Light and Energy Medicine   Volume 8 Issue 2             STEVEN R. VAZQUEZ, PH.D.                June, 2008 "The ETT™Revolution in Therapy" (from the opening presentation at the 2008 annual conference) by Steven Vazquez, Ph.D.      ETT™ appears to represent not just another technique but a revolution in therapy itself. I never intended to start a therapeutic revolution. Instead I kept following my intuition, carefully observing how clients responded to novel methods, and reading every new therapeutic theory I could find. These things kept leading me farther and farther into a direction that became increasingly novel. Since I became accustomed to this new way of working over time, I did not realize how far away from the norm I was moving until I introduced it to my peers and new clients. Very experienced therapists repeatedly struggled to grasp this new system because it was so different from other methods. Where Does ETT™ Fit?      The most common comparison ETT™ drew was that it was some­how similar to EMDR. I suppose this was because it changed emotional states quickly; it used the eyes and its success was not dependent on talk therapy alone. However, as people became more familiar with ETT™, those points are where the comparison ends. An ETT™ clinician once said “ETT™ is infinitely more powerful and more complex than EMDR”. EMDR is a simple technique, whereas ETT™ is a complex method with numer­ous techniques within it. In fact ETT™ does offer an eye movement tech­nique within the overall method, but I list eleven ways that this eye move­ment method is different from EMDR during course four. Nonetheless, I think the comparison is offered as a complement regarding the speed and power of ETT™. Dr. Amen purportedly said ETT™ is like EMDR on LSD.      People also want to compare it to the meridian tapping methods like EFT and TFT. Followers of these methods are enamered with its quick results and naturalistic approach. Recently, in Oregon, a person came up to me and eagerly described herself as an EFT practitioner. Then after I gave my presentation and conducted several powerful demonstrations she came to me and said ETT™ is way beyond the scope and speed of merid­ian tapping methods. In Oakland, one woman compared ETT™ to hypno­sis in regard to its speed and depth achieved. Essentially people are trying to make sense of ETT™ by comparing it to a method for which they already have familiarity. I have heard comparisons to holotropic breath­work, psychiatric medications, ego state methods and more. I understand that people need to make sense of what they see and use comparisons to methods for which they already have an understanding. However, maybe none of those comparisons are reasonable. Couldn’t it be that ETT™ is simply new and different and does not fit into any of those categories?       Then there is the response of clients, particularly those who have lots of previous experience in other counseling methods. For example, one of my current clients who was on numerous medications and had been to cognitive-behavioral counseling as well as client centered counseling , described ETT™ as mind boggling, amazing, We accomplished within a couple of sessions what had not been accomplished in years of previous counseling, hospitalization and medications! She still struggled to make sense of how it works but says the whole process is totally different than anything she had previously experienced. An­other client says that ETT™ “zip lines” through all her distress. I cannot even count the number of times these types of reactions have taken place in my office! To these clients this approach is revolutionary.   What is it about ETT™ that makes it revolutionary?       According to Webster’s dictionary the term “revolution” can be defined as “an extensive or drastic change in a condition, method or idea”. ETT™ qualifies as revolutionary according to this definition. There is an upside and a downside to ETT™ representing a revolution. Revolutionary leaders often get killed, for one thing. Revolutions tend to experience resistance and turmoil. I am a somewhat sensitive person who is susceptible to feeling hurt when criticized. Therefore, there were points during ETT’s de­velopment when I wavered due to criticism. The fact that I became the focus of some people’s projections onto authority figures, targeted as one who rocks the boat, or simply seen as a quack was painful. This was no fun. Instead of apologizing for ETT™ for being different or trying to convince people about how it works, the evidence is clear that it does work on unprecedented levels.       Therefore, it is time to embrace it for what it is and accept that skeptics will criticize. I decided that the revolution must go on because this is why I am on the planet. I chose to use ETT™ on me to get over my sensitivity to these challenges because the cause needed to be pursued. I decided to accept skeptics, critics and other detractors as just another challenge to transform into a growth experience.       Within the last year I was invited to present my method to a psychiatric hospital with a reputation of being very progressive, experiential and of high quality. I thought ETT™ would be a good fit. However, what I learned was that this hospital used affect focused therapies in which highly cathartic emotional experiences such as a lot of crying, and expression of anger took place. Emotions are valued in these approaches. I found that clients who are prone to histrionic tendencies love this approach. Many of the participants described these experiences as good ones. However, many people continued to possess the same symptoms they had before the treatment after undergoing these therapies. I realized that I had categorized ETT™ in the affect focused therapies. However, almost all affect focused therapies far too often led people into high intensity abreactions which often endured way too long and often did not end the symptoms initially presented. On the other hand, the psychotropic medication approach to treatment simply viewed emotions as something to block or stop. ETT™ did not fit either of those categories. I real­ized that it is a revolutionary concept to embrace human emotions, while at the same time, to rapidly move people through them to completion. In many cases ETT™ moves people to relief of emotional distress faster than psychiatric medication can. This is revolutionary.       ETT™ possesses qualities of many different categories of therapy but does not exactly fit into any of them. While cognitive shifts are plentiful, ETT™ would certainly not fit into cognitive therapy alone. ETT™ is not a behavioral therapy per se, but behavioral changes often occur as a result of ETT™ when nothing else works. Is ETT™ an insight oriented therapy? The production of insights takes place more frequently in ETT™ than in any other therapy I know of. However during ETT™, insight, cognitive shifts, and behavior change all typically occur as a result of changes in emotional states. On the other hand, the use of peripheral eye stimulation can dramatically change cognition and memory in ADHD and in brain injury. We have also seen obsessive thinking change quite well with ETT™.       If Sigmund Freud were here today, he would love the capacity of ETT™ to retrieve memory and produce insight. If Carl Jung were here today, he would love that ETT™ could rapidly evoke visual symbols, meta­phors and imagery. Jung would be amazed at the frequent evocation of spiritual phenomena, access to the anima and animus, and especially the tendency to make direct contact with the authentic self. If Carl Rogers were here today, he would love how far empathic support can take a person during visual light stimulation. On the other hand, if B.F. Skinner were here today, he might be troubled about how productive ETT™ can be while operating outside of the operant conditioning paradigm. Abraham Maslow would probably be moved to tears if he saw the frequent production of peak experiences, activation of growth potential to such a magni­tude and such at speed that it would be beyond his wildest dreams. The Triadic Format      The second revolutionary aspect of ETT™ is that it deviates from a one on one format. While there is group therapy, marriage and family therapy and one on one counseling, ETT™ uses a triadic therapy format. This is composed of the client, the light and the clinician. This triadic format often makes clinicians new to ETT™ struggle. Clients new to ETT™ sometimes feel awkward looking at something other than the therapist. It took me a while to grasp how revolutionary this format is to most counseling processes. EMDR uses a visual eye movement stimulus, but much of the sessions are comprised of one to one formats. Jungian psycho­therapy often does not have face to face exchanges but it is still one on one. Whereas, the vast majority of ETT™ sessions involve a triadic format in which transference occurs as much between the client and the visual stimulus as it does between the clinician and client. However, when this triadic relationship is done well, a powerful new synthesis takes the process far beyond almost any one to one format.   Rapid Outcomes of ETT™       A third revolutionary aspect of ETT™ pertains to the sheer speed of the process. Whenever I introduce ETT™ to a new audience I make a point to differentiate it by preparing the people for its speed. However, the rapidness by which ETT™ works almost always catches people off guard. For example, the use of pe­ripheral eye stimulation often facilitates drastic changes in emotional states within seconds. This is why it is named Emotional Transformation Therapy™. Many times intense emotional states are eliminated instantly. This occurrence often results in disbelief, confusion, and cognitive dissonance even though the experience is a reality. I often have new clients with life long depression, panic attacks or trauma who have undergone years of therapy and/or psychiatric medication whose symptoms are relieved in a few sessions with ETT™.       The speed of ETT™ has caused many of us to change our thinking in ways we never would have imag­ined. For example, resolving grief of losses has long been known to require support from others, expres­sion of emotions and a considerable length of time. I personally accepted this concept and did not expect it to work any differently even with ETT™. During one presentation at a conference I used ETT™ to help a person through the loss of a loved one in a single session. The evidence was obvious that the grief was complete. Then during another ETT™ training I facilitated a process in which a person underwent grief of six different deaths in a single session! This super facilitation through loss has happened again and again with other people. While not all losses are cleared in a single session, many of them are completed in that way. This has destroyed my whole concept of grief facilitation. To people unaware of the speed of ETT™ it would sound like a heretical fantasy to claim that severe grief can be brought to conclusion in one session. This is an example of why the speed of treatment by ETT™ is revolutionary. A Depth Therapy       A fourth revolutionary aspect of ETT™ concerns the depth achieved. By depth I am referring to the capac­ity to efficiently access the underlying roots of a symptom. This may involve the access to previously implicit memory for which no conscious awareness exists. Underlying memory may occur in the form of somatic memory. While there are clearly other methods known to access primal awareness like hypnosis, holotropic breathwork, and various forms of bodywork, my experience has been that none of these approaches achieve the depth ETT™ achieves as efficiently. Hypnotic work varies widely in impact according to the interpersonal skills of the facilitator. Holotropic breathwork often accesses new memory and experiences but often does not possess the capacity to regulate the intensity and duration of emotions to the degree that ETT™ does. Bodywork may access primal memories at times, but the emotions associated with these memories re-circu­late and often continue to exist unresolved in spite of cathartic experiences.       One of the biggest obstacles to effective therapy is the intellect. As long as people stay primarily “in their heads”, resolution to most psychological conditions is limited. Visual brain stimulation possesses the unique capacity to by-pass the intellect in a consistent way. ETT™ can access stored memory without physi­cal touch or hypnotic regression. In fact, ETT™ often accesses somatic memory better that “body oriented” methods. This quality about ETT™ is revolutionary.      One highly experienced therapist reported that after two years of using Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy and EMDR, on the first session using the spectral chart, her client uncovered an entirely new core issue. Approximately half of all my clients have already experienced EMDR, hypnosis and bodywork before they come to my office. These clients usually discover entirely new memories and unresolved emotions dur­ing ETT™. Of course these clients often report frustration because they often thought they were over these feelings. Nonetheless, ETT™ offers clients a chance to resolve issues at such a depth level that when this is achieved they are no longer left vulnerable to feeling these distresses over and over again.       ETT™ clients rarely access random primal memories. Instead, the unresolved emotions uncovered are typically directly related to the presenting symptoms. This path is not always true of other methods. In some cases implicit memory is not related to the presenting symptoms, so ETT™ generally does not take the client there. This is not a pre-planned idea that a client’s answers lie in implicit memory but when we follow the wisdom of the light-human interaction, it takes the client to wherever relevant answers exist. In most cases this leads to recovery of relevant implicit memory. Revolutionary Effects on the Physical Body      A fifth aspect of ETT™ that is revolutionary pertains to the impact of ETT™ on physical symptoms. While there are many forms of psychotherapy that affect physical symptoms, none of them possess the broad range of application, speed of physical relief or consistency of ETT™. It is well known that the majority of medical conditions are stress-related. Therefore, by working on the stress component of illnesses, injury and physical pain, many of these conditions have been alleviated.      Since our mind-body systems function as a unit, the resolution of stress goes a long way toward healing the physical body. However, light stimulation initiated into the eyes follows well known pathways through the whole brain and body. This distribution of impulses can be targeted to change physical symptoms in the absence of any known stressor.      It is known that low level lasers can heal wounds unusually well, hypnosis can relieve physical pain and numerous remedies can relieve all sorts of physical ailments. However, I have rarely seen any method relieve physical pain as fast or as consistently as ETT™. It is not unusual for ETT™ to relieve physical pain instantly. In addition, the range of physical symptoms for which ETT™ has been effective is so great that I am unaware of any other method that possesses such a repertoire of effects. It has been used for the relief of symptoms from tinnitus, cancer, arthritis, fibromyalgia, low back pain, to migraine headaches, and much more! Recently I have made even more breakthroughs in physical pain relief!       Just the other day a man who was in stage four of cancer and who was in extreme pain came to a ses­sion. He was on some of the most powerful pain medication like morphine and oxy cotton. On the day I saw him his pain was intense and he had not taken his medication. With the peripheral goggles we eliminated all his pain within ten minutes! He reported that the goggles eliminated his pain faster and more completely than any of his strongest pain medication. In some cases ETT™ works to alleviate symptoms of some conditions for which nothing else works. In other conditions nothing else is known to cure the condition. In these cases ETT™ may be the only method that has shown promise. This is revolutionary. A Quantum Leap in Treatment       A sixth revolutionary concept about ETT™ concerns its application of quantum physics principles for prac­tical usage. Subsequent to the use of talk therapy and psychiatric medications, a biophysics paradigm has emerged in the field of psychotherapy. By biophysics I am referring to methods like white light treatment for SAD, brainwave rhythms in neurofeedback, rhythmic movement in EMDR, sound modalities in therapy, and others. However, as advanced as these methods are they still adopt a Newtonian physics paradigm instead of a quantum physics framework. By Newtonian I am referring to a conception of components of physics like light as objectified forces used to stimulate effects in clients. Whereas a quantum physics framework conceives of energy and matter as interchangeable and human consciousness as inextricably interrelated to energy and matter. This means that our state of consciousness is directly involved as a part of our perceived environment.       In the case of quantum physics this scientific arena itself is revolutionary. Most of the rest of the sciences seem to pursue their work as if realities discovered in quantum physics do not exist. As a result, most people do not attempt to understand quantum physics, let alone adopt its revolutionary concepts. Therefore, sub­stantiating a method by means of evidence from quantum physics principles may not be very compelling to many people. Nonetheless, by using principles of quantum physics as the basis for some ETT™ processes is in keeping within current scientific principles. The use of quantum physics principles for therapeutic pur­poses is revolutionary.       What is different about ETT™ is that the light-human interaction occurs as a moment to moment mutual ex­change in which human consciousness affects the light and light affects the human experience. This is very different from the conventional medical approach in which a remedy is offered as a “magic bullet” to extin­guish the symptom. The conventional approach offers an objectified external substance to target a symptom as if the mind-body system as a whole is irrelevant to the treatment. Re-Wiring the Brain       The seventh revolutionary aspect of ETT™ concerns its impact on attachment disorders and relationships in general. The way in which a child bonds to a caretaker governs the pattern in which emotional states are regulated. The disregulation of emotional patterns is largely responsible for the development of almost all psychological conditions like depression, panic, trauma responses and others. Since visual light stimulation evokes attachment patterns and their characteristic emotional style, research suggests that we have an op­portunity to change brain functions at a fundamental level if we change attachment patterns.       When this is achieved through ETT™, trauma is relieved, addictive cravings are eliminated, and chronic psychological conditions are transformed. To access and change basic attachment patterns within a short time is revolutionary. Where ETT™ excels the most is in the treatment of complex trauma. Complex trauma is a condition in which multiple traumas have occurred, substance abuse is usually involved, relationship disfunction further complicates it and symptoms of depression, physical symptoms or flashbacks are common. Because ETT™ can apply to such a variety of symptoms, it is ideal for complex trauma. Complex trauma or what the DSM IV calls “disorders of extreme stress not otherwise specified” is what I think most clinicians see in their offices. There are therapies that may be good for one or two of the symptoms of complex trauma but not the entire array of symptoms. Through ETT™ I have been able to reverse every symptom of complex trauma. This is revolutionary. The Dawning of a Transcendent Revolution      The eighth aspect of ETT™ that is therapeutically revolutionary pertains to the frequent proliferation of profound states of extreme wellbeing. While religions all over the world advocate spiritual experiences and promote specific means to attain them, the truth is that many people never have direct spiritual experienc­es. There are methods in which spiritual awakenings sometimes occur. However, in my experience, more frequent, more intense, and a greater variety of “spiritual” experiences occur through ETT™ than with any other form of psychotherapy. I usually refer to these experiences as states of extreme well being in order to avoid unnecessary religious controversy. These experiences often occur with people who may not have previously had any direct spiritual experiences.      In Reston, Virginia a woman volunteered to be a person with whom I could conduct a demonstration. When light stimulation took place she almost immediately went into a state of profound universal love that brought her to tears. She reported that she was a Sufi and had meditated for years and then with ETT™, in ten minutes, she finally reached a state of universal love that she had not achieved in years of medita­tion! I have had atheists who had spiritual experiences, Christians who have had kundalini awakenings, non-Christians have spiritual events related to a Christ. It is no wonder that every major religion on earth uses the term “light” to refer to the divine. I have developed a level six course to deal with spiritual issues and to purposefully facilitate states of extreme well being whenever this is appropriate to the client’s best interest. This process is revolutionary.  Is This Revolution for You?      The bottom line is; does ETT™ offer a better outcome for your client’s suffering? Whenever we can say yes to this question, I think we owe it to our clients to join this therapeutic revolution. Abundant clini­cal evidence makes it clear that ETT offers an entirely new level of therapeutic proficiency. Join us for the therapeutic revolution of this millennium.   *********************************************************************    The New Peripheral Goggles Are Here!       I have signed an agreement with a new producer for peripheral goggles. This new producer has developed a significantly improved goggle design. These goggles generally fit the clients face bet­ter. They also have the following new features:               • The material they are made of does not have the nauseous smell of the previous goggles.               •The clock positions 3, 9, 6 and 12 are visible numerals on the outside face of the goggles.               • There is a knob at the center of each eye disc on the outside that makes it easier to turn.      At every conference and workshop in the last two months ETT clinicians all agreed that these new goggles are a substantial upgrade! The goggles cost $190.00 (USD) plus tax and shipping are available within 3 weeks of ordering. One must have completed at least the first two courses in ETT to be eligible to order these goggles. Goggles can be paid for by credit card, cash, or money order and orders can take place via Email. To order contact Peg Latham at:                                      Mail: Peg Latham                                                 Phone: 910-319-3161                                              7517Dunbar Road                                        Fax: 910-686-3881                                             Wilmington, NC 28411                                Email: peglatham@gmail.com   Video Conferencing to Support Your ETT™ Skills      There has been a need for support between ETT™ courses. Participants have often told me that questions and issues come up between courses and they have no one to provide answers at these times. In response to this need we are arranging for monthly internet video conference sessions with all ETT™ clinicians. Participants can either participate live at 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. CT on a Wednesday scheduled well ahead of time or the supervision can be downloaded within 24 hours of the live event. Questions and issues about treatment with ETT™ can either be sent in ahead of time or asked live during the event. We intend to begin the program in August, 2008. We hope that this initial supervision focus may eventually develop into online courses within the next few years. In order to prepare all of the technology for this internet procedure we need to receive a com­mitment from you. We shall use state-of-the-art technology which is costly. The participation fees is $40.00 (USD) per session per month. Therefore, I need to hear from you as soon as possible if you are interested. We need only a verbal commitment at this time to determine how to plan it. PLEASE EMAIL OR CALL IN YOUR INTEREST FOR THIS ENDEAVOR TODAY!   THANKS!    *****************************************************************    Supervision Tips for ETT™ Clinicians           After years of teaching ETT™, I have seen some therapists flourish, others flounder and still others developing skills only in specific areas. The following are some tips on how to fail and how to succeed in ETT™.   How to Fail at ETT   1. Never really learn the colors and how they match emotional themes. It is not enough to continually refer the chart during sessions. Emotions emerge quickly and change rapidly. In order to use colors effec­tively one often must instantly know how to match them. When this is not learned, the timing will not often be good enough to make it work consistently. When you don’t succeed due to this issue there is a tendency to use ETT™ less. If this continues, people fall back on their old skills and fail to integrate ETT™ into their practice. As ETT™ is used less and less your ETT™ skills lose effectiveness.   2. Never really learn the responses to each attachment disorder. When this happens therapists continue to use their own personality style to match a variety of clients which simply does not work a lot of the time. Without interactions that fit the client, applications of ETT™ procedures will encounter obstacles unnecessarily.   3. Try to use ETT™ with your most difficult clients before you have mastered the ETT™ skills. This is a high risk endeavor. I have known therapists who did this who had tragic results, sometimes losing the client and often giving up on ETT™.   4. Try to combine ETT™ with other methods before you have really mastered ETT™ skills. This will often tend to water down both methods to work less effectively. It will likely keep you from acquiring the skill of using the full repertoire of ETT™ techniques and narrow your skills to only one or two types of ETT™ equipment.   How to Succeed as an ETT™ Clinician   1. Learn the colors and how to match them with emotional themes so well that it becomes second nature to you. Practice using colors frequently. By doing this your clients get better and your confidence soars. This skill, alone, can carry your clients into transformation more than you might imagine.   2. Learn the eleven attachment patterns and how to respond optimally. If you practice this frequently you will bond better with your clients and elevate your counseling success to new levels even if you learn nothing else in ETT™. However, when you use this with ETT™ the process is amplified to extraordinary levels.   3. Practice ETT™ with colleagues and friends first and only tackle small issues initially. Gradually use it with more and more difficult clients. Then you will resolve issues beyond your wildest dreams. Once you have practiced ETT™ among colleagues, your skills will elevate and they become yours.   4. Develop ETT™ skills to a high level without resorting to other methods due to lack of familiarity with ETT™. Then you give yourself a chance to grow and elevate your skills. *****************************************************************   ETT™ Clinician Interview (Greg Nevens interviewed by Connie Heaps)   1. What are your professional credentials?      I am a licensed psychologist specializing in Health Psychology.   2. What is your professional experience?      I have twenty five years experience specializing in behavioral medicine with special interest in the field of chronic pain. This subspecialty has led to multiple national and international lectures and workshops for interdisciplinary societies with specialties in chronic pain and to writing on the subject. Throughout my career, I have searched for the most efficacious intervention systems to apply to my work. People come to me with quite specific symptoms, both direct medical and emotional sequel to chronic pain or illness de­velopment. I have been working with hypnosis for twenty five years and EMDR for about a dozen. About a decade ago, I was giving a workshop in San Diego and was told about E.F.T. My experience with E.F.T. con­vinced me that energy work was the missing link in Western medicine and psychology. After researching Eastern medicine for intervention systems, I began studying auriculotherapy which proved hugely beneficial to a majority of my patients. The importance of subtle energy which specifically affects the sympathetic nervous system became apparent. Studies in CES and MET applications then allowed for patients to extend the positive analgesic and other effects of auriculotherapy through self administered in home treatments using flat wave microcurrent reflecting homeostatic sympathetic wave patterns. This did lead to prolonged relief and sometimes resolution of many chronic pain presentations with cumulative effects over time. How­ever, I continued to look for an intervention system which had a more prolonged or even permanent effect.   3. What initially attracted you to ETT?      I was first exposed to E.T.T. at a national interdisciplinary conference in which Steve gave an introductory presentation. In that workshop, I witnessed a man who had suffered from chronic fatigue for ten years shuffle up to the front, He was stooped over, with a colorless complexion, & within minutes of Steve using the goggle peripheral eye stimulation, he started crying because he felt energy for the first time in years. He proceeded to walk back to his seat with an erect posture, energy in his step and color in his face. I watched another woman who was suffering from chronic back pain, experience full amelioration just as briefly through the same method. Steve further expanded upon the lasting effects that could be realized within an E.T.T. approach, and I knew then and there that this was a man I needed to know and an inter­vention system I needed to learn.   4. How long and how much have you used ETT? I believe that that first meeting occurred in Sept.”04. By attending sequential levels of workshops in Chicago, Austin, and Philadelphia, I was able to complete the bulk of E.T.T. training in relatively short order. I have therefore been integrating it into my practice for approximately three years. I use E.T.T. in my work almost every day. With some patients, E.T.T. work is integrated with other modalities, and some patients have responded extremely well to E.T.T. in exclusion of other approaches   5. What do you like best about ETT? I like all of it. Perhaps what I like best is the depth of it, the speed with which one can get to core issues, the breadth of associations, feelings, and cognitive perspectives an individual can elicit around a particular issue, and the interventions which allow for those different responses to be processed, released or integrated so efficiently. I used to generally avoid dealing with entrenched depression patients, be­cause it frustrated me. Like most therapists, I had seen patients who had been in therapy for years even decades with a variety of therapists using all sorts of different therapeutic stances and intervention sys­tems (e.g. cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, interpersonal, object relational, etc. etc.). Some of these patients had all the insight in the world, but it hadn’t changed their core senses of self or related feelings and beliefs or behavior. With E.T.T., I look forward to dealing with these issues, because I know that when those insights come up within the right biosynthesis of wave band length in the effect of color on the mind (and sometimes the right strobe frequency and right angle accessing the right part of the mind) these core negative neuronal entrenched patterns can be profoundly and lastingly changedETT™ clinician, Bart Paff, Ph.D. in Seattle, has conducted an ETT™ session with severe PTSD sub­sequent to a SPECT scan of the patient’s brain blood flow configuration. Then a post SPECT scan was done. The results were so astounding that the SPECT scan organization contacted Bart to ask what he had done because the brain was changed so dramatically. The improvements not only improved the trauma, but showed indications of other changes in the brain that the treatment did not even target! This is one of our first pre and post findings for PTSD.   6. How do you see ETT to be different from other modalities? As above, E.T.T. seems to allow depth access to negative entrenched neuronal patterns which have often been set up by (loosely defined) traumatic experiences. In my field of behavioral medicine there is more and more recognition that these traumatically based emotional patterns create blockages in the normal somatic as well as psychological flows of subtle energy systems which can result in the etiology and maintenance of chronic illnesses within a diathesis-stress model. This is now a fundamental premise in the fields of “integrative’ or “vibrational” medicine. It is the reason that many emerging “energy psychology” techniques have had some measured effect on somatic symptoms as well as the targeted emotional symptoms. However, though these techniques can be very valuable in giving the patients a sense of control over the severity of symptoms expression in both realms, they more rarely seem to resolve the issues through impacting the original source of the energy (and biochemical and neuronal) homeostatic destabilization. It is my experience that E.T.T. allows us to access and treat those source blockages and related traumas better than any other intervention system I know of. In terms of the specific field of psychotherapy vs. behavioral medicine, I think it is important in terms of the needed expansion of therapists using this intervention system that it is not exclusionary of other para­digms or theoretical stances. My own bias is that the most successful practitioners will have an eclectic theoretical background and stance. E.T.T. offers an intervention system that can only serve to increase the efficacy of any theoretical orientation. Object relational, psychodynamic, interpersonal, and attachment issues come up and are being dealt with constantly within this system and worked through in an extremely efficient way. In terms of the predominant cognitive behavioral model of the times, prac­titioners will be able to see and diagnostically verify problematic negative thought patterns through the perceptual distortions that accompany them and verify therapeutic effects with the adoption of alternate cognitive processing (even in the form of simple word choice changes) as those distortions improve or resolve (a phenomenon I have certainly witnessed).   7. Can you describe a particular example of a client’s response to ETT that has stood out in your mind? I regularly experience sessions that stand out in my mind, so many that I have recently been try­ing to write them down in my office if I have time. Most often they slip by. In the last four workdays, I can think of three sessions which stand out as eliciting some profound core shifts through a variety of E.T.T. interventions (photic release, dream processing, and peripheral eye stimulation). One case that stands out today for some reason is of a male fibromyalgia patient who came in complaining of pain as well as ten years of severe depression and anxiety which is consistent with the fibromyalgia complex of symp­toms. Within twenty minutes of the first treatment session, he felt his ten year depression lift. This was in response to goggle work finding relief at five o’clock and then superimposing. Pain level also was relieved as would be expected from a biochemical stand point. He had up and down days thereafter, but his true sense of deep depression did not return. Brief depressive periods became more situation specific. Over time, we worked on deeper levels with the light machine, working through abandonment and abuse is­sues throughout his life and other specific traumas. This man is presently dealing with severe real life stressors, the greatest predictor of the number and severity of trigger points on any given day is stress level, and of course depression is impacted through norepinephrine destabilization. Yet, he is experienc­ing no fibromyalgia symptoms and not depressed in the face of these severe life stressors. He is dealing with them directly without somaticizing or retreating into depression as his past history would have pre­dicted. He has developed new more healthy coping mechanisms. I ascribe this remarkable progress to E.T.T., not only the working through of old trauma but the subsequent ability to create new ways of being and coping styles with the creative energy now unblocked by that old trauma. (He wants to write a book entitled: “My Five O’clock World”) 8. What surprised you the most about ETT after you learned to use it? What has surprised me the most is both the depth and pervasiveness of the material accessed when the biosynthesis effect is realized (through appropriate wave band/color choice, strobe setting, and optic nerve stimulation angles) and the breadth of potential therapeutic options for working that material through within the intervention system.   9. What do you think needs to be known about ETT that professionals who are unfamiliar with it should know? I think that many of them need to be encouraged to step outside of their comfortable paradigms and theoretical adherences. At the same time and as stated above, they can be reassured that, whatever their orientation, it can be enhanced and integrated within the E.T.T. system. Obviously, some research needs to be done verifying the remarkable results that we are all seeing in a variety of areas. The power of this technique on initial introduction can be met with incredulity or outright cynicism. Not only should research, video tape and whatever other mechanism be used to encourage further exploration by these people but their own fears about its power need to be addressed and processed early on by the organization through subjective exposure to and experiential learning of some of the E.T.T. interventions themselves. Steve can only cover and address so much in introductory lectures. Perhaps, as we get a few practitioners in expand­ed geographic areas, his introductory lectures can be followed by some initial study group offerings by other practitioners to specifically offer this exposure and processing of doubts and fears.   10. What do you see as the future of ETT? I see the future of E.T.T. as unlimited. However, getting there will require patience and vigilance toward opportunity. Traditional Western medicine stances and of course the extremely powerful pharma­ceuticals will not be supportive and may in fact create significant obstacles to growth and acceptance. More conservative and entrenched mental health schools of thought will also be resistant. “Scientific” research will be helpful. Yet, our present scientific bias and myopia toward viewing double bind studies as the only standard of efficacy doesn’t lend itself readily to complicated intervention systems like E.T.T. which require a fluidity of selection processes when dealing with the uniqueness of individual patients and a certain art­istry on the part of the practitioner. In the long run, our present system is not working and there is a growing groundswell of consumer generated search for new (or very old ) models of health care that improve on the status quo. We are now seeing even conservative hospitals integrating some of these systems which were formerly discounted and given no credence by the establishment. Change is happening and being sought, and I think in the next few years, given the effectiveness we have witnessed with E.T.T. and some syn­chronicity, this system could and should ride that bus. *****************************************************************       1241 Southridge Court, Suite 105 Hurst, TX 76053 817-268-7050 817-285-7728 817-285-7729 (Fax) 12820 Hillcrest, Suite C107 Dallas, TX srv@lightworkassociates.com