Page 555 - Total War on PTSD

A simple way to describe how a trauma leads to PTSD is to compare it to a record player playing the same song over and over again. The song is the trauma and the mind is the record player, the song becomes the music of your life as the trauma is always in the back of your mind. Nutritional supplements are excellent for rebuilding the mind-body and reducing the volume of the music, but emotional desensitization techniques stops the music. I like to describe emotional desensitization as taking the record off the record player and putting it on the shelf. We are not denying the trauma happened, but it doesn’t have to be the background music of your life. There may be occasions when the record (trauma) comes off the shelf and plays again, but if it goes back on the shelf it has become a bad memory not a trauma.
NET is the main technique used to achieve emotional desensitization by physicians while The Emotion Code is used frequently by the general public. NET is an excellent way to help the mind acknowledge, accept, process and move on from past traumas and stressors. It is not cognitive therapy or talk therapy but instead a technique that quickly allows for a trauma or stressor to be recognized and processed through a series of questions and tapping of the acupuncture meridian system (no needles). A recent study on NET revealed that normal brain function is restored for PTSD sufferers in as few as six sessions. NET can often relieve years of emotional trauma starting with the first session while a full program may take 6-12 sessions.
NET seems simple, so how can it be so effective? Most people exposed to a trauma will naturally processes the event and moves on with just a bad memory. A percentage of the population will not be able to process a trauma and the mind will continue to play the
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