JUDITH SWACK PhD


Overcoming Medically-Related Fears,
Phobias, and Trauma with Natural
Bio-Distressing

Medical and helping professionals deal with trauma, both physical and emotional in their patients, patients family and friends, and themselves on a daily basis. When people seek medical advice and treatment because they suspect or know they have a serious illness, they always have diagnosis shock. In fact there is no way to tell patients that they have a serious illness without causing diagnosis shock. In addition, the news that there are no good treatment options, or that available treatment options are painful or extreme (such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, lifelong medication) causes shock.

Many people work well and respectfully with their doctors and health care providers. However, it is not uncommon for shocked patients to blame their doctors, health care providers, and other helping professionals for upsetting them (another form of “shoot the messenger”).Traumatized clients may act with distrust, refuse to comply with treatment recommendations, and even turn the people who are trying to help them into the enemy. In addition, many patients have phobias that interfere with medical treatment such as claustrophobia (in MRI and CAT scans), fear of needles, shots, doctors, hospitals, the medical profession in general.Alternatively, traumatized anxious patients call their medical and helping professionals too frequently asking for reassurance that never really registers.

This is difficult for the practitioner as well as the patient. Many practitioners feel traumatized and drained by these kinds of interactions with their patients. They go home from work feeling like they are about to burn out and wonder once again why they chose this profession.

In this one-day workshop, I will present a brief therapeutic approach called Healing from the Body Level UpSM (HBLUSM) methodology and teach participants the Natural Bio-Destressing technique, for rapidly clearing phobic reactions from the conscious mind, the unconscious mind, and the body.

Phobias and traumas are irrational and exaggerated reactions caused by shocking experiences that trigger the fight/flight/freeze reflex (sympathetic alarm response). This conditioned response imprints in the body as unprocessed physical or emotional pain. Later, environmental cues can trigger a "body flashback" to the original memory causing a phobic reaction. Since phobic reactions are not under conscious control, we use Natural Bio-Destressing to activate the body’s calming reflex (relaxation response), reestablish homeostasis in the autonomic nervous system, and eliminate the phobic reaction.

This technique, which requires no prior experience to learn or use successfully, releases the phobic or trauma imprint by stimulating nerve endings through tapping (with fingertips) selected areas of the face, torso, and hands combined with left brain/right brain integration techniques. This technique can even be administered to children to help them overcome fear of animals, water, doctor’s visits, etc.

In this training you will learn how to use Natural Bio-Destressing to:

1. Prevent trauma in patients, their families and friends… and yourself while:

  • Suggesting diagnostic tests
  • Performing diagnostic procedures
  • Delivering bad news
  • Discussing treatment options

2. Prevent physical and emotional pain and trauma and promote rapid healing from:

  • Surgery
  • Other physical injury and illness

3  Prevent trauma and burnout to yourself while taking care of others

In this course, Dr. Swack will:

  1. Give an overview of HBLU methodology
  2. Describe the neurochemistry and regulation of the fight/flight/freeze reflex (sympathetic alarm response)
  3. Describe the structure of Phobias
  4. Describe the structure of Loss, Violence, Physical Injury Trauma, and Diagnosis Shock
  5. Teach participants the Natural Bio-Destressing technique (an energy psychology technique) for quickly and reliably clearing shock imprints from the body, unconscious, and conscious mind
  6. Teach participants an easy and acceptable way to explain the technique to your clients and patients so they will use it to manage anxiety
  7. Teach participants how to use Natural Bio-Destressing to detraumatize themselves to maintain boundaries and prevent burnout
  8. Demonstrate the Applied Kinesiology technique of muscle testing to elicit information directly from the unconscious mind and body.

All participants will receive a manual containing the Natural Bio-Destressing technique, a copy of my research article, “Diagnosis Shock, the Unrecognized Burden of Illness,” and protocols for muscle testing self and others.

Note:  Although violence trauma will be described briefly in this workshop, the therapeutic complexities which accompany sexual violence make it unsuitable for inclusion in an introductory workshop.


 

Judith A. Swack, has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and postdoctoral training in human immunology. She is a Master Practitioner of NLP, a Certified Hypnotherapist, and trained in TFT/DX.She has developed Healing from the Body Level UpSM (HBLU), a holistic psychotherapy system integrating biomedical science, psychology, applied kinesiology, NLP, energy psychology, and original research.

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