, you can easily
use it at home at any time, in any place, in any
situation, without any further training or many
years of study - which
represents a tremendous help for ongoing problems
such as addictions, weight loss, and depression
where relief is needed at home and on a regular
basis. In spite of its apparent simplicity and
ease of use, EFTTM produces highly beneficial,
lasting results in 85% - 95% of cases.
All meridian based therapies are gentle, rapid and
startlingly effective.
It is not uncommon for long standing or chronic
pain to be released entirely in less than half an
hour. Similarly, psychological pain such as
anxiety, depression and addictions, caused by
traumatic incidents or childhood memories can
often be relieved fully in a minutes.
Since Thought Field Therapy revolutionised the way
psychological and neuro-physiological problems are
being treated with its unprecented success rate,
many other forms of meridian based healing have
proven themselves to be highly effective. As more
and more innovative therapists move into the
rapidly expanding field of Meridian therapies, new
and different approaches are being developed.
Other Meridian Therapies include:
BSFF - BE SET FREE FAST
TAB - Touch and Breathe
TAT - Tapas Acupressure Technique
AFT - Attractor Field Therapy
The basic ideas and approaches involved in
Meridian Therapies are stunningly simple, and the
techniques lend themselves perfectly to be used by
professional therapists in combination with their
existing mind-body healing modalities.
The Association For Meridian Energy Therapies AMT
was established in 1998 to provide insight and
training in the New Meridian Therapies.
Editorial kindly donated by Chrissie Hardisty and
Silvia Hartmann,
Licensed Trainers, The Association For Meridian
Energy Therapies AMT
National Health Directory, June 2000
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