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The weird 'eye tapping' trick that erased a lifelong phobia
This may sound unbelievable...
But you can rewire your brain’s fear and pain response in minutes…
Without years of therapy or medication, even if you struggle with chronic pain and fatigue.
How?
By touching your skin in specific patterns that send calming signals to the limbic system.
Because recent scientific breakthroughs prove that psychosensory therapy is one of the most powerful exercises to regulate your nervous system. In fact, clinical research shows that these techniques can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and PTSD by calming the amygdala…in minutes.
Let me explain…
Psychosensory therapy is a simple touch based method that tells your brain it’s finally safe, rewiring decades of stress and pain in minutes.
I’ll admit when I first found out about psychosensory therapy…
…I was a bit suspicious.
Could a basic exercise of using touch, sound, sight, and gentle sensory inputs actually calm your nervous system and rewire the brain's patterns of fear, pain, and trauma?
Enter Dr. Roger Callahan and his patient Mary…
Mary was a woman in the late 1970s who was paralyzed by a lifelong phobia of water.
For years, even standing near a swimming pool sent Mary into panic. Mary’s stomach would knot, her chest would tighten, and the thought of getting close to water was unbearable.
Mary tried everything:
Traditional therapy
Relaxation techniques
Endless exposure exercises.
Nothing worked.
One afternoon, in sheer desperation, her psychologist, Dr. Roger Callahan, noticed she kept clutching her stomach while describing the fear.
Callahan wondered if it was connected to what ancient Chinese medicine called the “stomach meridian.”
Almost on a hunch, Callahan asked Mary to do something odd:
Gently tap under her eye, the point connected to that meridian.
What happened next created a scientific breakthrough:
Within seconds, the stabbing anxiety in Mary’s stomach melted away. For the first time in Mary’s life, she felt calm near the pool.
Moments later, she walked straight to the edge of the water without fear.
And Mary’s phobia never returned.
Now you may be wondering, I’m telling you this?
That single moment became the spark for a whole field of healing now called psychosensory therapy. A set of methods using touch, sound, sight, even gentle sensory input to calm the nervous system and rewire the brain’s patterns of fear, pain, and trauma…
Mary’s story might sound unbelievable…
But her case was the foundation for therapies that now have growing scientific support.
For example, randomized controlled trials have shown that emotional awareness and expression therapy (EAET), which targets the same fear circuits, produced greater pain relief than traditional CBT in older veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain.
And studies of Pain Reprocessing Therapy have shown two-thirds of people with chronic back pain becoming nearly pain-free in just four weeks
So?
If you’re like me, your brain learned a survival loop that resulted in years of chronic back pain.
Or maybe it’s anxiety that keeps you lying awake at night.
Perhaps it’s chronic fatigue, IBS, or fibromyalgia that no doctor can explain…
But whatever the form is…
I know what you’re going through. It can feel like therapy, doctor’s visits or medications provide no solution.
That’s why Mary’s story is so important.
This shows your brain can unlearn patterns trapped in your body and the power of psychosensory therapy:
It’s proof that change can happen faster than most of us ever imagined.
Psychosensory therapy is one of the 30 techniques I’ll show you inside The Brain Based Healing Program…
If you're looking to release yourself from the grip of chronic fatigue, stress, or pain, without expensive therapies that take years…
…Then you need to sign up for the waitlist to be the first to know:
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To your success & joy,
— Kimia