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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx OVERVIEW OF THE RADIANT ENERGIES BALANCE (REB)sm: A FLEXIBLE,
COMPREHENSIVE, THERAPEUTIC and TRANSFORMATIVE PROTOCOL
2006 September Phillip W. Warren, B.A., Ph.C., Professor Emeritus, A.P.O.E.C., Cert.Edu-K.
4459 52A St., Delta, B.C., V4K 2Y3 Canada
Phone and voice mail: (604) 946-4919
EMail: phillip_warren@telus.net
Website: http://www.AREBprotocol.net U.S. mailing address: P.O. Box 1595, Point Roberts, WA 98281-1595 With the assistance of
Janet G. Nestor, M.A., L.P.C. and Master REBsm Practitioner
Center of Well Being, 1316 Ashley Square Office Condominiums, Winston-
Salem, NC 27103 USA
Phone: 336.794.2343, Email: spiritway@earthlink.net or
integrativecare@bellsouth.net,
Website: http://www.centerofwellbeingonline.com/mhcounsel.html [pic]
1. Introduction While attending an energy psychology conference in the spring of 2001, I
(PWW) had an epiphany: I discovered that Donna Eden's Radiant Circuits were
the most efficient way to work with the body's energy system. With my
colleague, Janet Nestor, I spent the next 3 years researching, developing
and refining the Radiant Energies Balance (REB) sm protocol (the official
website, http://www.rebprotocol.net, probes a wide range of clinical,
neurological, philosophical, and empirical issues on Energy Psychology and
other topics). The REBsm protocol can be used as both a sophisticated
professional therapeutic system incorporating main stream and cutting edge
therapeutic methods as well as an easy to use self help technique. It's one
of the most user friendly approaches in the field of energy psychotherapy.
Engaging the body's energy system accesses some of the most efficient
adjunctive therapeutic modalities available since the energetic approaches
both resolve psychoenergetic imbalances on their own and also they serve as
powerful catalysts for other interventions. The REBsm protocol is one of
the simplest, most flexible and efficient approaches to tapping into body's
energy system. It can easily be incorporated into many more traditional
approaches, especially cognitive/imagery methods.
An inflexible and unbalanced Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) is the source
of a wide range of mental and physical problems. Heart Rate Variability
(HRV) research clearly documents this conclusion. The Radiant Energies
Balance (REB) sm protocol was created to deal with this widespread problem
and provide a flexible, comprehensive, efficient, inexpensive and safe
method of correction on the physiological, psychological, and spiritual
levels. When I read the effects of imbalance in the Triple Warmer and
Spleen Meridians, I noticed the striking similarities to the effects of
imbalance in the Parasympathetic and Sympathetic branches of the Autonomic
Nervous system. I decided to develop this intervention using the body's
energy system as an alternative or adjunct to the usual treatments of ANS
imbalances.
This simple, fast, unobtrusive protocol is integrative, complementary and
adjunctive and can be used practically anywhere anytime with no unwanted
side effects. When combined with other therapeutic techniques, it makes
them more efficient and powerful. The protocol builds on leading edge
approaches from trauma/PTSD therapy and psychophysiology while
incorporating approaches from several Energy/Information Psychology
systems: Eden's Energy Medicine, HeartMath (Childre, McCraty et al.), EMDR
(Bergmann, Shapiro), Brain Gym (Dennison, Hannaford), Integrative States
Therapy (Elium), NLP (Brooks), One Brain (Stokes and Whiteside), Focusing
(Gendlin), and Reiki.
The REB posture balances the Autonomic Nervous System by balancing the
Triple Warmer and Spleen meridians (along with the Central and Governing
meridians). These four meridians all have dual functions of regular
meridians as well as being Radiant Circuits (curious or extra-ordinary
meridians or strange flows). From a Chinese spiritual development
perspective, the Radiant Circuits are the principal channels for "Yuan chi"
energy which represents "ancestral" energy or the energy of the soul. In
addition, since the "Radiant Energies Circuit" system serves as a "hyper
link" to all of the body's energy system, with focused intention, you can
automatically correct and balance where ever needed, thus eliminating most
of the guess work and need for diagnosis. This makes the protocol very user
friendly and allows practitioners to use their "art of delivery" skills to
their fullest while clients can just trust the wisdom of their energy
system to fulfill their "intention to heal."
The Radiant Energies Balance (REB) sm protocol provides a bridge between
everyday life and the higher (more spiritual) levels of existence. It
provides an "elegant" solution for a wide variety of psychoenergetic
problems on the physiological, psychological, and spiritual levels.
Providing dramatic and rapid relief from "the slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune" provides release from the past and opens the potential
for the individual to start on a more spiritual life path, facilitating
movement to a "witness" and "mindfulness" orientation to life.
2. Description of the Modules of the Clinical Protocol.
In practice, Modules 1 - 5 are done in sequence whereas Modules 6 and 7 can
be introduced at any time during a session as needed or appropriate. Module
2 on Brain Hemispheres (identifying your most resourceful hemisphere and
eye) is also optional and used when either the person is too stressed by
the event (then use the more resourceful hemisphere/more integrated eye) or
not able to contact the event (then use the less resourceful
hemisphere/less integrated eye).
************* Module 1. Identify an issue
a. Quantify the amount of distress (SUDs or Subjective Unit of
Distress)
b. Formulate a goal statement or affirmation, a Desired Outcome (DO).
and quantify its degree of truthfulness (VOG or Validity Of
Cognition) Module 1 involves both identifying the issue to be balanced using the usual
quantification of distress (SUD) as well as some initial formulation of a
goal with a quantification of it's degree of truthfulness or attainment.
Suggested descriptions of each of the 10 units of these scales are
provided. Throughout the protocol, we emphasize identifying the
physical/body sensations for all aspects of the issue. The general idea is
that it is not really important what happened in the past. What is
important is how the person has recorded this past and how it effects them
NOW. We seek to firmly establish by clear intention, that all balancing and
corrections will honour the total system with all its aspects and parts and
all its levels (body, mind, spirit). We also seek to firmly establish by
clear intention, that the process will also honour the optimum order of the
various aspects and parts of the issue presented for balancing and
correcting. *************
Build yourself an "Energy Shield"
Call upon all your highest healing sources We begin with a protection activity. When working with the body's
energy system, this activity of building a protective "energy shield"
is advisable. This can be done in any acceptable manner and this
protocol provides instructions for calling upon your highest healing
sources.
************* Module 2: Working with the brain Hemispheres.
This work is fascinating but optional. However, it is important to identify
if there are felt sense differences between hemispheres/eyes when tuned
into the issue and if so to eventually integrate them into closer
agreement. Both approaches described below work with the differences
between the brain's hemispheres in how they process and view the world.
Schiffer stimulates each hemisphere separately whereas the "One Eye
Technique" includes both hemispheres as seen through one or the other eyes.
Both approaches might provide valuable information to the client on how
they are processing and internalizing their experience. There is more
information in the core REBsm documents: "Part One: The Radiant Energies
Balance (REB) sm Protocol: Philosophy/Research/Theory Background" as well
as "An 'Active Ingredients' Analysis of the Radiant Energies Balance (REB)
sm Protocol". a. Schiffer Approach: Identifying the most resourceful hemisphere is optional and used when
either the client is too stressed by the event (then use the more
resourceful hemisphere) or not able to contact the event (then use the less
resourceful hemisphere).
The two halves of the brain differ in terms of their present time
resourcefulness with one being more "stuck" in the past at a more primitive
or less resourceful approach to problems. We identify this and use this
information to show people they have control over how they feel (physically
and emotionally) about their issues by simply accessing the more mature and
resourceful hemisphere. We also use it to monitor the "emotional load"
being felt at any time in the balancing session. If there is a
disconnection from the impact of the issue (emotional blunting) it might be
useful to increase its "emotional charge" in the present time session by
accessing the more primitive or less resourceful hemisphere. If there's too
much "emotional charge" then we enlist the more mature hemisphere until
this becomes more manageable and then go to the less mature hemisphere and
work there. The aim is to have the whole b