In a NBC6 Miami news segment, reporter Arlene Bornstein introduces the Mind‑Body Stress Healing Method, also known as Neuro‑Emotional Technique (NET), as practiced by therapist Jason Wasser, LMFT. The segment explains that emotional stress and trauma are stored in the body and can be accessed through muscle‑testing and pulse‑point palpation, techniques that combine modern scientific concepts with traditional Eastern practices such as acupuncture. A parent volunteer describes her parenting‑related stress; Wasser uses muscle‑testing to locate a past memory trigger, then applies gentle pressure to specific wrist and forehead points to “reset” the nervous system and neutralize the negative emotion. Within about 15 minutes, the participant reports feeling a release of the stress. The piece frames the process as a fast‑track way to uncover and clear “emotional allergies,” positioning NET as a practical tool for everyday stress relief.
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Welcome back. 6:44 is your time Monday morning. The thought of Monday, that alone might be stressful to you. Stress and negativity, all very real emotions so many of us deal with, right? Whether it's a tough morning, a tough month, maybe even a rough year, it is not uncommon— not an uncommon technique there that some experts say could change your life if you try it. NBC 6's Arlene Bornstein did. She helps us break down neuro-emotional therapy and gives it a try.
I'm okay doing enough for my child. Our daily stresses can be rooted in our memories, pinpointed not with machines, but with the response from our muscles. That's according to Jason Wasser, a certified neuro-emotional therapy or NET practitioner.
The goal at the end of the day is to fast-track the therapeutic process to find how your mind and body is storing old traumas and old experiences that are keeping you stuck today. So in other words, I would kind of call it an emotional allergy.
The Mind Body Stress Healing Method combines scientific research and centuries-old Eastern healing techniques such as acupuncture. I gave it a try for what many of us deal with day to day, parenting stress. Hey, I have a 2-year-old.
I'm gonna palpate certain pulse points on your wrist. I see. So keep saying that phrase for me.
Okay, I'm okay doing enough for my child. Pulse points on the body combined with the arm's resistance sends him a signal.
Check stubborn, emotionally repressed, like you're holding in or someone else is holding in their emotions.
The lower he can push gets him closer to an answer.
When you're thinking about something, the nervous system will respond. What we're doing is using the muscle test will actually help us access what's going on in that limbic system, the fight or flight response of your body, and is— are you okay with it or are you not okay with it?
In just about 15 minutes, Wasser found a stress trigger from my past related to my parenting worries.
So while holding that acupuncture point, while reliving that, you're kind of hitting a reset in the nervous system. Okay. So what you're gonna do is hold that lightly there. Pop that up on your forehead for me. This one?
Okay, neutralizing negative feelings by letting them go. Wasser says that's what's helped many of his clients.
It's actually helped them get to the issue behind the issue that they didn't even know was there that's holding them back.
Reporting from Hollywood, Arlene Bornstein, NBC 6 News.
