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Howard Brockman

Howard Brockman, LCSW is one of the top psychotherapists and counselors in Salem Oregon for over 32 years. Howard has authored two popular books: Dynamic Energetic Healing and Essential Self-Care for Caregivers and Helpers. To learn more about Howard Brockman, please visit the full bio.

October 2009 Annual Toronto Energy Psychology Conference

I just returned from the 11th Annual Canadian Energy Psychology Conference in Toronto, Canada. If you have never visited Toronto, I recommend you do so sometime in your life. The city is expansive as it is beautiful and diverse in its population. It has excellent public transportation and a wonderful array of internationally diverse restaurants, reminiscent of other large cities I have been to such as New York and London. I recommend it as a getaway destination should you have the time off to travel. My hotel was just a 5-minute walk from the famous and enormous St. Lawrence Market.
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Issues Related to Sleep Could Be Dark Energy

My wife and I recently spent a few days at a friend’s house in Newport Beach, Oregon.We had never been there before, and our friends had taken great pains to make sure that everything was vacuumed and counters wiped down and generally clean upon our arrival. Before going to bed that first night, I did my normal ritual when occupying other spaces other than my own for the night. This entailed calling upon my spiritual helpers and guides to ensure that the space was clean energetically. At about two in the morning, I became aware that I was in the midst of a very scary dream.I am not typically a lucid dreamer, but this particular dream was so scary to me that I woke myself up from it and found myself covered with goose bumps feeling very cold. I immediately knew that I had been contaminated by some kind of subtle negative energy.I spent the next 15 minutes calling on my helpers to support me to release whatever had attached to me.Eventually, I felt I was successful as I was able to feel calm once again and drift back to sleep.Why this happened in spite of my awareness to take precautions I do not know.
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Energetic Boundaries with People in Extreme States

While working with a college student recently, I learned something new and very exciting about dealing with people in extreme emotional states.But first I’m going to sketch out a little background for you.

Gordon (not his real name) is a theater major having a very difficult time with his director for the play he’s rehearsing in right now. Gordon’s perception of his director (shared by the rest of the cast), is that Ms. Thomas (not her real name) tends to be emotionally volatile and at times unpredictably explosive in a critical and shaming way.Sometimes she is complementary and affirming of her students when they take her direction and accomplish what she had intended for them.Other times, for no apparent reason, she begins screening and criticizing in a way that ultimately feels very shaming and professionally inappropriate.As Gordon was describing her, I simply referred to her as “Miss Extreme States” as a way to create an identity or possible dream figure in the hope that this might clarify our work together.
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Psychic Attacks and Dynamic Energetic Healing

Recently a client of mine came in after having experienced two significant medical emergencies. Upon subsequent examinations, there seemed to be no apparent medical explanations for them.Having had training in shamanic practices, this individual’s husband was very concerned that these medical emergencies that had recently occurred were a direct result of psychic attacks on his wife by sorcerers. I have to admit, this is not a typical presenting problem for me in my daily practice. Though the husband acknowledged that his wife had mentioned that she had been doing everything she could to spiritually to protect herself from these attacks from the sorcerers, he was becoming increasingly alarmed that she was in way over her head since these medical emergencies that she experienced were very close to life-threatening.
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The Effects of Subtle Negative Energy on Muscle Testing Hydration

Some of you may already know how subtle negative energy can complicate manual muscle testing when working with clients.By learning proper procedural protocols, one who uses manual muscle testing as a facilitator for DEH client intentions can effectively root out and identify any dark energy components that the client is carrying as energetic blockages to actualizing his or her intention.Examples of dark energy components fall into the realm of “supernatural phenomena” such as curses, interpersonal entanglements, intrusions and earthbound spirit attachments.Two weeks ago I discovered how subtle negative energy can in fact not only create distraction and deception during the course of normal muscle testing, but can seriously complicate matters by compromising one’s ability to muscle test at all as a facilitator is misled to believe that their client is dehydrated.
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Another Case of Soul Stealing

A client came in today feeling dispirited with life in general. She had been feeling well and in-fact had facilitated a personal growth weekend with a group of women the previous week. She suspected she was dissociated and when muscle testing, it was determined that she was only 20 percent connected to her physical body. She did not know why but  was just feeling blue and lethargic. I ended up doing frontal occipital holding and was told by one of my guides that she had no energetic boundaries with any of her female clients and one in particular. When I shared this with her, she recounted that there was one woman in the workshop she facilitated that kept challenging her power and authority as the workshop leader. The last evening of the workshop, when my client was tired from holding the space for all the participants all weekend, this other woman co-opted the group to follow her lead as she became in charge.
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Intrusions in Clients

Moving beyond traditional talk therapy enables all kinds of possibilities for positive therapeutic change. After all, choosing to orient to clients’ problems from just the so-called mental realm is extremely arrogant. Why do I say this? Because the presupposition in Western psychology (mostly) is that emotional problems are caused primarily from our thoughts. And just how tangible are our thoughts anyway?
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How a Visitor’s Presence Silenced Our Home Theater System; The Dreaming Body Revisited

This is the story of the dreaming body. It was movie night at our house, and my wife, son and I were all ready to sit down and enjoy a newly rented DVD. As the DVD went into the player, we were immediately disappointed that there was no sound coming from the speaker system. This had happened occasionally in the past as a result of some of the newer complicated electronics embedded in the system.  I discovered that similarly to my computer, the system required rebooting by first unplugging and then plugging back in the power cord, followed by pushing the reset button to allow the system to go back to factory default settings.  In this instance, nothing changed.  I repeated the procedure four times with no success. In the past, repeating this procedure once and sometimes twice always reset the system so that sound went back on.  This time was different, and for a moment, I was stymied.  On a practical level, there was nothing more that I knew to do to get this technology working again.  At this point I had to become curious, and wonder about how this might be somehow related to the dreaming body.
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