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What Comes First?
Healing Yourself or Healing the World
Published by Bay Area BusinessWoman, July 1997
Do you have an important goal that seems difficult to achieve? If so, there is probably something in your body that pushes away that goal; some charge that resulted from an emotional reaction long ago that has been held in the body. It could be said that you are "not congruent" with your goals. If this is the case, it is highly unlikely you will achieve them. Whether your goal is to have a big impact on the world or to be in good shape yourself, NET (Neuro Emotional Technique) is a prime tool to achieve either goal.
As everyone who has ever tried to change a habit or pattern knows, mentally understanding the situation does not necessarily unhook the reaction. Now, we know there is an actual physical component of the emotional reaction recorded in the organ systems and neurology, that can cause certain realities and limitations to persist.
What is NET?
NET is a powerful technology that quickly and directly removes the physiology of past emotion, pulling it out by the root. This allows profound and permanent changes in that person's behavior and experience. It also provides direct information from the body as to what the emotional charge is, and what experience it came from. NET is quicker and more specific than therapy. EMDR, or other forms of bodywork, although it can work well in conjunction with other approaches to assist in integrating what has been discovered.
Chinese medicine correlated long ago the connection between certain emotions and the body/mind connection. For example, anger stresses the liver, and feeling "galled" stresses the gall bladder. Dr. Scott Walker, a chiropractor from San Diego, used that foundation and combined it with chiropractic principles to invent NET. Currently about 2,000 chiropractors, psychologists and MD's use NET.
Emotion Is a Chemical Event
Imagine you are walking across an intersection when a truck roars around the corner and screeches to a halt just inches from your body! Feel your heart pound, the hair on your arms and neck standing on end and your body breaking into a sweat! You can see how you might be affected in the future: using extreme care crossing the street and being wary of loud noises near intersections.
Every emotion, dramatic or not, has correlated chemistry. Here's the key: If that chemistry is not fully processed, it affects your future behavior, both experiencing of emotional reality and how your systems and organs function. (Hence, the profound and varied health effects of stress.) NET assists the body in processing that chemistry, allowing body function to normalize and emotional response to lose its reactive nature. When not reacting to the past, you can deal more effectively with the present.
Success Stories with NET
Here are some situations where people stuck with emotional blocks from the past used NET to get free.
Two track and field athletes facilitated their training and performance with NET and won three gold medals and the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
A 45 year old security guard had been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder since age 16. After approximately 25 NET sessions he moved past his disorder and now plans to go to college to become a counselor and therapist himself.
A woman, whose parents divorced when she was five, lived with her lesbian-feminist mother and always had a hard time feeling comfortable with her fundamentalist Christian father and his wife. She had two 20-minute NET sessions and then found she could be herself around her father and his wife.
If there are goals you have for yourself or for the world outside of yourself, NET can assist you in making sure you are congruent with those goals.