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Attention Deficit Disorder is an Energy Disorder
by James Hyman

In order to write about ADD, I must first address the prevalent perception of human behavior from the standpoint of western psychological dimensions. Specifically, the classification of aberrant behavior, in children as well as adults.

In my work with deep emotional release therapy, I often work with people who were labeled with ADD, either as children or as adults .

In the 50’s and 60’s, there was no classification known as ADD. Back then, in more archaic times, a child who today would be classified as hyperactive or ADD, would have been seen as problematic, a difficult child in the classroom, or just a slow learner.

My path of study has taken me through shamanism, eastern and western metaphysics, yoga, Chinese and Tibetan martial arts, and various healing systems. When I began my studies in these areas, my interest level was so high, that for the first time in my life, I experienced none of the difficulty in concentrating I had during childhood. I began to look back on my entire education in the school system, and realized that I had been programmed to think of myself as average. In reality, as a child, I had very little interest in what I was being forced to learn, and in the methods of learning that were available to me.

Currently, as I work with the Deep Emotional Release Bodywork, numerous people have come to me who have been labeled ADD, or their children have. Some people, who have not been officially labeled, also tell the same story: As children, sometimes they seemed to have a great deal of difficulty concentrating; or focusing their attention. As they begin to tell bits and pieces of their story, a similar theme appears. In school, or at home, they did not have much interest in what they were being taught They had a feeling of being different and not being able to “get it.” At the same time, they had a tendency to be very curious about many things. It is this intense interest in knowing things that resulted in the the mind moving too quickly from one thing to another. They were not empowered for this extensive curiosity

In working with the childhood issues of almost everybody who I have seen in my thirteen year practice of Deep Emotional Release Bodywork, this theme arises continuously in all of us. As children, when we enter into school in the early years, we have an incredible amount of energy, or life force available to us. Our main interest in life is play, not school. Children have a natural love for learning, but most have to be broken in to the routine of school. Who among us doesn’t remember feeling scared and frightened, at least once during the early grades. For many of us, the first day of school stands out as one of the most traumatic days of our lives. We’ve all experienced playground trauma. The one time in our lives when we were humiliated, hurt, or forced to bear the brunt of the cruelty of children, or even of teachers. Many of us, even the ones who were considered the most popular, have the memory, at least sometimes, of feeling alone, not good enough, and like the whole world was against us. This was part of growing up. As they prepare us for the nine to five, it can be traumatic. The ones who experience the least childhood trauma, are the ones who fit in the best.

The socialization process evolves, as we grow up, going from grade to grade More and more, we are trained to physically sit still in a chair; behind a desk for hours; rewarded with maybe fifteen to twenty minute play periods. Once in the morning, once in the afternoon, and maybe some time at lunch. This to rid ourselves, through intensified play, of excess energy, so that again we can go back to the classroom, sit still and pay attention. Isn’t it possible, that some children have an extreme amount of physical and mental energy that our school system, since it tends to strive towards homogeneity of ideas and behavior, has never understood. What would have happened to some of these children, had they been allowed to let the energy carry them wherever it needed to go, until it found it’s natural resting place. There, their attention, like a butterfly, would alight.

What I have found in my experience with ADD, is the healing of this process begins when the child releases the emotional charge or frustration of the pent up energy. For the child this means an opportunity to begin to view themselves not from a negative self-defeating and painful image, but to connect with their internal energy as the root of absolute creativity. The adult caretaker will also experience the same sense of upliftment, that they are not dealing with a problem, but with a puzzle or riddle that begs to be solved through the relationship of understanding between parent and child.

We are living in a time of dramatic evolution in consciousness and our children, in their raw form, may be much more highly evolved than we are. By seeing them from the different perspective of their unique possibilities, and not enclosing them in an archaic framework of psychological definitions and limitations, we let them carve out their individual path of learning. By admitting that we do not understand it, they will assist us in our growth process by teaching us what they need to know.

James Hyman is a skilled facilitator of clearing blocked energy from the body and connecting people to their path of greatness. He is the developer of the Deep Emotional Release Bodywork®. He lives in Los Angeles, and South Florida, and makes frequent trips to New York City. He can be reached toll free, at: 1-800-700-6420

Emotional Freedom by James Hyman

What does it mean to be connected, and what is the feeling that we’re not connected? If you think about what’s been going on in your process since you’ve been on a spiritual path, it’s harder and harder to put the responsibility of your life anyplace outside of yourself. There’s no blame any longer. And every time you do it you can feel how ridiculous it is, especially if you interface with a partner in a relationship. Because you know you’re seeing yourself.

What it really comes down to ultimately is making a choice moment by moment to stay in happiness, bliss and joy. The mind freaks out. Ahhhh, it says. I can’t control it. I’m going to die soon. My car’s going to break down. My bank account’s going to run out. And on and on. These are habitual responses to the uncertainty of day to day existence.

In all your relationships, you get angry and hurt. If you were totally committed to bliss in that instant, you would feel it, integrate it, recapitulate it, process it or let it go, and move back into bliss.

In your relationship with your primary partner, and if you’re not with a primary partner right now, think of the last one. They were your mirror. And yet, you would get angry and fight. When I was younger and I would do that with girlfriends, I couldn’t figure out how I was ever going to get back to love. Now, as I’ve gotten stronger, and have made the choice to grow up, I realize that all that obstinance and resistance, was my resistance to life.

You may be in a place where your life feels very painful to you. You may dealing with certain realities that you’re having a hard time coping with, understanding, or integrating. If so, you are in process. There are aspects of life that are painful: unresolved relationships, businesses failures, finding out you have a life-threatening illness, finding out someone close to you is sick or dying. This is life. Life is a great mystery.

As you develop a relationship with yourself where there is a total commitment, there will be trust. Then, you will not stand in the way of that which needs to speak. And you will be responsible with that which needs to speak, so that the energy does not endanger your spiritual, emotional or physical life in this world.

Emotional release work of some kind is critical in this process. Until blocks have been cleared that prevent the right energy from moving through your body, your mind will continue to redraw patterns and recreate experiences that mirror the blocked energy held in the body. Once your relationship with the energy, with the life force in your body becomes so strong, there’s no way you would do anything to deplete it. That’s what your looking for. That’s the ideal.

There are the real conditions of our existence, like making our rent and paying our bills, and dealing with the contingencies of life as each individual chooses to carve it out. At the same time, there’s a certain pressure that comes up from all of the programming from our childhood and the reinforcement that we create through following habitual behavioral and emotional patterns, based upon what happened to us in childhood. One consistent belief we have about ourselves is that we can’t have what we want, we’re not good enough, or that we don’t deserve. Shame is one of the things that keeps people from feeling connected spiritually.

Emotional freedom has to do with a person getting to a place where they trust the process of taking care of their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. When there is a spiritual connectedness, connectedness in relationship comes easily.

What is Emotional Freedom?

From my experience, I would say that emotional freedom is being in a consistent state of practicing the awareness of now. That no matter where I am, my mind may be caught up in some form of worry or anxiety about something, yet even in that process, I’m in constant state of awareness.

When there are moments of real freedom that come by, it’s a fluid, dynamic process; a condition of flowing awareness. What it means is that in moments of deep relaxation, I have the experience of bliss, now-ness, being in the dream time, hyper or intensified sensory awareness, feelings of expanded love, and a deep connection to everything that’s happening around me, people, as well as events. In essence, life and the world becomes a domain of magic in which to continue to explore dimensions of perception. This is a very good place to begin relationship with everything and everybody.

Basically people are looking for health, material success and relationship, love and a sense of accomplishment. Their life must have purpose and meaning. So the goal of achieving emotional freedom then becomes the goal of one’s life. How one chooses to express that becomes a path of individual choice. The path of emotional freedom is about spiritualizing your life. Whether you’re a corporate executive or a housewife, it’s about consciousness. It’s about waking up to one’s conscious potential as a Divine Being. Then, love is easy.

When you realize that who you are, and what you do in life has great value and honor, you are having a direct relationship or emotional experience of your life. Spiritualizing your life means getting more fully integrated into the experience of being alive on all levels.

In relationship, an emotionally free person experiences being as present and direct as possible. If they are not totally connected and present to the person that they are in communication with, they are able to admit that to themselves honestly. I’m standing here and having this conversation with this person and I‘m not connected to them. I’m not feeling them.

They are aware without judgment that a degree of separation is going on. Through will and intent, one can begin to apply awareness and intimacy to all communication, so that communication becomes not a manipulation, but a response to the desire to connect, communicate, and to come into alignment. When this happens on a collective level, it results in true synergy.

When you begin to feel the power of emotional freedom, you’re connected to yourself through a sense of relaxation. Even if there’s tension, it’s dynamic.

As the child spirit comes to the surface, that’s the experience of success. Everything is in harmony and things are flowing. There’s an excitement. This is an excellent place to be in relationship, where you are in a position to bring in a profusion of joy, love, sexual energy, and bliss.

James Hyman is the founder of Deep Emotional Release Bodywork™. He travels nationwide as a lecturer and teacher. He lives and practices in Los Angeles, South Florida, New York City and may travel to your area. You can reach him at (800)700-6420

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“Achieving Emotional Freedom through
Deep Emotional Release”

James Hyman is known for his intuitive and psychic ability, and his skill at helping people to break through emotional and social barriers to experience who they are at the soul level. At the root of this soul experience, Mr. Hyman says, is our connection to Source. The recognition that our life is our spiritual path and everything we do is sacred.

“When I work with a person”, Mr. Hyman says, “I guide them into themselves and help them to make an honest connection with their unlimited potential. This is the state in which we existed in early childhood that began to shut down. When you re-experience this state, the imprint that you have been carrying changes, and you start naturally moving toward people and things that will help you create that environment in your life.

Through his work of releasing blocked emotional energy held in the body, Mr Hyman has learned that it is possible to regain a profound connection to self and to Source. The work must be done at all three levels simultaneously, physically, mentally, and spiritually. The physical body and the subconscious mind hold the patterns and the memories, and when these are released, the spirit is able to make “the Cosmic Connection.”

Through what he calls the “process of socialization”, many of us have lost our natural creativity and love of adventure. This happens when we begin to go to school and as he puts it, “they start preparing us for the nine to five”. By training us to sit still and listen when we have a tremendous amount of energy in our body that wants to play and be creative, and forcing us to measure our intelligence by a narrow spectrum, we begin to repress our natural abilities for self-expression. Expressing emotions is also negatively reinforced by our family, school and peers. This naturally makes it difficult later in life to express ourselves in a multitude of different situations, such as in relationships and in our careers. Depression is common, and before we know it, we are deadened to the juice of our lives. Sometimes it is one event in a child’s life, Mr.Hyman says, that skews from that moment on the way he or she perceives, reacts and responds to the world. By working with the memory of the event held in the body and the subconscious mind, it can effectively and quickly be identified and released. This is what Mr. Hyman calls, “original cause”.

When the original cause is released, a domino effect takes place, and a whole range of similar experiences that mirrored the original cause are also spontaneously released.

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