How might EMDR help me?
Of course, how you benefit from EMDR depends upon many factors. The evidence base of the AIP model, (the Adapted Information Processing model upon which EMDR is based), indicates it is the the bi-lateral (right - left - right - left) nature of the processing which really brings these benefits.
Here are some of the ways clients typically benefit.
- Feeling less stress, distress, panic. Upsetting feelings (shame, loneliness, despair, sadness etc) feel a lot less. You catastrophise a lot less.
- Feeling a rise in self-esteem, viewing oneself kindly, positively.
- Able to reduce unhelpful behaviours or habits (eg around smoking, binge-eating, addictions etc)
- Feeling more connected to the body, its sensations. Learning from what it holds and its natural wisdom.
- Feeling a lot calmer and able to deal with difficult situations much better.
- Feeling more peaceful in life generally, less burdened by the past, seeing it from a wiser perspective.
- Feeling grounded in the present, more connected to life/people, and able to make better decisions.
- Understanding about kindness and compassion and able to feel this towards oneself.
- Having a stronger sense of self, who one really is, the 'authentic self.'
- Having more clarity about life, past present and future.
- Feeling more hopeful and the future starts to open up in surprising delightful ways.
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