| EMDR Therapy: Fad or true healing
power? by Kris Rain It was a cold September when I first heard the phrase EMDR. My spiritual healing teacher was addressing her class -- me and another woman -- informally about therapy because my classmate, ever full of questions, had asked a poignant question about if and when to do therapy. My spiritual healing teacher was honest, if nothing else. And she told of her experiences with this great new thing called EMDR. I will say that I was not impressed by the name, and as I am usually defensive by nature, I had to hear her out before I would believe in anything. That's how I approached Spiritual Healing school: with a conservative Lutheran (dare I say Garrison Keller-edged) cynicism about it. I learned what it is in a few sound bites. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a mode or method of therapy where the doctor or therapist holds two fingers and moves them. Pretty technical jargon. I'm sure you're ready to sign up. EMDR therapy is advised for clients who have post-traumatic stress disorder, as my teacher does as a result of having been an incest survivor, raped by her father at the age of 5. Just what do they do in therapy that makes it so special? Move some fingers around? Perhaps if you read all the technical articles on the subject, you will find what I believe to be true about it. Just the same. That the movement of the eye stimulates the memories that are long held and releases them for some reason. What the journals don't say is why -- other than some big words perhaps. I can tell you why, through my experience as a spiritual healer. When you move the eye and use light to remove the images placed on the eye by looking at some object or situation in the past, you remove the image. For instance, say I flash the color red at you on a cue card. You will remember the red card even when I flash a new cue card that is the color blue, and still further you will remember both the red and blue when I flash orange. Now, the interesting part is how you remove the red, blue and orange from your mind. You could just say, "Go away." Does that work? No. You could go to therapy and talk about it going away, but does that work? Possibly. Or maybe with time, which heals all wounds, the red, blue and orange colors would fade from your eyes. But my theory is they're still there. They're stored in your eye. This is the theory of EMDR. So how do you get rid of them? You look up. And an energy worker runs light through the bottom of your eye in the space between the lid and the eye. White light preferably. You look down and the energy worker runs light between your lid and eyes again. You look to the side and so on you keep looking in directions until the energy has summoned all the red, blue and orange from your eye. No, it's not permanently gone, but it's withdrawn from your image system and you will no longer have post-traumatic stress from the colors red, blue and orange. I've done this type of healing with friends and feel confident in its abilities. It takes minutes to do what therapists do in weeks, months and years. All you need to do it successfully is the ability to visualize, which is what spiritual healers do. And the ability to focus, direct and create energy. Having these things, you too can do spiritual healing EMDR. Kris Rain is a writer, artist and spiritual healer and lives in Minneapolis. She is the author of two books Angels and Only Girls Go To Heaven, a novel. If you've heard of EMDR and would like to give it a try, she welcomes cases. She works from a distance with her healings. Feel free to contact her at warmthcompassion@yahoo.com or (612) 332-5595. Copyright © 2003 Kris Rain |
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