Comment Spam & The Amygdala
Commenting on one of my previous entries, a person seeking to advertise their own website posted this: "I have found EFT quite useful, but I suspect it is better to use in conjunction with a tried and tested method like CBT. "
The comment was made with a "click this thinly-disguised advertisement for my website" author name and URL. And incredibly, this same comment was repeated at another blog I moderate. Sorry, that’s considered comment spam and is not allowed here. If you want to come back and make a high-quality comment using your real name and not an advertisement, you’re welcome to do so.
And in response to your assertion, with your advertisement leading to a site for Anxiety therapy, you must be aware that anxiety and fear are mediated by a portion of the brain known as the amygdala. The amygdala is extraordinarily resistant to logic, talk-therapy and behaviorism, but uniquely malleable when treated with Emotional Freedom Techniques or any other meridian variant of Energy Psychology, which bypass logic and "reason" to enact direct change on the attendant neurology. You can read more about this at the ACEP website, in Ron Ruden’s brilliant article on "Why Energy Psychology (Tapping) Works, from a Western Perspective" or:
A Neurological Basis for the Observed Peripheral Sensory Modulation of Emotional Responses (click title to be taken directly to this article)
Ruden is a medical doctor as well as psychiatrist and knows from whence he speaks. This article is forthcoming in Charles Figley’s acclaimed Traumatology Journal for the docs and therapists in the audience.
In addition to the Ruden research, I can refer you to Joaquin Andrade and David Feinstein’s research entitled Preliminary Report on the first Large-Scale Study of Energy Psychology. Click the title to be taken to this report at EFT creator Gary Craig’s website.
From this report, I quote:
At one-year follow-up, the patients receiving tapping treatments were less prone to relapse or partial relapse than those receiving CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)/medication, as indicated by the independent raters’ assessments and corroborated by brain imaging and neurotransmitter profiles. In a related pilot study by the same team, the length of treatment was substantially shorter with energy therapy and related methods than with CBT/medication (mean = 3 sessions vs. mean = 15 sessions).
That’s pretty darned impressive. Even more so is that people can learn these amazingly simple therapies themselves, with little to no prior knowledge, and be very successful in their application.
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is wise to be well informed. And keep spam commenting out of it - not a worthy or attractive thing for you or your business. Active intelligent discussion though? Bring it on!
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