The most effective way of treating any type of trauma, stress, anxiety, and addictive behavbior is through the use of ERT. Mindfulness, and EMDR.
I recently had a client call and ask what Foundations Medical Hypnosis ERT or Emotional Release Therapy was and if it is the same as EMDR?
To be able to explain what ERT / EMDR is, I will briefly explain how your brain works, and how your memories are processed.
Our brain stores literal millions of images, messages, and memories, that we have been gathering since our birth. Many of these memories, images, and messages are held in the subconscious or if you prefer the unconscious. In other words we tap into these memories, but we often times don’t consciously tap into the image, but we are flooded with the emotions that are produced by these images.
Take the following poem for example: “Mary had a little lamb”. When you read this, what did you think of. You probably completed the phrase with “it’s fleece was white as snow”. Now you have probably not heard this poem in a long time, but you have heard of or been taught this when you were a child, and it became processed, or embedded into your memory. Notice that you did not have to stop and recall “it’s fleece was white as snow” . The memory was embedded into pathways or neurons, that were right there, ready to be activited by just hearing the first line.
When you read the line, “Mary had a little lamb”, and then mentally responded with “it’s fleece was white as snow”, there was a feeling associated with that memory. It might have been slight, it might have been strong, but none the less, there was a feeling that came up with the memory. All of our images and memories have corresponding emotions that are attached to them.
Some of our memories have positive emotions attached to them, some have negative emotions attached to them. We may not always recall the memory in a conscious way, but we always experience the attached emotion. This is the way that all of our memories work. We recieve the information, and it is downloaded into the hardware of our brains. Many of us have unconscious, or conscious memories of events in our past that can be considered traumatic. The Trauma may simple include the feelings of frustration or humiliation. It may include feelings of abandonment, anger, or shame.
We often times will experience an event that causes us to tap into old images and memories that set off the emotion attached to the old memory. We do not necessarilly re-exeperience the memory in a conscious way, but we do continue to experience the emotion attached to it. Thus we have people who are constantly angry, stressed, anxious, or depressed, and we are not sure why.
With the use of Hypnosis, and ERT / EMDR, you will be able to reprocess the original memory, let go of the attached emotion, and find yourself free of present day stress, anger, or depression.
Thousands of people have freed themselves of unwanted stress, and anxiety by learning and experiencing the tools of hypnosis , mindfulness, and ERT. By releasing these unwanted and destructive emotions, I have had clients reduce and completly eliminate behaviors, such as addictions to food, nicotine, meth, opiods, alcohol, and anger. They were amazed that they did not have to go through hours and hours of talk therapy. Instead they learned techniques to reprocess thoughts and memories. They were able to retain the thoughts and memories, keeping the imformation and lessons that come from those thoughts and memories, but letting go of the emotions that were once attached to the thoughts and memories.
If you want to let go of stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, depression, and chronic physical pain, then e-mail me at dlscott2@comcast.net or CALL NOW: Foundations Medical Hypnosis, and Life Coaching of Seattle, Shoreline and Edmonds, (206) 417-4900. You will feel the amazing difference in just one session, and then in just a few easy sessions you will be able to learn and master the techniques of ERT / EMDR, and Mindfulness to help you attain the life you have you have been dreaming of.