About
Do you have PTSD, traumas, distressing experiences or memories, nightmares, phobias, OCD, panic attacks or somatic symptoms? Feel stuck in recurring patterns, scared, depressed or anxious?
EMI is a therapeutic approach that uses guided eye movements to assist a client to access recorded information in all its multisensory, cognitive and emotional forms. EMI recruits these resources to the integration and resolution of distressing experiences and their problematic psychological consequences. The impressive efficacy and rapidity of EMI derives from its ability to help the mind do precisely what it was designed to do: heal itself using its own inner resources.
This natural, eye-movement-assisted process of integrating painful memories into the greater context of the individual’s life experience is the essence of EMI. One of the beliefs of EMI is that our spontaneous eye movements reflect our thought patterns and, in particular, that the direction of each eye movement is related to the sensory content of the thought or memory. For example, gazing upward and to the left is associated with remembered visual images, while gazing downward and to the right is associated with kinesthetic feelings such as emotions, touch, visceral sensations, and muscle movement.
Distressing experience affects the mind differently than ordinary experience does. In threatening or intense situations, an alternative “emergency” pathway is invoked. (Flight or Fight response). Information from the thalamus can be sent directly by a single synapse to the amygdala, part of the primitive reptilian part of the human brain, which initiates survival behaviors and emotional responses a split second before the information can reach the more distant frontal lobe and form a clear perception.
EMI can be a dream come true! Finally a healing treatment that works effectively, efficiently and can be permanent.
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