NeuroEnergetic Psychology (NEP)

We use NEP Techniques to provide the necessary skills to understand and work with how we participate in shaping our own reality. We use the techniques to:

1. Consciously create a healing state in yourself. You experience the work yourself while in the process of learning the skills.

2. Be present with and assist the client in their ‘personal’ evaluation of acquired beliefs, behaviors and reactions, their relationships and interactions with innate memory, and their creation of least-action paths that block desired states of being.

3. Use muscle testing to explore creative alternatives with the client, and to find new choices, which will care for the client’s integrity and enrich their quality of life while using resources that they already possess or have access to.

4. Decondition old and reorient new autonomic and somatic memory responses by using physical techniques that are blended with awareness gained in the exploration process, creating new least-action paths for congruent body mind and spirit interaction.

5. Deep personal understanding of the complex interplay between learned responses, body memory, lifestyle, genetic memory and personal energy states.

What are the Possible Mechanisms that Maintain our Version of Reality?

Current scientific thinking illustrates a connection between the limbic system, the place where emotional memory appears to be stored, and the autonomic, enteric nervous systems and cellular memory (peptide release).

[1] The hippocampus and amygdala region show regional, constant arousal in clients who suffer from stress related issues. The stress signal discharges itself over the limbic-hypothalamic axis into the hypothalamus, which we discuss in NEP 1 as one aspect of “State Dependent Memories.”

[2]After activation of the limbic-hypothalamic axis, the stress signal travels 3 ways:

1. To the Pituitary in the form of informational substances.

2. Down the Sympathetic Pathways, creating peripheral target-specific volume and perpetuating tissue damage in injury, chronic pain situations and informational substance release.

3. To the Nucleus Ambiguous in the brainstem, from here down one branch of the Vagus (“smart vagus’) to the Enteric Nervous System, stimulating the emotion-specific visceral and cellular release of several of over 800 informational substances (among those such well known neurotransmitters as acetylcholine, serotonin and other ligands of the neuropeptide system).
These are the same pathways we study in the NEP 2 program in relationship to language and release of “State Dependent Memory of Stress” related to thought and perceived reality.

The reason that the NEP 2 “The Word” was placed as the second program in the series was because of the important role played by perception and interpretation of symbolic memory (language) in the “State Dependent Memory Cycles.”

When a conflict from our life experience is uncovered, a new intra-cerebral neuronal connection is made from the limbic system to the cortex. The client becomes more “conscious”. The conflict-induced electrical energy from areas in the limbic system can now flow to the cortex, instead of constantly arousing areas in the hypothalamus and automatic responses from those locations.

Conscious access to conflict-induced electrical energy becomes a source of greater vitality and clarity for the client. However, the pathway from the conflict to the hypothalamus is habituated and needs to be uncoupled, or we say in NEP, “deconditioned.” While the client remembers the past event and creates new resource connections, other ganglion-vasomotor protocols are used to balance sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric responses to the “State Dependent” reaction. This breaks the habituated response regulated by the nervous system and Autonomic/Enteric nervous systems.

Successful NEP Sessions will Fulfill 3 criteria:

1. Target conflicts and stress situations experienced in the past and present that bring up “state dependent memory” states in the body/mind, revealing least-action paths and their related connections.

2. Uncover these conflicts through process work (as described in N.E.P. 2 and explored further in the following five NEP programs).

3. Decondition the patterning of the intricate neuronal network in the brain that links the limbic system with the hypothalamus (and virtually any other body structure). Many problematic issues – such as, chronic stress and related dysfunctions, vasomotor dysfunction, emotional stress, chronic pain, and other dis-ease states – can be successfully neutralized addressing the psycho-emotional ganglion-vasomotor components with the NEP techniques.

NeuroEnergetic Psychology

Can assist us on our journey back to the original meaning of the word "health" by recognizing and working with the areas where the mind, body and spirit communicate using these connections to create new least action paths to wholeness.

The origins of the Basic Neuroenergetic Psychology

NEP1 came from the pioneering work of Dr. Terrance J. Bennett and his development of neurovascular dynamics.
This system, backed up by over 45 years of clinical use, shows that touch contact on specific areas of the body can produce changes in blood and lymphatic flow affecting all the cells.