What Are Emotions - The Energy Psychology Answer

In the early 1980s, a Californian psychologist, Dr Roger Callahan, started to experiment with the idea that has been accepted everywhere in the World for as long as human civilisations have existed - namely, that people have an energy body, and that changes in the energy body also cause changes in emotions and feelings, as well as in cognition.

Callahan proposed the theory that all negative emotions were a disruption in the energy system.

As is always the case with a theory that doesn't fit with the current scientific dogma, his idea was ignored, even though he could show remarkable changes happening to people's emotions by applying pressure to certain acupuncture points, using the first official energy psychology method known as TFT.

In 2002, Dr Silvia Hartmann, a UK researcher, took this further and stated that all emotions are feedback to the existing conditions in the energy body and created a treatment method called EmoTrance to test this assertion.

According to Dr Hartmann, emotions are as simple and as direct as the physical sensations that provide feedback on the state of the physical body.

This includes a direct cause and effect between the severity of the condition or injury in the energy system, and the severity of emotions that are experienced. This is particularly important because this theory means in practice that all human emotions have a reason, and that emotional disturbances, being overwhelmed by powerful feelings and the thoughts that arise as a result are not "in the mind" and cannot be healed "in the mind" because they exist in the energy body.

Also with Dr Hartmann's theory of emotions, the location of the felt sensation which is the emotion corresponds exactly to the location of the injury in the energy body.

This means that instead of treating an emotional problem through meridian points or such, the actual erea of disturbance is being treated directly with energy healing, thus improving the effectiveness of this second generation energy psychology approach manifold.

As Dr Hartmann's theory states that ALL emotions are indicative of the existing conditions in the energy body at the time, this theory of emotion also includes and encompasses positive emotions, and gives a straightforward, practical explanation for such human experiences as enlightenment experiences, falling in love, being in love as well as the usual negative and trauma based psychologies.

The EmoTrance theory of what emotions are and how to work with this has been laid out in full in three books on the subject. A simplified version exists known as The EmoTrance Primer.

What are emotions - the energy psychology answer from the 21st Century is:

• All emotions are sensations directly created by movements and conditions in the human energy body.