Neuro Emotional Technique
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What is Neuro Emotional Technique (NET)?
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​​​NET is used by health practitioners to help patients with physical problems that have an associated stress component. Stress can definitely be a factor in acute situations, and it is also often a factor in chronic and hard-to-resolve conditions.
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​NET was originally developed as a way of finding and correcting an emotional/stress component that was related to a physical problem, very early on patients started reporting that the ‘dramas’ of their lives were improving too. Patients found they were feeling significantly less stressed, happier, more at ease, and so on.
NET deals with those weakened physiological states that have ultimately made the body vulnerable to the formation of what NET has defined as a Neuro Emotional Complex (NEC).
An NEC is defined as a subjective maladaptation syndrome adopted by the person in response to a real or perceived threat to any aspect of its survival. A primary goal of NET is to identify and resolve NECs either via the associated vertebral subluxation(s) or active pulse point(s).
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The individual’s unique NEC includes:
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Specific subluxation or sequence of subluxations
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Specific emotion
[Note: All NECs have an emotion incorporated in the complex, but not all emotional expressions are incorporated in NECs] -
Conditioned response (a predisposition for stimulus generalization and a resistance to extinction)
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Meridian imbalance and active pulse point, with a specific meridian access point
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Facilitated (strong) or inhibited (weak) muscle response
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Cathected and often recallable memory picture of a past significant emotional event
Note: All remembered events related to an NEC are always considered to be ‘Emotional Reality’, as they may or may not correspond with actual or historical reality.] -
Vulnerability to repetition compulsion, and re-stimulation /re-aggravation causing cyclical reinforcement
NET does not treat emotions, but rather it addresses the physical complex in which an emotion and a related subluxation are component parts.​​
Contemporary neuroscience has demonstrated that emotion and our stress responses are largely related to a physiological response in our body.
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How do Stressors Affect My Physical Body?
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While the NET technique itself does not sequentially follow the explanation below, the currently understood mechanisms by which NET works are as follows:
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The presenting (or secondary) subluxation is associated with a muscle or muscles with aberrant tone.
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The muscle is associated with a meridian.
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The meridian (via Five Element Law in Traditional Chinese Medicine) correlates to a group of emotions.
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The emotion is traced via meridian access points or neurologic relationships to the primary subluxation(s).
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These primary subluxations have a noxious influence on the meridians and muscles, which influence the presenting (secondary) subluxations.
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These primary subluxations are then corrected with the result of a newly restored balancing effect on the meridians and muscles and the elimination of (secondary) subluxations.
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Resolution of a Neuro Emotional Complex (NEC) can occur by restoring homeostasis and allowing for the normal extinction of a conditioned emotional response.
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Because NET is a true mind/body or body/mind approach, it fully acknowledges the physical complement of the resistance of the body to NEC formation (in a healthy organism) and the process of NEC resolution.
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NET is focused on achieving homeostasis of the persons body. Its method of correction is through the spine or acupuncture point(s). Once discovered, the correction is applied.
How Does Neuro Emotional Technique Work?
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In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), emotions and physical health are intimately connected. This integrated mind-body approach to health and healing operates in a dynamic loop where emotions impact the health of the body and vice versa.
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For example, according to TCM theory, excessive irritability and anger can affect the liver and result in multiple ailments, including menstrual pain, headache, redness of the face and eyes, dizziness, and dry mouth. Alternatively, imbalance in the liver can result in mood changes such as irritability.
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According to traditional Chinese medicine, emotions are each associated with a corresponding element and organ in the body:
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Liver-Anger
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Kidney-Fear
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Heart-Joy
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Lung-Sadness and Grief
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Spleen-Worry and Rumination
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​So, the entire mind and body may be evaluated and treated to improve a specific health concern.
If you have been struggling with chronic health conditions, NET may be the answer for you!