Neuro Emotional Technique NYC by Marc Bystock L.Ac.

Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner Marc Bystock, NYC Acupuncturist in Midtown Manhattan NY 10016

What is Neuro Emotional Technique?

Neuro Emotional Technique or NET is a non-invasive holistic technique to reduce repetitive stress patterns associated with emotional imbalances safely. Many emotions, such as anger, fear, and grief, remain dominant long after the original event. When these emotional stress responses are not resolved, they cause blockages in multiple systemic pathways, causing unique challenges that prevent self-healing. 

Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) combines the sophisticated sciences of Neurobiology, applied kinesiology, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in a gentle and efficient format to help patients resolve and clear negative stress physiology.

As a result, your ability to fight off infections will diminish. The result will lead to a highly pathogenic micro-bioburden, contributing to various health issues.

The correlation between individuals under stress and those with poor lifestyle habits, such as poor sleep, poor hygiene, and poor eating habits, is very high. Therefore, the link between high stress, poor lifestyle habits, and a high pathogenic load is both complex and multifaceted. Reducing stress can be a part of a comprehensive strategy for improving health and immune function.

Many well-minded individuals will use techniques such as meditation, breath- work, biofeedback, and others to stay in a more parasympathetic state of awareness. While I encourage everyone to use such tools, they may only sometimes work to resolve deeper issues.

Every stress memory and trauma that we have ever experienced remains locked away in our subconsciousness. Being triggered to move into stress physiology occurs rapidly. We usually are not aware of the reasons for this state. Our present stressful situation may be associated with an event from our past that link back to a previously stored trauma is termed a Neuro-Emotional-Complex.

Scientific research has verified that an emotional stress response is a complex reactive pattern that includes physiological changes responding to a stimulus. These changes may occur in brain chemistry, neurological, vascular, and muscular tone. The type and intensity of the changes may vary between individuals, and the reactions can occur in response to a person, place, or event. Changes may be physiological, including increased heart rate and a reduction of peristalsis.

The goal of the Neuro-Emotional-Complex technique is to identify and correct the meridian imbalances brought about by associated emotional-stress physiology or a Neuro-Emotional-Complex. Emotions themselves are normal, therefore, there is no need to correct them.

The concept of dealing with stressful emotions has for a long time been associated with talk psychotherapy, counseling, and other therapeutics. Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) specifically works with the physiology of emotional stress.

When things are abnormal, and stress physiology occurs, this is termed an unhealthy state. This situation can bring about psychosomatic and somatopsychic challenges. The Neuro Emotional Technique or NET works with those weakened connections that have made the body vulnerable to a Neuro-Emotional-Complex.

A Neuro-Emotional-Complex is a subjective maladaptive syndrome taken on by the individual as a response to a real or perceived threat to any condition of survival.

According to the contemporary work of the award-winning neuroscientist Candace Pert, Ph.D., emotions and our stress responses are related to a physiological body state. She goes on to state that neuropeptides form the molecular basis of emotion. Neuropeptides are found all over the body and, most notably, are clustered in the posterior horn of the spinal cord. Pert also noted that, functionally, the limbic system extends down into the posterior horn of the spinal cord.

The limbic system includes the amygdala, which plays an important role in various emotional behaviors, such as fear, anger, rage, anxiety, etc. The limbic system allows the body to turn on the fight or flight activity in response to danger signals.

Emotional responses are composed of neuropeptides, which are made up of amino acids and their receptors. These receptors lie on neurons as well as other body cells. Neuropeptides are ejected from the neuron and carry encoded information to other areas in the body whenever stress occurs.

For thousands of years, whenever humans experience stress, our bodies have responded by releasing epinephrine (adrenaline), norepinephrine, and cortisol. These hormones help us to deal with stressful situations by increasing our heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels in preparation for fight or flight. Stress may make you feel irritable, overwhelmed, tired, and moody in the short term, but if the stress is chronic, then feelings of anxiety and depression may occur.

Everyone experiences some temporary stress, but if the stress continues for too long and/or becomes repetitive, it could affect your thoughts and feelings. Long-term stress can result in multiple health problems such as heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and lowering of the immune system, as mentioned earlier.

Using NET helps to find stuck negative patterns and helps you to release them. It's relatively fast and efficient and can help you improve your overall health and longevity. Learning to utilize tools that will deactivate stressful neurobiology from your system is like clearing the stress away from your system. This technique can work as a reset for the entire system.

Net is a non-invasive modality of holistic healing. This takes into account the whole person, mind, body, and spirit. A NET session lasts about 30-45 minutes in duration. NET uses three main components, neurobiology, applied kinesiology, and acupuncture meridian theory (without the use of needles). For over 5,000 years, it has been well-known in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that specific emotions are associated with the organs of the human body.

For example, when the liver becomes imbalanced, the patient may exhibit anger, irritability, feel stuck, or have anxiety or depression. The lungs are associated with sadness and grief, the kidneys with fear, and so on. At the beginning of each NET session, the patient may bring up a problematic issue on their mind, or the practitioner may discover a physical symptom that the patient is having that may correlate to a stressor.

The process unfolds through the discovery of a prior event when trauma, either real or perceived, occurred, which is somehow associated with the present clinical situation. The clinician uses applied kinesiology to look for the imbalanced meridians expressed in the patient's pulses. After the correction is made, the reactive areas in the limbic region begin to deactivate. 

According to ongoing research at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a neuro-emotion complex can be deactivated entirely in one to six NET sessions.

Research was performed at Thomas Jefferson University using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain. The fMRI shows highly reactive zones in the brain when individuals experience stress. After NET is performed and corrections are made, the fMRI indicates the reduction of reactive zones in the brain that are associated with emotional stress. This important research conducted by Dr. Monti and the team signifies that the brain responds normally when remembering past traumas after the NET corrections have been made.

After the NET session, most patients report that they feel like a heavy burden has been removed from themselves. Years ago, people used to believe that stress was only in your head. Now we know that stress can reside in any part of the body, not just the brain. 

There are patients that I see who have headaches, shoulder pain, neck pain, and/or low back pain. They forget to make an association that their discomfort began simultaneously with a traumatic or stressful event in their lives. The pain may correlate with a job loss, a divorce, or losing a loved one. That doesn't mean that all physical pains have an emotional component, but many do.

In the German New Medicine, Dr. Ryke Hamer describes the etiology of his cancer patients that he works with as having a stressful experience that changed their health. He termed these traumatic events as "Emotional Conflicts." Through his research, he discovered that the emotional conflicts that his patients experienced exhibited direct effects on different brain regions associated with specific body organs.

In other words, he discovered that the underlying root cause of his patient's disease was the original traumatic event that took place as an emotional conflict. That emotional conflict was strong enough to inflict a change to a region of the brain, which in turn created a malfunction in the patient's body.

I believe it is safe to say that many or most disorders are connected to an original emotional conflict, a Neuro Emotional Complex (NEC).

When we deactivate or clear these NECs, we move towards health.

Additional References

The connection between emotional experiences and physical health. If you are looking for information related to NET, here are some key search words that may help you in your search:

1. Neuro-Emotional Technique: This is the primary search term that you can use to find information related to the technique itself.

2.  Mind-body connection: NET focuses on the connection between the mind and body and how emotional experiences can impact physical health. Searching for this term can provide you with more information on this topic.

3.  Alternative therapy: NET is considered an alternative therapy, so you can use this term to find other types of alternative therapies that may be similar to NET.

4.  Emotional clearing: NET involves identifying and addressing emotional blocks or disruptions that may be affecting your physical health. Searching for this term can provide more information on this aspect of the technique.

5.  Applied kinesiology: NET uses muscle testing to identify and address emotional blockages. Searching for applied kinesiology can provide more information on this technique.

6.  Stress reduction: NET aims to reduce stress levels, which can positively impact both physical and emotional health. Searching for stress reduction techniques may provide more information on how NET can help.

7.  Holistic healing: Searching for this term can provide more information on this approach to health and wellness.

8.  Integrative medicine: NET can be part of an integrative medicine approach to health, combining conventional medicine with alternative therapies. Searching for integrative medicine can provide more information on this approach.