This is similar to the combined eye movement-eye fixation with pranayam/mudras that SSRS used to teach on extended meditation courses.
Don't know if he still does. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall <thomas.pall@...> wrote: > > EMDR is a very valuable form of therapy, especially if you are a long time > practitioner of TM/TMSP. I had an EMDR therapist who had lots of extra > hours and I had loads of good insurance so for ~~$15 co pay for a 50 minute > hour I managed to put in 1200 hours of EMDR in one year. I think that's a > world record. For me there was no need for any of the coping skills, the > boxes, the safe places. It was just forge, forge ahead. TM/TMSP had > pre-processed most of the emotion, so for me it was more like watching > things from a bullet train or even a jet plane. Regrettably, EMDR can't > handle pre-verbal stuff. So there's a lot of retching, vomiting, loosening > of muscles, expanding spine going on with lots of heavy, heavy yagyas in > the past year. My EMDR therapist, on the board of directors of EMDRIA, > had a hard time figuring out how it was I could so very quickly move thru > stuff. The proof was in the constant expansion of my emotional and > behavioral repertoire. So much fear, almost OCD, dissolved so very > quickly. I continued processing during my TM/TMSP and my sleep. Indeed I > continued processing pretty much 24 hours a day. My EMDR therapist was > confident enough to give me a bunch of EMDR CDs to copy. I listened to the > CDs during off hours and for years after the therapy was over. I took a > break about every quarter and went to round for a week at MUM. That helped > process things especially well. > > OK, I'm ready, Dr. Vaj. Hit me with what utter bullshit EMDR is. >
