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Want to see what AcuDetox does from another angle?
Read Tolles' book. CLICK book image or HERE for my comments.

Article: Using RFCC (AcuDetox) with Gluten Sensitivity. Click  HERE

Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Norman Doidge talks on AM 580 CFRA about treatments which act in ways similar to AcuDetox
LISTEN HERE: 1  2  3
and in his recent book, The Brain That Changes Itself

Nobel Prize Winner Ilya Prigogine described the process of change  in a way AcuDetox clents can understand. Get a copy of this description HERE.


The Rapid Fundamental Change Course
combines 15 sessions
(over a 3 week period)
of an ear acupuncture protocol in a DISCOVERY LEARNING framework - giving rise to
spontaneity,
flexibility
and resilience -
i.e. -  resourcefulness...

 
Our STRESS MANAGEMENT Package is a uniquely effective "training" -  made up of a 3  week series of 15 ear acupuncture treatments - the AcuDetox Protocol combined with the RAPID FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE COURSE (RFCC) - an integrative DISCOVERY LEARNING Course which parallels and supports the acupuncture with background information and supportive mental-emotional-physical exercises. 

The RFCC  program, built from 13+ years of  working with AcuDetox recipients, enhances the effectiveness of the acupuncture - making the stress relieving results of the acupuncture fully available to recipients. This health service is conducted by a physician with 30 years of acupuncture experience. The fee for acupuncture  - $450 is fully or partially reimbursable by many employee supplemental health plans including the plan operated by the Canadian federal government.

 
The AcuDetox Protocol

Dr. H.L. Wen's 1970's discovery of the anti-addictive properties of a group of ear acupuncture points now known as the Acu-Detox Protocol has revolutionized the field of substance addiction treatment. Lincoln Hospital (New York City) psychiatrist Dr. Michael O. Smith and other pioneers  observed further that both the substance addiction and the damaging maladaptations to stress which underlie addiction dissolve during the AcuDetox Protocol series of treatments. This innovation has rendered addiction treatment not just a little but a lot more likely to succeed, made it cost-effective, more participatory on the recipient's part and considerably less labour intensive on the provider's part. Clearly this is a tremendous advance - one which led to the creation of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) which has, since 1985, trained 10,000+ health care workers of various backgrounds to administer  AcuDetox for substance addiction. Any trained acupuncturist could administer these points  (see our Page 2) but the acupuncture (AcuDetox) aspect of our program without the parallel Rapid Fundamental Change aspect is much less effective.

The RAPID FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE COURSE

Dr. Brian C. Bailey M.D. a physician, acupuncturist, psychotherapist and program designer with the Leaders-of-Tomorrow Institute, in Ottawa, Canada - has been working since 1995 with AcuDetox in a non-addiction setting. Patients presented with various maladaptations to stress - panic attacks, anxiety, shame, guilt, depression, breakdowns, burnouts - every variety of decompensation in the face of stress. From this experience arose the RAPID FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE Course - a series of mental-emotional- physical exercises for AcuDetox recipients who are not substance addicted - both during and after the use of the 3 week Acu-Detox Protocol.

Like Dr. M. O. Smith's addiction application, the ADVANTAGES include greater likelihood of success than with presently available methods, a speed-up in the process before tangible results are achieved, a shift to the recipient being the most resourceful contributor to the results, and a more efficient use of a psychotherapist's time - and as a result, faster results.

For a detailed look at the ADVANTAGES of the AcuDetox-RFCC combination and the people who might benefit from them more than others  click HERE.

Frankly, the AcuDetox Protocol alone is so effective that it often gives rise to major change without any help from the outside. But the results can be even better and made available to a greater percentage of recipients when the recipient is oriented to receive the benefits fully. Thus the Acu-Detox Protocol can be combined with the Rapid Fundamental Change Course to engage one's latent abilities as spontaneity, flexibility and resilience in a permanent way. RFCC prompts individuals to discover how to manage stress with a profound resourcefulness - arising freshly and powerfully from within - an ability which was always there, but was previously experienced in brief moments as accidental, lucky or the hand of providence - but not yet as one's human birthright.

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Acupuncturists, psychotherapists and others may have a special interest in enhancing the results which they can offer by including AcuDetox ear acupuncture and the RAPID FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE COURSE to the services they offer. Click HERE if your interest is in providing such services, and specifically if you want to know more about our Training Weekends .


For an article on AcuDetox for Non-Subtance-Addicted Clients CLICK HERE.

For an article of AcuDetox for Psychotherapists   CLICK HERE.

Site Directory

Page 1 (this page) General Introduction
Page 2 Details of the Acu-Detox Protocol
Page 3 What are we treating and who will benefit?
Page 4 What is Resourcefulness?
Page 5 Varieties of Resourcefulness
Page 6 The Resourcefulness Model and an Example

              FOOTNOTES

  1. A NIH (National Institute of Health) consensus panel of scientists, researchers, and practitioners in 1997 determined that acupuncture has been clinically proven to be effective against nausea from surgery and chemotherapy, addiction, headaches, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, osteoarthritis, lower back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma, and to assist in stroke rehabilitation. Since then, other studies have looked at pain, ADHD, pregnancy complications, and other diseases and conditions. ( http://www.mcmanweb.com/article-16.htm )

  2. NIH (National Institute of Health) funded the University of Arizona study which was reported, among other places, in 1999 in Psychology Today (www.psychologytoday.com/ articles/pto-19990901-000030.html - 23k ) and which has become the subject of a book by the researchers ( ref:  books.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/ cpc_5101_vtl_author_c18931871.html - 28k )

  3. N.A.D.A. - the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association http://www.acudetox.com  - exists to train practitioners and to make known studies which have shown remarkable results using ear acupuncture to combat substance abuse-addiction.

Some Additional Resources

If you have completed the three week AcuDetox Protocol, either at our clinic or with another AcuDetox Provider, we recccomend you download our brochure "After AcuDetox What?" This brochure can be downloaded here.

1.) Without claiming any personal expertise whatsoever, I am prepared to recommend a "technology" known as the Emotional Freedom Technique, as a STRESS REDUCTION method either before or about a month after receiving AcuDetox. My experience is that EFT works, and that it works even better after AcuDetox. Instead of needing to go to a practitioner of EFT  - which may be required before AcuDetox, you could become your own expert practitioner with what you gain from AcuDetox. I have written  a summary of EFT in a four page document - which you can download HERE.

2.) I have also written a short MANUAL as a companion piece to your receiving AcuDetox for STRESS MANAGEMENT. While no learning and no extensive understanding of AcuDetox is required to be a beneficiary, some people do better if they have more information. This is not the case for everyone. My suggestion is that if you are undertaking AcuDetox, and if you require information, that you download the MANUAL HERE. Do not clutter your mind with it during the first week of AcuDetox. It is meant for use during the final two weeks and after AcuDetox.

3.) Some people will want to  develop further the "resource" which emerges during AcuDetox. I have assembled a series of exercises which may interest you later -  perhaps two months or more down the road after AcuDetox. Do not rush into doing exercises. It is best to let life itself supply you with the material to work with in the early months. But once PRESENCE is established as part of your way-of-being, you may want to expand it further. That series of exercises appears HERE. My experience is that these exercises will probably not make much sense to you before AcuDetox - but that with your "resource" in play, they may assist in your personal journey - or not.

In particular, as a companion to our ONE DAY ACUDETOX REFRESHER there is a series of pages from an older post-AcuDetox Manual which will walk you through an exercise which is long but well worth doing, which will help show the difference between "patterned life" and life which has been "shifted from the left brain to the right brain"(Jill Nolte Taylor's words.) Access it HERE.

4.) I have prepared a Training Course for therapists who would like to offer AcuDetox/RFCC, complete with a 107 Page Training Manual. If you are a Health Care Provider - whether you have an interest in actually providing AcuDetox - or not - and you would like to learn how to  provide the RFCC "container" to your clients, please CLICK HERE, or contact me personally HERE.

5) Rapid Fundamental Change Newsletter. Our follow-up sessions, both individual and group teach us about the barriers to full growth of one's Resource. When we discover new ways to make the process more effective these will be added to the list below, and will also be sent to those on our mailing list. Feel free to visit topics which apply to you.

Topic #1 Falling Off One's Horse And Getting Back On
Topic #2 Growing One's Resourcefulness
Topic # 3 You Are More Powerful Than You Think You Are
Topic #4  Feel Less Effect After AcuDetox Than During It?
Topic #5  Retooling Through Reading: Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth
Topic #6  Playacting Your Way Through

Good hunting!

Brian C. Bailey M.D.