EMDR Demonstration Video with Colleen West • Part 1

http://www.emdrinaction.com/ This demonstration is intended to give people a chance to experience what EMDR is actually like in practice, not for teaching purposes. The 'client' here is a friend who gave her full consent to be filmed and for her session to be shared as a public service.

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I'm really excited about our session. There's like - I just want to work on my money thing. It's definitely up right now. My brain goes [eeh], like does not compute about how to bring abundance into my life, even though I do all the right things.

So what behaviors of yours keep that manifesting over, and over again?

Charging too little for work that I do, giving myself away, continuing to do work that I know is diminishing in a way, being co-dependent.

Can you think of a recent experience of this kind of undervaluing yourself, and this giving yourself away?

Yeah, the pattern is like I always have just enough, and I also really trust; the universe keeps showing up, and I keep getting taken care of, but there's always a scarcity and anxiety, like a lot of anxiety. I wake up often in the middle of the night, just like [gasp], "What am I going to do? Oh my God, how am I going to pay my bills?" And just in complete panic.

Let me set you up with the tappers. And you just hold them. You can hold them in each hand or you can put them under your thighs if you want to have your hands free. And let me check the speed and we want to make it so that it's not annoying and some people find it soothing, so just check in with yourself for a moment.

That's good. It could even be a little faster maybe.

That's fine.

Yeah... that feels good.

Okay great. So as we go along with the processing, and we're not quite there yet, you've done this before but it was a long time ago. And I want to remind you that you can stop at any time, but if you're having a lot of hard feelings of some kind, difficult, intense feelings, it's probably better to keep going so that you process through them and they kind of come in waves. So when I turn it on, it will be - your level of emotion might be low and then it might peak, and then it'll drop off again. When it drops off, then you've finished with a channel, and then just open your eyes so that I know you're done. Then we'll check in and reflect a little bit on what just happened, or what's coming up for you.

I want to know if the time that you give yourself away is the more potent point to bridge back from, or this panic that you get in the middle in the night.

I think it's the panic. I think that's underneath everything. I think I give myself away, as an outgrowth of the panic.

Ah... so I want you to think about a time when that happened recently.

Okay, when I woke up in the middle of the night?

Yeah, so go there now, and tell me what image you're getting of that instant.

It's dark, I'm in my bed, wake up at 4:00 and my stomach is just tight. I'm breathing quickly. I feel really alone. I feel helpless. I'm arguing with myself about whether I should go back to sleep, or like try to go back to sleep, or just stay awake and get some work done. And usually, I stay awake and get some work done and that really helps.

Let's just stay with that initial - the most intense moment.

Yuck.

It's uncomfortable.

It's very uncomfortable. Erin, what do you believe about yourself, in that moment?

Like I'm a fraud, like I'm not who I really think I am.

"I'm inadequate?"

Mhmm

How about around the panic?

It's just terror, like I am terrified. I'm never going to get out from under this feeling of always - like my head's just under the water.

So which one of these kind of makes your heart go "ouch" when you say it to yourself? "I'm a fraud, I'm terrified" although I think that's just true; you also said "I'm alone," "I'm helpless."

It's that one.

I'm alone.

That brings up feelings.

Okay, just think of the image; think of the "I'm alone", and where do you feel that in your body?

Right here.

In your gut.

Yeah

Good, okay, just notice.

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[RichardSSS1]

Check out the Wikipedia page for EMDR - it's heavily evidence-based.

By that, I mean it works well for a lot of people - not everyone - but a lot of people.

Unfortunately for difficulties like PTSD, anxiety etc., everyone is different so will respond well to different things. EMDR + CBT would be the best course with our current knowledge of what works best

[102ihateyou]

I have PTSD and EMDR didn't help me, I'm suprised it works for some people.........

[Caelidh]

how is the tapping different from the eye tracking?.... is this more of like the "Tapping" therapy?

[hippieinboots]

It is working for me! Tips: 1.Make sure you have the right therapist for YOU 2. Try to take the rest of the day off for continued processing 3. allow for extra hours of sleep the following night. 4.Make sure you understand the process and that you following "the rules". ... It NOT a placebo and it's not a fake gimmick. I have chronic PTSD and I'm astonished with the results I'm getting! I would recommend that you not give up on it w/out making some adjustments and try again. Peace be yours.

[102ihateyou]

@Storywithin It figures, its one big lie. And if people say it works for them then its some kind of Placebo type effect even though its not a pill. I feel it has the same concept.

[copperpaint]

My therapist is really pushing for us to do emdr. It scares me though

[85mariapatricia]

@king420james its actually empirically verified but ive just recently found out about the technique. emdr has been proven on a scientific not just anectdotal level. i gotta admit its weird though. thats the great thing about science: if it works it works no faith needed

[Storywithin]

OMG the therapist on this video talks like my therapist and even looks like her in a way, wow.

[Storywithin]

@102ihateyou I also suffer from PTSD and they tried it 2 times and no results.

[manonjerome1975]

Shit even seeing this makes me cry

[TheLoShow2010]

emdr has been proven to be incredibly successful and has been the gold star standard for treating ptsd for 17 years

[duchas]

@king420james Have you been diagnosed? What are your symptoms?