ThetanExterior
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Re: EMDR: A New Psychological Therapy for PTSD
What you said about shifting of attention reminded me of something Ronnie Miscavige said in his book Ruthless.
At one time he had a bad toothache and someone suggested he go to a gym for some weight lifting. He did go and when he'd finished he realised his toothache had gone. So he decided that the way to overcome pain is to shift attention away from it.
Apparently he then used this technique to help with David's asthma. When an asthma attack started Ronnie would grab David and take him into the garage and make him lift weights until the asthma attack went away.
Thanks, DagwoodGum.
I also found that the best scn had to offer were those types of drills, the ones that shifted attention, like, Hello & Okay, The Pain is There/The Pain is Not There, etc. Touch Assists didn't hold a candle to them, IMO, but remember how when you'd get that sort of a session, how things would just pop up that bothered you and then sort of dissipate (or became unimportant afterward)?
So maybe it wasn't the communication part that was effective after all, just the shifting of attention. In fact, maybe without the communication emphasis acting as a distraction, those processes would have been far more effective.
EMDR is somewhat similar, but it is apparently guided with questions asked while the client does this. The theory behind it is that it is the conscious shifting of attention with our eyes to actual things that makes it possible to move past traumatic incidents and brings about results, rather than focus on imagining and thinking about an incident in our heads like we normally do and like most auditing demands. Dulloldfart takes it much further and he has a real good point, why just use your eyes? Why not fully grab onto something and actually touch and experience the mass and weight of it, besides? I think he's right and he's got something valuable to contribute to the Psychology community and that the timing is good to present this, since it takes EMDR so much further. Besides, he's had years of others using it successfully and that means a great deal.
I'm encouraging him because I think Rub & Yawn now has legitimate research preceding it, plus all the years and clients who Paul already had use it, and it could take ten or twenty years before EMDR develops into something similar, otherwise.
What you said about shifting of attention reminded me of something Ronnie Miscavige said in his book Ruthless.
At one time he had a bad toothache and someone suggested he go to a gym for some weight lifting. He did go and when he'd finished he realised his toothache had gone. So he decided that the way to overcome pain is to shift attention away from it.
Apparently he then used this technique to help with David's asthma. When an asthma attack started Ronnie would grab David and take him into the garage and make him lift weights until the asthma attack went away.