NET

Neuro Emotional Technique: Mind-Body Stress Relief

Neuro Emotional Technique

What is NET?

Neuro Emotional Technique is a non-invasive approach to addressing emotional stressors that impact a person’s mental and physical health.

NET is a safe, effective, and unique modality that helps to resolve long-standing health problems that have a mind-body stress component. (ex: unexplained aversions, self-sabotaging behaviors, phobias, and/or physical pains).

NET is a way for the body to let go of stored memories that are dictating your behaviors in the present. These stored memories may be blocking you from “living your best life”. They may be causing you stress in the NOW even though the stored memory/event was from long ago. These memory events are considered your “emotional reality” because they may or may not correspond with actual or historical reality.

When using NET during a wellness session, we can find stuck, negatively charged response patterns and help release them from the body. It is a fast and gentle technique that can dramatically improve one’s health. (see below for scientific evidence)

“NET makes me feel so relaxed, it felt like if I came out of an acupuncture session. It was something for my body AND mind. After doing an NET session, I was not stressed out like I was when I walked into Tracy’s office. She is amazing!” -Zulay G.

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Although NET was originally developed as a way of finding and correcting an emotional/stress component that was related to a physical problem, very early on patients started reporting that the ‘dramas’ of their lives were improving too. Patients found they were feeling significantly less stressed, happier, more at ease, and so on.

Although the concept of dealing with emotions and stress has long been associated with talk-it-out psychotherapy, counseling, and other therapeutic modalities, NET specifically works with the ‘physiology’ of emotional/stress responses. Extensive scientific research over the past several decades has verified that an emotional/stress expression is a complex reactive pattern of changes in response to a stimulus. This includes changes in neuronal chemistry and neurological, vascular, and muscular tone. The type and intensity of the reaction may occur in response to a specific person or event and may involve widespread physiological changes, such as increased heart rate and inhibition of peristalsis.

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How Does NET Work?

Within the NET process, the practitioner uses the manual muscle test as a tool to help identify associated involuntary physiological responses. Just as it is normal to tap below the knee and have an involuntary Patellar Reflex response, similarly the muscle test can be used to evaluate an involuntary physiological response to various stimuli, such as physical contact or verbal stimuli.

This type of testing has been scientifically validated and it is classified as a 'functional neurology' muscle test.

“It has been demonstrated that manual muscle testing can be used to access the physiology of the body, including the physiology of an emotional response, and that muscles — which initially test strong in the clear — will test as being inhibited (weak) when words are posed that have a 'charge' or stress-response associated with them.

Visit https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847521/ for a paper 'On the Reliability and Validity of Manual Muscle Testing' by Cuthbert and Goodheart.

Neurological Basis of NET

Contemporary neuroscience has demonstrated that emotion and our stress responses are largely related to a physiological response in our body. Particularly important is the work of award-winning neuroscientist Candace Pert, Ph.D., who demonstrated that neuropeptides form the molecular basis of emotion. Neuropeptides are found in all parts of the body and are most notably clustered in the posterior horn of the spinal cord. Pert, et. al. also noted that, functionally, the limbic system extends down into the posterior horn of the spinal cord.

On a more macroscopic level, the findings of widely acclaimed and award-winning neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux, PhD, demonstrated emotion to be first experienced in the old mammalian brain (or limbic system) and only secondarily in the neocortex. Ledoux’s research demonstrates emotion-induced rapid sub-cortical pathways travel to the thalamus and amygdala first and, only after that, to the cortex.

Neuroscientist Paul MacLean, MD, developed the “Triune Brain” model, separating the brain into reptilian, old mammalian, and neocortical brains. In general, psychotherapy and counseling predominately work with the neocortex (the thinking brain) with such therapeutic approaches as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). In contrast, NET works predominately with the old mammalian brain (the feeling brain), which is essentially the limbic system and its associated meridian-related emotional responses.

NET does not treat emotions, but rather it addresses the physical complex in which an emotion and a related subluxation are component parts.

The goal is to identify and correct physical aberrations (subluxation or meridian imbalance) and not emotions. In fact, emotions do not need to be corrected. Darwin expounded on emotions in a non-psychological way, supporting the concept that emotions are normal and healthy phenomena found in humans and animals. In an unhealthy organism, however, emotions can cause psychosomatic and somatopsychic problems. In short, NET deals with those weakened physiological states that have ultimately made the body vulnerable to the formation of what NET has defined as a Neuro Emotional Complex (NEC).

Treating Body & Mind: Scientific Evidence

Results from a 2017 study of patients with traumatic stress symptoms demonstrated significant changes in the NET group (as compared to the control group) in the functional connectivity between the cerebellum, the amygdala, and parahippocampus, as well as reductions in autonomic reactivity based on heart rate response to the traumatic stimulus.

In another 2021 published study, NET or control treatments were given twice weekly for 4 weeks to patients with chronic low back pain. Compared to the placebo group, patients receiving the NET treatment showed clinical and statistical significance with declines of virtually all pain markers, as well as showing positive gains in quality-of-life indicators.

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Why choose NET to help you?

NET can be an add-on service or a stand-alone in-person session. During a session, this quick treatment taps into the physiological body to help release stuck emotions & pain that may be causing your daily stress. If you are looking for relief, this technique is a safe and effective way to help you feel better in the present & future.