ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY-PRACTICES AND THEORIES OF NEW COMBINATIONS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
- 1 Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Abstract
Energy Psychology (EP) includes a spectrum of practices in which people tap on their bodies while focusing their minds on problems they want to change. EP therapies often are very rapidly effective. This article examines varieties of explanations for how EP works, including: Cognitive changes, psychological conditioning, expectation effects, distraction techniques, tapping on acupuncture points, shifts in other biological energies, wholistic healing, alternating stimulation of right and left sides of the body (presumably producing alternating stimulation of left and right brain hemispheres) and nerve conduction speeds.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/crpsp.2014.1.18
Copyright: © 2014 Daniel J. Benor. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Energy Psychology
- EP
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
- EMDR
- Tapping
- Acupuncture
- Acupoints
- Biological Energies
- Bioenergies
- Chinese Medicine
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psychological Conditioning
- Systematic Desensitization
- Flooding
- Expectation Effects
- Distraction Techniques
- Wholistic Healing
- Alternating Body Stimulation
- Left and Right Brain Hemispheres
- Nerve Conduction Speed