In The Body Keeps the Score, author Bessel van der Kolk says that there are several treatments that can reduce the effect of trauma on the body (and the soul). One of them is EMDR. In a case study, Kolk describes a patient who did not want to speak of his trauma aloud, but could be guided through the therapeutic steps and mentally, silently, express facts and feelings. In other words, it wasn’t the DIALOG with another human that was important, but the patient’s mental journey. The website VirtualEMDR.com provides the service of EMDR therapy via impersonal prompts. It then runs the “ping-pong” of a dot across the screen that guides the eyes to shift right and left, for a period of time. The patient shifts the eyes while recalling the trauma and all aspects of it, and ends with a session of affirmations. The shifting of eyes is supposed to reprogram the brain. Success is: the patient can talk about the trauma with little emotion. The emotion has been weakened if not erased. The patient can heal. I have tried this on smaller traumas, like obsessing about a certain bully. After a few sessions, I found the bully boring, old hat. Get out of my life, my mind, my body, my heart and soul … There is also an APP for the phone which can run the “ping-pong” for you, if you know how to set yourself up therapeutically. See My EMDR for Android, for example. Here is my tutorial on EMDR, although the website above and other sources tell you about it.
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