Alan Yarbourgh, who suffers from a serious disease himself, wrote this book to help his own clients. Alan along with his wife had suffered from the shock and pain of receiving a diagnosis of Gehrig's disease, or ALS. Eventually Yarbourgh and his wife used Thought Field Therapy to treat the emotional symptoms of dealing with a serious disease. In this book Yarbourgh explains the therapy which consists of tapping a series of acupressure points while directing your thoughts to an area of anxiety or pain. He explains the therapy system simply with all the detail you need to make it work including the fact that Dr. Callahan who discovered the technique had also discovered that the acupressure points must be tapped in a specific order for whatever symptom you are treating. Yarbourgh not only provides the algorithms from Dr. Callahan, but goes on to describe trouble shooting methods for the times it doesn’t work and explains a simpler technique discovered by a student of Callahan’s, Gary Craig. Using Gary Craig’s method you simply tap on all the points so many times that eventually you have covered all the points so many times that the correct order has been covered. What Yarbourgh describes as the shotgun approach.
As a psychotherapist I had read about these methods before, but in reading this book I discovered one of the advantages of using an ebook. I can print out the directions on plain paper to use as a guide. I don’t have to try and hold the book open while tapping on my own acupressure points. I know I will be referring chronic pain clients to this book and this website.
Review by Julia Widdop, MA
No comments:
Post a Comment