The CDC states that at least one in five Americans struggles with serious mental health issues every year and recently the agency noted that the number one emotional problem, especially among our youngest citizens, is unresolved trauma/PTSD. Additionally, suicide rates in Tennessee continue to increase each year!
On any given day hospitals throughout the US face, but usually not acknowledge, the reality that most of their patients are primarily suffering from emotional, mental, or addictive issues in addition to their current medical crisis.
One of my professors, Dr. van der Kolk, is an internationally recognized researcher of Harvard University, estimates that 67.8% of US children have at least one serious childhood trauma that has not been addressed. Currently, worldwide, it can vividly be witnessed in Ukraine and the Middle East, as over 1 billion children are traumatized every year!
Fortunately, there is an effective treatment available to address the ever-increasing number of traumatized people: Energy Psychology, also called acupuncture without needles.
An associate of mine in the field of EP, Dr. Carolyn Sakai established a team of psychologists in 2006 to provide treatment for survivors in Rwanda. They discovered that there were 400 orphans living in the devastated facility of whom 188 lost their families during the ethnic cleansing. Many had witnessed their parents being brutally slaughtered and they were still having severe symptoms of PTSD, including difficulty concentrating flashbacks, nightmares, bedwetting, and numerous traumatic behaviors. This team of psychologists primarily focused on 50 teenagers who were experiencing the greatest amount of trauma; all 50 rated very high on a standardize trauma symptom inventory and all were diagnosed with PTSD.
This small team of psychologists provided a single treatment of energy psychology (acupuncture without needles) tapping sessions that lasted from 20 to 60 minutes combined with a few minutes of relaxation training. After the treatments 47 of the 50 adolescences fell below the PTSD range of trauma and now, more than a decade since the tragic events, none of the 50 are diagnosed with PTSD. Similar treatments in different parts of the world have seen no more than 6% return of any signs of trauma.
I personally have witnessed the effectiveness of this healing method in participating in over a dozen missionary trips to Guatemala, which, with its 300 orphanages, has been the destination point for the Hendersonville Rotary club medical missionary teams for numerous years.
I taught graduate psychologists at three universities in Guatemala. About eight years ago I formulated a template of 21 steps in trauma treatment which is now a United States trademark entitled: GUTT… Guatemala Urgent Trauma Treatment, which I have provided to all those who desire to learn and utilize this treatment protocol. This trauma treatment template has also been translated into Spanish.
Too good to be true?
The discovery of Otiz the Iceman in the early 90s in the Otztal Alps in Switzerland, a well-preserved natural mummy who lived around 3300 BC, provided the catalyst for our
understanding of ourselves as holistic people with intrinsic connections of mind, body, soul, and emotions. The frozen body was extremely well preserved and was found meticulously marked throughout with acupoints and meridian pathways that were commonly used to treat diseases of all types, such as arthritis, which require the management of pain.
This discovery greatly motivated many experts in the fields of psychology and science to intensely study medicine from a holistic perspective, further documenting the numerous acupuncture points throughout the human body (over 360 along with 14 meridians and several chakras).
This research allowed us to really understand the complexity of abuse/trauma in such a way that we have been able to develop powerful and effective treatment protocols, often referred to as “acupuncture without needles,” which has been so effective in providing profound healing for so many truly needy people of all ages. We are always cognizant of the fact that we are holistic people and if our emotions are badly damaged as they are with trauma/ PTSD our whole spirit including our mind, our soul, as well as our body, are greatly suffering. We are intimately, intricately, and wholly connected as a created human being!
The healing of our emotions is generally referred to as energy psychology (EP); the most recognized EP technique is called EFT (emotional freedom technique).
Through the stimulation of the acupoints on the skin, the trauma signal in the brain which arouses the amygdala (the myriad of feelings in the brain) is almost immediately neutralized, thus commentating the experience. This often, leads to neuroplasticity (the creation of new brain cells in the hippocampus of the brain) and results now in a mild memory of the past and no longer a trauma!
It is not necessary to relive all the trauma/PTSD because the tapping sequence focuses on the different emotions; the energy within the meridians, which is now neutralized, reframes the experience of the patient’s Suds (subjective units of disturbance) which then quickly move the trauma from its highest number 10 often down to one or two and sometimes zero, with even a single therapeutic intervention!
I believe this rather newly discovered ancient treatment will truly become the
“new emotional penicillin” and will dramatically change our world with healing for tens of thousands of untreated and traumatized adults and children.
Tim Lynch PhD Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Fellow and Diplomat of the American Board of Medical Psychotherapist, Diplomat Comprehensive Energy Psychology
