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Paranoia, Hostility, Schizophrenia, Unemployable
This 30 year old man had clinically significant levels of
paranoia and schizophrenia. He was so hostile and paranoid, that he was unable
to keep a job or maintain a living situation. He quite literally could not get
along with people. When he started the brain energy training program, he had
just been involved in a fight with a total stranger at a bus stop. As a result
of the fight his whole body was bruised and he had 20 stitches over his left
eye. Because of the stitches we were unable to place EMG electrodes on his
forehead. He seemed likely to be a difficult person to train since he bristled
with hostility and ill will. It was easy to see that he was a magnet for
physical attacks because of his extremely disagreeable nature. The lab
assistants had a major argument over who would have work with "that
one", as his bad energy spilled over into our lab personnel.
By the time he was halfway through his 20 sessions, he had
become more compliant and progressively less hostile. It is difficult for us
to treat both Paranoia (PA) and Schizophrenia (SC) simultaneously since each
condition is best treated with alpha energy increases at different places on
the head. Increases of central alpha energy reduce Paranoia, while increases
of occipital alpha energy reduce Schizophrenia. However, we provide each
patient with four (simultaneous) channels of feedback information (left and
right central alpha energy, and left and right occipital alpha energy). This
patient used that feedback information to best advantage and increased both his
central and occipital alpha energy. As a result he successfully reduced both
his Paranoia and his Schizophrenia, with Paranoia being reduced all the way
down to the normal range.
Through brain energy training, this patient reduced his
Schizophrenia and got rid of his clinically extreme levels of Paranoia. He was
also less hostile and could now get along better with other people. He found a
job shortly after completing his training and his living situation stabilized.
At his one year follow-up, the patient had lived in the same house, with the
same roommates for one year, and he was still holding the same job (almost a
year later). He was also pursuing his dream of an acting career by taking
courses at a local college. He had not been in a fight since his training.
Data Analysis
In order to evaluate the effectiveness of a treatment
method, it is very helpful to study the relationships between changes in
dependent and independent measures. An excellent means of revealing the
existence of a relationship between treatment outcome and learned changes in
brain energy is to perform Pearson product moment correlations on data
which relate EEG changes to changes in mood and personality. Left and Right
Occipital Alpha changes were separately computed and correlated with changes in
the patient's mood and emotional state.
This patient did 20 days of brain energy training, with the
first 10 days devoted to increasing alpha brain energy, and the second 10 days
devoted to increasing beta brain energy. Using the Profile of Mood States
(POMS), and correlating changes in 6 scales of the POMS with changes in both
alpha and beta brain energies, it becomes possible to see the connection
between therapeutic outcome and changes in brain energy. Increases of right
occipital alpha energy tended to reduce "Tension/Anxiety", however
increases of beta energy at that same site tended to increased
"Tension/Anxiety". Similarly, increases of right occipital alpha
significantly reduced "Depression/Dejection" (r=-.69 p<.025),
whereas beta increases at the same site increased
"Depression/Dejection". Both alpha and beta increases at the
left occipital site reduced "Confusion/Bewilderment", but the right
occipital again showed a disparate effect for alpha and beta: alpha increases
significantly reduced "Confusion/Bewilderment" (r= -.78 p<.005),
whereas beta increases there tended to produce the opposite effect.
"Anger/Hostility" was reduced by increases of alpha and beta at the
right occipital, while "Fatigue" was reduced in proportion to
increases in left occipital alpha and beta. The strongest effect in fatigue
reduction was produced by increases in left occipital alpha(r= -.79 p<.005).
Increases in alpha at both occipital sites tended to increase the patient's
"Vigor".
It became clear in this analysis that mere changes in brain
energy were not sufficient to produce the therapeutic outcome. It really did
matter which brain energies changed. The direction of change also mattered.
Increases in alpha brain energy seemed to be more beneficial than increases of
beta brain energy, when the desired outcome was therapy. Increases of alpha
brain energy tended to be related to REDUCTIONS in Tension, Depression,
Confusion, Anger, and Fatigue, and to INCREASES in Vigor.
One of the best indicators of the overall improvement of
this patient is the comparison of the "Before Training" version of
the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) with the version taken
one year after completing the training program. Improvements (reductions) in
the Clinical Scales were quite remarkable. Psychopathic Deviancy (PD)
decreased 8 percentile points to 73. Paranoia (PA) decreased 14 percentile
points to 65. The two largest reductions in measured psychopathology were in
Psychaesthenia (PT) and Schizophrenia (SC), which dropped 21 and 19 percentile
points each, to end at 67 and 76, respectively. Mania (MA) dropped 13 points
to end at 64; Social Introversion (SI) dropped 2 points to end at the mean
(50), and Anxiety (Welsh A) dropped 9 points to end at 41. At the same time,
his Ego Strength (ES) increased a health 9 points to end at 58. We should not
permit this blizzard of numerical improvements obscure the fact that a
remarkable transformation took place within this patient as a result of his
brain energy training. A miserable and obnoxious person blossomed into an
open, loving human being. He occasionally dropped by the laboratory,
unannounced, to bring flowers to the lab assistants... after his training.
Through an energy medicine treatment program, this patient became transformed.
This is a result available to others also, through brain energy training.
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