energy psychology and emotional freedom techniques are not substitutes for medical care always consult with your physician and healthcare provider regarding any health care questions individual results will vary and you take full responsibility for your health if you choose to try any of the energy techniques talk on tapping with down the cause of all negative emotions is the disruption in the body's energy system a with me as my special guest i just want to share a little bit of information with you before we get started into our conversation about tapping in energy psychology dr is the expert in pennsylvania i consider him to be the expert in energy therapies he has published over thirty publications he has taught internationally he earned his ph d from rutgers his master's from rutgers he is a pennsylvania licensed psychologist he is a board certified forensic examiner he is a diplomat in comprehensive energy psychology he is a diplomat with the american board of psychological specialties he's certified and e m d r as a teacher a consultant and a therapist he has certified  neurofeedback in other words dr nicosia is in my book the jonas salk and i albert einstein of the tapping world he sent me over his c v is over thirteen pages so this is the man that can break down energy work and tapping so that everybody who wonders about this what ever you have seen previously on t on you tube i want you to know that my show will give you the facts ok so whatever you hear from anyone whenever you see through the media whatever you may learn from other therapists that is helpful is wonderful but here you will learn the facts about tapping in about energy psychology dr nicosia thank you so much for coming on my show i really career has been the cutting edge of healing for the first probably fifteen years or so that i was psychologist i really felt that we were helping people to cope rarely did we see any cure coming in and i thought you know if we were plumbers we got paid like plumbers we probably would have starved to death because all we did was we help people cope better they appreciated it but i felt like we were putting band aids on haemorrhages sending back people back to the front lines of life and then next week bringing the maccan patching them up again so in that search i ran across e m t are in the late eighty's and that was the first time that cured regularly seemed to be appearing in the work that we did a psychologist it was a revolutionary way of doing business and doing therapy because it didn't rely simply on talking the problem that i am d r encountered was even though it was highly effective often the average action of something a'sssos if someone had been tortured and burned with he not as you were doing the e m d e r the people would remember that experience and they would raise red hot welts on their body where they were burned so seeing that how difficult that was to get through and  people go through it because you knew if you got to the end they would be well made me look for something better and energy psychology turned out to be the thing that was better because it helped  people become well get over trauma without that abb reaction so to this day i still use some aspects of e m d e r because it has wonderful compliment to energy psychology but looking for the thing that would really help people become well and be able to function to be cured of their discomforts is what drove me towards energy psychology i find it fascinating as you know so tapping and i've been teaching our viewers the emotional freedom technique that's only one of the systems under the energy psychology umbrella there are several systems under that absolutely when when we talk about tapping that's kind of what you see in that's kind of the most popular a well known aspect of energy psychology but there's really quite a lot more that's going on sort of behind the scenes that's unseen as you mentioned there are three different systems of bio energy in our bodies are actually more than three but there are three major ones one that people are most familiar with are the meridian system because of acupuncture using those meridians we also have a chocolate system which is essentially seven major energetic centers that trans duce life energy into our work in system and you can system of the body and then the action of that system produces a seven layered bio field or  around us that we also interact with so energy psychology uses all of those systems as well as the fact that we are electromagnetic and we have polarisation that needs to be addressed in a more systemic approach before we can actually do some of the work that we need to do when i find in my practice is that ninety percent of people that come in are not properly polarized so polarization meaning there if you think of a battery the positive terminal at the top and the negative at the bottom so when someone is all stressed or overwhelmed that polarization is flipped right sometimes it's reversed and i work a lot with  head injury cases different kinds of trauma and virtually all head injuries result and concussions result in a loss of polarization not simply a reversal of know what but an actual loss of that for a zation that really needs to be restored and has a lot of implications for education because if you think about having a lack of polarization what that means is essentially you don't have a positive or negative where ought to be you don't have a north or south pole magnetic y it's really electromagnets and they go hand in hand and in order for electricity to move in our brains properly it has to move perpendicular to a magnetic field so if you have a north south field like this electrical energy moves across and you can have this part of the brain talk to that part which is the way they're designed if things are proper if you lose that polarization it gets mixed up and it becomes tilted let's say in one place then instead of going from here to here it goes perpendicular and the information ends up in a different part of the brain the wrong part and learning disabilities that we see in education learning disabled exceptional kids kids with  almost always have a lack of polarization in their brains and that's one of the big factors that impedes learning and education is that what's called neurological disorganization it can be one aspect or one kind of is a lot of different answers depending upon your level of explanation but for most people if we want to bring it down to physical realities tapping works essentially because when we tap on a meridian point say here that's associated with the intestine in the emotion of guilt if we tap here on the surface where that rhydian point is via the p is the electric effect crystal and structures release an electrical impulse every time they're perturbed so the bone the college and fibers in the body every time we're tapping here are releasing electrical impulses and those electrical impulses electrically stimulate the meridian all the way down to the organ that it's associated with and meridians can be activated a number of different things they can be activated mechanically like acupuncturist do with needles we're fortunate we don't need to use needles we can use the p electrical activity they can also be trans deuce light so you can use lasers actually to activate them ok and and there's even more marvelous things about our bodies that are these incredible communications and that's what i find so fascinating about energy psychology is all the different ways that the human electrical system can be accessed depending on what the negative emotion is depending on what the negative thought is and then to be able to take that and diagnose the energy system if one is using thought field therapy or to do the emotional freedom techniques whatever the method is under energy psychology that once it's determined what branch what therapy would be most effective using that and then somehow the negative or the negative emotion gets released or it really gets free harmonised to rebalanced if you want to think about thought is very real and people will say yeah i know of course it's real most people think that our thoughts are real and inside of our heads but it turns out that our and they're very deep under the ground and basically they're very sensitive magnetic measuring devices and we can measure people's thoughts in the pattern of their thoughts outside of their heads with those machines so that was the first thing that tipped us off that our thoughts aren't just inside of our heads and that's the physical correlates of this but our thoughts are actually attend to mention a phenomenon people are much more than they think they are they know that they are we think that we are three dimensions in time four dimensional creatures but our thoughts are real they're higher dimensional realities they're part of what i would call our spiritual self as are our emotions thoughts and emotions which are nine dimensional reality are part of who we are so we're not just physical creatures we also have the ability to operate in nonphysical higher dimensional realities and we do it all the time with our thoughts and with our emotions but we haven't really been taught about this aspect of who we truly are isn't that the truth now you're my teacher and you've been studying this and using this a lot longer than i have but it's new to most people and they have a hard time wrapping their head around long how could this work work better than medication or how could this be an adjunct to cognitive behavior therapy right and what would you say to first the general public seeking relief on whatever problem they're having at the moment or what would you say to health care professionals the think this is a lot of baloney sure well first of all if i'm talking to the general public what i'd like public to know is that everyone virtually everyone who ever uses energy psychology especially if you use it in the hands of a trained professional notices a virtual immediate change in the disturbances that have bothered him and many many times for many many years even after going undergoing many different kinds of therapy and i think that's what's got all of the therapists that i know using energy psychology as it did for myself because i was quite skeptical on how could something so simple as tapping here and tapping there and saying this and it looks so simple how could that possibly work but in point of fact when you experience it for yourself when you see it in therapy i've done this for over twenty years now with just  extraordinarily positive results with so many different kinds of emotional discomforts and you're able to teach people how to use this for themselves so they can use it when they need it and i'm told over and over again by people that you know just to be able to do this tapping myself to do this process myself which looks like i'm just tapping and saying a few things when i need it when i'm terribly afraid when i'll be going to have a panic attack it stops that attack it calms me and it doesn't right now and i don't have to wait for forty five minutes for a xanax to get going right you know so that's for the public for the professionals the thing that i would say is you know twenty years ago the professionals and others used to ask me if this is so good where's the research well today i can say there's well over fifty published studies showing the efficacy and benefit tremendous benefits of using energy psychology interventions along with our traditional modes of cognitive behavioral therapy talking about things is really helpful for people to understand but we kind of mistakenly believe that if we understand why something is happening then we'll be able to fix it well it turns out that you can understand everything about your problem where it started how it's whatever and when something triggers that problem it still feels like you have this you know you're punched in the gut with this emotional reaction so we need to do something beyond talk because talk is sort of a left brain phenomenon doesn't live where the emotions are doesn't reach the emotions and restructuring our thoughts by using energy psychology allows us to balance those thoughts re harmonize our bodies and minds in the presence of something that used to trigger strong negative emotions and when the body and the mind are rebalanced in the presence of that that trigger no longer has the ability to automatically elicit those negative emotions i love that description about re balancing i'm going to remember that from now on it's not just simply a matter of taking away the disturbance it's about rebalancing absolutely yes ok i want to talk a little bit because i have some questions that i think our viewers would want to know about post traumatic stress disorder and learning disabilities and how energy psychology can help them and i definitely want to talk about the association for comprehensive energy psychology of which i am born at least in the world of energy but how can this be helpful when you were mentioning the research and i'm so glad you brought that up because time and time again i will hear people say well where's the research on this and then i will send them a link to the research or i will tell them to go to the a sept website which is energy psych dot org so the research is available if one cares to read it can you speak on the research that is going on for post traumatic stress disorder for veterans and what's available  you know one of the things that we've discovered is that the cortisol the chemicals in the brain that are the stress related chemicals the cortisol levels in the brain change within minutes of doing an energy psychology intervention in terms of doing some tapping let's say one of the things that we know is that trauma energetically looks very similar from one person to another the patterns of trauma look very similar they have a fear component they have a memory component and when we rebalance those systems in the presence of a thought that was very traumatic it no longer elicits that fear and trauma that had happened in the past if people have a single episode of trauma  related experience it's unbelievable easy and rapid to be able to help that person so that in just a matter of a few sessions one to three sessions that individual can be helped and i've got recordings which i was sharing with you from the last twenty years of clients who have had a variety of emotional problems some who've had let's say trauma from  industrial accident that occurred and you can see people's visage change and their self relax and be able to talk about this one incidence of trauma in their life so if you have a healthy person who's going through their life experience and then is involved in one incident that causes a post traumatic stress disorder and we're talking full blown with nightmares and flashbacks and you know profuse sweating and all sorts of things that we associate with post traumatic stress disorder those things can be gone literally in one to three sessions now there's more complex post traumatic stress disorder that happens over a longer period of time with multiple incidences of abuse or trauma now those kinds of traumas take a good deal longer to process and we have to go to an essentially like one at a time but the impact is still incredibly positive and when you think that you know in the mid eighty's there was virtually nothing that could touch or help or even come close to curing post traumatic stress disorders and then suddenly we have e m t r and then energy psychology so we have to really powerful therapies that are available today to help with today's returning veterans we would love to be able to offer services and many energy psychologist to offer free services to returning veterans who have post traumatic stress disorder right now the difficulties when working with the v a with a therapy that still so young and relatively experimental even though it's been around for well over twenty years the amount of evidence that needs to accrue in the kinds of studies today the bar has been raised quite r has been around longer and has probably three four five hundred studies like the most highly researched therapy of all time g s so hopefully if everybody wants to set their intentions and prayers to the v a so we can get energy psychology into the v a to help the veterans because there's no reason for them to suffer how can energy psychology and maybe this touches on on all the medications for right focus i do a good deal of work with children and sometimes adults who have attention deficit disorders and variety of learning disabilities as i mentioned earlier one of the most important things in helping people is to make sure that they have a strong robust stable electromagnetic field around them and so there are exercises that will help this people have dyslexia children that have dyslexia and reverse things we usually find that they also have additional kinds of problems and one of those problems is a lack of neural circuit between the two hemispheres of their brain between the right and left half there's a strip called the corpus callosum and it essentially has lots of fibers that connect the right in the left half so they can talk to each other in general women have many more of those fibers and they're much thicker fibers which causes them to be able to have better communications when you have a lack of those fibers paucity of them you have not enough information carrying capacity and this is a big problem for being able to process information that crosses the midline so we do types of tests and if that tests indicates that there is that cost to be we do exercises that help to grow new neural circuit y this field really was comes out of a field known as educational can easy ology most people if they've ever heard of it might have heard of it's popularized version named brain gym so brain gym type exercises are often oriented towards helping to read grow those pathways that would normally grow when children crawl you know so one of the things that when we see children who have this paucity of information processing capacity across the midline and we go back we asked the moms did your child crawl normally or was he precocious and he just went and suddenly was standing up and walking around and you said wow that's great look at my kid he's right but if they didn't spend time crawling they didn't get the coordination between the right and the left hemisphere's so these physical exercises that come out of educational can e really help to regrow those things and we have elaborated those so that we can do things that are particular for a numbers letters different parts of the brain to help grow new and stronger capacity it's like you make the path by walking it the more you walk at the bigger the path becomes after a while you don't just have a trail in the woods you have a little road in the wagons and go down in horses and you know you build that up to full blown four lane highway that carries information i tell parents and i tell the kids the teenagers and the children that i work with if you do some of the exercises the marching the counting the humming and if you're really good and i'm still working on this the i or the one when admiral the other way you may be able to work with your doctor to get off of some of this medication well in terms of the attention deficit disorder medication  daniel layman who's a physician has taken pet scans of brains and shown that there's really six different separate different kinds of brain dysfunction all labeled attention deficit hyperactivity disorder but they're really six different problems ok and only one were really two of them at best respond well to the traditional kind of medication that commonly prescribe ok there are also tests that are computerized tests the test of variables of attention is one they're called continuous performance testers two different kinds that really measure and determine whether or not you truly have an attentional disorder and if that's the kind we call a d d or a d h d about half the children that come in to see me who are on medication really do not test as having an attentional disorder what they have perhaps is an anxiety disorder which makes it very difficult to tailor anjem and so for these children medication isn't appropriate and there are many other ways of helping those kinds of kids and for the other kinds who aren't the traditional types of a d d that respond well to traditional medications there are dietary things that can help them there are some different kinds of medications that might be useful for them so there's lots of alternatives including the retraining of the brain through  or neurofeedback biofeedback yeah we have less than five minutes back on why i left i know this half hour is really flying i want people to know first of all your phone number i know that they put your website on the screen with your phone number in case anyone  contact you and then we're going to take a couple minutes and talk about the association for comprehensive energy psychology so if someone is interested in calling you dr nicosia what is the number well the number for advanced diagnostics which is the clinic that i run in pittsburgh is one two six eight three eight three seven eight that's six eight three test oh nice ok so hopefully i know i'm going to get word when we have one minute left but the association for comprehensive energy psychology there's the one minute ok wow i don't know if we can anyway that is the place where a group if you're interested in this work whether you're a lay person whether you're a health care provider that is the place to go for more information for education that is where i earn my diplomat status and energy psychology or i'm learning certification and emotional freedom techniques that's where the researches of there's going to be a conference may twenty eighth through june the third in phoenix so i'm very excited about that but i can't tell you how much i appreciate you coming on the show today thanks to a doing as well aim to everyone energy psych dot org yes address energy psych dot org go there's tremendous amounts of information available for the public for professionals and it's a home for the energy psychology world thank