I describe myself as a frustrated psychiatrist. I trained back in the years when psychiatry was all about psychotherapy. I continue to have a passion to help people deal with their problems through talking therapy, but psychiatry has changed over the years to become primarily focused on prescribing medications. To be able to continue to help people who came to me with the sorts of problems described below, I developed a technique called WHEE: Whole Health – Easily and Effectively.

WHEE is a potent self-healing method that can relieve stress and distress within minutes. Once you know this method, you can de-stress any time you want to, typically with deep and permanent results.

WHEE is theWholistic Hybrid derived from two similar therapies:

• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), which involves stimulating the right and left sides of the body while focusing on an issue you would like to feel better about; and
• EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), that involves tapping or pressing a finger at a series of acupressure points on your face, chest and hand, while reciting an affirmation.

It can be used as self-healing because it works more rapidly than EMDR and does not evoke intense emotional releases. (EMDR is recommended strictly for use in the therapist’s office because it can evoke heavy memories of past traumas that can be stressful.)

Some Examples

Tim is 15 and used to panic when he sat to take an exam. He was performing way below his potential because of this problem. After a half hour session of WHEE, he no longer suffers from this problem and his grades have risen dramatically.

Alice could not drive on bridges or high overpasses because she would panic, fearful of driving her car off the road and crashing. WHEE helped her discover her root fears behind this phobia – that she might die and leave her children without a parent to care for them – just as she had experienced when her mother died when Alice was a child. In less than an hour’s session, Alice, too, was free of her fears.

George was seriously stressed, working long hours at an insurance company. His wife, Barbara, was worried about his health because George was having difficulty sleeping due to his worries and he was losing weight. She was also stressed herself, but was struggling to cover it up in order to not add to his burdens, but sometimes had been breaking into tears following the birth of her first child. Barbara learned WHEE and had immediate relief from her stress and gradual relief from her depression over a period of two weeks. She taught George how to use WHEE and now he is able to manage his work load without stressing.

Applications for WHEE

Users report that WHEE works effectively and rapidly on pains of all sorts, including headaches, migraines, backaches, stomach aches such as irritable bowel syndrome, post-injury and post-surgery pains, and arthritis.

It is also used for psychological issues such as post-traumatic stress, unresolved emotional problems (e.g. prolonged bereavement, festering angers, emotional/relational hurts, anxieties, phobias, insecurities, lack of self-confidence), and for problems in relationships.

Benefits of the Method

WHEE has a number of unique benefits:

• It takes a fraction of the time that other therapies require.
• It allows for much greater flexibility in working on target problems within the session because it is so rapid.
• It is better accepted and the used outside the therapy more frequently because of its simplicity.
• It is so simple, I teach it over the phone.
• It is tremendously empowering because it is so simple and so rapidly effective in self-healing.

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Daniel J. Benor, M.D. is a wholistic psychiatric psychotherapist who includes bodymind approaches, spiritual awareness and healing in his practice. He developed and teaches the WHEE method for self-healing. He authored the books, Seven Minutes to Natural Pain Release and Healing Research, Volumes I-IV and appears internationally on radio and TV. He is a Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, Coordinator for the Council for Healing, a non-profit organization that promotes awareness of spiritual healing, and editor of the open access, peer reviewed International Journal of Healing and Caring. For further information and additional WHEE resources, visit http://www.WholisticHealingResearch.com.