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WHEE Research
Study shows significant effects of WHEE and HeartMath intervention

WHEE: Wholistic Hybrid derived from EMDR and EFT
   AKA Whole Healing - Easily and Effectively

 
I am pleased to share that the first of several studies including WHEE has been completed. Christine Caldwell Bair found that significant synchronizations were demonstrated between heart rates of healer and healees - the primary focus of the study. The volunteer healees came in response to an advertisement to learn a self-relaxation and healing technique that was part of a study. Both the control and treatment groups were also taught WHEE (Wholistic Hybrid derived from EMDR and EFT). The control group demonstrated a significant decrease in Subjective Units of Distress (SUDS) from before to after their practice of WHEE (p < .04), which was taught to all 41 participants simultaneously.
 
Subjects in the treatment group who received the WHEE plus a HeartMath-type intervention demonstrated additional significant effects compared to the control group who only practiced WHEE. "The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of the healer's heart field upon subjects during energy healing, as measured by synchronization of heart rates and scores on a Subjective Units of Distress (SUD) scale and Profile of Mood States (POMS) inventory.  A nonequivalent pretest posttest design was used based on heart rate comparison of healer and subject, and correlated with pre-and post-test SUDs and Profiles of Mood States scores.  The subjects included two populations: N = 50 who sat within the 3-4 foot 'strong' range of the healer's heart field, the independent variable, while using self application of the WHEE energy healing technique, and N = 41 who completed the same process beyond the 15-18 foot range of the healer's heart field. The dependent measures were heart rate, Subjective Units of Distress, and Profile of Mood States inventory. All subjects completed these measures within one hour.  Statistically significant heart rate synchronization [p < .001] was found in the intervention population.  Subjective Units of Distress and Profile of Mood States scores demonstrated more improvement than the control population, indicating additional benefit beyond the WHEE effect alone [p < .003]."
 
The researcher notes in private communications about WHEE: Anecdotally, I can report that almost all the folks I've had opportunity to teach it to actually USE IT because of it's ease, unobtrusiveness, and effectiveness - very different than other techniques which work fine, but no one uses them because they can't get off alone and find 15-20 minutes to do them, so they just don't bother."
 
Source: Bair, Christine Caldwell. The heart field effect: synchronization of healer-subject heart rates in energy therapy, (Dissertation)  Holos University Graduate Seminary, Springfield, MO, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Theology 2006.
 Download copy of dissertation at http://www.holosuniversity.net/abstracts.asp#bair
 
 
IJHC – WHR Observations (From eZine of IJHC - WHR October 2006)
 
It is helpful to have this objective research confirmation of the efficacy of WHEE.
 
The measurement of heart rates used in this study is of particular interest as regards the HeartMath intervention. Most previous HeartMath studies rely on sophisticated comparisons of electrocardiograms of healer and subjects. This study simply counted heartbeats.
 
The healer was able to add significantly greater decreases in the subjective units of distress of the experimental group compared to the self-healing effects in the control group. This is an important finding, providing evidence that healer interventions can add to self-healing treatments.
 
WHEE is particularly helpful in research for two reasons:
 
1. It is easily learned, easy and rapid to use, and very potent and effective. (I routinely offer a money back guarantee in workshops and have yet to have anyone take me up on this!)
 
2. WHEE taps into the research database of EMDR and is thus more easily accepted by hospital research boards and conventional medical and nursing researchers and clinicians. The efficacy of EMDR is gaining acceptance as equivalent to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for treatment of PTSD by growing numbers of authorities.






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