NET Therapy: Key Benefits and What To Expect
So many of us live with unexplained pain, tension, and stress for years without ever truly dealing with them. We learn to live with these burdens, letting them weigh us down in everything we do. This stops us from reaching our full potential and living our best lives, and no amount of medication or trips to the doctor seem to help.
Neuro Emotional Technique Therapy or NET Therapy tackles these unknown pains and stresses by dealing with the root emotional and physiological cause in the body. With NET Therapy, patients find themselves healed from headaches, general anxiety, body pains, self-sabotaging habits, and more, in a simple yet effective session that determines emotional and stress responses through muscle testing and tracing back the true root of your emotional stress.
Read on to learn more about what you can expect from an NET Therapy session.
What is NET?
NET or Neuro Emotional Technique is a type of therapy which focuses on healing the body and its stress-related responses by targeting the physiological foundations of those conditions.
Emotional responses have physiological foundations in the form of amino acid chains that are carried throughout the body. NET Therapy deals with these physiological components of our most stress-inducing and traumatic experiences, helping the mind and body heal from these experiences permanently.
Impactful or traumatic negative emotions and experiences leave behind these physiological marks on the body. These can impair both the mind and the body from ever truly healing, thus leaving you with unexplained stressors or physical pains until these emotions are addressed. Neuro Emotional Technique addresses what is known as the Neuro Emotional Complex, or NEC, the emotional imprints crippling your physiological function.
Simply put, NET treats stress-related physical and mental conditions by tracing them back to their physiological location in the body, and working on them there. When paired with other healing therapies, NET helps patients get over any existing psycho-emotional blocks, which are residue from traumatic past events. These blocks prevent the body from truly healing from any conditions it may be experiencing, as well as further aggravating existing conditions.
For more detailed information about Neuro Emotional Technique, I wrote I whole piece that includes a brief history of NET.
Key Benefits of NET: Why You Would Want It
How do you know when NET might be beneficial for you? Again, NET is best for those dealing with stored long-term emotional trauma, as NET helps patients release that trauma (or neuro-emotional complexes) and allow their body and mind to physically and psychologically heal.
Here are some warning signs that you may be experiencing stored traumas in the form of neuro-emotional complexes:
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You have unexplained shoulder tension and headaches
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You often feel overwhelmed
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You burst out in tears at times
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Your digestive system isn’t as reliable as it once was
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You often experience exhaustion or fatigue
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You have little to no motivation to engage in activities you were once passionate about
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You have tons of unexplained physical discomfort or pain
Various studies have proven the effectiveness of Neuro Emotional Technique Therapy. Patients who undergo NET Therapy can expect improvements in conditions like:
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Headaches
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General anxiety
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Self-sabotaging habits
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Body pains
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Organ dysfunctions
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Phobias
But NET Therapy helps in more ways than just the physical. With NET, patients experience a variety of psycho-emotional benefits, such as:
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Unlocking and reprogramming the subconscious to recover from any psycho-emotional blocks
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Promoting your own understanding of what you need in relationships, allowing you to develop and maintain more fulfilling relationships with your friends and family
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Understanding the sources of the limiting beliefs that are holding you back in your subconscious, and unraveling them from the inside out
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Correcting any neurological imbalances caused by unresolved stress and its physiological effects, leading to significant reduction on stress, anxiety, and phobias
Patients who experience successful NET Therapy by proven professionals find themselves feeling renewed and revitalized, as if the weights on their shoulders have finally been removed. This gives patients a greater ability to live out the life they want to live and achieve their true purpose.
What To Expect During the NET Session: Step-By-Step Breakdown
So what exactly happens during the typical NET Therapy session, and what can you expect during this session as a patient?
While the small details may vary from practitioner to practitioner, the typical NET Therapy session begins with muscle testing, which is also known as manual muscle testing or applied kinesiology. Muscle testing is a method to uncover muscular, structural, and mental conditions. An easy way to understand muscle testing is to refer to the third Law of Motion: “For every action there is an equal opposing reaction.”
Muscle testing applies this idea to ailments afflicting the human body. This concept indicates that internal issues and stressors naturally lead to a muscle weakness. Through muscle testing, practitioners can locate where these issues may be by linking them with the meridian system found in traditional Eastern medicine, which finds the paths between various parts of the bodies.
The session begins with muscle testing and the NET idea of emotions and their specific physiological effects on the body to trace the patient’s exact stressor. For example, a patient may come in with a sore left knee that she had been dealing with for months with no known cause. This may be a sign of a NEC (Neuro-Emotional Complex).
The practitioner will use reflex points on the body to try to link the knee pain with any stress and tension that the body is holding onto. The patient will also be asked if they have any current problem or source of stress, whether at work, home, or with their relationships. Once this problem is identified, the practitioner will find a certain statement around the topic to make their tested muscle go weak.
In practice, this works with the practitioner asking the patient to raise their arm, and the practitioner pushing it down with their hand; this is to test the strength of the muscle. This is repeated several times as the practitioner goes through various statements, looking for the issue that may be causing the patient stress.
For women, one common issue is the feeling that they’re not enough — not enough as a mother, as a partner, as a friend, or as a woman. For this issue, the patient is challenged by being asked to say statements like, “I am a loving mother”, “I am fine just the way I am”, “I am beautiful enough and good enough as me”, all while muscle testing is applied.
This is repeated until a certain statement is found that causes the arm (or whichever muscle being tested) to fail. Once this occurs, the practitioner uses NET to find the emotions associated with that specific statement by linking that emotion to their pain or other symptoms.
Finally, the NET practitioner works with the patient to find the exact painful moment in their past where that negative emotion and limiting belief was created. With NET Therapy, these stuck emotions become slowly released, allowing the patient to recover from these limiting beliefs and heal from these long-term stressors.
NET Therapy With Dr. Mary Lou Rane: Recover and Heal Today
As an integrative health expert with a Ph.D. in nutrition and certification in Neuro Emotional Technique, Dr. Mary Lou Rane has worked with countless patients in healing their limiting beliefs and inner pains for over the last 30 years.
If you are looking for NET Therapy you can trust, schedule a free 15-minute phone consultation with Dr. Rane today.
First things first, what is Neuro Emotional Technique (NET)? Maybe you’ve heard of it and want to learn more or maybe this is your first time hearing about it. NET is a very unique and special technique with fast and phenomenal results. If you enjoy holistic approaches that incorporate your mind and body, this might be for you.
NET is great at minimizing the “charge” or negative effect that stress and trauma have on you. Stress and trauma are things which have long standing effects on your mind and body. We can look at trauma and stress through a continuum, meaning it looks differently for each person and each person will define it differently.
Trauma could range from experiences of physical, emotional or sexual abuse, physical or emotional neglect, moving many times in childhood, history of addiction, unresolved grief, being involved in a car accident, phobias, a diagnosis such as cancer, chronic pain or illness and many more. These are just a few examples of the huge umbrella of trauma.
How was NET created?
NET was founded by two chiropractors. They were providing chiropractic treatment and adjustments. The patients were returning to their chiropractor’s offices for the same adjustments and experiencing the same aches and pains EVEN though they were already treated for them! The founders knew there was something more, something deeper, happening within the body and decided to investigate.
These chiropractors decided to incorporate perspectives from Chinese Acupuncture as well as Mental Health Treatment. This collaboration allowed them to combine thousands of years of research to create a formula which is most effective.
Let me break down some of the science of NET.
Part of what makes NET so unique is that it uses muscle testing/monitoring to communicate directly with the body and assess a person’s response to any given stimulus.
You might be thinking, what is muscle testing? Simply stated, the body has within it and surrounding it, an electrical network. If anything impacts your electrical system that is not helpful to your health and body’s balance, your muscles, when having physical pressure applied, are unable to hold their strength. (Muscle power = balance).
In other words, if pressure is applied to an individual’s extended arm while the body is being adversely affected (by something like stress or trauma) the muscles will weaken and the arm will not be able to resist the pressure.
When pressure is applied once becoming more neutral (less impacted by the stress or trauma), the muscles remain strong and will easily resist the physical pressure that is applied when using the therapy.
NET also uses acupressure, where I will help guide you to provide a light or deep touch on your own pressure points as part of the healing process.
We can think of this as similar to the “knee jerk reflex” we have. You may be familiar with this test- it is where the doctor hits your knee at a spot just below your knee cap and your leg kicks out!
NET is really unique in that you are able to use your own body as a mechanism to support and help guide your treatment. It can be very transformational to be able to see the tangible change in muscle strength (congruence with feeling better) as you go.
If you are anything like me, you like to see results in real time. Sometimes we’re not sure if we feel better and sometimes it does take time to start feeling better, even when we are working hard in therapy. With this technique, your body is the evidence and your mind will support this evidence as you continue your therapy sessions and move into your life, where you will begin to feel things become easier and/or less painful for you.
What will MY results look like?
I can’t say what each person’s results will look like, because each person and what they would like to work on is so unique and individualized. What I can share with you is the research conducted by the founders of NET, this will give you an idea of what this process may look like.
NET researchers studied 23 cancer patients who had distressing cancer-related experiences that caused traumatic stress symptoms that persisted for at least six months. Some study participants received NET and others were waitlisted to a control.
The treatment group received a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while listening to the story of their distressing cancer memory before and after NET.
After NET, reactivity in a number of brain structures associated with the perception of emotional traumas was reduced.
For example, the parahippocampus is known to be important for other types of traumatic stress, such as post-traumatic stress disorder in war veterans and victims of sexual assault. When reading the fMRI’s examined in the study, the parahippocampus is no longer activated after treatment- with the average treatment time being between 3-5 sessions.
When doing NET with me you can expect to reduce the effects trauma and stress have on your life. You can expect to be empowered to take charge of your treatment and to continue living the life that you want to live.
If you are living in South Florida and feel that NET may be the right treatment for you, please call me at 954-391-5305 for a complimentary 15- minute consultation and we can discuss if you are a good fit, as well as how to get started! For more information on me and the services I provide, you can click to see my bio here.
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