Luc NICON

Expert in pedagogy and behavioral communication, Luc Nicon is the author of Understanding One's Emotions, which was published in 2003. Today he dedicates his time to the training of therapists and to new research based on the discoveries concerning the origin of unconscious fears.

Hello !

The publishing of my first book, Understanding One’s Emotions, has ironically led me to a dramatic change in understanding of our emotional functioning.  The numerous demands for help sparked by the viewpoints developed in the first book took me beyond what I then imagined.  I went from occasional sessions with functional people well integrated in our society to an intense activity with people in great emotional distress.  The results were surprising:  not only did the people heal with great rapidity, but also the path they took to deactivate their psychic distress took them through incredible and improbable sensory memories.  To make it simple, these people found themselves revisiting their birth and even certain events which happened during the nine months spent in their mother’s womb.  I have to admit that at first I was more frightened than enthusiastic.  Obviously, I methodically applied the approach I had elaborated, yet the faultless performance obtained in extremely desperate cases seemed too good to be true to me.  I am skeptical of magic and the supernatural, and this adventure seemed to have all the ingredients.  In one single session, people’s unbearable anxieties were instantly released, as by magic.  Other people, with specially marked phobias, were able to definitely get rid of their handicap often in less than 30 minutes.  The more healings accumulated, the more difficult it became for me to grasp it rationally, especially because the people who contacted me often had exhausted all the more or less mainstream therapies they had access to.  Why should I have discovered by exploring somewhat haphazardly what others have not managed to achieve while dedicating most of their time to it? I was baffled and moreover, I felt very isolated.  How could I explain all this to my friends and family, or even to strangers, without appearing enlightened? I was not credible.  And all the people who had benefited from these unconventional healings confessed to me that they had to face the same lack of credibility with their friends and family.  So, I had no choice:  if I wanted to give some credibility to my approach and the opportunity to share it with a wide range of people, I had to provide a simple, measurable and transparent structure.  Thus, I decided to start from scratch.  Within an experimental context, and completely free of charge, in exchange for recording each session in order to obtain detailed reports, I began studying 50 cases for each pathology.  Within this context, I saw more than 300 people.  Today, the results remain as astonishing as ever and I have acquired a great deal of practical experience, and, although many questions remain in suspension, I have understood the essence of the phenomenon.  In my direct environment, the early skepticism has turned into interest and sometimes even enthusiasm.  Now, therapists come to see me to get training.  With more hindsight and serenity, I presently can deliver the results of my research.

Luc Nicon