Energy Psychology

Energy Psychology, later abbreviated as “EP” is a mind-body approach to better understand and improve human functioning.

Although EP has mainly only been known since the mid-1980s, its historical foundation dates back thousands of years. This basis is based on, among other things, Eastern medicine. Acupuncture, chakras, subtle energies, yoga, Chi Gong and applied kinesiology are some of the theoretical underpinnings. The newer field of quantum physics and the electrical experiments of Nikolas Tesla (1856-1943) has led to a better understanding of the scientific reasons why EP-based coaching intervention techniques work.

EP focuses on the relationship between bioenergy systems, neurophysiological and electrophysiological processes, and mental functions using thoughts, emotions, feelings and behavior. These systems include electrical activity of the nervous system and heart, meridians, biophotons, biofields, etc. These systems and processes exist and interact within the individual and between people. They are also influenced by cultural and environmental factors.

Within the EP framework, emotional and physical problems are reflected as bioenergetic patterns

in and around the mind-body energy system.

Because the body and mind are thought to be intertwined and interactive, this mind-body energy system involves complex communication involving neurobiological processes, innate electrophysiology, psycho-neuroimmunological (PNI), consciousness, and cognitive-behavioral-emotional patterns. .

The use of EP has led to the development of related methods and models in the effective recovery of psychological and emotional problems, health, promoting human well-being and improving human performance.

These models and methods are typically used within an integral or holistic framework and include but are not limited to psychotherapy, counseling, coaching, integrative medicine, and other therapeutic modalities.

EP therefore applies to a wide range of areas, including

psychotherapy, counseling, education, career guidance,

physical health, pain management, sports and peak performance.

Without following the usual psychotherapeutic analytic methodologies in which thoughts, emotions and sensations associated with the client's trauma presented are extensively analyzed, advanced use of EP gracefully guides the client through a series of steps that effectively identify the triggers, resolve the triggers and thereby the perceptions that provoke the reactions. When the triggers have been resolved and there are therefore no automatic unwanted (reflexive) reactions, this immediately creates space for openness, trust and respect and the client can lead a life based on his own choices. This means for the client from survival to effortless living.

The application of EP requires a strong working alliance (coaching alliance) between client and coach with a non-judgmental attitude of the coach;

They briefly indicate what specifically causes the most stress/unrest and personal burden at that moment. Individual aspects of triggers of traumatic events are briefly activated in the processing phase, but further deepening does not take place. This is unnecessary because this is specifically about analyzing the trigger/reason of the cause - trigger/cause of the memory, the belief, and/or the fantasy, the information that has thus led to the automatic and non-automatic phenomena to be controlled. It is therefore emphatically not about reactivating a re-experiencing and/or deepening the automatic (reflexive) reaction (the emotion/feelings) of this - nor about the forced search and/or mapping of traumas. Progressive intervention takes place as soon as the memory is activated. The energy system transforms itself and the treated aspect therefore loses its original emotional intensity in the moment. In the moment an altered sensory perception arises, so that one no longer has the trigger. After an intervention, for example, people say: "The image is gone", or "the feeling is no longer there", "I can still remember the situation, but it doesn't affect me anymore, it no longer makes me anxious or restless. as before". A ten-point evaluation scale is used, indicating subjective units of distress/discomfort/unrest/stress and self-assessment before and after an intervention. One becomes immediately aware of measurable changes - changes that are further based on integration in the continue daily life. In this way one is actively and step by step personally strengthened during the trauma recovery process.