In early June of this year, I had the good fortune to be in London teaching 22 therapists the fundamentals of Dynamic Energetic Healing®. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and found the psychologists who participated to be gracious, interested and engaging. My task was to somehow teach them the essence of DEH in a single weekend. This of course is about how to integrate shamanic healing and processwork principles into the energy psychology framework that comprises DEH, a rather unique psychotherapeutic approach to say the least. Nearly all of the 22 participants had prior training in basic energy psychology and many were already using muscle testing with their clients. The takeaway from my time with these UK therapists is that energy psychology approaches are growing internationally. These therapists are very serious in their pursuit of energy-based approaches to therapy. While psychodynamic and cognitive-based therapy models still prevail across the spectrum, energy psychology approaches are gaining in popularity not due to their novelty but due to their effectiveness. More research is being done all the time corroborating the anecdotal evidence of clinicians that energy psychology is extremely effective in creating rapid and positive psychotherapeutic changes. DEH asks therapists to consider that there is an “other” reality with compassionate beings whom we can interact with and in various ways, summon and bring forth into this reality (when with our clients), the transformative healing power of these compassionate spirits. Processwork primarily challenges the notion that we are a single identity that never fundamentally changes. By cultivating a heightened state of “second attention” awareness, processwork asserts that we can learn to flow with the unending and always-unfolding stream of events (i.e., Process) that requires letting go of who we normally tell ourselves we are. The next step is to surrender to a more fluid identity that is always shifting with and connected to new awareness in the moment. Having a willingness to consider adopting these provocative and challenging models of reality as an integrated consciously chosen path requires a great deal of openness and is certainly not for everyone. But for those intrepid souls who find this as fascinating, healing and creatively exciting as I do, the possibilities for profound healing abound.
Posted on June 23, 2013
Howard Brockman, LCSW
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