My name is David Owen and I am here to help you to Rise above and move beyond life's problems, to Feel Good under virtually any circumstances, to Excel Yourself and to Inspire Others.
I got into this work because my life was not working. My schooling had been a disaster and I was tipped out into adult life with almost no confidence and painfully shy. By a miracle I got married at 23, but this only lasted for four years, leaving me separated from my two very young children.
It was time to repair my life and I found that first the Alexander Technique and later Neuro-Linguistic Programming made a massive difference to me. Despite having eventually got a superb job in the BBC, I left in order to train to share the benefits of what I had discovered.
I am passionate about my work. It is one of the world's greatest privileges to be able to genuinely help people, especially when they sometimes achieve such great victories and breakthroughs in their lives.
EFT Emotional Freedom Technique and
TFT Thought field Therapy
EFT and TFT both use acupuncture points and neurological stimulation to loosen up emotions and help them to resolve themselves. You do not use any needles, you simply Tap with your fingers on specific points to stimulate them. The neurological stimulation is done by rolling your eyes (sounds wacky, but something similar is used in the NHS to help trauma victims) and by humming and counting. The humming uses and stimulates the right side of your brain and the counting uses and stimulates the left. By stimulating them alternately, it seems to spread the problem out in a way that allows your brain to unravel it more easily.
TFT - Thought Field Therapy, accidentally discovered by Dr. Roger Callahan, when he cured a woman of an intense water phobia when he got her to tap an acupuncture point to releave a stomach ache, is the original version. It uses short sequences of places to tap, so it is very quick, but it is also complex to learn which points and sequences you need for which situations. Paul McKenna uses this frequently on TV as it is so fast and effective.
EFT was developed by Gary Craig, an NLP Master Practitioner, who discovered that if you tapped all the points in an easy to remember sequence, it covered every situation and was easy for anyone to learn and use on themselves. The only drawback was that it takes a bit longer... A little bit too long for television. I use EFT with my clients so that they have already had a demonstration of how to do it. It still only takes a couple of minutes.
Instructions on how to use it yourself and a little more explanation of how it seems to work can be found here
To Book an Appointment
For any enquiries or to book an appointment, please-
Call my landline:
01752 361576
(+44 1752 361 576 from abroad.)
Or you can use my easy to remember local rate telephone
0845 F0R G00D which is
0845 307 4003
(As per my services to Stop Smoking For Good and Stay Slim For Good)
Please, if possible, call during normal working hours or early evening.
Be prepared to leave a message if I cannot answer in person.
Please avoid e-mail if at all possible as all questions can be answered far more fully, quickly and easily by phone. If you are not able to avoid e-mail then please see my Contact page
Home visits and some evening and weekend appointments are available.
How to find me
My Weston Mill Practice & Mailing Address is at
64 Bridwell Road, Plymouth PL5 1AB.
and is within easy reach of all parts of
Plymouth (England UK) Plympton, Plymstock, Devon and Cornwall, including Caradon, Torpoint, Looe, Liskeard, Calstock, Callington, Saltash, Tavistock, South Hams, Ivybridge, South Brent, Buckfastleigh, Ashburton, Totnes, Salcombe and Kingsbridge.
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