NLP Eye Movement Integration with a Vietnam Veteran (PTSD)

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Eye Movement Integration, NLP's kinder and gentler version of EMDR is used to resolve a Vietnam Veteran's PTSD flashbacks.

This video shows the beginning and end of the 55 minute session -- where he describes the tracer bullets in the night as "pretty."

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[xilix]

I have PTSD, and I've been recommended to get EMDR by my counselor, but now that I know about this, which should I try? Is this better than EMDR? Do these methods really work THIS well? I can't imagine ever being able to relive these horrible experiences and be comfortable, it's not possible in my mind in any way. If this will work, it's the answer to my prayers, to be able to live my life without fear, to finally be able to be in control. Honestly I think I'd weep with relief and happiness.

[realpeoplepress]

@xilix

EMDR utilizes the same neurological processes, but EMI is more respectful of the client, and has more flexibility in dealing with the problem. The answer to your question is "Yes, it really does work," and I have seen many "weep with relief and happiness" at the resolution.

I would like to point out that this method works with the fear, shock, etc. of the traumatic events. However there is often another aspect, that is somewhat different, and requires different methods.

[iig0tem]

So what happened in conclusion? The man no longer remembers any traumatic experiences from when he was in the army?

[realpeoplepress]

@iig0tem As you can see near the end of this video, where he says, “It’s beautiful,” he remembers the tracer bullets in the night, but now he finds pleasure in their beauty—a very different response than the tension and fear that he had experienced in response to the memory for the previous 13 years. It is a matter of changing the memory, not erasing it. Steve Andreas

[kccatalyst]

Steve-Realpeoplepress: Which came first EMDR or NLP Eye Intergration? I have experience with the NLP Trauma pattern and the understanding of eye accessing cue's, so this makes perfect sense. Is this a part of anyone's NLP training program yet?

[realpeoplepress]

@kccatalyst I don't know if it is a part of any NLP training program; I am more-or-less retiring from training so I can have more time for developing new stuff. The EMI DVD, available from Real People Press, demonstrates how to do it, and it includes a useful booklet on the method.

[emdria1214]

To Ragulator and ChewingGun:

And your professional credentials to make this judgement are_______??

[realpeoplepress]

I agree; it is very boring; so is dentistry.

But when you are a vet who has been suffering for years, its well worth it to be bored for an hour so that you can live a good life free of flashbacks. Steve Andreas

[PhobiaGuy]

@metalmike83 i use a different system but based on the same principal, and it works 8/10 times, i'm doing this all day every day AND with war vets. No technique suits everyone but then again no 'tested' medication works for everybody, so less of the bull shit comments please, we are using this stuff on the front line, if it works on 8/10 then the other two get a different technique, isn't that the doctors way?

[engeljakob]

purdy

[atyourownnlp]

@realpeoplepress

Well there really is a sort of a training-program. I'm an NLP prac. and in my training we learned the Dimensions of submodalities.

A beautifull way to change the emotions of a memory.

[himmelweiss]

@eljefe90 that is a beliefe I would like to drop off...