Wading Deeper into Alternative Therapies

Have you heard of this one?

Robust Choices seeks out options to choose from so that we can find the ones that resonate with us. Both because western medicine has let me down with years of body pain and because I have had so much success with treatments that no western doctors ever shared with me as options. Western medicine is simply incomplete in my view.

Particularly when it comes to working with our emotions.

Many people I speak with seek ways to manage emotions, from the ones doctors do know about like breath work or sweating, to those that are becoming mainstream like psychedelics and ketamine.

Today I want to discuss another modality to release emotional patterns that is far from mainstream. It’s not even mentioned on Wikipedia!

If the body keeps the score, this is another attempt to support the body into a reset.

The Speed Dating of Therapy

Today’s topic is a method that has been effective for me that I affectionately call “The Speed Dating of Therapy.”

The official term is Neuro Emotional Technique.

A session lasts as short as 15 minutes.

The client may bring in a situation to discuss that has caused distress or the practitioner has protocols to search for trapped patterns of emotions.

There is muscle testing. The practitioner is asking questions and perceiving how the body responds while the client matches the light pressure from the practitioner’s hand.

When an emotion is discovered, there is generally a “sense making” expedition to understand how this particular emotion makes sense for this particular client.

Here is an example session of mine to give you an idea of what it’s like:

How does this work?

I try to stay open minded about what to do with my health while casting a skeptical side-eye at pharmaceuticals. There is too much evidence that pills are searching for their target audience rather than some root cause inside my body.

So I did not try Ivermectin when a fellow CranioSacral therapist encouraged me to look into it to treat eczema I’ve been experiencing.

But I did listen to the naturopathic doctor - and if you’ve read every missive you might recall this crucial insight I’ve shared before - when she said that she estimates 25 to 75% of her patients symptoms are caused by trapped emotions in need of release.

And I was open minded when I came across a TikTok by another functional medicine doctor who encouraged viewers with any skin condition to seek out Neuro Emotional Technique (NET).

Off to Google I went, and lucky for me, Dr. Jae Reed is practicing NET in Oakland.

Dr. Reed’s NET story is a life evolution story: he had been a teacher for many years, then one day discovered NET at a career day at school. He had avoided the practitioner and then at the very end of the day was encouraged to try it. Releasing his own trapped emotions was such a profound and quick experience that he decided to leave teaching to go to Chiropractic school just to be able to offer NET.

But how does it work? Well, even after the explanation, I’m sure I do not fully understand:

What I do know? I can feel the muscle testing resonate as true for me. I test weak when we find something and after we erase the emotion, I test strong.

And I certainly know which issues in life have caused me distress.

The most interesting thing for me is that I have discussed most of the situations I have brought to my sessions previously with a talk therapist. In my experience, NET gets at the nooks and crannies talk therapy can’t reach. Or at least in a similar amount of sessions.

After 12 NET sessions spread over 6 months, my eczema is much improved.

I plan to share the other treatments that I believe have been effective for me in the next installments.

My question for you: have you discovered an alternative healing method that most people have never heard of? We would all be grateful if you would share what you’ve discovered in the comments.