This is EMDR - Part 2

This is the 2nd part in an introduction to EMDR therapy and how it works. In part 2, Jordan talks about how EMDR works in the brain

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Education

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• emdr
• ptsd
• counseling
• emdria
• emdr institute

[trierer01]

@justaYTaccount: if I understood well there is today more and more informations about what and where things are going on on the brain. Those informations are collected cientificaly with properly devices, So what Mr. Shafer is showing us is something based on known facts. EMDR is for me a tool to reprogram your brain using the existing knowledge. And "EMDR" was discovered by accident...

[jshafertx]

@trierer01 - What you're saying seems right. I would just tweek what you said a little bit from: "EMDR is ... a tool to reprogram your brain" to "EMDR is a tool that lets the brain free itself from frozen emotional memories."

[justaYTaccount]

The brain levels idea is just as valid as when med schools taught that the tongues taste buds pick up the different tastes: bitter, sweet, sour etc, by different sections on the tongue.

One day, we'll look back on that, these brain levels, in the same way we look back at the old theory of blood and disease: "you need more black bile and less yellow bile."

Modern science is really, not modern or advanced at all.

Question every "authority".

[jshafertx]

@justaYTaccount I would invite you to look at your own experience and see what's true for you now. Are there times when you're more in your 'thinking brain' and other times when you're more in your 'emotional brain'? Are there times when you're more aggressive than others? See what's true for you within your own experience and and then see that even that isn't real. You may be onto something...

[zabelicious]

@jshafertx Same same but different. When you free the brain of stuck/problem causing neural pathways, you actually reform the connections within your network (essentially this is how you become desensitized). It can be said to be a sort of reprogramming... Cheers!