Eye Movement Integration EMI is a 'Neuro Therapy' which similar to EMDR, can be used effectively to help people process trauma memories from acute and longer term traumas.
Trauma memories can become frozen into the brain and hard to reach. The nervous system is a holistic system and Neuro therapies are helpful reintegrating unintegrated memories.
While both originate from NLP beginnings, EMI differs from EMDR because it has a range of 22 eye movements, uses slower movements and draws on all of the sensory modalities e.g. visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, cognitive, etc. I was drawn to this tool because it is deeply connected with the other body senses.
I use EMI (often with NLP) to interrupt the patterns that were established as a result of a traumatic event. At the beginning of the process, I will first “anchor” in a safe, secure, confident, or competent state – usually based on a previous experience of your own. You will then be asked to think about the traumatic event out and away from where you are sitting. While you are projecting the memory into picture form, I will ask you to follow the movement of a pen in the foreground with your eyes. Because eye movements are thought to relate to the processing of specific types of cognitive information, it is believed that this technique allows the brain to reprocess the event without its traumatic aspects.
The changes achieved are often dramatic.
Trauma memories can become frozen into the brain and hard to reach. The nervous system is a holistic system and Neuro therapies are helpful reintegrating unintegrated memories.
While both originate from NLP beginnings, EMI differs from EMDR because it has a range of 22 eye movements, uses slower movements and draws on all of the sensory modalities e.g. visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, cognitive, etc. I was drawn to this tool because it is deeply connected with the other body senses.
I use EMI (often with NLP) to interrupt the patterns that were established as a result of a traumatic event. At the beginning of the process, I will first “anchor” in a safe, secure, confident, or competent state – usually based on a previous experience of your own. You will then be asked to think about the traumatic event out and away from where you are sitting. While you are projecting the memory into picture form, I will ask you to follow the movement of a pen in the foreground with your eyes. Because eye movements are thought to relate to the processing of specific types of cognitive information, it is believed that this technique allows the brain to reprocess the event without its traumatic aspects.
The changes achieved are often dramatic.
