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Introduction: What is CYM?

Welcome!

My Name is Pat Yoder and I am a psychologist. Every day people come to see me because they are thinking, feeling, and reacting in ways that they do not understand, don’t like and can’t change. Therapy has gone through many variations from the time of Freud and many therapeutic approaches are very helpful. However, there is a basic problem with many of these approaches: they take too long. The reason for this obstacle is not that we don’t want to change or aren’t willing to work at it. It is because of the way we are wired. In other words it is because of the current evolutionary stage of the human brain.

However, in the past few years many researchers have developed a new understanding of the workings of the human brain and many therapists, coaches, and others have developed treatment approaches apparently coming from Ancient Chinese Medicine which can make changes rapidly. CYM combines what we know about the brain with these Energy Therapy approaches to give us a faster and safer way to heal. In addition to making our own lives better, I believe, by calming and healing our own individual painful emotions, this approach can also improve the function of our brains and promote a peaceful world. For more thoughts on how this may occur, check out the Ripple Effect.

For some background on how the brain works in the human being, the reasons why we have a difficult time just "getting over it" go to

The Curious Functions of the Human Brain

The Explorers

The CYM approach was inspired by my studies of several methods of therapy and the works of many researchers in the structure of the human mind. The wonderful innovative work of the pioneers of Energy Psychology, although still controvrsial, has opened up possibilites of healing old traumas, reducing and eleminating phobias and anxieties and removing the blocks to healing.

My method owes much to others who have gone before me. Among these are Luis Angel Diaz with his Cellular Memory Release where I first heard about combining recent research on the brain with energy therapy. Other authors and researchers are mentioned in the resource section and include such well known names as Daniel Amen and Eckart Tolle. And, of course, included are the developers of the Energy Therapies and Energy Medicine. Credit of course goes to the ancient Chinese cultures who amazingly came up with the meridian therapies including acupuncture. In the United States the first explorer into combining acupressure with psychotherapy is Roger Callahan who developed Thought Field Therapy, the first western use of the meridians and the acupressure points to reduce emotional pain. The list goes on. References are included in the reference page of this website.

If you believe you already have a grasp on the brain functions and the principles of Energy Psychology and want to get right to the method, click on the link below.

The main prinicples are

1. As much as we might want to change some of our emotional reactions and our beliefs, our rational mind is powerless in many cases to do this.

2. The belief that we function better when we are emotionally riled up is a hold-over from another time and is rarely true in our modern world.

3. The beliefs that we categorized as "survival" beliefs may come from our own childhood, from our ethnic background, our family history back many generations, our religious beliefs, traumas and experiences in our adult life that are long gone. They are about another time, not our present experience and so are dysfunctional as well as painful.

4. These beliefs and the resulting physical reactions actually do damage to us physically creating digestive problems, joint pain, heart problems and many other ailments.

5 The CYM Process is a means of defusing these beliefs and reactions and allowing us to think rationally and clearly.

The CYM Process