Excerpted from a letter to a skeptical colleague who told David: "I am very concrete. ‘Energy’ is too vague a concept for me."

1. The procedures are more CONCRETE.  No allusions to "energy" are necessary except the measurable electrical impulses that are sent to the brain during tapping or massaging specific points on the skin.  These points are known to have less electrical resistance than other points on the skin (and they also have been shown to release more endorphins and neurotransmitters when stimulated than other points).  Specific points, in fact, send impulses directly to areas of the brain that regulate fear, anger, pain, etc.  One of the big changes since I've been writing about energy work is that my language has become very concrete, as has my understanding of the dynamics at play. This method does what medication does, using gentle electrical impulses as the catalyst instead of psychoactive chemicals, and without the side effects.

2. With this one tool, virtually any core belief, behavioral pattern, or dysfunctional emotional response can be changed. The brain does not have a choice. It is physiologically incompatible to have a stress response to certain images after tapping the correct acupuncture points for several rounds

3. Every bit of clinical experience and good judgment you've earned over the years is still relevant and essential.  The art in this approach is not in the tapping.  That is easy to learn and do. It is in zeroing in on the issues to neutralize, on the "top priority issues," those that have the most leverage for impacting the desired changes. This requires all the clinical finesse you have available.  The difference is that once you zero in on the issues that are most relevant, rather than having identified the topic for further discussion, you can readily change the neurological patterning related to those issues.

4. That, in fact, is the part that feels like magic to me.  The magic is in having such a precise, powerful, non-invasive way to shift the brain chemistry.  This leads to profound changes in how you conduct your practice, but the changes are commonsense.  Why talk about the person's history for endless hours when you can readily identify the core beliefs and kneejerk emotional reactions that are tied to those experiences and transform them at a deep emotional/neurological level with a relatively mechanical procedure. This does not, by the way, rob people of their lessons or needed insight; it calms the brain so they can think more clearly about the issues and the lessons in an experience.

5. So rather than the kind of interchanges where you meet the client's misery by opening your emotional veins, as you once so poignantly stated it, you have something to offer that is much more concrete and immediate."

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