Dynamic Energetic Healing: Integrating Core Shamanic Practices With Energy Psychology Applications And Processwork Principles [Hardcover]

Howard Brockman (Author), Linda Jenkins (Editor), Andrea Carlson (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 28, 2006

Finalist, Best Books 2006 for New Age, Non-Fiction; USA Book News.com. Notable, 2007, The Eric Hoffer Book Award for Best New Writing in Health/Self-Help; Finalist, 2007 Nautilus Book Awards in the Health & Healing category; Silver Medalist, 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards in Psychology/Mental Health category.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Helps bridge the gap between Eastern and Western medicine, offering new ways to approach client work and planetary healing." -- – Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., author of Shaman, Healer, Sage

"Synthesizes ancient spiritual healing practices with modern psychotherapy to create a holistic approach to healing. This book contains powerful healing!" -- – Sandra Ingerman, MA, author of Soul Retrieval and Medicine for the Earth

"The world of psychotherapy is in constant flux. Howard Brockman has brought a novel perspective to this field." -- – Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., co-author of Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them

"This book is easily read and very practical for both therapists and clients." -- – Arnold Mindell, Ph.D., author of The Quantum Mind and Healing: How to Listen and Respond to Your Body’s Symptoms.

From the Publisher

27 Reader Benefits of Dynamic Energetic Healing® by Howard Brockman

1. Learn a variety of easy-to-use energy psychology strategies for stress management.

2. Discover the key for living an intentional life.

3. Receive a new understanding of the complexity of PTSD within the context of Dynamic Energetic Healing®.

4. Establish protective "energetic boundaries" with the most problematic people you know.

5. Learn how manual muscle testing provides a direct pipeline to your soul.

6. Permanently release the persistent and residual effects of trauma.

7. Find out how "soul loss" is one of the most serious consequences of trauma.

8. Read about how past lives have been empirically validated.

9. Uncover what is necessary for a paradigm shift to experience "other realities".

10. Discover "dreamtime" and why it is so crucial to integrate into the psychotherapy context.

11. Learn about shamanic healing practices.

12. Learn to access inner spiritual resources and raise your vibrational frequency.

13. Learn the protocol to ensure your connection to Source or Creator.

14. Find out how to use a Tibetan bell to balance stagnant emotional energy.

15. Learn about psycho-toxic energy and how to avoid its negative influence.

16. Find out how a regular energetic practice such as Qi Gong or meditation can awaken your extrasensory or psychic abilities.

17. Discover alternatives to the dangers and devastating side effects of antidepressants.

18. Find out how to clear the energetic origins of trauma patterns that collapse the entire trauma-laden matrix of PTSD symptoms.

19. Understand what it means to be fully embodied.

20. Discover the harmful consequences of not being fully embodied and what you can do about it.

21. Find out the destructive long-term consequences of common "curses".

22. Learn about trainings to become a certified Dynamic Energetic Healing® facilitator.

23. Learn how to eliminate binding trauma, enabling you to live an intentional life.

24. Discover that you have an "energy body" as well as a physical body that can be exercised and strengthened, resulting in glowing health and extraordinary well-being.

25. Learn how to move between the worlds of everyday "normal" reality and non-ordinary reality, the spiritual realms where your guardian angel or spiritual guide can be found.

26. Learn techniques and benefits for clearing your space from residual energy left by others.

27. Discover energetic techniques for preventing professional burnout.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 464 pages
• Publisher: Columbia Press LLC; 1 edition (February 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976646935
• ISBN-13: 978-0976646938
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.5 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,829,122 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Howard Brockman was born in Los Angeles in 1951 where he soon discovered what turned out to be his favorite haunt, The Bodhi Tree Bookstore. He spent countless hours browsing and reading literature from spiritual masters throughout the world, never imagining that one day he would find his own book amongst the stacks and actually be a presenting author at this revered North Hollywood bookstore. Howard went to school at USC where ironically he began his practice of Kundalini Yoga and meditation and went on to earn his first master's degree in Social Ethics/Religious Studies. Yet his yearnings for a more natural environment drew him to Oregon where he eventually settled and went on to create an engaging life in the Pacific Northwest. This included finding a master shaman who mentored him for an initial eight years in the mysteries and richness of core shamanic practices. Howard went on to earn a second master's degree in Clinical Social Work and continued his learning in shamanism, process-oriented psychology and energy psychology. His first book that synthesizes all these learnings came out in 2006 (garnering four publishing awards) and continues to sell internationally, including throughout Russia and Western Europe. His new book, Dynamic Energetic Healing for Caregivers and Helpers, is scheduled to be released in January of 2012. Howard currently has a private practice and trains other therapists and healers in Dynamic Energetic Healing at his Institute in Salem, Oregon. He is married with two sons and two Samoyeds.

Customer Reviews

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must have" book for any psychotherapist working with trauma, anxiety,or depression!!!, February 18, 2007

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Stephen R. Beck "Stephen R. Beck LCSW" (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dynamic Energetic Healing: Integrating Core Shamanic Practices With Energy Psychology Applications And Processwork Principles (Hardcover)

Dynamic Energetic Healing is a must have book for every psychotherapist- especially those who work with trauma, loss, or any of the hard to clear presentations of anxiety and depression.

THIS IS A FANTASTIC BOOK- clinically sound, innovative, and clearly written!!!

I bought it 8 months ago and have been working its practices into my sessions little by little and my work is exploding with results! Clients are asking for more of it. Trauma and crisis are being resolved - often quickly! Clients are feeling empowered, some experiencing happiness and hope for the first time in their lives. Interventions generating from the work are synthesizing into practices clients can use in their day-to-day lives, accompanied by a renewed "curiousness about life and their place in it"!

Even if you have never considered working energetically, Howard Brockman delivers a compelling synthesis of how energetic interventions and core shamanic practices facilitate the unpacking of complex trauma and allows access to material that often lies out of reach of most clinical interventions. Within its pages he offers an array of practical healing interventions that will support the compassionate facilitating of your client's process.

Divided into four parts, the book is clearly written, easy to follow, and presented in a way that is easily comprehendible by both professional and lay readers.

Part one chronicles Mr. Brockman's quest to integrate sound psychological practice with compassionate spiritual practices and how this evolved into the synthesis of energy psychology and core shamanism he calls DEH. Part two offers nine chapters depicting DEH healing interventions. Part three offers DEH healing protocols - including a very well written chapter dealing with clearing the phenomenology of trauma. Part four offers seventeen case histories that depict a variety of clinical presentations and how the model works to facilitate the process that is opening within the client.

The book is well laid out, indexed, illustrated, and is very easy to use when I need to reference a particular topic while working with a client.

An advanced and clinically adept practitioner of traditional psychotherapeutic approaches, Mr. Brockman offers an approach that is clinically sound and straightforward for both therapist and client. Guided and informed by clinical intention, DEH uses manual muscle testing to follow a series of protocols that negotiate the conscious and unconscious experience of the client in clearing and solidifying their energy field in pursuit of actualizing the desired clinical intention.

What is refreshing about DEH is that it sponsors "a process oriented psychotherapy" that allows for an active naming of the phenomenology of the therapy experience - both in what is being cleared and what is being accessed as a resource for the client.

DEH frees the therapist of having to operate from the position of all knowing and invites them to work as a "facilitator" of client process, greatly freeing the therapist to work from an intuitive position. The client, free of the pejorative descriptions of traditional psychotherapy, is freed to speak in the language of their many ages and experiences, promoting a process that is both generative and intuitively grounded in their animate soul in pursuit of their therapeutic intention.

What develops is a true collaboration between therapist and client as DEH allows the conversation to move in the direction of experience/energy that needs to be cleared - both horizontally through time and space and vertically through the thought and emotional field of the body.

Thus, splitting and dissociation, often process stoppers in most psychotherapy sessions are readily handled by DEH, as what is in the highest good for the client at that moment in the therapy is simultaneously engaged with which "client ego state" needs to be actively guiding the process- using manual MT, conversation, and energy clearing --- without missing a beat or disrupting the process--- and often rendering an expression in the client's eyes that says "finally someone is listening to who I am and is going to get it". As a clinician who has worked for over 20 years with sexually abused and traumatized clients this is astounding to see. Indeed DEH delivers!

I was delightfully surprised that reading and using the book dispelled my initial fears that energy work would somehow be this woo woo experience that would not hold up to the scrutiny of my clinical standards or the demands of client presentations.

In the 8 months that I have been practicing from the book I have never found the DEH model to fail to operate with clinical integrity. Delightfully, clients of all ages, backgrounds, and faiths have embraced its use, because as they say - "its simple and straightforward, the taping works, and I am feeling better".

But what is perhaps most amazing about DEH is that it offers a means that is clinically sound for each client to develop "practices of being" into their lives - of creating a life based in sound psychological practices that incorporates the spiritual practices of the client, in a way that is generative, ever evolving, and full of spirit.

To top all of this off- using the model is fun! It seems like I am on a
"healing adventure" with my clients! I never leave a DEH session feeling drained - but rather energized, open and warm to the experience of life, and "full of Spirit"!!!

Howard Brockman has written an exceptional book! Anyone interested in healing, of opening to their greatest potential, of knowing and living from the true depths of their soul, will gratefully benefit from using this book. I highly recommend it!!!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable toolkit for all mental health professionals, March 26, 2007

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This review is from: Dynamic Energetic Healing: Integrating Core Shamanic Practices With Energy Psychology Applications And Processwork Principles (Hardcover)

I found "Dynamic Energetic Healing" to be a thought provoking and original approach to psychotherapy and energy-based healing. As a shamanic practitioner and Reiki channel, the energy psychology information was new to me and something I had not heard about before. I found Brockman's descriptions of integrating shamanic healing into a therapy framework that uses muscle testing along with tapping chakras and acupressure points fascinating, while at the same time surprisingly effective. The illustrations of his various "interventions" are easy to interpret as are his instructions for using them. I found them helpful in guiding me to try them out. I have experimented with a number of them and I have been totally amazed by how quickly they have brought me to a calm emotional place when I was feeling anxiety. I also loved his descriptions of Mindell's process orientation in his many examples of working with people. Particularly interesting are his descriptions of cultivating "second attention" awareness as a way to increase one's intuitive capabilities. I especially recommend that you read his case histories. The ones about resolving supernatural intrusions and physical illness like cancer were very inspiring. His writing style makes it easy to understand and follow how he tracks each client's process to resolve their particular issues. If you are open to stretching your current ideas about healing, especially from the traditional talk therapy approach, I highly recommend this book! It is a new and what I might consider progressive way of approaching emotional and spiritual issues.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a miracle has arrived, August 18, 2007

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This review is from: Dynamic Energetic Healing: Integrating Core Shamanic Practices With Energy Psychology Applications And Processwork Principles (Hardcover)

2 days before I purchased this book I had an interesting thought. I was wishing that there was a way to "marry" the ancient shamanic ways with more modern techniques such as Energy Medicine. I have background/experience with both.
2 days later I found this book quite by accident (?). Anyway..as a healer this book has been invaluable in showing both ancient and modern ways of dealing with things like psychic attack, soul retrieval, intrusions, etc.
The book is huge, packed with wonderful info/options on how to handle a variety of spiritual issues that may be confronting you or a client. I now consider it one of my bibles that I will refer to again and again. I only wish Mr. Brockman wasn't so far away, but then.. I'd be on his front doorstep looking for training.