NOTE: Surrogate treatment is among the strangest phenomena reported within the already curious field of energy psychology. At its most concrete level, when two people are physically linked, by holding hands for instance, an exchange of energy occurs and can be demonstrated. For instance, if a person who tests weak on an energy check of bladder meridian touches a person who tests strong on bladder meridian, the person who was weak will then test strong and the person who was strong will test weak. Each person becomes a "surrogate," providing information about the other. The electromagnetic quirk that is the basis of this phenomenon has a clinical application. If an energy check cannot be performed because the subject cannot be told to hold the indicator muscle firm, such as with an infant, an animal, or someone in a coma, a surrogate test can provide the information. If a "surrogate" touches another person, an energy check of the surrogate will reveal information about the other person rather than about the surrogate.

EXPANDING THE ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY PARADIGM
Successful Treatment of Enuresis "At a Distance"

This brief review describes a case study of an 11-year-old boy who had been enuretic on a nightly basis since the age of five. According to the boy’s mother, the onset followed a beating by the boy’s father. Apparently, the son awakened the father when he got up to use the toilet, and was subsequently beaten. Nightly bed-wetting had resulted over the ensuing six years despite several attempts by professionals to resolve the problematic occurrences. The father and mother have been divorced for the past two and a half years. The son and his sister, and two half-sisters, reside with the mother. The father has had no contact with his children since the divorce.

The boy’s mother was in therapy with me and, thereby, familiar with the therapeutic effects derived with Evolving Thought Field Therapy (EvTFT) methods. The son was in treatment with another psychologist who practices more traditional psychoanalytic therapy. During one of her therapy sessions, the mother began sharing her concerns about her son’s ongoing problem and asked if I could help him. I reminded her that he already had a therapist and that I was not interested in disrupting that relationship. The mother, frustrated with the lack of change in her son’s bed-wetting problem, related to me that the current focus of her son’s therapy was failing to address this concern. The mother conveyed that her son suffered much anguish about his problem and wanted it to end. Recognizing the validity of my patient’s reasoning respective to the problem, I offered to try an energy psychology intervention that would possibly address her issues yet not interfere with the son-therapist relationship. I proposed that the mother serve as a surrogate for her son regarding the treatment of his chronic bed-wetting problem. I had used surrogates in the past, but only with the patient actually present during the diagnosis and treatment of the problem. In this case, in order to maintain a neutral relation to the son, I explained to the mother that her son need not be present, and that she would serve as his surrogate for both diagnosis and treatment of her son’s problem. The mother readily agreed. What follows is an account of what transpired.

Using muscle-testing procedures (energy checks) involving the arm (deltoid muscle), permission was verified that the mother was willing to serve as her son’s surrogate and that the son gave permission for his mother to serve as his surrogate. While this may appear a "leap of energetic faith," the important part is that permission to proceed was acquired at the non-verbal energetic level. Treatment efforts would have immediately ceased if either party denied permission. In like fashion, confirmation to release each another in the surrogate role is verified when treatment is completed.

The first Thought Field (TF) the mother attuned, which was diagnosed and treated^[1], was the beating her son experienced when at age five he went to the toilet and awakened his father. While the mother thought about the beating incident, energy checks of individual meridian alarm points revealed disturbances in 4 major meridian pathways as well as in central and governing. There was also one psychological reversal. After the pathways were stimulated at designated treatment sites using the Touch and Breathe method, and the psychological reversal corrected, subsequent energy checks showed that each meridian now maintained its coherence when the mother thought of the beating. However, at the following session, the mother reported that there was no change in her son’s problem. At this point, I wondered if there were additional issues that needed to be addressed or if this form of surrogate work just did not work. The mother, incidentally, never said a word to her son about the surrogate work she had done.

Three weeks after the initial treatment of the TF related to the beating, another attempt was made using the same surrogate model. The targeted TF this time was the bed-wetting problem. Permission was again obtained and diagnosis and treatment of this TF was completed. While the mother thought about the bed-wetting, energy checks of individual meridian alarm points revealed disturbances in 6 major meridians as well as central and governing, with 2 meridians requiring more than one treatment. There was also one deep level psychological reversal. Upon completion of the treatment, the mother described a "spacey" feeling along with an increase of energy, tingling in her hands and feet, cognitive clarity, and a lack of inhibition. I therefore had the mother complete a neuro-energetic organizing procedure to stabilize and ground her. Upon performing this procedure, the mother’s reported symptoms subsided.

The following week the mother reported that her son wet himself for two days when he fell asleep on the couch. He did not wet in the bed. During the subsequent five days, he was reported to be completely dry in bed and on the couch. The mother said that her son had never been dry for five days in a row before. However, a third TF was identified and treated, which pertained to any remaining problems connected to wetting or staying dry in any situation or location. Permission was again obtained and diagnosis and treatment of this TF was completed. While the mother thought about this TF, energy checks of individual meridian alarm points revealed disturbances in 2 meridians. There was also one psychological reversal. Upon completion of treatment, the mother stated "I feel a release of independence for my son".

At the time of this writing, the boy has maintained a dry bed for nearly three months. As might be expected, the mother observed that her son has been more cheerful in the morning and seemingly gaining more self-confidence. I find the observation that the mother never said a word to her son about the surrogate work she did for him regarding his problem, and that her son never said a word to her about the sudden elimination of his problem, to be most intriguing.