Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprogramming

When we experience trauma, either physical or emotional, the memory of these events will be stored away in your subconscious. At any point unknown to us, these memories can be accessed and reacted on by the body causing symptoms such as panic attacks, flashbacks, nightmares and even intrusive thoughts.

EMDR accesses these memories through a repetitive series of eye movements (or other such stimuli), which enables you to free the blockage and thus release the energy, allow the trauma to be released, and the healing process to begin.

EMDR can be used on its own or in conjunction with other therapies such as EFT and EmoTrance™.

When a person experiences a severe psychological trauma an imbalance occurs in the nervous system which disrupts normal functioning so much so that the information acquired at the time of the event (which can include images, sounds, affects and physical sensations) is maintained neurologically in its original disturbing state. This original material can then be triggered by a variety of external and internal stimuli and is then expressed in the form of nightmares, flashbacks and intrusive thoughts. These are thought to be the so called "positive symptoms of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) EMDR is believed to trigger a physiological mechanism that activates the information-processing system. One of EMDR’s main assumptions is that activating the processing of the traumatic memory will naturally move it towards the adaptive information it needs for resolution.

Psychological self-healing is similar to the body’s healing response to physical injury in that if something blocks the healing process, such as a foreign body, healing will be prevented. However, healing will resume once the blockage has been removed. The natural tendency of the brain's information-processing system is to move toward a state of mental health.

EMDR allows beneficial connections to be made at the neurophysiological level; through the use of repetitive eye movement, we move the disturbing information through the appropriate neurophysiological pathways until it is metabolized, digested, and is adaptively resolved so that the information can be used in a healthy, life-enhancing manner.

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