ShenTherapy

 

S.H.E.N (Specific Human Emotional Nexus) is a comprehensive and deep emotional healing technique developed through 25 years of extensive research and clinical trials by the American Physicist Richard Pavek. These pioneering healing techniques have been proven to be highly effective in successfully treating many different kinds of negative psychological and physical symptoms.
SHEN is an emotional healing therapy that restores the natural healthy flow of the body’s Biofield. The Biofield is the term used to describe subtle flows of electromagnetic energy that run through and around the body. These flows of energy run in a particular pattern.

The idea that there are subtle energy flows in the body is not new. Some eastern therapies like acupuncture can be traced back thousands of years. However SHEN Therapy is amongst the first to have a background in modern scientific research and reasoning.

Along with the effective healing technique of the SHEN therapy, Richard Pavek has developed a theory on the workings of the Biofield, how it relates to the experience of emotion and how blockages can occur. This theory is backed up with thousands of successful case studies.

The gentle hands on healing technique is very effective in its own right. When this healing technique is coupled with this new understanding of emotion and how it relates to the body’s Biofield a truly powerful healing treatment can be achieved producing lasting results.

Benefits of SHEN

SHEN therapy benefits everyone – from the fit and healthy to the chronically ill, from the people who have never experienced alternative medicine to experienced practitioners. There is nobody who would not benefit from being free from tension, stress and their personal emotional burdens.

The main function of SHEN therapy is on inner emotional healing but because the Biofield is bio-effective (It has the ability to affect the body’s physical tissue) it can also help physical illness which may have an emotional basis. Relieving daily stresses, tension and fatigue is also another positive bi-product of the healing treatment.

So as well as healing emotional and behavioral issues, restoring the natural flow the Biofield can also help physical and even cognitive functioning (Concentration, memory, dreams, clarity of thought etc). Below is a sample list of symptoms which have been successfully treated by SHEN therapy:

Behavioral Symptoms

Panic Attacks, Phobias
Prolonged or unexpressed grief or mourning
Emotional eating, Eating disorders
Emotional related smoking
Post traumatic stress
Relationship difficulties
Suicidal thoughts
Inability to break negative patterns in life
Inability to relax
Addictions – Alcohol, work, pornography, drugs Emotional SymptomsDepression
Anger
Grief
Self-doubt and loss of or low self-esteem
Fear, Feelings of anxiety
Blocked sexual feelings
Restless sleep
Cognitive Symptoms

Nightmares
Difficulty making decision
Difficulty concentrating

 
Physical Symptoms

Migraines
Menstrual distress
Irritable bowel syndrome
Teenagers experiencing Stress/tension /pmt
Long term pain no one can explain
High or low blood pressure linked to stress/emotions
Neck and head tension, sweating, tiredness and lethargy
A heavy feeling in the chest

 
The Biofield

A growing body of scientific research is showing that around the human body, there is a subtle energy field which extends beyond the human body.

This field is an electromagnetic field. Atoms and molecules in the body are surrounded by electromagnetic fields. These fields appear to combine into a large biofield, just as individual fields around atoms and molecules of iron combined to form the larger magnetic field to produce a magnet.

The energy in the biofield is known in other therapies as Qi, Life Force or Subtle Energy. For SHEN to be effective, it is not necessary to understand or even believe in the biofield.

How SHEN Works

The biofield circulates in specific patterns around the human body. In a healthy and happy person, the energy flows freely. In an ill or upset person, the energy in certain parts of the body will appear to move slowly or sometimes not at all. This slowing or blocking of the energy flow eventually impacts the physical body. The electromagnetic field around the body is its life force and when this field is not moving freely, the health of the physical body deteriorates.

SHEN aims to ensure that any slowness or blockages in the biofield are freed. This is done by placing of a practitioners hands in specific areas of the body which accords with the direction of the flows in the human biofield. By aiding the healthy flow of the biofield in this way, slowness and blockages are released. From this just one session of SHEN, people feel a physical re-energising or lightness. For example, people often report a heaviness in their chest being lifted or relief from headaches or stomach tightness.

There is a strong link between emotional upset or trauma and blocks in the biofield. Often when blocks are released during SHEN, this releasing is accompanied by memories of events which are linked to these emotions. Often these are events which caused emotional trauma in the past and the effects of these events have continued to stay with the person. For example, a person can carry a lot of fear, anger or feelings of insecurity from an experience in life. It is the block in their energy field which keeps that negative emotion with the person. Once the block is cleared, people report that they no longer feel they carry the affects of their trauma with them. They can happily experience situations which would normally be uncomfortable. They can remember events from their past without feeling the pangs of emotion which would normally accompany such memories.

The strength of SHEN is that it can free people of these emotional burdens.

Frequently Asked Qestions
Is SHEN a medical treatment or psychotherapy?

No, SHEN practitioners work only with aspects of the emotions that occure in the body. Improving your emotional health may help you physical health, but SHEN practitioners neither offer nor practice medical treatment, psychotherapy unless otherwise qualified to do so.
How do you make your diagnosis?

First visit to a Therapist entails a consultation, and extended interview and treatment. From this we discuss and sometimes need to recommend the SHEN treatment plan. We do not diagnose. The therapist aim is the client’s aim.
Are you using energy when you heal, if so, what is it?

Yes, We work with the biofield; we use the naturally occurring biofield that is in the human body and permeates the physical body. We use the peripheral biofield flow in our hands to assist the movement of the biofield in the body

The biofield is the alive part of all human life, it is our breath that moves the biofield.
For more scientific knowledge refer to our international website www.shentherapy.info
It is within the biofield that we fully experience happy emotions and physically constrict around uncomfortable and painful ones. When the experience is happy we fully feel it and are free with no physical constriction in mind, body or spirit. When the experience of emotion is a painful one we put up defenses and wear a mask, squeezing in around it to keep it under control and keep smiling or so nobody will know we are in emotional pain, the body keeps squeezing and results in physical pain, resulting in the biofield closing off in that particular area. The biofield flow we use from our hands helps to open up that area allowing the pain to be experienced in the body and dissipate.
How does the Auto contractile pain reflex (splinting reflex) upset our physical bodies?

Contractions caused by painful emotions exert pressure on the organs and glands in the region where the painful emotion is felt, upsetting normal operation. Notice how your stomach feels when you feel a stab of fear, or how hard it is to breath iyour chest is contracted with grief.When emotional pain is severe or occurs over and over, it becomes tightly trapped in the bodily region where we feel it and leads to physical disorders that have no organic basis and resist medical treatment.When painful emotion is cleared from the body these disorders often improve dramatically or end entirely.
Have studies been conducted on SHEN?

Sucessful pilot studies have been completed on SHEN and migraines, SHEN and premenstrual tension and SHEN and depression.A large majority in all three reported lasting changes.
 

What are SHENs origins it sounds Asian?

SHEN is an acronym for Specific Human Emotional Nexus. SHEN was developed by Richard R Pavek an American scientist and researcher, who worked out the physics of the biofield in 1977 and 1978 over the next twelve years, from his observations in the clinic and in life he developed the principles of emotional dynamics and emotional release that form the basis of SHEN practice.Historically, methods similar to SHEN were used long ago both in the Greek Healing Caves of Asclepius and in the Egyptian Per Ankhs, or houses of life.

Does SHEN involve physical pressure?

No, while it is possible for physical pressure to provoke a painful emotion, it cannot draw emotion out or bring it to a sucessful conclusion.
Is SHEN like Therapeutic Touch or Reiki?

No, our goal in SHEN is not to balance the aura, but to activate the biofield so we can release and reslove trapped, painful emotions. Our methods are different and we do not channel a universal or cosmic force, or use sacred symbols.

Does ‘releasing my emotions’ mean wild shouting or hitting or kicking?

No, we discourage screaming and other physical activity because, while those ativities may exhaust our bodies, they won’t exhaust the emotion. (Painful emotion does not exit through the throat, hands or feet). To truly exhuast and release theemotion we must first allow ourselves to fully feel its inner effects. SHEN makes this much easier to do.
Who is the SHEN authority?

The authority to set code of ethics and standard of practice is ISTA – International SHEN Therapy Association. SHEN. When looking for a SHEN Therapist look for MISTA(Members of the International SHEN Therapy Association) to be certain you are getting the best treatment for you and your family and a fully qualified SHENTherapist.

Are there any side effects of the treatment?

Some people would call it a side effect when tears, grief, fatigue, colds or old injury pain emerge during or after a series of SHEN Treatments. This is not uncommon if these experieces have already been a part of a person’s life. One cannot experience something that is not in the body or that they have not experienced previously in their life. SHEN cannot put anything into the body or take anything out that is not there already. SHEN is not a feel nice therapy when one is going through old layers of painful fear, anxiety, anger, shame, lace of self worth, abuse, migraines, bowel issues, menstrual issues etc. The feel good factor comes after the painful feeling is cleared from the body. Memories are still there but the feeling is cleared from the body. For example when one has been abused physically or sexually, the memories are painful because as the memory there is pain locked in the body, when the pain is cleared from the body the memories do not hurt.

Is SHEN related to any spiritual disipline?

SHEN is for all regardless of spirituality, education, occupation, race, political or religious belief. Many people report that their meditation practice their spiritual life has awoken and become meaningful after they clear emotional pain. Dealing with emotions helps all of us to grow in charity and improve our relationships, and so the body grows until it has built itself up in love and light.

What is my role in the treatment?

Your aim in using SHEN is your role. Allowing and giving yourself permission to go into the pain locked and controlled inside yourself, the pain that is creating havoc and stress for you in your life. Having courage to get in there and clear it form the body. Not backing off from the pain as it emerges and letting it control you. Be determined to get rid of it from the body. It is your choice. The therapist is the facilitator. Your aim is the therapist aim. . Helping you achieve it, it may take a short few treatments or it may be a process of working until you are satisfied that you feel good. When you reach your aim it is recommended that you continue every so often to have a treatment because life continues to bring stresses and SHEN can clear it and help you move forward with ease.
Do I have responsibility myself?

Yes, you sign a form taking responsibility for anything or everything that emerges. The Therapist will ask you to fill and sign a form which will help you understand that the therapist cannot put anything into your body, or take anything out that is not in there. You take responsibility for any and all emotions that emerge during SHEN Treatments. The Therapist is there for you to reassure you and help you feel safe in your experience. The therapist will hold all information and sharing with the utmost of confidentiality.
Can something good come out of it even if I don’t get well?

Many report feeling lighter and have experienced something lifted from their body with just one session. One session clears all the surface stress and will help a person feel lighter, more relaxed and less stressed. Mostly it will depend on how much effort you put into helping yourself to go get SHEN treatments. One treatment will not clear everything. Many treatments are required if the emotional/physical pain had been carried for 10 to 50 years, this will be a process. Something good always comes out lightening the load. One treatment can and often does bring a person into emotional memory pain they do not want to or are not ready to confront. The SHEN therapist will advise this person to go and do a talk therapy and come back when they are secure in allowing the pain to clear from the body.

What do you mean by health?

Everyone has a different understanding about health. Some look on health as being full of laughter and feeling happy even if his or her body is rebelling and not feeling physically well. Some feel if they are not physically sick they have good health while their emotional health is sad and lonely and full of resentment. Good health really means being at peace with you in your heart and mind, loving those that hate you, and taking time to enjoy the earth and things around us
Is pain real or in the mind?

Health and disease are not illusions they are real, for example if you get a pain in your knee it is real. It is not all in your mind, it is in your knee. If you get a pain in your belly before an interview it is real pain. It is not an illusion or all in the mind.
Is SHEN compatible with my religious beliefs?

If you feel it has, it has. Mostly it will depend on your own learned belief. In SHEN it is safe for a person to believe it is or it isn’t. We work to help a person come to a natural conclusion about this themselves through their own growth to self worth, self esteem, confidence, knowing, joy and love, that is naturally inside. Through that, very often it is not necessary to have to have an answer to this question.

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