ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY

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ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY

• Dr. Michael Davis

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Energy Psychology

• Energy Psychology rejects the physical
  materialism of classical science.
• Energy Psychology embraces the latest
  understandings of quantum physics and
  consciousness studies.
• Energy Psychology works at the level of the
  unconscious mind through the field and reduces
  stress, chronic pain, emotional upheaval and
  trauma.

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The Quantum PROBLEM

• It is not possible to formulate the laws of
  quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way
  without reference to the consciousness.
• Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner
• This uncertainty principle seems to deny the
  existence of a physically real world independent
  of our observation of it.
• Rosenblum Kuttner, Quantum Enigma

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THE HARD PROBLEM

• Science has had remarkable success in explaining
  the structure and functioning of the material
  world, but when it comes to the inner world of
  the mind science falls curiously silent. There is
  nothing in physics, chemistry, biology, or any
  other science that can account for our having an
  interior world. David Chalmers, professor of
  philosophy at the University of Arizona, calls
  this the "hard problem" of consciousness.
• Peter Russell

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Observer Effect

• The well-established Observer Effect holds that
  the very act of observation collapses matter.
• Matter can either be a wave or a particle, but
  not both at the same time (particle
  potentiality).
• It chooses one or the other upon observation.

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SKEPTICAL?

• Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland win the 2012
  Nobel Prize in Physics for designing ingenious
  systems to trick subatomic particles into being
  oblivious to observation.
• They proved independently that particles really
  are in TWO places at once!
• Implications for Science? Education? Health?

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Scientific Scandal

• Copenhagen Interpretation dirty little secret
• Agreement to separate quantum world from
  classical world to preserve science and
  objective reality.
• But if quantum theory denies the physical
  reality of atoms, it would also seem to deny the
  physical reality of chairs, which are made of
  atoms.
• Rosenblum Kuttner, Quantum Enigma

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Consciousness

• The filtering mechanisms are our sensory systems
  and our brain, the architecture of which we
  inherited from our biological ancestors, as well
  as our prior beliefs and implicit assumptions.
  We see only what our reality tunnel allows us
  to see, and most of us are completely unaware of
  this fact.
• Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel

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Libets Short Delay

• How long between when one thinks to move and the
  resulting movement occurs?
• You move before you think it!
• http//youtu.be/IQ4nwTTmcgs
• Whose mind is it?

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IT GETS WORSE!

• Brain Scans Can Reveal Your Decisions 7 Seconds
  Before You Decide
• In a kind of spooky experiment, scientists at
  the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and
  Brain Sciences reveal that our decisions are made
  seconds before we become aware of them.
• In the study, participants could freely decide if
  they wanted to press a button with their right or
  left hand.
• The only condition was that they had to remember
  when they made the decision to either use their
  right hand or left hand.
• The Results By monitoring the micro patterns of
  activity in the frontopolar cortex, the
  researchers could predict which hand the
  participant would choose 7 SECONDS before the
  participant was aware of the decision.
• http//youtu.be/UKfgXB3jSAQ

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The Field

• What we experience with our limited senses as
  matter is actually organized fields of energy.
  Therefore what is real is not matter but
  fields. As Einstein put it, The field is the
  only reality.
• We are blind to more than 99.999 percent of the
  light that actually exists in the universe.
• Gary E. Schwartz, The Energy Healing Experiments
  (University of Arizona)

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The Conscious Field

• But thought itself can only be understood as a
  field regardless of where you think it originated
  from brain cells or from the mind field. And
  although the brain cells are activated to
  remember and respond, the active thinking
  experience is in the field.
• http//youtu.be/UKfgXB3jSAQ
• Dr. Valerie V. Hunt, Infinite Mind

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PHYSICAL REALITY

• Limited by perception (light, optical illusion,
  etc.)
• Limited by Consciousness/Observation
• Representation based on expectations placebo
  works even when we are told!
• The unconscious can do math and read
• Things are not what they seem!
• http//youtu.be/lFLR5vNKiSw

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Subtle Energies

• My research shows that human energy fields
  display a continuum. The extremely low
  frequencies (ELF), are directly involved with
  lifes biological processes. The extremely high
  frequency (EHF) patterns ally with the mind-field
  and awareness. The general pattern of ELF is
  similar for all people, while the EHF reveals a
  personal signature of emotional patterning for
  each person.
• Hunt, Infinite Mind

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Tai Chi Chih

• Meditation in Motion
• Increases chi through movement and manipulation
  of the subtle energies
• Chi resides in the bones and kidneys.
• Chi journeys through the body via acupuncture
  meridians.
• Increased electrical conductance and capacitance
  measured at acupoints.
• Direct evidence of Energy Psychology.

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Recognized Benefits

• might well be called medication in motion.
  Harvard Medical Letter
• Lowers blood pressure.
• Decreases anxiety and depression.
• Reduces bone loss in post-menopausal women.
• Reduces osteoarthritis pain.
• Improved levels of cholesterol, triglycerides,
  insulin, and C-reactive protein.

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Meridians!
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Neuroplasticity

• Examples braille, half-a-brain anesthesia
• The shape of our brain maps changes depending
  upon what we do .
• Body Swapping/Fake Limb Sensation
• Rewiring occurs in as little as 48 hours
• http//youtu.be/J4_9JT08MOs
• Dr. Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself

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Too Subtle?

• Demonstrations
• Do we really have an energy field?
• Can it easily be impacted by my thoughts?
• Can it easily be impacted by the thoughts of
  others?
• Does this field influence my mental, emotional,
  or physical state?
• Can it be manipulated by others independent of me?

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Self-Help Strategies

• Meditation/Mindfulness
• KIRTAN KRIYA - Ancient meditation technique
• Uses sound and hand motions
• 12 minutes per day increased memory by 10 in 8
  weeks! Cerebral blood flow and mood altered, as
  well.
• http//www.alzheimersprevention.org/research_medit
  ation_study.htm

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KIRTAN KRIYA

• Repeat the Saa Taa Naa Maa sounds (or mantra)
  while sitting with your spine straight, eyes
  closed. With each syllable, imagine the sound
  flowing in through the top of your head and out
  the middle of your forehead (your third eye
  point).
• For two minutes, sing in your normal voice.
• For the next two minutes, sing in a whisper.
• For the next four minutes, say the sound silently
  to yourself.
• Then reverse the order, whispering for two
  minutes, and then out loud for two minutes, for a
  total of twelve minutes.
• To come out of the exercise, inhale very deeply,
  stretch your hands above your head.
• On Saa, touch the index fingers of each hand to
  your thumbs.
• On Taa, touch your middle fingers to your thumbs.
• On Naa, touch your ring fingers to your thumbs.
• On Maa, touch your little fingers to your thumbs.
• http//youtu.be/nqOq4v0cD9w

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Self-Help, contd

• Yawning - Fake it until you make it!
• Smile, even if you dont mean it
• Faith, defined as hope, optimism, positive
  thinking. Not religion (especially negative
  beliefs)
• Dialogue with others on lofty matters w/o
  conflict
• Exercise/Fish Oil

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Professional Resources

• How God Changes Your Brain, Andrew Newberg, M.D.
• DrGarySmall.com - impact of technology on
  development of brain
• BrainGym.org movement
• Brain-based Education brainconnection.com and
  http//www.uwsp.edu/education/lwilson/index.htm
• Dr. Amen Amenclinics.com - ADD
• Positscience.com Dr. Merzenich

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Additional References

• Invisible Heroes Survivors of Trauma and How
  They Heal, Belleruth Naparstek
• Soul Medicine, Norman Shealy, M.D. Dawson
  Church, Ph.D.
• Energy Medicine, Donna Eden
• Emotional Freedom, Judith Orloff, M.D.
• The Promise of Energy Psychology, Feinstein,
  Eden, Bowen
• Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology

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Contact Info

• You can reach me at michael.davis_at_yc.edu or
  928-254-0775.