Quantum
HEALTH
Issue 13 September/October 2011
There are some very effective techniques for reducing daily stress, such as exercise, meditation, yoga, breath work, biofeedback, behaviour modifi cation, and so on. When practiced regularly, these techniques can be very effective. But that is the key: you have to keep doing them, and most of us do not.
Subjective Measures The graph above demonstrates self-scored symptom improvement for 24 consecutive clients who met all criteria for data collection. Each participant fi lled out the Fight or Flight Therapy symptom screener both before commencing and after completing their programme.
Each symptom or behaviour was graded on a scale of 0-5 in terms of severity or degree of diffi culty, with the worst possible cumulative score being 350. Each person’s total score was then grouped into arbitrarily defi ned categories based on severity of challenge to daily functioning. Most high functioning people scored 50 or less.
Note that each participant improved, with the least improvement being 19 points and the most being 251. The average percentage reduction in score was 58%, with the median reduction being 62%, all in a matter of two to four months.
This shift to higher functioning is particularly impressive considering that for the vast majority of participants these symptoms were long- standing and resistant to a wide variety of conventional and alternative interventions over many years (see case report).
Conclusion We are learning more and more how stress has become a major determinant of our health and quality of life. Yet in today’s world, stress is inescapable. Many of us seek the aid of practitioners and therapies in an effort to remediate a wide variety of symptoms, which are all too frequently caused or aggravated by just one thing: our stress response, our fi ght or fl ight response.
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What if we could simply reset our nervous systems to a calmer place? And what if we could do that with something as simple as a short course of light therapy? That, indeed, is what appears to be happening with Fight or Flight Therapy.
Case Report: G. G., a 61-year-old business manager, in her own words I went to Dr. Tessler seeking help with LIFE!!! Now, after Fight or Flight Therapy, I could be his poster child! I was 61 years old and ever since a very stressful childhood had been struggling to just make it through each day. I was overwhelmed with life and everything was hard for me. It felt like I was always walking through mud. I’d been in various forms of therapy for almost 40 years. I even became trained in several so I could treat myself and others. Despite all that work, for all those years, I still showed up on Dr. Tessler’s doorstep scoring 299 out of 350 on his questionnaire. I told him after all the things I’ve tried, if he could drop my score just 50 points, to 249, I’d be thrilled. That’s how desperate I was.
First progress evaluation: The fi rst three weeks of therapy were quite remarkable. All I did was look at my therapy light for 20 minutes once or twice a day. But during those three weeks amazing things happened:
• I was able to talk to my husband about some very traumatic things in my life without getting overly emotional about them.
• There was a problem with our HOA board of directors and instead of getting upset I was able to see it all with a new perspective and deal with it.
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