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Presenter: Larry Burk, MD, CEHP; Patricia Lyerly,LCSW; Angelina Kauffman, LPC

Hypnosis is a time-tested tool for personal healing and transformation that can be synergistically combined with other new emerging methods such as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Eye Movement Desentization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Both EFT and EMDR are evidence-based approaches to deal effectively with trauma, grief, and anxiety, as well as pain and psychosomatic disorders.

In conventional medicine we treat these personal health crises the same way we treat our national healthcare crisis. Our attempts to fix the system using information technology work about as well as using high-tech methods to relieve symbolic physical symptoms. An underlying fear of death, physical or financial, drives futile attempts at suppression. Transforming these somatic and professional metaphors can become the basis for a new model of healthcare.

The medical profession tends to focus attention on how to help individuals ?fix? a ?problem?, while failing to consider that the ?problem? may be part of an awakening process for the individual. Our beliefs about ourselves as medical practitioners and our beliefs about those we serve impact patient care more than we sometimes acknowledge. These beliefs are called into question by the reports of near-death experiencers (NDEers).

The four traits typical of NDEers; loss of fear of death, altruistic sense of purpose, enhanced intuition and energetic healing ability, can be symbolically instructive as we deal with the near-death of the healthcare system. In the medicine of the future, hypnosis, EFT and EMDR will be allow us to transform previously held paradigms of self-limiting beliefs, both for ourselves and for those we serve, to facilitate healing.

Attendees will learn the Basic Recipe for EFT as well as EDANVIR tapping, an advanced approach combining EFT and hypnosis with breathwork and therapeutic shaking. The basic EFT process and these advanced steps can all be easily incorporated into routine history taking and therapeutic hypnosis sessions. EMDR requires more in-depth training, but some of the principles of bilateral sensory stimulation can be integrated into hypnotherapy including butterfly tapping. Insights from NDEs have practical applications in decreasing fear of death and dealing with grief and loss through metaphysical relationship restructuring. Attendees will recognize the value of assisting individuals in freeing themselves from self-limiting paradigms that have played a role in the creation of physical and emotional dis-ease. Perhaps, even more important than using the ?right? hypnotic technique to induce ?trance?, is assisting individuals in freeing themselves from the ?trance? that they may already be in as a result of trauma. The importance of assisting ourselves, as well as our patients, in achieving a higher level of consciousness, without merely substituting one paradigm for another, is an important tenet of this program. The ultimate goal is to assist patients in having a more active role in experiencing a state of being that goes beyond healing; and a life that goes beyond belief.