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The Energy of Belief: Psychology's Power Tools to Focus Intention and Release Blocking Beliefs

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In "The Energy of Belief," Bender and Sise offer their own approach to energy psychology. They provide coverage on how to apply efficient techniques and protocols to uncover and resolve limiting beliefs and distressing emotional states. This book teaches how to use TAB (Touch and Breathe), a gentle mind-body technique where you think about an issue while taking a deep breath and touching key locations on your body. Similar to Energy Tapping, this technique helps to neutralize distress. The chief focus, as the title indicates, is on beliefs. And the authors cover beliefs in considerable detail. The protocols covered are simplified with useful diagrams so that anyone can apply them. This book will be of value for both self-help and to professional therapists. To some degree, this is a self-help version of an earlier professional book by Diepold, Bender, and Britt: Evolving Thought Field Therapy. I highly recommend it!
--Dr. Fred P. Gallo, author of Energy Psychology: Explorations at the Interface of Energy, Cognition, Behavior, and Health, Second Edition (Innovations in Psychology)and Energy Tapping for Trauma: Rapid Relief from Post-Traumatic Stress Using Energy Psychology

The Energy of Belief is that rare combination of profoundly important ideas imbedded in a clear step-by-step self-help modality. Sheila Sidney Bender and Mary T. Sise have combined their considerable expertise as psychotherapists and pioneers in the emerging field of energy psychology to create this gem of a book. They have provided well reasoned theoretical explanations with extremely effective strategies for helping readers to examine and change their self-defeating beliefs and behaviors. Using the innovative Touch and Breathe (TAB) technique originated by the BDB Group, Bender and Sise gently guide readers through a personal journey of discovery and healing as they explain exciting new strategies for dealing with difficult personal issues. Of particular importance is their teaching how to access the mind/body/energy connection using self muscle testing. This, combined with a basic understanding of the acupuncture meridian system and some basic tenets of clinical psychology, has the potential to empower the reader in ways that have not been made available to the general public in such a lucid and concise format. The well conceived illustrations are invaluable in helping readers achieve the goals of gently and mindfully addressing painful areas of their lives. I highly recommend this wonderful new book to both the clinical and general public.

Victoria Britt, LCSW

Sheila Sidney Bender & Mary T. Sise, The Energy of Belief: Psychology's Power Tools to Focus Intention and Release Blocking Beliefs, Fulton, CA: Energy Psychology Press 2007.

This is an excellent book that delivers on the promise in its title, presenting clearly and convincingly the tools and methods that can identify and transform beliefs that block one's progress and satisfaction in life. Sheila Bender and Mary Sise have a very readable style that engages the reader's interest as it explains biological energy fields, blocking beliefs and how to deal with them.

Helpful nuggets that stand out include:

· Energy field perturbations (well known in the numerous therapy traditions as signs of problems), as well as elaters and harmonizers (positive aspects of energy fields);

· Energy field reversals (again, well known in the Energy Psychology) and energetic belief reversals that can block progress;

· Self-testing for energetic belief blocks.

The scripts and diagrams for using the Touch and Breathe method, supplemented with richly illustrated case examples provide a clear understanding of how to apply these methods. This book is warmly recommended to those who are seeking methods for self-healing.

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The Energy of Belief is an eye-opening and informative read for both professionals and non-professions alike on a powerful energy psychology treatment. Psychologist, Sheila Bender, and Social Worker, Mary Sise, have written an easy to "read, learn and do" book that brings the gentle, energetic power of the Touch-and-Breathe (TAB) treatment approach literally to your finger tips.

The Energy of Belief provides an easy to understand scientific foundation of energy, intention, vibrational frequencies, and fields relative to Eastern and Western medical views as they relate to the concept of mind and mind-body-energy interactions. Thought and beliefs are described as detectible energetic elements that impact our emotional and physical being, which can unknowingly disrupt and block healing treatments despite our best intentions. The authors discuss the relative importance of body polarity, how to assess and correct polarity when needed, and its essential value as a guide in successful treatment.

Bender and Sise provide numerous illustrations, charts, learning exercises, and photos as they outline step-by-step procedures for generic (algorithm) and individualized use of TAB to treat the most common to the most elusive and self-sabotaging issues that challenge our lives. Whether you desire to recover from traumatic experiences or self-defeating habits, this book offers a powerful avenue to address all contributing beliefs that may have served to block your previous efforts to change and heal and offer the best opportunity for success.

If you are new to the area of "Energy Psychology" and meridian-assisted treatments, or have training and experience in TFT and EFT, you will find this book to be a valuable resource and reference regarding content, clarity, and ease of application. Of considerable importance is the protocol for treating positive emotions and beliefs that hook a person into repetitive and self-sabotaging behaviors in order to feel better.

As the originator of the Touch-and-Breathe (TAB) treatment and lead author of Evolving Thought Field Therapy from which this book is derived, I found The Energy of Belief to be a "must have" in understanding and applying energy psychology treatments. Dr. John Diepold www.TFTworldwide.com

This is the book I have been waiting for - a well written, comprehensive, yet simple, guide to a profound energy psychology technique - Touch And Breathe (TAB). It is the first book I now recommend to those patients who understand how vital it is to take true ownership of their healing. In the early chapters, Sheila Sidney Bender and Mary Sise impart to the reader their deep knowledge of the essential components of TAB:"the meridian gateway,mindfulness,touch, breath,intention and intuition." From then on, they give clear and practical advice on how best to apply this profound healing approach to a wide variety of common debilitating conditions whose roots so often lie within conditioned, false negative beliefs.
Reading this book, and applying its heart-felt advice to our lives, is a truly rewarding experience. I am honored that it has been published as a companion to my own book The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells

Bender and Sise combine the physiology and psychology of healing using simple, helpful techniques. These techniques will help the novice who is just stepping into bio energetics, as well as practitioners of EFT, TFT, acupuncture, massage and light work. Holistic care embraces energy healing and sees it as growing form of therapy. Why wait for western medicine when you can be taught techniques and applications that help. An increased number of professionals are now seeing the value of energy work. Self help is a billion dollar industry. More psychologists are embracing the natural healing powers of the body and the mind. This book gives you concrete ways to heal many issues. If compulsive thoughts consume you, this is a good book to start with. We sometimes don't realize what a "funk" we are in until we look from outside in. this book uses an energy method called "TAB." Touch and breathe--it is that simple. The chapters introduce how thoughts get trapped in our mind field. It acquaints you with how TAB helps. The authors do a great job of giving you step by step instructions with photos as a guide to help rid yourself of negativity and compulsions that are holding you back. I enjoyed that they discussed the impact of core beliefs and how you can have healthier beliefs. It is possible to create the life you want. Energy follows thought!
Creating inner peace and harmony is only the start for allowing the world to heal, one person at a time.
These authors have vision, and compassion to teach and share, and easily communicate ways to help you polish your self awareness. The self awareness test discusses safety, deservedness, blocking beliefs, unknowing beliefs as well as relationships with all of theses.
This book bridges the gap between the ambiguity of energy work and science. It allows you to create positive intentions by releasing those thoughts that hold you back. Intuition is the art of knowing- a concept many people are unsure of. The authors show you how to achieve this.
The book is filled with case stories, techniques, and concepts you will enjoy learning about and using. It will help advance your self help awareness if you are already experienced in this, by creating more focus. Lots of good ideas here. I enjoyed it.
I received a complimentary review copy.

This beautiful book first clearly and gently guides the reader to understand the principles that determine our emotional state. But then it launches the reader into the next step--actually changing the negative beliefs that limit our lives with a powerful tool from the new field of Energy Psychology called the "Touch and Breathe" method. Developed by Dr. John Diepold Jr., this powerful technique combines mindfulness meditation-based practice with touching points on the meridians of energy that flow through the body for "emotional acupressure." Case examples show the profound and long-lasting upward shifts in functioning that come from applying these simple principles. Step-by-step instructions and photos of models demonstrating the procedures guide the reader to be able to access information from their own energy system--a kind of "reading one's own computer." Then the reader is guided through a self-help process to reprogram one's system for emotional health and wellness. This book is a gem!

Barbara Stone, PhD, LISW, DCEP, author of Invisible Roots: How Healing Past Life Trauma Can Liberate Your Present

Invisible Roots: How Healing Past Life Trauma Can Liberate Your Present

In "The Energy of Belief", Sheila Bender and Mary Sise present a thorough education on what beliefs can do to you, what they can do for you and how they can often work against you. They also teach an easily learned body-energy based method "Touch and Breathe" (TAB). Practicing this method as the easy-to-understand instructions detail, will release negative beliefs and with them, completely change your life. I know, this technique is one I practice and teach myself. I was very impressed by both the research as well as the straight talking explanations and extra tips and hints that made all the difference in artful use of TAB for personal issues. I recommend this book for those who are keen to dump problems, stress and overload. You couldn't have better teachers than these two authors, who are outstanding guides in what for most will be new, though exciting, territory. Buy this book today and start living the life you've always dreamed. When you have control of your beliefs, anything is possible!

This book is a must read for both those who are familiar with Energy Psychology techniques and those who are just being introduced to them. It is clearly written with easy to follow instructions, and loaded illustrations demonstrating the techniques. After reading it, I purchased three more copies to loan to my clients. Many have said that they purchased their own copy because the techniques have been so effective. I am recommending this book to everyone I know.

I was hoping that this book would deliver on its hype but was quite disappointed. "Breakthrough book" it is definitely NOT, and all the hype just leads the reader astray.

This book is just a variation on Gary Craig's Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which he adapted from Callahan's Thought Field Therapy (TFT), and both of which are borrowed from ancient qigong techniques for tapping or stimulating acupuncture points. There is nothing very new or dramatically different about this system, which leans very heavily towards TFT. Given the outrageous sums of money required for some levels of TFT, I am not a fan of Callahan.

If you know absolutely nothing about energy therapies or qigong, you might benefit from this, but I have found EFT to be far easier to learn and practice. I see no real need for this book, and would recommend checking out EFT first, as there is much information available for free on the EFT web site.

Not recommended.