Neuro Emotional Technique (NET)
Visualize a lemon . . . go ahead . . . try it.
Now, think about cutting into that lemon — smell the lemony scent and see the juice running down the sides of the lemon. Now, squeeze some of the lemon’s juice into your mouth and take a big bite of the lemon. Is your mouth watering? If you’re like most people, it is, and what you’re experiencing is a physiological response to the memory of a lemon. The body’s response to stress works in a similar way.
The physiology of the mind-body dynamic can work in a similar way. In most cases an emotional response to a given stimulus is normal and healthy. However, sometimes a normal emotional response fails to complete its full cycle (extinction does not take place), which can lead to aberrant responses to a future similar stimulus.
In NET we call these aberrations Neuro Emotional Complex (NECs). This also happens when a person recalls to memory an event in which a stress originally occurred. This is a key factor in the NET treatment. The physical state of the body will replicate a similar physical state which was due to an original event involving an emotional response. By remembering, an NEC can be located and the emotional ‘charge’ can be lifted.
Here’s a classic example of NET at work: