Learning hypnotherapy, weekend 3.2
Following on from the Saturday, the next day of the course was pretty interesting as well. We covered EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and some methods for helping with stress & anxiety, as well as some techniques that can be used to help with Tinnitus.
I'm not convinced on EMDR yet, it seems a little wacky to me. I know one of the lecturers on the course uses it a lot when dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, and he swears by it. I'll probably try it out a few times, and if it doesn’t seem to be of much use I'll just use something else. It basically involves the therapist waving his fingers in front of the clients eyes, and getting them to follow his fingers as they think about their problem. The theory behind it doesn't seem very sound to me either. But if it is successful in helping people, it doesn’t really matter why it works (even in my brain keeps wanting to know why).
The things we covered on helping with stress seemed much more to my tastes. Mostly because these were back into the hypnotherapy area of things. One of the methods involved visualising your 'emotional barrier' that you have to keep stress and other negative emotional things out (in a similar way to your skin protecting your insides from dirt etc.). Once you've visualised your barrier the next step is to strengthen it to make it stronger and more able to cope with the various things being thrown at it in your day to day life. Some of the barriers people on the course had were interesting. There was an electric fence, some stone walls, even a big tower from the Rapunzel fairy story. Mine ended up being an orange and yellow bouncy castle, which wasn't exactly what I was expecting. The strengthening of it just came down to adding a bit more air. At least it was a happy barrier though :)
I'm not convinced on EMDR yet, it seems a little wacky to me. I know one of the lecturers on the course uses it a lot when dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, and he swears by it. I'll probably try it out a few times, and if it doesn’t seem to be of much use I'll just use something else. It basically involves the therapist waving his fingers in front of the clients eyes, and getting them to follow his fingers as they think about their problem. The theory behind it doesn't seem very sound to me either. But if it is successful in helping people, it doesn’t really matter why it works (even in my brain keeps wanting to know why).
The things we covered on helping with stress seemed much more to my tastes. Mostly because these were back into the hypnotherapy area of things. One of the methods involved visualising your 'emotional barrier' that you have to keep stress and other negative emotional things out (in a similar way to your skin protecting your insides from dirt etc.). Once you've visualised your barrier the next step is to strengthen it to make it stronger and more able to cope with the various things being thrown at it in your day to day life. Some of the barriers people on the course had were interesting. There was an electric fence, some stone walls, even a big tower from the Rapunzel fairy story. Mine ended up being an orange and yellow bouncy castle, which wasn't exactly what I was expecting. The strengthening of it just came down to adding a bit more air. At least it was a happy barrier though :)
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