Comments on: #193 – Holistic Psychotherapy with Sarah Chana Radcliffe

By: Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Sarah Chana Radcliffe — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:20:21 +0000

Hi Laura,
I know this is so late in coming – I’ve forgotten to check the comments on this podcast! Anyway, I certainly understand your hesitations. I’m kind of a voice in the wilderness, I guess. I’m on my last level of holosync now, after many years of daily use. Nothing bad has happened to me! In fact, I feel I have a new, fresh, young, happy, peaceful brain! I don’t work for holosync. I have no financial interest in their success. I’m just a contented user and I like to share the good word. However, I believe that each one of us can find wonderful tools that work for us and we don’t all have to travel the same road. I introduce holosync to people because I believe that some of them will get the same wonderful results that I did and that many of my clients have reported. But there is certainly no “one size fits all” healing path.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:58:19 +0000

Hi Sarah,
I started holosync last year in October. I’ve been using it faithfully since then and am finishing Level 1. I don’t think I will continue. I’m nervous about the very spacey way I’ve been feeling lately and the fact that I can’t find any peer reviewed research on holosync concerns me. I am afraid of doing damage to myself. Aside from holosync’s company (Centerpointe), I haven’t been able to fine anyone else (except you) that I’ve trusted and who has been positive. Since I find Centerpointe’s tactics very unsavory, I am leaving the program. I did find it very enjoyable but without some scientific reasurrance, I’m nervous. There are other sites on the web that talk about the dangers of the program.

By: Sarah Chana

Sarah Chana — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:40:43 +0000

In answer to your questions Laura, some people find they can use holosync before going to bed. Others find they just fall asleep at that time due to natural fatigue and some people complain that it opens their psyche a bit too wide and they are bothered by an overactive dream state. In fact, that was my personal experience and so I switched to getting up an hour earlier every day and that has worked really well for me and for so many others. As for the competitor products – I tried a few myself and found holosync to be the best. But more importantly, holosync does not just send out a CD and leave you to it. It is a highly responsible program that is designed to really guide a person on their evolutionary path. Centerpointe maintains a twelve hour hotline for users to provide support and guidance on their journey. Many users never have had therapy or any other deep exploratory process and they, especially, need to be able to speak to a live guide. Centerpoint also provides intensive support via letters and emails for the first six months of the program and they give you excellent explanatory resources, CD packages and all kinds of useful aids to ensure that you will move along correctly. I don\’t know of any other competitor who does anything other than provide the product itself. If you do decide to try holosync, let me know! Sarah Chana

By: Sarah Chana

Sarah Chana — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:33:23 +0000

I’d like to respond first to Russ’s skeptism: the best way to learn about the power of tapping or Bach Flowers is to try them on yourself and/or your clients. Rationality and logic don’t help here – you need first hand experience! Of course, you can also talk to the many therapists who use energy psychology and see what they say about its effectiveness. None of us “believed in it” until we saw the results for ourselves.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:44:10 +0000

One more question, Sarah. I went looking for holosync and found all of the competitors also. Are they all the same? Would you recommend any of the others?
Thanks Sarah!

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:34:07 +0000

I’ve listened to two of your podcasts with Sarah–she IS exceedingly likable. I too am looking to try holosync. Sarah, can we use it at bedtime if we fall asleep to it?

Thanks Dave, you are really doing a terrific service with this podcast!

By: Russ

Russ — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:16:22 +0000

While I found this interview very interesting, I have a hard time believing that tapping or Bach flowers could really help someone who’s in the grips of a major depression or who has a serious anxiety disorder based on long-standing internal conflicts.

If someone has internal conflicts raging within them, causing acute symptoms, how would these energy therapies help to bring these conflicts into consciousness so they can be addressed?

I’m not saying these therapies have no worth, but I’m skeptical that they can work miracles or “change genes.”

By: Sarah Chana

Sarah Chana — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:27:43 +0000

That’s great Ken! Can you contact me through my site at http://www.parenting-advice.net (just write to me in the “ask SarahChana” box). I’d love to be in touch with you about this and I may have another suggestion for you as well.

By: ken

ken — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:50:17 +0000

Dave and Sarah, I’m giving the holosync cd’s a try. I’d be happy to give you and your listeners honest feedback about my results, if any. Wish me success, I need all the help I can get.

Thanks again for inspiring episode.

-Ken

By: ken

ken — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:23:19 +0000

Drugs aren’t for me. I really hope these treatments work, because I really need help with my depression.

Thank you, Dave, for what seems like your most inspiring episode ever.

By: Sarah Chana

Sarah Chana — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:16:50 +0000

Ben I actually forgot to address this question on the interview and I’m glad you asked it! While we’re waiting for research on these healing modalities, I like to think of these interventions more the way we think of food. Let’s say someone has a headache. You offer them some tea and ask them if their headache feels any better. If they say it does, then you’ve helped them heal their pain. If they said it doesn’t, then you didn’t hurt them but you didn’t help them either. For now, the client him or herself judges the effectiveness of these new-fangled interventions (although there is research being conducted on Energy Psychology techniques). I’d trust you to know if you feel better or not. A client only has to try an Energy Psychology technique for a few minutes to see if it is effective for them and a couple of weeks, for Bach Flower treatment. They can try holosync for as little or as long as they want to (remember, it’s free for a year!). There’s no big risk. If placebo is at play, that’s fine with me because placebo can play a major role in healing serious disease.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:21:08 +0000

While I appreciate hearing about different views, I think these treatments deserve a bit more of a critical eye. Has anyone even bothered testing these things in a scientific manner?

By: Rick V.

Rick V. — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:00:59 +0000

I think Dr. Dave is correct that Sarah is too great a confound to overcome when measuring the validity of some of the treatment methods she utilizes. Sarah is so darn likable you start feeling better the moment she opens her mouth. Oh and until just now I didn’t realize she’s cute too, I would marry her if she were available and I have sworn off marriage. You can bring Sarah back as much as you like and I’ll be there to listen. Great show great fun!