JUDITH
TO APPEAR ON TELEVISION’S
WORST CASE SCENARIO SHOW
As
some of you already know, I went to Los Angeles the weekend of November 24, 2002
to film an episode of Worst Case Scenario. Worst Case Scenario is a syndicated 1
hour television show produced by Sony Pictures that is aired on TBS Superstation
on Wednesdays at 9:00 and 11:00 P.M. The premise of the show is that you can
overcome your worst fears if you have the right skills and knowledge. Each week
a portion of the show is dedicated to a volunteer challenge. The volunteer is
taught how to overcome a specific phobia by teaching him/her the facts and the
skills to handle the fearful situation (for example, how to deal with alligators
or rats.) I was asked to cure a woman of her phobia of the dark using HBLU
because there were no specific reality skills they could teach her to overcome
that fear.
Naturally, I was inspired by the premise of the show, and I was very excited to
have the opportunity to publicly demonstrate the effectiveness of HBLU, and
energy psychology techniques in general. Fortunately, I was working with a very
respectful, thoughtful, and deep producer who had trained in psychology! He
always takes a very careful history of each volunteer subject that he works
with. Thus, we prepared my client by having her complete the standard HBLU
homework assignment, ie. write a two page biography with a list of goals, a list
of ways in which you sabotage yourself, a list of 10 experiences that really
made you live, and identify your Enneagram personality type. She also had to
read an explanation of HBLU and my paper on trauma, "The Basic Structure of
Loss and Violence Trauma" (available on my website at www.HBLU.org) Although she did not really understand the methodology before experiencing
it, she did realize that HBLU was different from talk or desensitization
therapy.
Then I watched the Worst Case Scenario where they taught a woman how to overcome
her fear (actually disgust) of rats by having her walk down a 600 foot sewer
pipe with 500 rats in it. The point they were proving was that rats won’t
really jump on or bite you. If you give them enough warning and shoo them away,
they will get out of your way because they don’t want to be stepped on. Her
second challenge was to go into a small room full of 500 rats, pick up two of
them (properly by the base of the tail so they won’t bite you) and put them in
a cage. The woman almost fainted, threatened repeatedly to throw up, and was
hysterical during both challenges. After the final challenge where she declared
that she was very glad she had done this, someone asked her if she would now
like a pet rat… and she flinched. Clearly, reality did not cure her
phobia/compulsion structure of rats. However, the emotional reactions did make
for suspenseful and riveting TV. I was on the edge of my chair the whole time
wondering is she going to throw up, yet (live on TV!)? Is she really going to
faint?
Knowing that HBLU would really cure our phobia client, I told the producer that
she would go through her challenge as easily and calmly as anyone without a
phobia. There would be no fainting, vomiting, screaming, crying, or hysteria. I
was afraid this calm would be boring, and thus not good TV. To his credit, the
producer believed me and agreed that this would not be good TV.
We decided to
play up the before treatment reaction so that the drama would be in the contrast
between before and after. That worked out beautifully.
We tested the client before treatment. I then described the fight/flight/freeze
reflex and how we were going to neutralize that reaction by consciously
activating her calming reflex with Natural Bio-Destressing (a modification of
EFT). (See my papers, The Biochemistry of Energy Psychology and Antidote for the
Psychological Effects of Terrorism: A Rapid, Biological Technique for Clearing
Trauma from Mind and Body.) I then treated her with protocols and techniques
from HBLU Level I and one protocol from HBLU Level II. As (I) expected, she
cleared completely and after calmly accomplishing her challenge remarked that
now she was ready for the "real" challenge. T
he next day, one of the
production assistants called to tell us that our work had inspired and amazed
the entire crew.
The producer tells me that this show will air sometime in the spring. He is only
given 1-2 week’s notice, so I’ll let you know when I know. In the meantime,
keep checking your TV guide for Worst Case Scenario.
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