PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSE MECHANISMS which we may use to react to certain words with either preferred or disliked (pre-judged) behaviors include these:

• anxiety,
• acting out,
• denial,
• acceptance,
• rationalization,
• violence,
• satire,
• humor,
• vengeance,
• betrayal,
• trust,
• and others.

IF OUR MOTHER IS ANXIOUS AND DEPRESSED throughout our pregnancy term, it is likely that we will be born with those "feelings" as our sense of what is normal. Her depression may have only been during our pregnancy and not a regular part of her life. Ours may last a lifetime.

DEPRESSION may have arisen out of feelings of inadequacy at the thought of being a new mother, or, of being a mother again --- when such was not desired.

Depression may have been encouraged by the disapproving looks and comments of strangers, friends, associates, relatives, or, a lover.

Depression could arise through anxiety over the reduction in finances brought with the pregnancy and now anticipated as accompanying the birth.

IT IS DEPRESSING to feel that one is now going to be "attached" to a spouse whom we either do not love, or, who constantly treats us with disrespect --- harsh words, demeaning comments before others, brutality, confining possessiveness, authoritarianism, lack of togetherness, .... Our society provides MANY images of depression producing behaviors and attitudes.

IF OUR FATHER IS DEPRESSED, his feelings may be absorbed by our sympathetic mother --- who may then become more depressed than he was originally.

It could be that he has felt emotional abuse from the negative comments of a boss, instructor, associate, friend, enemy, mentor, relative.

Or, he may fear the potential of being laid off from work which he enjoys and which he is proficient at.

DEPRESSION could also arise from the loss of a loved or respected individual.

ANXIETY encourages feelings of depression.
He may feel sexually inadequate or competitive because of supposed experiences related to him by co-workers, teammates, or friends, or, read in "adult" magazines, seen in "adult" movies, or read and seen on "adult" websites.

Our father may become increasingly depressed for many of the same reasons mentioned above for our "mother", and she may also be drawn into the above factors noted for him.

PHYSICAL HEALTH factors can often encourage feelings of depression, including these:

• dental amalgam deterioration;
• parasitic chronic diseases;
• hypersensitivities & allergies;
• heart disease or low blood pressure;
• hormonal imbalances.

EMOTIONALLY TRANSFERRED DEPRESSION is common.
Being around a depressed person, can be depressing.
And, any close friend, associate, or relative can have this transference influence on either of our parents, UNLESS, they are balanced.

WE DEVELOP our form while immersed in our mother's sea of hormones.
Those hormones compel us to mirror her feelings ... often with greater intensity than her own. We are many times smaller than her mass, yet we are receiving the same concentration of hormone-laced blood. We understand this biochemically in terms of prescription drugs. An adult may take 3 extra strength pain relief tablets and not experience any dramatic negative results. The same quantity of drug given to a baby, may kill it.

NORMALLY POSITIVE ENERGIES, when "blocked", encourage the development of more similar energy blocks within us ... an expectation or a need or a desire to be anxious and depressed --- in this example. To the extent that our father and other persons in the presence of our mother intensify, reduce, or develop the feelings of our mother into a pattern ... by their constant or infrequent abuse or support, the complexity or simplicity of that pattern becomes just one of the patterns we respond to as "normal".

WE ARE COMPELLED FROM BIRTH to try and recreate the patterned biochemical norm "remembered" by any Energy Blocks resident in us. Their "memory" dominates our behaviour, attitudes, assumptions. This is how we may start life, UNLESS, our parents have released their energy blocks before our conception and remained Balanced through our gestation. This is how we start the life of our children, unless, we release our store of blocks before conceiving them. You now have this choice.

Emotional energy block development.

Emotional Energy Blocks develop when we experience fears which we are neither mentored by example, nor guided by instruction, preparation, sympathy, or empathy --- to cope with constructively.

These are developed from the immaturity and insecurity of our naive and innocent child-like ego. For instance, we may feel that we have been unfairly treated. It may be that an enemy has physically abused us and, in turn, we develop an intense hatred for anyone who reminds us of this trauma-inducing individual. We may respond with a desire for security and protection which quickly becomes an obsession for control.

Whenever we are exposed to experiences which we are unprepared for, our shock and natural defensiveness induces the formation of a "terror" energy block, unless other more experienced persons are nearby. In the presence of someone with good coping skills, we may be guided by them, or, we may simply mirror their responses with confidence and forego developing a "never again" inflexible response.

DESPAIR Energy Blocks arise from our impatience.
When we have been challenged by a problem for a longer time without seeing any advancement towards success ... a solution, our EGO will express a feeling of hopelessness. If it builds in intensity enough our Reptilian Structure will make it into a new energy block. This despair will encourages us to expect failure whenever we encounter similar future opportunities.

EMOTIONAL FEAR Energy Blocks can develop with an attachment to constructive and positive behaviors just as easily as being attached to destructive behaviours. A person can easily develop a fear against positive self-esteem. The result may be a feeling of shyness and an embarrassment to take credit for achievements which he or she have accomplished.

A PERSONAL LACK OF CONFIDENCE, fear of rejection, or lust for attention may develop into an energy block supported possessiveness. Mass cultures frequently model for, reward, or educate their citizens to feel abandoned emotionally and ashamed of their individuality.

RIDICULE, REJECTION, or ANXIETY can also lead to Energy Block formation, IF positive coping mentoring or skills are not available. Emotion-sourced Energy Blocks are the outcome of over-sensitive feelings which rather than responding to feelings experienced, the individual is compelled to react to such feelings in a consistent and possibly destructive manner.

Physical menace Energy Blocks.

Physical menace Energy Blocks develop from circumstances of real or imaginary physical endangerment.

SEVERE INJURIES:
When a person is in a severe auto accident or sustains a lifting or other muscle strain injury, the so-called reptilian structural component of their brain may produce a compensating energy block. While a tendon may have been stretched and/or bruised or frayed in the accident, the muscles in the injured area may have tensed in an effort to absorb the "pull" and safeguard the tendon.

An intensified over-protective and over-sensitive response tends to be self-reinforcing --- much like terror reactions. It can remain active such that the muscle tension continues to be applied while pain is present. This "knotting" of the muscle can result in the muscles continually pulling a vertebrae or a joint out of position.

THE RESULT is often that either a nerve is pinched or inflammation is developed and worsened. This behavior sustains the pain, which is met by more muscle tension, and, we have a chronic repetitive pattern. This is a major reason why a patient may frequently need to return to a chiropractor for adjustment following one physical trauma.

REPETITIVENESS of injury or disease symptoms has no reference to the effectiveness of chiropractic medicine or the adjusting skill of the practitioner. The intensity of the energy block within the injured individual determines the duration and intensity of the disease syndrome. Get rid of the energy block, and you get rid of the illness.

EFFECTIVENESS OF RECOVERY, for me, from two separate whiplash injuries, a lower back injury, and tendon injuries in both elbows and shoulders --- each at different times --- was greatly determined by associated energy block release. And I have seen the same type of recovery in others whom I have assisted.

NOTE:
This is NOT a factor of conscious awareness or of individual will.
The psychobabble rationalization that chronically ill persons do not get better because they want attention or do not want to work is a denial by academics of the inadequacy of their theories and their awareness. I have never met a person who wanted endless misery and hardship, or appeared to, UNLESS, they were energy blocked.

THE PATTERN-DOMINATED Unconscious Reptilian brain stem nerve structure is the focus here. Without the benefit of mentored or educated positive coping skills to prevent, understand, or resolve the injury --- it has reacted in a paranoia-like manner to constantly mount a defense --- no longer required --- against further injury to your body. The injury is sustained and not allowed to heal properly by the brain of the individual effectively taking a position as if to say:

REMOVING THIS ENERGY BLOCK, means the individual who must now visit his or her chiropractor 2 or 3 times a week will find that a maintenance schedule of 2 or 3 treatments per year will probably be more than required. The muscles will relax, protective ... and potentially destructive calcium deposits ... will dissolve, the tension-enhanced pain will lessen, and, the injury will heal. You now have a choice: decades of pain and infirmity, or days to recovery!

Biological Energy Blocks.

Biological hazard Energy Blocks demonstrate just how pattern obsessive and how sensitive to the environment the core part of the human brain is.
Termed the Reptilian brain, since MacLean

--- its structure is like that which we find in the brains of reptiles. It should be remembered that reptiles have been successful in surviving on the Earth tens of millions of years longer than humans with much less complex behaviour. While humans rarely develop and use such senses on a conscious level, the brain stem has the capacity to detect different forms of radiation, including magnetic strengths, temperature, light intensity, cosmic and ultra-violet intensities, as well as minute concentrations of biologically hazardous substances.

HIGH CONCENTRATIONS of a toxic element sensed by our brain will result in it recording a pattern of danger. That pattern will "picture" other sensed factors present in the hostile situation. Non-threatening factors may become part of the future warning signs associated with the toxic substance. Severity of response will be linked to detected severity of life threat.

FOR EXAMPLE:
When a highly toxic concentration of phenol is sensed, the brain may respond with avoidance behaviors (dizziness, anger, nausea, headache, ...) to drive you out of the adverse location. Unaware consciously as to WHY you have moved out of this location, EDUCATED humans are trained to assume that there must be a reason for such dramatic actions. With no conscious awareness of the danger, we "logically" assume that changes in the environment that we are consciously aware of --- have given rise to the negative behaviors.

TRYING TO LAY BLAME AND RESPONSIBILITY in a situation in which the person has little awareness of the environment or themselves --- usually creates trouble. Looking for simple answers often results in spurious assumptions and self-denial. You may add your own emotional blocks (such as a superstition). This provides you with a conscious comfort with a (false) sense of knowledge or control. The original and basic biological block serves to convey the intent of the human reptilian structure:

THESE ERRORS OF ASSOCIATION demonstrate just how limiting an energy block can become. Unfortunately, the "picture" of the hazardous environment which the above noted brain structure has recorded may associate the setting of a basement with the substance, phenol. Entering a basement (or whatever mirrors the original location) in the future may result in your brain core trying to protect you from what it fears is another possible near fatal exposure. It presents you with a feeling of unease, nausea, or a headache.

IN THIS EXAMPLE, a particularly limiting physiological and emotional reaction has been attached to both the relevant original location plus the irrelevant many other locations which may look like yet may not contain the same hazards as the original location of trauma. You can choose to remain a slave to such reactive and irrelevant behaviors or you can regain your freedom of choice and self-direction through energy balancing.

Social punishment shame blocks.

Social punishment Energy Blocks arise when one or more persons threaten your social identity. Common examples of this are stereotypes, superstitions and misused myths. Assuming, believing and responding to others on the basis of what their heritage (race, religion, country-of-origin, language, color, age, ...) or personal experience (disability, prison record, level of education, career, marital status, income, ...) is, can often result in injustices to others.

INSENSITIVITY in "respecting" the identity of an individual in a mass society is hypocritical. Individuals are often judged according to which social grouping he or she appears to "fit" into. For an honest and truthful and fuller acknowledgement and respect of the individual, one must take the time and make the contact necessary to communicate with and acquire a more direct and accurate acceptance of the individual in question.

THE DEMANDS of modern mass societies and time make a personal approach to others frequently seem impossible. Every time a person is misjudged and responded to in a manner disrespectful to their inner selves, that person is encouraged to express frustration and potentially develop another energy block. Such injustices often encourage reciprocal injustices such as anger, frustration, anxiety, violence, depression, defensiveness, and pride --- directed back to the well-intentioned idealist, the abuser and the social group he or she is assumed to represent.

Spiritual abuse derived blocks.?

Spiritual abuse derived Energy Blocks demonstrate how injurious the words of others, or one's own negative self-talk can be deeply destructive.

GOSSIP is one example.
Hearsay information may originate with persons who are jealous, vindictive, vengeful, malicious, misinformed or otherwise unjustified in their beliefs or in the information they are spreading to others as the truth.

BAD NEWS TRAVELS FAST:
Many others in society --- because of their lack of assertiveness, strong will or strong spirit, fear, and distrustfulness, have a tendency to believe any news which is "bad" news. Accepting the gossip as truth without confirmation or question, they may enlarge the original injustice with confidence and enthusiasm.

To the extent that the GOSSIP is incorrect, the subject person, group, or organization --- is abused spiritually. His or her faith in the superiority of truth, justice, fairness, honesty, and the empathic and charitable support of friends and neighbours is challenged --- often repeatedly, and often until it is broken. Like bad press and bad references, the influence of one unjustified negative comment can be 100 times more devastating to an individual than the benefit obtained from 1 comment of appreciation.

Equally responsible for new spiritual block generation can be Ones Self --- Ego, Superego, Unconscious, or Personal Spirit.

A person who harbors TOXIC SHAME ...

... can easily judge himself or herself guilty of crimes and wrongs which have not been committed.

THE PERFECTIONIST is such a person ... always unhappy with the result of their own or the efforts of someone else. Much spiritual, emotional and physical energy is wasted on effort which has no comparable degree of benefit while some unseen, even unaware shame is sought to be atoned for.

THE ORIGINAL ENERGY BLOCK may have been set by an overly critical or emotionally insensitive parent, friend, relative, spouse, peer, associate, religious mentor, or other significant individual. Now, ... it is the self which may stand in for that now-forgotten critic. It threatens to accuse and judge guilty itself. Whenever the judgement of the Ego, or Superego, impatiently, intolerantly, proudly, or aggressively and unfairly faults itself, it adds another burning ember to the hell of spiritual disintegration which encourages hopelessness, depression, and doubt.

OFTEN HELD IN SELF-DENIAL, these block formation enhancing behaviors are frequently unable to be acknowledged by the victim. Yet, if the individual sincerely wishes to make positive changes and lead a happier more constructive life, such is possible through Balancing therapy and the release of such blocks.

How do I know if I have Energy Blocks?

MOST PEOPLE HAVE ENERGY BLOCKS and their number tend to increase with one's age and exposure to traumatic experiences. What we frequently refer to as symptoms of aging are, in reality, symptoms of energy block accumulation. A few people, perhaps 3% of the population of "developed" countries --- either have none, had some and rid themselves of them, and/or have had some and developed the skills necessary to diffuse potential trauma-inducing experiences into coped with experiences.

HERE ARE A FEW STATEMENTS which will help you determine if you have some Energy Blocks. If any are descriptive of your lifestyle and behaviors you likely have from 1 to many blocks supporting that ONE factor. A chronic illness at any age can be an indication of over 150 resident Energy Blocks.
Just ask yourself if any of the following apply to you:

• I can't go the day without a coffee, tea, cigarette, or a drink;
• I find myself sometimes saying: "I'll never do that again!";
• I really feel hate for someone or something;
• I find myself repeating habits of my parents ....
  that I said I would never do;
• I really feel intense when someone puts me down;
• I swear a lot or get frustrated easily;
• Occasionally, I just feel emotionally lost;
• There are some foods I simply cannot eat, even though I want to;
• I don't sleep well at night and I'm still tired when I get up;
• If I didn't have music, radio, TV, movies, or sex ----
  I'd be depressed, sad, anxious, worrying ...;
• I get bored easily; I need action! -- Like right now;
• I need a chocolate bar, candy, donut, chips or ice cream -- today;
• I have allergies or sensitivities in certain environments;
• I get anxious, or feel frustrated or angry -- and don't know why;
• Sometimes, I think the world is against me.