EMDR works by the left right movement of the pupils of the eyes to either side, this movement repeated effects a change in focus in brain activity, shifting from emotional centres to logic & processing centres, this facilitates rapid processing of emotional pain when it is held in somatic/ body awareness.
Well, the same goes for the left right emphasis of walking/running to a lesser/softer degree, whilst holding body awareness & equally a crossed arm chest tap is also equivalent.
For myself, holding sensation in as gentle awareness as possible is the key although I have found it still works to reduce emotional charge/ mental mayhem even without accessing physicalised feelings, so that’s really helpful for deeper numb stuff.
So, this all explains rather nicely why walking/running, the natural forwards motion of our bodies through space is designed to also deconstruct Trauma semi-automatically - just requiring some body consciousness to fulfil that. Isn’t that cool! 😅😊
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