so let's dive in tip number One never use the words proof or proves as in the following sentence this study proves dot dot dot or let me give you proof that dot dot dot science almost never proves anything it gathers evidence that supports or contradicts a hypothesis you want to say this study or this data supports the idea that complete your idea or this study provides evidence that dot dot dot dot dot we want to come from a place of neutrality and groundedness we really don't want to overstate the facts tip number two with regard
to energy psychology or Energy Medicine or energy healing don't say that something is the truth what you can say is the evidence so far suggests XYZ I've been spending a lot of time talking with scientists who study energy healing approaches and this is how they talk tip number three how to facilitate openness and curiosity when people are resistant to or skeptical of the scientific evidence you present a true scientific stance is one of curiosity and openness to the data now people vary in how open and curious they are and and they have different standards about
what data is good enough now this is where it gets interesting you present your scientific data and they say something like well that's not very convincing data you can respond with a very calm neutral and even genuinely curious attitude you can say I'm curious what data would convince you now at this point the person just might tell you what would convince them they might even have some very good points about the gaps in our scientific knowledge that suggest further areas of research that's great or another response might be no data will convince me how would
you feel about that response let me suggest that this is a fabulous response why because you've brought into the light just how closed this person is now at this point you have a number of options one of the things I like to say is really you mean you're not even open to the possibility that energy psychology or Energy Medicine is a real phenomenon and then I see what the person says I might follow up with you know at one point everyone thought that the possibility of the brain Regen generating circuitry after an injury was impossible
or the idea of psychon neuroimmunology was ridiculous but now we know that both of these things appear to be true and I say this with as little Edge as possible I don't want to create resistance I'm just happy to create a little opening if possible tip number four remember that it's a conversation let people ask questions let them be small as skeptical if you want them to consider your ideas be considerate of their ideas what you really want is for them to see you as a reasonable and rational person who just happens to do energy
healing keep in mind that there's a big difference between a person who is skeptical but open and a capital S skeptic as you may recall from the first video in 1995 I was a bit skeptical about energy psychology but I still checked it out a capital S skeptic is not a skeptic at all he or she is actually a True Believer in the old Paradigm they're not skeptical at all in the true sense of the word generally it's a waste of time to engage them you're simply not going to win them all
