Do You Know
How Effective Treatments Were
By Roger J. Callahan, PhD
The
Thought Field - Vol 10, Issue 1, Jan 2004
Nature,
to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Sir Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, (1620)
The
objective approach to concepts leads to the view that … knowledge is the grasp
of an object through an active, … reality-based process.
Leonard Piekoff,
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Any Rand, (1991)
A
quarter century ago, I began the investigations that led to my developing what I
later called Thought Field Therapy (TFT) beginning with the most important
single discovery, psychological reversal.
The
reason that TFT is so unusually effective, in addition to knowing how to
identify and correct psychological reversal, is that nothing was admitted into
TFT unless the item contributed clearly to a reduction of an actual problem in a
real person. I tried many things that did not make the cut. For example, I
experimented with different eye movements, such as eyes up right, left, etc.,
than those I finally selected as part of what I later came to call the nine
gamut. Incidentally, my first book, Five Minute Phobia Cure had all the items
in the nine gamut but they were not unified into what I later called the nine
gamut; they were separate and disparate. Since each was treated by tapping the
gamut spot, I later combined them into a unit and what is now called “the nine
gamut treatments.” Eye positions have been used in NLP to diagnose favored
modes of perception. I used them as possible treatment modes and the actual
treatment I discovered would give power to these modes was the tapping of the
gamut point while the eye position (or humming, counting, and humming) was held.
The sole
basis of selection of a treatment item, was the immediate evidence of a client
report that the problem was reduced. If a problem was not reduced by a
procedure, the procedure was discarded. So the client report was the final and
sole authority. I used the client report as the means to discover treatments
that were “on line with reality.” Since my purpose was to provide help to people
with problems this was a logical method of evaluating treatments.
One of
the possible treatments I discarded many years ago, was the slight pressure on
the skull coordinated with the breath. In a corpse the bones are rigidified and
do not move since there is no breath, leading some critics to assume that the
bones do not move. Though I found this procedure interesting, and by my own
experience I found that the presumably fixed skull bones did indeed move with
the breath as osteopaths had previously observed, I was not able to perceive any
tangible benefit. Therefore, I did not include this in my repertoire.
About 5
years ago, I presented some of my work on Heart Rate Variability at a
homeopathic conference in Las Vegas. Also on the program was Doris Rapp, MD,
the pediatric allergist whose work I have admired for years. She did an
interesting muscle testing demonstration that she said demonstrated that
artificial sweetener was toxic. She asked for a volunteer, pushed on the arm and
it was strong. The volunteer then held the product and the arm then went weak.
Then Dr Rapp asked the volunteer to take three deep breaths and to push on the
back of her head and her forehead while exhaling. The arm then tested strong
even though the artificial sweetener was still held. The suggestion was that
the head squeeze on exhale somehow strengthened the volunteer so that the
sweetener no longer made her weak Mind you, the volunteer felt nothing or
reported
feeling
nothing before the treatment. The only difference was the outcome of the arm
test. The implication also, was that the treatment was always to be done with
exhale. Dr Rapp also announced that she no longer used the shots, as shown on
her videos, to treat toxins but rather uses this procedure.
I must
have seen in my long career, thousands of demonstrations such as this where the
only evidence of a change was a muscle test. I have learned not to be impressed
when the sole evidence is a muscle test. If the person were upset and reported
an improvement in well-being after the treatment, I would take that as good
evidence in favor of the treatment. Many toxins, of course, do not give one
immediate feedback that something is amiss and therefore may not lend themselves
to the immediate feedback I use to evaluate a treatment. However, I paid
attention since I greatly admired Dr Rapp’s work.
Unfortunately, I had to leave hurriedly to catch my flight home. But as soon as
I got home I got out my Heart Rate Variability. I took my SDNN and it was 134.
Quite good for my age.
I then
took a piece of wheat (a known toxin for me) and I held it at my throat and took
another HRV. The SDNN dropped profoundly to a 72. I then did the head squeeze
on exhale and did another HRV while keeping the wheat at my throat. After this
treatment my SDNN went from 72 up to 152! I felt nothing while holding the
wheat, nor did I feel any improvement after the treatment. However, I believe
the SDNN to be the best objective measure of treatment efficacy extant and is a
significant addition to the client report. [It is important to note that such an
experiment cannot reasonably be carried out on one whose SDNN is already low.]
To give
you some idea of the meaning of these changes, the American Journal of
Cardiology published an article by Bilchick and others that states: “…each
increase of 10ms in SDNN conferred a 20% decrease in risk of mortality.”
If we
assume an extrapolation of the Bilchick at al work to be even somewhat correct
and if the gain should remain over time, it suggests that the treatment can
generate about a 160% decrease in the chance of death. Needless to say such
changes as this in SDNN are unheard of in the HRV literature. To give you
another standard of change, consider the research study where depressed patients
were treated with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for 16 weeks and measured
with HRV: the SDNN averaged 4% less after CBT than before treatment, leading the
researchers to wrongly conclude that depression does something permanent to
restrict heart variability. I have demonstrated this error when we treat
depression with TFT and get dramatic improvements in HRV.
I began
experimenting with this toxin treatment on my complex clients with my causal
diagnostic procedures, and found that the proper treatment was not always with
exhale, but needed to be done on inhale just as frequently. Also, I discovered
that the presence of psychological reversal could block this treatment from
working just as it can block any treatment from working. In addition, with the
help of my wife Joanne, I found that a complete treatment for toxins sometimes
required the nine gamut as well as the collar bone breathing treatments from my
repertoire. In addition to these additions there is another important discovery
in the treatment of highly complex clients which I will present at the ATFT
meeting in October.1-3.
Bilchick
KC, Fetics B, Djoukeng R, Gross-Fisher S, Fletcher RD, Singh SN, Nevo E, Berger
RD. (2002) Prognostic value of heart rate variability in chronic congestive
heart failure. American Journal of Cardiology. 90(1):24-28.
Carney, RM; Freedland, KE;
Stein, PK; Skala, JA; Hoffman, P; Jaffe, AS. (2000) Change in heart rate and
heart rate variability during treatment for depression in patients with coronary
heart disease. Psychosom Med, Sept; 62,(5): 639-647.
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