Finding the Energy to Heal How EMDR, Hypnosis, Imagery, TFT, and Body-Focused Therapy Can Help to Restore Mindbody Health

by Phillips, Maggie

• ISBN13: 9780393703269
• ISBN10: 0393703266
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The focus of Eastern healing is on correcting imbalance of disharmony so that qi, the life force energy that generates harmonious transformation in the body, can flow freely again. Using vivid examples, this book explores the possibility that psychological methods can be used in a similar way to address subtle energies in mindbody systems and thereby restore health. The author has presented highly acclaimed seminars on Ericksonian and clinical hypnosis, imagery, and ego-state therapy. Here she adds EMDR, thought field therapy (TFT), and body-focused therapy to the tools that can open inner pathways to healing that have been frozen by stress, past trauma, and developmental issues. Throughout the book she emphasizes the principles of gathering and building on strengths that each client already owns, using tools that provoke energetic flow to dissolve barriers to health, and selecting strategies that utilize the powerful effects of positive expectancy. In the first four sections, vivid, intriguing stories illustrate how EMDR, hypnosis, imagery, TFT, and body-focused therapy can be used to solve the mysteries of health crises triggered by general stresses and anxiety, posttraumatic stress, and the challenges of organic conditions such as cancer, head injury, arthritis, and cardiac disease. The final section presents three creative models for combining and integrating energy therapies to increase healing possibilities for individuals with complex health situations that do not respond to any one approach. Finding the Energy to Heal is an especially useful guide for professionals interested in cutting-edge methodology as well as for readers seeking solutions to perplexing health challenges.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
SECTION I. EMDR: MOVING TOWARD HEALTH
Introducing EMDR	3	(7)
The Birth of EMDR	5	(1)
What Happens in EMDR?	6	(2)
How Does EMDR Achieve Change?	8	(2)
EMDR and Stress Symptoms	10	(20)
Insomnia	10	(7)
Overeating	17	(7)
Colitis and Eczema	24	(6)
Beyond Trauma: Enhancing Mindbody Health	30	(24)
Head Injury	30	(4)
Abortion	34	(13)
Benefits of EMDR	42	(5)
SECTION II. HYPNOSIS: THE POWER OF HEALING TRANCES
Introducing Hypnosis	47	(7)
Clinical Hypnosis	47	(1)
How Does Clinical Hypnosis Help to Create Changes?	48	(2)
Ericksonian Hypnosis	50	(2)
Hypnotic Ego-State Therapy	52	(1)
Resolving Health Symptoms with Hypnosis	53	(1)
Clinical Hypnosis: The Inner Healer	54	(16)
Addiction	54	(7)
Seizure Disorder	61	(4)
Chronic Pain	65	(5)
Using Hypnosis to Uncover and Resolve Past Trauma Related to Health Symptoms	69	(1)
Ericksonian Hypnosis: Activating Unconscious Pathways	70	(13)
Alopecia Arieta (Premature Hair Loss)	70	(3)
Rheumatoid Arthritis	73	(2)
Bulimia	75	(8)
Benefits of Ericksonian Principles	82	(1)
Ego-State Therapy: The Healing Presence of the Inner Family of Self	83	(27)
Migraines	83	(11)
Symptom Resolution and Personality Integration	93	(1)
Sexual Performance Problems	94	(3)
Somatic Ego States	97	(1)
Back Pain	97	(8)
SECTION III. IMAGERY: OPENING WINDOWS OF THE MIND
Introducing Imagery	105	(5)
The Impact of Imagery on Health	106	(1)
Structured Imagery	106	(2)
Spontaneous Imagery	108	(2)
Structured Imagery: Blueprints for Change	110	(16)
Hormonal Headaches	110	(1)
Colitis	111	(3)
Working with Psychological or Developmental Barriers	113	(1)
Addiction Related to Developmental Needs	114	(3)
Images of Mastery and Rehearsal	117	(1)
Blood Phobia	117	(3)
Eidetic Imagery	119	(1)
Eating Disorder	120	(3)
Guided Fantasy Images	123	(1)
Nausea Following Radiation	123	(3)
Fantasies, Dreams, and Other Spontaneous Gifts of the Creative Imagination	126	(22)
Menopausal Symptoms	126	(7)
Hypersensitivity	133	(6)
SECTION IV. SOMATIC ENERGY THERAPIES: COMING HOME TO THE BODY
Introducing Somatic Energy Therapies	139	(9)
Body Awareness	140	(1)
The Body and Energy Psychology	141	(1)
Thought Field Therapy (TFT)	142	(2)
Somatic Experiencing	144	(2)
Integrating Bodywork into Psychotherapy	146	(2)
TFT: Reversing Negative Thought Fields and Their Effects on the Body	148	(18)
Injury-Related Pain	148	(7)
Advantages of Treating Trauma with TFT	155	(1)
Addictive Urges	155	(3)
TFT in More Complex Cases	158	(1)
Fibromyalgia, Depression, and Chronic Fatigue	158	(8)
Giving the Body Its Due: Body-Focused Psychotherapy	166	(29)
Arthritis	166	(6)
Somatic Experiencing and Trauma	170	(2)
Hand Injury	172	(6)
Collaboration with a Bodyworker	177	(1)
Addiction Relapse	178	(3)
Using Somatic Therapy to Enhance General Health	180	(1)
The Supportive Role of Bodywork	181	(6)
SECTION V. INTEGRATED MODELS: ADDRESSING COMPLEX HEALTH NEEDS
Introducing Integrated Models	187	(8)
Guiding Principles for Using Energy Therapies	187	(5)
Comprehensive Change in Complex Situations	192	(1)
Three Models for Combining Energy Therapies	193	(2)
The Linking Model: Bridging to New Experiences of Health through EMDR and TFT	195	(11)
Brief Treatment of Multiple Health Problems	195	(11)
The Unconscious Learning Model: Leading with Hypnosis, Somatic Experiencing, and Imagery	206	(11)
Preparation for Surgery	206	(11)
The Braiding Model: Interweaving Modalities for Comprehensive Healing	217	(11)
A Mysterious Muscular Condition	217	(11)
Conclusions	228	(6)
Glossary	234	(4)
Notes	238	(13)
Appendices	251	(13)
References	264	(5)
Index	269