Energy Psychology First Impression

To someone "unitiated" to meridian healing and other forms of energy work, energy psychology may seem like a bunch of very strange and silly exercises - until it works.

My first encounter with energy psychology began with skepticism and ended with reluctant amazement.

I was in the middle of high school, with everything that image recalls - drama over my classes, drama with friends, and the requisite drama about romance. Sometime in my final year before graduating, I had finally hit the point where I was tired of all the drama, and wanted to find a way to clear my head and start feeling better about what seemed like an insurmountable mess.

Which is when my mother suggested I try energy pschology.

What teenager wants advice from their mother, much less advice from Mom about things that she doesn't want her mother to know anything about? But she offered to teach me one of the techniques without asking me to say anything about what was upsetting me. I reluctantly and skeptically agreed.

I think I was surprised enough for both of us - my mother certainly wasn't - when it worked. Immediately after using some of the tapping, I felt the conflicts in my head lift for the first time in months. Every so often, when I feel really stuck in some emotional mess I can't see my way out of, I experience a measure of the same delighted surprise when I tap the right points and my tension and stress dissolves, almost magically.

I knew plenty about meridians and energy work when I first experienced energy psych, and I was still skeptical. I tend to say to people today, I know it sounds crazy, but just take a few minutes and try it - it works.

• Energy Psychology with my mother, Arlene Anisman
• Energy Tapping for Trauma