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Transcribed from www.ShrinkRapRadio.comSo to look at the spiritual impetus behind each difficult emotion, because inthe book I am presenting our experience here in life, in this body, as a wayto learn from these energies called emotions; and to be able to really becomefacile with them; so that we get the lessons of being here and learn to workwith what we’re given, which is hard because so many of these emotions arewrenching and can just tear your heart out, and are just so intense. Howeverwe all go through them, and I am presenting each emotion in spiritual termsto really can ask yourself, how can this be my teacher instead of how this ismy tormentor.Dr. Dave: Yes and I think that’s really part of the originality of this book isthat approach; and later on we are going to step through some of thosespecific emotional, spiritual challenge transformations that you cover.You have come up with your own unique synthesis here which you callenergy psychiatry; and again the reference to energy might make one thinkof EFT, but I know we are not supposed to. What do you mean by energypsychiatry?Orloff: Energy psychiatry is a sub specialty of psychiatry that I’mdeveloping, which combines traditional medicine including biology,neurobiology and everything that goes along with that, and traditionalpsychiatry, along with spirituality, and an appreciation of subtle energies,and intuition. So I want to combine all worlds when it comes toappreciating emotions.Part of energy psychiatry, and the framework I really use to presentemotions, is that we experience emotions two ways. One of which weprocess it through our linear mind – I’m depressed, I can’t stand this, I wishit was over. But then we have a second way of processing it with ourintuition, which is our gut feeling, or the non verbal still small voice insidethat tells us the truth about things. That voice can sense into the deepermeaning of the emotion and why we are experiencing it. And so in thebeginning of the book I draw that dichotomy: saying we experienceemotions with our mind, we also experience it with our intuition.What I am asking people to do in energy psychiatry is to use the intuition tofind a deeper meaning; so you are not stuck in this small appreciation of theemotion that the linear mind has, which really just wants to get out of pain.That’s all it’s really interested in.Dr. Dave: Yes. I was really struck by the role that intuition plays in yourwork. This is something that many psychiatrists would be loath to talk aboutShrink Rap Radio #201 – Energy Psychiatry and Emotional Freedom Page 4 of 18
Transcribed from www.ShrinkRapRadio.comI think, yet you had a variety of experiences early in your life that made itclear that you have a very open, intuitive channel. Perhaps you could sharewith our listeners the story of Eric, the dashing British businessman yourparents introduced you to. I hope you remember that story in your book(laughing).Orloff: Oh I remember it very well. I tell some of these stories inEmotional Freedom to really get across to people what it’s like as a child toexperience these kinds of energies and emotions, and how we are sensitivepeople. So many times people have blocked out these intuitive experiencesearly on. But I was a very intuitive child, and I would predict things as achild, and I would be able to sense energies around people; and my parentsfinally forbade me to ever mention my intuitions at home again. So I grewup believing there was something wrong with me, because I was never reallyvalidated in that way. So Emotional Freedom is really a vehicle for me toexpress my voice which is clear and powerful now, and not afraid to bringintuition into the emotional realm.But the experience with Eric was: when I was a child my parents werefriendly with this man named Eric who was a dashing businessman; he washandsome, he was British, he was rich, he would come up and pick up myparents in a Rolls Royce and they would go off to parties. And I wouldsense him, and I would get afraid, and I would get put off. It was very nonverbal, it was just an energy, and a sadness – a deep, deep sadness – and adanger that I felt from him. And I told my parents I felt this, and they said,“Oh honey, how could you say that, you don’t even know him, and there isnothing to back this up.” So I didn’t want to feel anything negative abouttheir friends, it wasn’t something volitional. And some time passed and thenit turned out that Eric committed suicide, unexpectedly; because nobodyever knew about his depression, he didn’t speak about it. And so I was ableto pick that up with my intuition on an energetic level very early on; and itisn’t something a child wants to be able to predict.Dr. Dave: That’s right.Orloff: It really isn’t. But I was able – and am able as a psychiatrist now tosense energy around people which helps with diagnosis and treatment – butas I child I didn’t know what I was doing, and I didn’t have any guidance.So people can use emotional freedom, parents can use emotional freedom tohelp their children, people in health care can use it to learn how to senseenergy, and I really go into it with each emotion: how to sense the energy offear, how to sense the energy of courage, what does it feel like in the body. IShrink Rap Radio #201 – Energy Psychiatry and Emotional Freedom Page 5 of 18
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