The ear acupuncture according to the NADA protocol serves as a valuable non-verbal supplement in psychotherapy and mourning. It helps in a gentle way to effectively regulate the nervous system, to alleviate inner turmoil and to significantly promote mental stability. Many people experience a lasting inner turmoil in their daily lives, which develops quite subtlely over weeks or months. You feel permanently tensed, can turn off badly in the evening or just can't find a restful sleep at night. Especially in severe crises, in phases of deep sadness or in large emotional new beginnings, the nervous system needs a sensitive support. It requires a pulse that does not yet stimulate or stimulate, but gently regulates the body and restores the inner balance. This proven method is used in our practice at Marienplatz. The protocol, developed in New York in the 1970s, is now being used worldwide with great success in order to relieve people in stressful stages of life, in deep exhaustion or in psychological exceptional conditions.

How does the NADA ear acupuncture work?

Five very specific points are stimulated in the ear after the NADA scheme. The main objective is to shut down an overactive sympathy, i.e. the nerve strand, which is responsible for the physical stress reaction. The treatment helps to regain a state of in-sich rush from a hyperactive paralysis or shock star.

Each of the five points is attributed to a specific meaning in traditional Chinese medicine

• Shen Men (Tor of the Gods) is considered the most important point and brings the emotional fire back to rest, which promotes deep inner calm and balance.
• Sympathy (root point) regulates the vegetative nervous system directly and literally brings back solid ground under the feet.
• Rivet subdues deep fears of existence and strengthens inner strength and stress resistance.
• Liver ensures a harmonious flow of emotions and helps to deal with internal pressure, anger or frustration.
• Lung relaxes the chest, facilitates breathing and supports emotional letting go, which is why the point is also closely connected to the mourning process.

In our practice, we adapt this proven concept to the relaxed individual setting. Instead of classic needles, we use soft Japanese gold balls that are glued to an ear side. These remain pain-free for five days before they pause for two days. The other ear is then treated in the following week. The treatment takes place in a thirty-minute rest phase in sitting or lying.

When is the NADA ear acupuncture helpful?

The method has proven to be a wonderful companion in crisis-like or emotionally demanding phases of life. We use them in practice especially on the following topics

• Continuous stress, overload and threatening burnout
• Internal unrest, nervousness and psychosomatic complaints
• Insomnia and sleep disturbances
• Psychic strains such as fears, anxiousness or depressive moods
• Acute crises, traumas and shock conditions, for example also for members of seriously ill people
• Support for smoking or to mitigate addictive pressure

The ear acupuncture is generally excellently tolerated. It is a gentle, gradual support that often unfolds its power over several sessions. A cycle of five to ten treatments has proved successful for sustainable stabilization in chronic strains.