Benefits
Energy Psychology is astoundingly effective with fear, anxiety, and the emotional difficulties of everyday life, from unnecessary anger to intolerable feelings of guilt, shame, anger, jealousy, rejection, isolation, and grief. It helps change unwanted habits and behaviours and enhances the ability to love, succeed, and enjoy life.
Average life coaches also incorporate energy psychology into their repertoire. They teach it to their clients for back-home support with emotional self-management and optimizing performance. Energy Psychology also provides important self-enhancement guidelines for those not receiving counselling.
Positive clinical and experimental outcomes have shown Energy Psychology methods to help with several issues including trauma and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), anxiety and phobias, depression, addictions, weight management, and pain. It also helps improvement in school, sports and work performance.
In his 2010 "Rapid Treatment of PTSD" article in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, psychologist David Feinstein speculates that adding acupressure point stimulation to psychological exposure is unusually effective in its speed and power because signals are sent directly to the amygdala, which is responsible for the processing and memory of emotional reactions, resulting in rapid reduction of maladaptive fear.
It also has an improving effect on pre-test anxiety, anxiety that regards talking in front of a crowd, and also shows changes in brain activity that had to do with pain perception (decrease in pain like back pain, osteoarthritis of the hip and knee, headaches and neck pain.
Has its effectiveness been established?
EP is still seen as an experimental approach by the American ...
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...01, p. 1188) Asking the team to speculate on causes for the slow acceptance of Energy Psychology, the reasons given by these key players ranged from reliance on concepts that cannot be measured, such as “subtle energies” and “thought fields,” to the lack of empirical research, to uncertainty about the mechanisms of action, to the inherent paradigm clash between ancient healing systems and conventional psychological explanations for therapeutic change. A more fundamental credibility problem, however, was also frequently mentioned in those discussions. And that is cognitive dissonance. There is nothing in the training or background of most clinicians or researchers that prepares them to understand how tapping on the skin can help overcome severe psychological disorders, no less to account for the speed and power with which positive clinical results are being reported.
Therapeutic touch was developed by Dolores Krieger and Dora Kunz in the 1970s as a non-invasive nursing intervention (Kelly et al. 2004). Jackson and Keegan (2009, p.614) defined therapeutic touch as “a specific technique of centring intention used while the practitioner moves the hands through a recipient’s energy field for the purpose of assessing and treating energy field imbalance.” The original theory of the technique proposed by nursing theorist Rogers (1970) is that individuals as a unified whole have their own permeable energy fields that extend from the skin surface and flow evenly when they are healthy. The energy field of the ill physical body is disrupted, misaligned, obstructed or “out of tune” (Huff et al. 2006). TT has the potential to re-pattern, reorganize and restore the individual’s imbalanced energy fields through the open system extending from the surface of the body interacting with the environment constantly (Krieger, 1979). The earliest studies of healing touch were carried out in the 1950s and 1960s: biochemist Bernard Grad (1965) collaborated with famous healer Oskar Estebany to demonstrate the significantly accelerated healing effects of therapeutic touch on wounded mice and damaged barley seeds. The central aim of healing therapies is to relax and calm patients in order to activate patients’ natural healing ability, and it does not include any religious activity (Lorenc et al. 2010).
Psychodynamic approaches often come under a lot of criticism as they fail to be explicit about the underlying bases of the theory. Cognitive theories are not very comfortable with explaining emotions and behavioural theories have difficulty explaining the mechanisms of improvements.
Acupuncture had immediate effects on my levels of stress. I simply was not the same person at work. Co-workers could not believe the difference in my disposition. Clients continually comment on my relaxed nature given the stressful environment I have put myself in (CPA, working with taxes). I believe it has helped me stay healthy over the last 9 years... (http://www.acupuncture.com/Acup/AcuStats.htm).
For years there has been discussion over the controversy of whether or not psychologists should be counted as shamans. Shamanism comprises a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spiritual world (Marohn, 2014). Although psychologists uses their beliefs and their practices when analyzing the mental processes of a patient, they may not necessarily correlate their findings with ideas involving the spiritual world. Some psychologists may be counted as shamans based on their methods of treatment, but generally psychologists aren’t shamans.
The Usui System of Natural Healing. Retrieved 2011, December 8 from http://www.dpierce.com/pat/. Herron, D.(n.d.). The Reiki Attunement process. Retrieved 2011, December 8 from http://reiki.7gen.com. International Center for Reiki Training Web site (n.d).
Evolutionary Psychology has been controversial since its rise in the 1990s, with critics and proponents debating its merits as a science. While critics (e.g. David Buller, Elizabeth Lloyd) have extensively criticized the fundamentals of Evolutionary Psychology, few philosophers or scientists have challenged them. Given the growing influence of the evolutionary behavioral sciences within mainstream science like Psychology and Anthropology, it is important analyze the critiques and see if the arguments against Evolutionary Psychology have merit. This paper will focus on two of the most often cited critiques of Evolutionary Psychology: the critique of the concept of the modular model of the mind and the critique of the two “signature achievements” in Evolutionary Psychology, Martin Daly and Margot Wilson’s Cinderella Effect and David Buss’s studies of male-female differences in jealousy. I will describe and respond these critiques of Evolutionary Psychology, making the case that these critiques are not valid and have little merit on scientific basis of Evolutionary Psychology.
The strengths of the EMDR therapy are that it uses elements of cognitive behavior and psychodynamic to treat clients. (1).EMDR therapy has eight phases of the treatment approach, they are; in phase one is the development of the treatment plan and getting the history from the client. In the second phase of the treatment is to teach the client coping skills needed to deal with stress in a positive manner. In phases three, four, and five the focus is on the therapist assisting the client into finding positive belief to replace negative ones. In the seventh phase the clients keeps a journal for the week. In that journal the client writes down anything that may trigger any negative ima...
A health psychologist has a substantial functions including primary care programs, inpatient medical units, and specialized health care programs such as pain management, rehabilitation, women 's health, oncology, smoking cessation, headache management, and various other aspects of health (APA Division 38, 2015). This is an important subfield of psychology with a vast majority of health psychologist working with federal agencies, colleges and universities. Health psychologists focuses on cognition, feelings, and actions that effect social issues, that are important to human health as a whole (APA Division 38, 2015). Career prospects in this area of psychology have expanded with positions available in many employment areas
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Therapeutic Touch is a good way to help others. It is different, but it does work. Trying new things never killed anybody. It is unfair for it to be labeled unconventional just because it expresses new and different ideas about healing. Next time you come across something that seems a little odd and might be a little silly, take a deep breath, close your eyes, feel the energy of everything around and inside you, and than decide weather or not it's worth your time. You never know it could save your life.
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I believe they have been beneficial in helping me cope with my stressors. Cognitive restructuring for sure has helped and as I continue to practice a positive outlook will become second nature. Mental imagery has already become part of my daily routine, it is fun, relaxing and a good way to cope or distract me from negative though. Humor is also another strategy I will continue to use as a distraction for those times where my anxiety level is high. Swimming is also a good way of stress reliever and it also a way to condition my body to a healthier path.
Working out can help with one’s studies. There are different chemicals that are given off to your brain while you work out. Endorphins and Serotonin chemicals get released into the brain. These two chemicals that flood the brain improve self-esteem, enhanced mood, provide better memory and provide mental functioning, and a decrease of stress. Therefore, exercise helps in school and everything throughout the
I discovered that I appeared healthier, felt more energized, and was more confident about my self-esteem.