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Welcome to IPEC Therapy
Integrated Physical Emotional Clearing
Leading therapeutic approach in body mind
medicine accurate assessment and a profound and
effective treatment of allergies, physical, emotional
and psychosomatic issues .
Dr. Uri Kenig, Ph.D., IPEC Therapy Founder
Doctor in clinical psychology expert in
body mind medicine area His approach focuses in
empowering the natural healing apparatus of the body
that leads towards health issues and illnesses
resolution enabling a return to whole health.
IPEC
Therapy, Inc.
16542
Ventura Blvd., Suite 320
Encino,
California 91436
Tel:
(818) 501-8029
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Articles: Natural Allergy Solutions - Say Goodbye to
Allergies
Asthma &
Bronchitis
Diabetes - Sugar Stress
Connection
Nervous Tics / Tourette's
Syndrome
Skin
Disorders
About Energy - Part
1 About
Energy - Part
2 About
Energy - Part
3 Mind Over
Genes
Treating Migraine Headache Naturally
Natural Allergy Solutions – Say Goodbye to
Allergies
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Natural Allergy Solutions – Say goodbye to allergies
Dr. Uri Kenig, March 2012
Suffering from allergies? You are not alone
Allergies are very common among people of all ages (see
list of common symptoms). It is estimated that 1 out of
every 5 Americans suffer from allergies.
Undiagnosed allergies can develop over time into all
sorts of stubborn chronic conditions including
inflammation, infection, asthma and bronchitis,
headaches, digestive problems and more. In many
instances the sufferer is not even aware he is allergic
to a specific substance. Allergies can become a serious
problem and if not treated interfere with the quality of
life and compromise our well being!
Allergies affect people of all ages, as young
as new born babies
When we are just born the immune system is not fully
developed yet, and can mistakenly react to harmless
substances as if these are dangerous and produce an
allergy. Allergies can make babies quite miserable (and
their parents too…), restless and colicky. Symptoms as
skin rashes, digestive difficulties, and nasal
congestion are often triggered by allergies. Ear and eye
infections are common symptoms in children that can
develop due to allergies.
What is an allergy anyway?
An allergy is an hypersensitivity of the immune system
to normally harmless substance that is set in the body
memory. Once it is triggered, the body reacts by
releasing chemicals that produce the allergic reaction
in different systems in the body. It can be triggered by
what we eat, smell, touch, or even remember or imagine.
The common types of allergies people suffer from are:
Food allergies, seasonal allergies, pet allergies
environmental allergies Medication/supplements
allergies.
Why do we keep getting allergies?
As amazing as the immune system in protecting us from
invaders like bacteria, viruses and poisons it sometimes
makes mistakes. In certain situations it misidentifies
friendly substances as harmful, and then attacks the
substances with ferocity far greater than required. This
attack can cause symptoms ranging from mildly
uncomfortable to sever problems.
This exaggerated response gets embedded in the immune
system forming antibodies which are our body memory.
From now on and every time you come in contact with this
specific food or substance, antibodies in your blood
trigger a response that includes the release of
histamines and other substances. Within minutes to
hours, a variety of symptoms, including itchy mouth,
swollen tongue, hives, wheezing, skin rashes, nausea,
vomiting and diarrhea, inflammation, aches and pains and
more severe symptoms, start to manifest. At its worst,
the reaction is anaphylaxis – a potentially
life-threatening reaction that can occur within seconds
and may lead to shock, airway closure and a
blood-pressure drop.
Multiple allergies and stress
Have you ever noticed that when you feel stressed and
experience emotional overload you tend to sneeze more,
your skin gets itchier, you feel more pain and being
attacked by more symptoms.
Research is finding that hormones (like Cortisol) and
brain chemicals (like adrenaline) released into the
bloodstream while under stress over activate the immune
system and can trigger allergic reactions to different
substances we come to contact with at the time.
Overactive nervous system due to worry or traumatic
stress can create multiple allergies to almost
everything. This is an indication of an immune system in
a full blown attack mode.
The common approach to dealing with allergies
The most widespread strategies people have to dealing
with allergies are – avoid them, suppress them with
drugs or learn to live with them. These approaches may
help manage some of the symptoms, some of the time, but
it doesn’t eliminate the problem- the allergy itself.
The alternative approach to clearing allergies,
even stubborn ones!
Wouldn’t it be better if there was an allergy treatment
alternative to drugs, shots or other invasive
intervention? The good news there is one.
In this approach, instead of trying to fight the
allergy, the focus of treatment is on “turning off” the
exaggerated response of the immune system in the
presence of the allergen, helping the immune system to
replace it with a welcoming response, eliminating the
need to fight harmless substances for no reason.
Say goodbye to allergies for good, it’s
possible
The first step in elimination allergies is to identify
the exact substances the immune system is over-reacting
to. This is done using a bio feedback technique called
muscle testing which can uncover blocks in the energy
pathways in the body caused by the allergy. Many people
who suffer from different symptoms are surprised to find
out they are allergic to seemingly harmless things, and
even healthy people are surprised to find they are
allergic too. The clearing process involves gentle
stimulating of specific reflex points and spinal nerves
while making contact with the allergen. This
intervention restores a balanced response to the body,
nervous and the immune systems. The outcome in most
cases of the treatment is that the body no longer has to
over reacts to the allergen, which means that the
allergy was successfully eliminated and the person can
be in touch with these allergens with no consequences.
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Asthma & Bronchitis
http://ipectherapy.com/articles/asthma-bronchitis/
Begin reverse your
breathing problems today
Dr. Uri Kenig, April 2013
Are you one of those people suffering from a
breathing problem with no end in sight?
If you have chronic Asthma, Bronchitis, heavy breathing,
COPD or any other breathing conditions, this article is
going to help you find an important answer to your
problem.
Millions of people of all ages in the US suffer from
chronic respiratory symptoms and use inhalers,
nebulizers and other anti-inflammatory drugs to breathe
normally. Let’s face it, it is impossible to function
normally and feel well when breathing is compromised.
Many sufferers resign to the notion that they have to
live with their breathing problem for the rest of their
lives, and continue using the prescribed drugs, giving
up hope for a lasting solution.
What is wrong with the common treatment for
breathing problems?
Link: Common symptoms in Asthma & bronchitis website
article
The common Doctor’s recommendation for breathing
problems is prescription drugs for symptom relief. Did
you ever stop to think about what these drugs really do?
Probably not. The ”magic” of these drugs is symptom
suppression, to relieve the discomfort and pain yet it
does not equal healing or cure! For the simple reason
that nothing is really done to reverse the cause of the
problem and restore healthy breathing.
What is the cause for most breathing problems?
For all those who suffer from hyperventilation, asthma,
bronchitis, and other respiratory problems, it might
come as a big surprise to find out that the cause of
most of these difficulties is simple – over breathing.
While over breathing or hyperventilation is associated
with anxiety, and loud snoring may be the punch line of
many jokes on married couples, these are indications for
breathing problems that may end up becoming serious
issues for your respiratory system and general health.
On the surface, it might sound contradictory that over
breathing is linked with breathing difficulties, but
numerous research studies validate the findings that
under the influence of physical, emotional or mental
stress, we tend to breathe faster, through our mouth
consuming large amounts of oxygen in an effort to supply
our body with more oxygen.
At the same time, we also exhale a considerable amount
of Carbon dioxide (co2). What most people don’t know is
that in order to absorb and utilize oxygen efficiently
in our body, we need the presence of about 7% Carbon
Dioxide (co2).
Without it, the oxygen can’t be transported and absorbed
efficiently into the cells and tissue all over the body.
Breathing this way over time develops into a habitual
breathing stress pattern and leads to a decrease in
metabolism, compromised immune system and build up of
inflammation that leads to atherosclerosis formation.
All these changes lead to gradual oxygen deprivation in
the cells that eventually develops into respiratory
ailments.
The solution:
Teach your respiratory system to breath normally
while eliminating the causes creating stress in the
mind
Extensive research found out different natural ways to
teach the respiratory system to breath naturally and
effectively, i.e., to supply the needed amounts of
oxygen to every cell in the body, while maintaining the
required levels of CO2 all over the body at any given
moment.
Since the respiratory system is easily influenced by
chronic states of stress, it is quickly adopting
Mal-functioning habits of breathing. Having said that,
it just makes sense that the respiratory system is able
to learn to breath normally and naturally again.
Teaching the respiratory system to breath normally again
can take place in two forms:
- Breathing exercise protocols
- Using breathing devices
These methods of breathing, are focusing on the three
elements needed to restore normal breathing:
- Reduce Oxygen intake (hypoxia)
- Increase CO2 intake (hypercapnia)
- Strengthen the respiratory system’s muscles (mainly
the Diaphragm)
When a protocol of systemic breathing exercises is
taking place, is geared mainly towards the first two
elements – Reduce oxygen intake and increase CO2 intake.
This leads to normalizing of the over breathing
(hyperventilation), hence, the entire body, and not only
the respiratory system, gets more oxygen and the low
levels of CO2 are replenished. These exercises require
time, effort, discipline and perseverance, but are
definitely improving the breathing efficacy altogether.
Training with breathing devices will improve
significantly all three breathing elements – reduce
oxygen intake, increase CO2 intake and strengthen the
respiratory system’s muscles. And while improving the
physical aspect of breathing, one has to eliminate all
the hindering triggers that caused and keep causing his
stress system to be activated on a constant basis with
no relief. This perpetual activation, send signals to
bring in more air in order to supply the extra need in
oxygen under the survival demands that keep inflicting
the person’s mind. The triggers for the survival mode
are traumatic based beliefs, that even though may have
been formed years before, these still surfacing in
non-threatening events, misinterpreting the current
events as ones with potential to threat the very
survival of the person.Since these beliefs are data
recorded in the mind, carrying powerful negative charge,
this charge, while being properly identified, can
convert to be either benign or positive charge. This
kind of therapy would reduce dramatically the load from
the stress system, and will be able to support the
acceleration and the quality of the process of teaching
the respiratory system to breath normally and healthily.
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Diabetes Care – Sugar Stress Connection
http://ipectherapy.com/articles/diabetes-sugar-stress-connection/
Dr. Uri Kenig, February 2013
Is glucose (sugar) good for your health?
Everyone has glucose (sugar) in their blood. It is the
fuel for the body’s cells. Glucose comes from the food
we eat as well as what the body produces. Insulin,
produced in the pancreas, moves the sugar from the blood
stream to the cells where it is used for energy. In
diabetes, sugar cannot travel from the blood stream into
the body cells so it stays in the blood. This is caused
when either when the body does not produce enough
insulin or when it does not use insulin correctly. Over
time, high blood sugar, called hyperglycemia, can lead
to serious health problems such as heart attacks,
strokes, and blindness.
What is the sugar-stress connection?
Millions of Americans suffer from type 2 diabetes and
fluctuating sugar
levels which not surprisingly have strong associations
with stress.
People with diabetes can’t keep a lid on blood sugar,
says David Sledge, MD, medical director of diabetes
management at The Ochsner Clinic Foundation in Baton
Rouge, La. It is mainly due to an increased production
of stress hormones that reduce insulin action. In
addition, under stress, people tend to eat comfort foods
that are loaded with sugar and avoid exercise which
further exacerbates the situation.
When we are stressed, our blood glucose (sugar) levels
in the body shoots up very quickly. Stress hormones like
Epinephrine and Cortisol kick in. One of their major
functions is to raise blood sugar to help boost energy
when it’s needed most. Think of the fight-or-flight
response. You can’t fight danger when your blood sugar
is low, so it rises to help meet the challenge.
Stress can send our blood sugar out of whack. When it is
situational and temporary it is not associated with
diabetes. Generally, it is the longer-term stress
reactions that tax the system and have much more effect
on blood sugar levels. This is when the system is
weakening.
What is Insulin resistance?
In this condition muscles, fat and liver cells are
resistant to entry of glucose and as a result this sugar
stays in the blood stream. Long term stress can affect
Insulin resistance. The pancreas produces more insulin
to deal with the problem which causes more build up of
sugar in the blood. The end result is both high levels
of glucose and insulin in the blood which increases the
chance of developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
How can you manage your glucose levels?
People with diabetes tend to use insulin to manage
glucose level. This intervention may balance glucose
levels temporarily until the next spike or drop in
glucose levels. It is important to address the role
stress plays in the “sugar roller coaster”. Clearing
unhealthy stress reactions and developing healthy life
style habits can lead to better glucose control,
improvement in immune system function and reverse or
minimize the diabetes conditions. Developing a well
balanced diet and incorporating exercise is important as
part of a comprehensive approach.
IPEC Therapy® is an integrative
body-mind treatment that works to help you identify and
transform how you react and cope with stress so you can
get off the blood sugar roller coaster . This is done
using the natural biofeedback system within your body.
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Nervous Tics / Tourette’s Syndrome
http://ipectherapy.com/articles/nervous-tics-tourettes-syndrome/
The Brain-Mind Connection
Dr. Uri Kenig, October 2010
What is a tic?
Most people
don’t know that a tic is actually a muscle spasm that goes
through the emotional part of the brain before it makes
the muscle move. Many of the tics people have involve
involuntary twitches mostly in the face, arms or
shoulders. Typically, the twitching occurs in the corner
of the mouth, grimacing, twitching of the corner of the
eye, blinking, or jerking movements with the arms,
shoulders, neck or hands. In some sever cases nail biting
is considered a tic as well.
Nervous tics occur in sudden bouts and are very difficult to
control. While some people manage to suppress them for a
short time, it usually takes a lot of concentration and can
be exhausting. In fact, suppressing tics is like trying to
suppress a sneeze that really wants to come out, and once
released; most people feel a sense of relief afterwards.
Tourette’s syndrome includes both body and
vocal tics like throat clearing ,grunting, squeaking, or
repeating words. It can also include blurting out obscene
words or gestures with little control.
Who tends to suffer from tics?
Nervous tics typically develop in children and teens, and
while many of them
are transient and disappear after a while, few weeks or
months, sometimes tics can
become a life-long problem.
Often, the person who has tics is disconnected from the
source of the stress that triggered it while the muscles
continue to spasm. Research studies found a link between
tics and the sympathetic nervous system (SNC) which controls
the bodily reactions to emotions. Chronic anxiety, stress
and unresolved trauma can trigger over activity of the
sympathetic nervous system that doesn’t turn off. It
triggers among other things ongoing involuntary muscle
twitching.
Nervous tics can be difficult to manage and while there are
a few prescription medications to control the symptoms, most
come with unwanted side-effects, and do not address the root
cause of the problem.
The
natural treatment for Tics
IPEC Therapy is a natural body-mind treatment that can help
eliminate or decrease tics significantly by transforming how
the body and the mind respond to stress. The treatment
focus is on “ turning off” and calming the overactive
sympathetic nervous system(SNC) and helping the
body-mind system to identify and release physical and mental
stress in ways that allow the nervous system to stay
relaxed and balanced.
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Skin Disorders
https://web.archive.org/web/20170111123446/http://ipectherapy.com/articles/skin-disorders/
The Mind-Skin Connection
Dr. Uri Kenig, June 2011
What do you need to
know about skin?
We don’t
realize it but our skin is an organ just like the heart,
lung and liver. Actually, it is the body’s largest organ
and perhaps it’s most sensitive. The skin has a large
amount of nerve endings networked through the entire skin,
to sense the outside environment and react to it and it is
closely connected with our nervous system and brain.
The skin is also our boundary with the outside world.
Researchers studying the field of mind-skin
connection have discovered that the body’s reaction to
feelings of high alert and difficulties to protect
psychological boundaries like saying “no”, setting limits
and expressing emotions, creates stress, that if not
released, can find its way out to the surface, often through
the skin.
How can
emotional turmoil trigger or aggravate skin problems?
Unresolved Stress and emotional factors can affect the skin
health by setting off several physiological reactions in the
body:
1. Release of hormones like Cortisol that thicken hair
follicle cells and increase oil production, the perfect
recipe for Acne.
2. Release of neuropeptides, chemicals unleashed from nerve
endings in the skin that leave it red, itchy and inflamed.
3. Production of T- cells by the immune system, the
skin’s infection fighters that overreact, causing redness,
flake and scale.
4. blood vessels under stress become more reactive; either
constricted (so skin looks pale or yellow) or opening too
widely (causing the skin to flush).
Stress can tip the balance between
dormant viruses and immune system and lead to an
outbreak of shingles, herpes and cold sores. Stress
also affects the skin’s repair mechanisms and that is why it
takes longer than usual to heal. Many times, the efforts to
avoid stressful situations and the feelings aroused because
of it, trigger the skin symptoms.
What can be done if your skin problems
just don’t go away?
If you suffer from some chronic skin problems that don’t go
away with dermatological medical treatment, we offer a
highly effective treatment to clear your skin problems from
the inside out.
IPEC Therapy® is an integrative body-mind treatment that
helps you transform the way your body and mind react to
stress, so it doesn’t have to flair you skin. Using the
natural biofeedback system in your body, your skin clears up
naturally and you develop psychological resilience to deal
with stress in healthy ways without aggravating your
skin.
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About Energy – Part 1
http://ipectherapy.com/articles/energy-part-1/
Part 1 of 3
Dr. Uri Kenig, December 2005
The
Universe
Looking up in the sky at night, every night, for years,
for decades, for millennia, we see the same patterns of
stars, changing according to the seasons’ alternations,
but keeping all along the same order. It all seems set in
a stationary position, lacking movement but it is not so.
There is a constant movement taking place all along,
influencing and determining our lives. Let us view some
data:
• The Moon is circulating around its own axis at a speed
of ~13 Miles per Hour (MPH) (~21 Kilometers per Hour
[KPH]), while circulating the Earth in a speed of ~1,900
MPH (~3,000 KPH).
• The Earth is circulating around its own axis at a speed
of ~1,100 MPH (~1,800 KPH), while circulating the Sun in a
speed of ~67,000 MPH (~107,200 KPH).
• The Solar System is circulating within its own galaxy,
The Milky Way, at a speed of ~560,000 MPH (~900,000 KPH).
• The Milky Way is circulating around Local Group of
Galaxies (whose distance from The Milky Way galaxy ranges
from 30 light years to hundreds of light years) at a speed
of ~1,100,000 MPH (~1,800,000 KPH).
Can you imagine what kind of speeds are we talking about?
The amazing thing is that these speeds, all proportions of
distances and positions between Earth and its Moon, the
Sun, the other planets in the solar system, and the
location within our own Milky Way galaxy, all of these
have been kept accurately all along. Everything is
constantly moving in a coordinated manner, like an endless
dance with countless partners, keeping all along the same
celestial stability and order. This is really amazing.
What is the power that holds it altogether?
This picture of the universe has been accurately reflected
in each of the living species on earth. For example, all
humans are built and constructed almost identically across
geography and race. In the human body the location of
organs and tissues are the same, the physiology is the
same. From the moment of fertilization, all new cells know
exactly where to go and what is their role in the emerging
body-mind. The relationship between the organs and tissues
are being kept the same, even though every cell in the
body keeps changing once a year. The person looks like a
steady object but even when he stands still or is asleep,
there is a constant inner movement in the tissues and the
organs. The heart is constantly beating, the lungs
ceaselessly pumping air, the blood keeps flowing, the
muscles are tensing and relaxing, the nervous system is
regularly firing electrical pulses, the brain is
incessantly processing thoughts, feelings and images and
every cell in the body is continuously vibrating in a
specific predetermined pace. There is a constant dynamic
movement all along, yet, everything is at the same place,
keeps same distances and proportions, in an amazing
celestial order. The same question should be asked again:
what is the power that holds it all together?
Energy’s Continuous Flow
For the entire history of mankind, people have been trying
to explain this force. The physicists explain it as
gravity while religions endow it to spiritual explanations
of higher powers. I will not get into this debate that
goes along with the old issue of evolution vs. creation.
These debates try to make sense of our life phenomena
through presentation of explanations. For the purpose of
understanding the issues of energy, I will not try to
explain these phenomena, but rather, I will observe it the
way it is manifested. I would name this absolute power as
energy. It is steadily flowing throughout every
manifestation of life and inanimate objects. It flows
through all the living creatures, between them through the
geography of the planets, through the solar system,
through all galaxies, through the entire universe.
The energy is being manifested in different ways: fire,
air blow, heat, cold, water, gases, weather conditions,
explosions, radiation, electricity, radio waves,
electromagnetism, gravity, light spectrum, plant growth,
vibrations of the living creatures, thoughts, feelings and
more ways of energy manifestations.
This celestial order is being maintained because all
objects have each a specific energetic identification
code; each object radiates a unique energy pattern that
might be similar to those emitted by other objects, but is
not identical to the energy emitted by any other object.
Each object is simultaneously playing a double role: being
a transmitter and being a receiver at the same time; it is
functioning like a broadcast unit, which is ceaselessly
sending its specific energetic code, and it is functioning
like an antenna, which ceaselessly keeps receiving
multitude of specific energetic codes from all objects
around it, in close and/or far proximity.
This is how energy is flowing from one particle to
another, from one object to another, as tiny as a molecule
and as gigantic as a planet. The object can be tangible
like furniture, liquid, plant, body-limb, organ, an organ
cell and many more. The object can be non-tangible like
gas, radiation, radio waves, thoughts, feelings, ideas and
many more.
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About Energy – Part 2
http://ipectherapy.com/articles/energy-part-2/
Part 2 of 3
Energy
Velocity in Relation to Body-Mind
Albert Einstein surprised the world in 1905 when he
presented his theory of relativity. He showed how mass and
energy are the same substance but with different
manifestations. He determined that the ultimate speed in
the universe is the speed of light (~188,000 miles per
second; ~300,000 kilometers per second; ~675,000,000 MPH;
~1,080,000,000 KPH). So the speed of the energy that holds
it all together is the speed of light or maybe even
faster.
In order to try to comprehend the speed of the energy that
holds the entire universe, let’s bear these simple facts
in mind:
• A car engine rotates tens of times per second in order
to propel a ~2000 pound car at a speed of up to ~140 miles
per hour.
• A jet engine rotates thousands of times per second in
order to lift in the air a weight of several tens of tons
and is flying at an average speed of ~500 miles per hour.
• There are no technical and/or scientific means to
measure the speed of vibrations of the living cell; it
might be millions of vibrations per second.
• Try to imagine how many vibrations per second should the
engine that energizes the universe, run? At what kind of
speed does this energy need to flow in order to maintain
and hold the entire universe hanging there in space?
This fast energy is the glue that connects all phenomena
in the universe; giving us the impression that all is
stationary while in reality it is all in constant
movement, an extremely fast one. When all particles are
connected together by the energy, the universe becomes
one, one complete unit that contains it all. So when we
talk about body or mind we are talking about the same
thing; one is the reflection of the other and there are no
boundaries where the mind ends and the body starts, or
boundaries where the body ends and the mind starts.
Energy and the five senses
Throughout the history of mankind, humans have learned to
master their environment to a large extent. They have
learned to utilize different aspects of energy, from the
discovery of fire in the ancient days, through the
invention of steam engines to more complex forms of
engines; from the discovery of electricity,
electromagnetism, radio waves, until today’s advanced
world of airplanes, computers, space travel, satellites
broadcast, cellular telephones, and technology that makes
day-to-day life more comfortable.
Humans have taken these aspects of energy for granted.
Yesterday’s invention amazed them but today they are
already used to it, waiting for the next new surprise.
People have been focusing on the phenomena captured by
their five senses and naturally have ignored whatever is
beyond the range of their senses (e.g. ultra violet and
infra red rays). As we know, energy has been manifested in
so many ways. Our five senses help us to be oriented
through our environment. We see objects; we hear, smell,
taste and touch them. We are able instantly to distinguish
among all their forms; the tangible solids and liquids
that we can smell and hear, and for the most part we
ignore all other forms that cannot be perceived with our
five senses. Our technology has helped us detect many
other energy manifestations that are out of our range, but
it did not help us a bit to improve our ability to grasp
phenomena beyond our five senses.
Cellular telephones are a must in our modern life and
since this instrument is doing its job, only few would
bother to wonder how the voice travels to this gadget,
what the voices are made of and how a picture travels
through air into the cellular phone screen.
Energy and Research
History
So while the majority of people have been busy with their
routine life, relying mainly on the world as it is
captured by their five senses, there have always been
groups of people that could not rest and accept as a total
truth what is perceived through the five senses.
This group is called researchers. We have heard about
their findings along the history of mankind. Seven
thousand years ago the Chinese found the energy of life
which they named Chi, and developed the system of
Acupuncture. There are the Greek philosophers and
scientists that found more than three thousand years ago
some basic truths about our life energy and how to
incorporate it to the medical field. One prominent name is
Sir Isaac Newton who made a falling apple famous and those
parts of his mathematical formula are still valid
today. The list is long, but I would like to focus only on
a few researchers in order to get the flavor of how
advanced is the research of different aspects of energy,
and how energy therapy could emerge through these
important findings.
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About Energy – Part 3
http://ipectherapy.com/articles/energy-part-3/
Part 3 of 3
Plants Research
A book by the name The
Secret Life of Plants was
published in the early 1970’s. The authors contended that
plants hold certain consciousness in a form of unique
energy, which is unlike the regular consciousness of
humans. They reported about numerous experiments made by
researchers across the globe indicating that plants
radiate unique energy as a communication mechanism with
their environment.
Marcel Vogel, a notorious expert on crystal healing
energy, decided to experiment with plants energy. He
reported that plants can get “hurt” by human thoughts and
bad intentions, or can “feel” thrilled and alive in the
presence of people’s good intentions. When people
intentionally gave affection and attention to detached
leaves that were put on a glass plate, these leaves
remained alive green and fresh for days. At the same time
similar detached leaves that were put in glass plates in
the same room but did not get any attention died very soon
after the experiment started.
In another set of experiments during the late 1960’s, the
world-renowned expert on Lie Detector
machines, Cleve Backster, used
a Lie Detector machine, like the one used by police, to
measure the subtle electrical energy discharged by plants.
The Lie Detector machine is an electronic device that is
reactive to very low electrical currents. Sets of wires
connected to the machine are attached to the surface of
leaves or plants with electrodes. The machine is also
connected to a metal needle with ink in it, and whenever
the machine senses an electrical charge, it moves the
needle across a roll of paper to create a specific pattern
of drawing.
Cleve Backster found that the intensity of the energy
discharged from the surface of leaves differed from plant
to plant and at times, even differed from one leaf to
another, belonging to the same plant. In order to check
how systemic the phenomena he had measured were, he
experimented with different kinds of intentions in his
mind as:
* Intention to love the plant.
* Intention to tear it apart.
* Intention to keep the leaf intact while maintaining a
fake thought that he is going to tear it up.
* Intention to tear it apart while maintaining a fake
thought that he is going to keep the leaf intact
The leaves always reacted in distress to the bad
intentions by discharging significant subtle energy and
stayed with low discharge when there was no real threat.
When he focused his attention to love and admire the
beauty of the leaf, a smooth and large electrical
discharge showed on the drawing pattern.
Marcel Vogel replicated Cleve Backster’s findings. He
found out that there were researchers that could not
replicate the results of these experiments while other
researchers could. He concluded that when a researcher
gave mechanistic attention and not genuine affection from
the heart, the plants knew the difference, thus did not
respond to the mechanistic researcher. Researchers that
did not really believe in this “crazy” stuff and kept an
inner attitude of disrespect towards the entire
experimentation process, even though they were doing all
the procedures right, had not achieved any results and the
drawing were sporadic and held no patterns in them.
These findings and many others alike, hold in them the
essence of the secret of healing; the inner intentions of
the therapist as well as the intentions of the client are
the key for successful healing. These intentions are the
channel that connects the total energy of the universe to
the self-healing mechanism residing in any human being. In
my years as a therapist and as a teacher these findings of
Marcel Vogel were confirmed in my experience time and time
again. A correct therapeutic procedure done by a therapist
that in his heart does not feel the truth of energy
therapy premises will yield no therapeutic results.
Gary Schwartz, a professor of Psychology in the University
of Arizona, wanted to follow the findings reported in The
Secret Life of Plants from a different angle. He decided
to explore in 2003 whether plants hold energy. He built a
sophisticated camera device to take pictures in a
completely darkened room. Leaves were placed in the dark
room for hours prior to their pictures being taken, in
order to settle down in the darkness. Then the camera’s
shutter was opened for hours and could collect in this
pitch-black environment pictures of the energy that the
plants emitted in a form of light. This light was seen at
the margins of the leaf and along all the net of fibers
that was laid along the leaf. In another experiment,
leaves were torn apart, and then were laid on a glass
plate. The pictures that were produced later showed that
the torn edges radiated with a stronger light than the
natural edges. Gary Schwartz could show through these
experiments two findings:
1. All organic forms of life constantly emit energy.
2. When an organic form of energy gets wounded (torn
leave), it redirects its energy towards the injured site
(like the immune system activity in humans) in order to
promote healing. Research in Energy Therapy
Different forms of magnet therapy may go back to one
hundred thousand years ago. Ancient cultures would use
kinds of magnets and amber to promote healing. In modern
days we are witnessing numerous energy healing methods
like Reiki, Touch for Health, polarity therapy, tapping
therapy and more. I would like to review a few aspects of
energy therapy and research.
In 1773, Anton Mesmer started passing magnets next to his
clients’ bodies; this created in them strong sensations
like energy flowing through them. He later on found he
could create the same results without magnets, using only
his hands. He published his book Memoir on the Discovery
of Animal Magnetism in 1779 in which he reported about the
numerous experiments and findings he had with this
therapy.
Spanning two hundred years, from the early 1700’s to the
early 1900’s, electrotherapy was widespread and multiple
devices were invented for the purpose of this therapy. One
could find a variety of electrotherapy devices in the
Sears Roebuck catalog in 1902. These therapies were highly
popular and claimed to create all kinds of healing
results. The lack of real medical standardization brought
the federal government in USA to intervene, and eventually
all electrotherapy devices were rendered illegal and
ceased to exist for many years. It is only during recent
years that there is a reemergence of therapy with
electrical devices.
One prominent researcher was Harold Burr, an anatomy
professor at Yale University from 1933 to 1973. He, like
many other scientists at his time, was intrigued by trying
to discover the “blueprint” of the living cell, how it
receives the “commands” to become this organ or another
and the body is evolved. He was sure that a multitude of
energy fields is controlling our life, and standard
devices can measure these energy fields. He was sure that
since energy fields control every aspect of our body, any
activity in the body, as health or disease, could be
detected. In the mid thirties he tested these ideas on two
frontiers:
• He reported about findings that a woman’s ovulation
could be detected by an electrical device that can measure
the subtle energy discharges from the reproductive system.
The device measures the increasing electrical discharge
from day to day prior to ovulation; once the ovulation is
over, the measured electrical current drops dramatically.
• He reported measuring cancerous processes in different
locations in the body that held different and unique
electrical fields. He used special standardized devices to
detect them.
Although in the mid thirties his experiments could not be
replicated, in the last few years, new paradigms and
better technology could prove his ideas have validity.
In another experiment, Gary Schwartz took two groups of
Reiki therapists and asked them to administer a Reiki
therapy session to E-coli bacteria. He placed the culture
of bacteria in glass plates. The therapists had to place
their hands close to the e-coli plates, without any
physical contact with the bacteria and/or the plate
itself, and/or any contact with their colleagues, all the
while trying to project positive energy over the bacteria.
He instructed the Reiki therapists to focus their
attention on keeping the bacteria healthy and alive. Prior
to the experiment and at the end of the experiment, all
therapists filled in questionnaires about their
self-esteem. The findings of the experiment were
astonishing:
• Approximately 60% of the overall plates with cultures of
bacteria had much more bacteria in them; they had
proliferated during the course of the 45 minutes of the
Reiki session.
• In the other 40% of the overall plates with cultures of
bacteria, the number of e-coli decreased significantly, or
remained the same.
• In the group that increased the number of e-coli,
approximately 50% of them felt better about themselves, as
it was reflected through the results of the
questionnaires. The other 50% of the therapists in this
group did not have any significant change in the way they
felt about themselves.
• In the group that reduced the e-coli bacteria,
approximately 60% of them felt worse about themselves as
it was reflected through the results of the
questionnaires. The other 40% of the therapists in this
group did not have any significant change in the way they
felt about themselves.
Isn’t it amazing? Someone is treating bacteria with energy
(has no idea what the result is because the results
can be measured only by powerful microscope after the end
of the session) and feeling good or bad about himself,
corresponding to the increase or decrease in the number of
the bacteria. This is the power of the energy of the mind
over living matter.
Dr. Uri Kenig
Ph.D., December 2005
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Mind Over Genes
http://ipectherapy.com/articles/mind-genes/
Dr. Bruce Lipton, July 2009
Earlier in my career as a research scientist and
medical school professor, I actively supported the
perspective that the human body was a “biochemical
machine ‘programmed’ by its genes. We scientists
believed that our strengths, such as artistic or
intellectual abilities, and our weaknesses, such as
cardiovascular disease, cancer or depression,
represented traits that were pre-programmed into our
genes. Hence I perceived life’s attributes and deficits,
as well as our health and our frailties as merely a
reflection of our heredity expression.
Until recently, it was thought that genes were
self-actualizing…that genes could ‘turn themselves on
and off.’ Such behavior is required in order for genes
to control biology. Though the power of genes is still
emphasized in current biology courses and textbooks, a
radically new understanding has emerged at the leading
edge of cell science. It is now recognized that the
environment, and more specifically, our perception
(interpretation)of the environment, directly controls
the activity of our genes. Environment controls gene
activity through a process known as epigenetic control.
This new perspective of human biology does not view the
body as just a mechanical device, but rather
incorporates the role of a mind and spirit. This
breakthrough in biology is fundamental in all healing
for it recognizes that when we change our perception or
beliefs we send totally different messages to our cells
and reprogram their expression. The new-biology reveals
why people can have spontaneous remissions or recover
from injuries deemed to be permanent disabilities.
The functional units of life are the individual cells
that comprise our bodies. Though every cell is innately
intelligent and can survive on its own when removed from
the body, in the body, each cell forgoes its
individuality and becomes a member of a multicellular
community. The body really represents the cooperative
effort of a community of perhaps fifty trillion single
cells. By definition, a community is an organization of
individuals committed to supporting a shared vision.
Consequently, while every cell is a free-living entity,
the body’s community accommodates the wishes and intents
of its ‘central voice,’ a character we perceive as the
mind and spirit.
When the mind perceives that the environment is safe
and supportive, the cells are preoccupied with the
growth and maintenance of the body. In stressful
situations, cells forgo their normal growth functions
and adopt a defensive ‘protection’ posture. The body’s
energy resources normally used to sustain growth are
diverted to systems that provide protection during
periods of stress. Simply, growth processes are
restricted or suspended in a stressed system. While our
systems can accommodate periods of acute (brief) stress,
prolonged or chronic stress is debilitating for its
energy demands interfere with the required maintenance
of the body, and as a consequence, leads to dysfunction
and disease.
The principle source of stress is the system’s ‘central
voice,’ the mind. The mind is like the driver of a
vehicle. With good driving skills, a vehicle can be
maintained and provide good performance throughout its
life. Bad driving skills generate most of the wrecks
that litter the roadside or are stacked in junkyards. If
we employ good “driving skills” in managing our
behaviors and dealing with our emotions, then we should
anticipate a long, happy and productive life. In
contrast, inappropriate behaviors and dysfunctional
emotional management, like a bad driver, stress the
cellular ‘vehicle,’ interfering with its performance and
provoking a breakdown.
Are you a good driver or a bad driver? Before you
answer that question, realize that there are two
separate minds that create the body’s controlling
‘central voice.’ The (self)conscious mind is the
thinking ‘you,’ it is the creative mind that expresses
free-will. Its supporting partner is the subconscious
mind, a super computer loaded with a database of
programmed behaviors. Some programs are derived from
genetics, these are our instincts and they represent
nature. However, the vast majority of the subconscious
programs are acquired through our developmental learning
experiences, they represent nurture.
The subconscious mind is not a seat of reasoning or
creative consciousness, it is strictly a
stimulus-response device. When an environmental signal
is perceived, the subconscious mind reflexively
activates a previously stored behavioral response…no
thinking required. The subconscious mind is a
programmable autopilot that can navigate the vehicle
without the observation or awareness of the pilot—the
conscious mind. When the subconscious autopilot is
controlling behavior, consciousness is free to dream
into the future or review the past.
The dual-mind system’s effectiveness is defined by the
quality of the programs carried in the subconscious
mind. Essentially, the person who taught you to drive
molds your driving skills. For example, if you were
taught to drive with one foot on the gas and the other
on the brake, no matter how many vehicles you owned,
each will inevitably express premature brake and engine
failure.
Similarly, if our subconscious mind is programmed with
inappropriate behavioral responses to life’s
experiences, then our sub-optimum ‘driving skills’ will
contribute to a life of crash and burn experiences. For
example, cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of
death, is directly attributable to behavioral programs
that mismanage the body’s response to stress.
Are you a good driver or a bad driver? The answer is
difficult for in our conscious creative mind we may
consider ourselves as good drivers, however
self-sabotaging or limiting behavioral programs in our
subconscious unobservedly undermine our efforts. We are
generally consciously unaware of our fundamental
perceptions or beliefs about life. The reason is that
the prenatal and neonatal brain is predominately
operating in delta and theta EEG frequencies through the
first six years of our lives.
This low level of brain activity is referred to as the
hypnogogic state. While in this hypnotic trance, a child
does not have to be actively coached by its parents for
they obtain their behavioral programs simply by
observing their parents, siblings, peers and teachers.
Did your early developmental experiences provide you
with good models of behavior to use in the unfoldment of
your own life?
During the first six years of life a child
unconsciously acquires the behavioral repertoire needed
to become a functional member of society. In addition, a
child’s subconscious mind also downloads beliefs
relating to self. When a parent tells a young child it
is stupid, undeserving or any other negative trait, this
too is downloaded as a ‘fact’ into the youngster’s
subconscious mind. These acquired beliefs constitute the
‘central voice’ that controls the fate of the body’s
cellular community. While the conscious mind may hold
one’s self in high regard, the more powerful unconscious
mind may simultaneously engage in self-destructive
behavior.
The insidious part of the autopilot mechanism is that
subconscious behaviors are programmed to engage without
the control of, or the observation by, the conscious
self. Since most of our behaviors are under the control
of the subconscious mind, we rarely observe them or much
less know that they are even engaged. While your
conscious mind perceives you are a good driver, the
unconscious mind that has its hands on the wheel most of
the time, may be driving you down the road to ruin.
We have been led to believe that by using will power,
we can override the negative programs of our
subconscious mind. Unfortunately, to do that, you really
have to emphasize the word ‘power,’ for one must keep a
constant vigil on one’s own behavior. The moment you
lapse in consciousness, the subconscious mind will
automatically engage and play its previously recorded
experience-based programs.
The subconscious mind is really a tape player. There is
no observing entity in the subconscious mind reviewing
the behavioral tapes. Consequently, there is no
discernment as to whether a subconscious behavioral
program is good or bad…they are just tapes. The
subconscious is strictly a playback machine, perceived
stimuli engage pre-programmed behaviors. In fact, people
upon seeing their own subconscious programs play out
frequently say something like, “That guy just pushed my
buttons!”
In contrast to the power of the conscious mind, the
subconscious mind is a million times more powerful an
information processor. Also, as neuro-scientists
emphasize, the conscious mind provides 5% or less of the
cognitive activity during the day. Ninety-five to
ninety-nine percent of our behavior is directly derived
from the subconscious. Hence the use of the word ‘power’
in the concept of will power, it takes significant
effort for the conscious mind to keep tabs on the
subconscious behavior. Positive thinking is primarily
effective if the subconscious supports the conscious
intention.
The problem with trying to reprogram the subconscious
is that we fail to realize it is playing behavioral
‘tapes.’ To understand why conscious awareness does not
readily change subconscious programs, consider this
instructive analogy: I provide you with a cassette tape
and you put it into your player and push the play
button. As the tape plays the program, you realize that
you do not like it. So, you yell at the tape player to
change the program, you ask it to play something
different.
After awhile of not getting a response, you yell louder
and get angrier at the tape player because of the lack
of a response to your request. Then when it seems
hopeless, you beseech God to help you change the
program. The point is simple, no matter how much you
yell at the tape player it will not change the program.
To change a tape, you have to push the record button and
then rerecord the program incorporating the desired
changes.
There are two ways out of the problem. Firstly, we can
become more conscious, and rely less on automated
subconscious programs. By being fully conscious, we
become the masters of our fates rather than the
‘victims’ of our programs. This path is similar to
Buddhist mindfulness. Secondly, we can use a variety of
new energy psychology modalities that enable a rapid and
profound reprogramming of limiting subconscious beliefs.
These new energy modalities provide the ability to
rewrite limiting perceptions (beliefs) and
self-sabotaging behaviors using processes that are
mechanistically similar to pushing the record program on
the subconscious mind’s tape player. With conscious
awareness, one can actively transform the character of
their lives into ones filled with love, health and
prosperity. The use of these new modalities provides a
key to personal growth and transformation. A variety of
energy psychology modalities, such as Psych-K,
Holographic Re-patterning and Body-talk, are among the
variety of programs that can be found on the web.
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Treating Migraine Headache Naturally
http://ipectherapy.com/articles/treating-migraine-headache-naturally/
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http://ipectherapy.com/publications/new/
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3. News
News:
Trichotillomania, Dermatilomania and Nail
Biting A new
IPEC course opened up in
Israel New
information regarding IPEC Therapy with
children
Treating Psoriasis, Acne and
Urticaria A
new post regarding low back pain
Trichotillomania, Dermatilomania and Nail
Biting
http://ipectherapy.com/news/new-treatment-with-trichotillomania-dermatilomania-and-nail-biting
Dr. Uri Kenig analyzes in a new post published on the
blog, how Obsessive Compulsive Disorders of
Trichotillomania, Dermatilomania and nail biting are
developed. He argues that these disorders originate in
early childhood and can be a product of a problematic
attachment between the child and his mother. He shows
how IPEC treatment can identify these primal feelings
and neutralize and clear them out of the patient’s
unconscious mind and thus, helping resolving these
disorders.
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A new IPEC course opened up in Israel
http://ipectherapy.com/news/new-ipec-course-opened-israel/
A new IPEC course has opened up in Israel on Monday,
November 10th, 2014.
The course is led by Mrs. Ruth Ophir, a registered IPEC
Therapy teacher.
It will be consisted of 23 consecutive meetings.
At the end of the course the participants will be
awarded with completion certificates and will become
certified IPEC therapists.
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Dr. Uri Kenig analyses in a new post in the blog, how,
a parent over protecting the child, can slow down and
even cancel out the effects of IPEC Therapy. Later on,
he shows how recruiting the parent into the therapeutic
process, to become a vital part of therapy, can improve
dramatically therapy outcome.
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http://ipectherapy.com/news/treating-psoriasis-acne-and-urticaria/
Treating Psoriasis, Acne and Urticaria can be at
times tough cases to handle.
Dr. Uri Kenig has treated lately successfully 3
different clients suffering from these conditions and
he is sharing these treatments in the “Case Studies”
area in the website.
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A new post regarding low back pain
http://ipectherapy.com/news/new-post-regarding-low-back-pain/
In a new post in the blog, Dr. Uri Kenig is
presenting some findings in regard to the connection
between low back pain and a prolonged, perceived
threat on the existence.