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muscle, tactile and visual memories that logic is incapable of influencing, that kept this client from sleeping and caused his flashbacks.
However, from the viewpoint of Esotherapy every emotion associated with a memory, as well as the memory itself, is energy, which are gateways allowing entry into the experience itself. I confirmed to the client that, indeed, he had no other choice; and then I neutralized the energy of the associated feelings and memory by means of Esotherapy. Later my client stated that for the first time in years, he was able to sleep that night...and he had slept not only the whole night, but well into the next day. Six months after this one treatment we met, incidentally, and this client stated that he was still able to sleep through the night and the flashbacks had not returned. This man told me that without the help of Esotherapy he would probably have killed himself.
Iraq War Veteran
A Veteran of the Iraq war came in for therapy due to heavy meth use. Unlike other users, he would go out into the desert where no one could see him, alone, to use the drug. He understood that he was killing himself slowly, but did not care. He had been in counseling for many years, with almost no improvement. He explained that seeing his nephew around him was a big trigger and, since he was from an extended Spanish family living together on the same ranch, he would see his nephew frequently.
He explained that during the war in Iraq, he was an MP and one night, he was in the watchtower. From the corner of his eye, he saw a silhouette that had jumped the fence and entered a building before he could react. He was on the radio communicating, when the silhouette exited the building and tried to jump the fence back out. Thinking it was an enemy that had planted a remote-controlled bomb, he aimed and fired. The
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