AM asks: “Do you know anything about the Neuro -emotional technique or Neuro emotional component of the triangle of health in Chiropractics? Seems somewhat couched in New Age language though there is of course a persuasive presentation of it. Not sure the spelling is right either. But thought you might quickly be able to say if it’s New Age.”
Neuro-emotional technique or NET is yet another example of an unscientific New Age approach to healing “emotional blocks” that allegedly cause illness in the body. It combines techniques and principals from traditional Chinese medicine, chiropractics and applied kinesiology (muscle testing) to rid the body of unresolved emotional blocks that are allegedly stored in the body’s memory.
As this practitioner explains, “When we experience life events, the brain releases chemicals into the blood, and our biochemical bodies register feelings such as love or anger and confidence or fear. These chemicals are supposed to be released, but often they get trapped in the body, binding at receptor sites. Anger binds at the liver and gallbladder, and fear attaches to the kidneys and bladder, for example.”
If this sounds ludicrous, that’s because it is! But not according to the founder, a chiropractor named Scott Walker of Encinitas, California. He describes NET as a “body-mind way, a non talk-it-out way, of dealing with emotional aberrations.” He claims everyone has these aberrations that “replay” old memories which adversely affect health.
Proponents claim that everyone has these aberrations or blocks, which they refer to as NEC’s (neuro emotional complexes), and that the body “replays” these old memories, which can adversely affect health.
The point of NET treatment is to find these NEC’s which they do by relying upon another unscientific method of diagnosis known as muscle testing aka applied kinesiology to “isolate a troublesome event” that is causing the block. The patient is then instructed “to hold in mind a ‘snapshot’ of the emotional state while the chiropractor adjusts the patient’s spine and acupuncture points; and prescribes supplement products and homeopathic remedies.”
We all know that emotional issues can have a negative effect on a person’s health, but there is no scientific evidence to prove that the body has a memory in which these traumatic events are stored. In other words, because the underlying premise of NET is unsubstantiated, whatever beneficial effects may seem to result from this therapy are either coincidental or due to the placebo effect.
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