Deep focus intense adhd/mood relief plus EMDR plus Brainspotting Tech plus….

I stumbled upon a Brainspotting technique last night, simply put it’s near far eye movements, so you just take a pen hold say 1ft away in front of you, focus on that then into the distance then back, as a pattern, gently, unhurried, curious to see/feel for any changes in body/mind.

THEN I realised that one could easily combine the usual EMDR: left right eye movement or body/chest tap with either alternating or simultaneous up down eye movements popularly used in sports therapy for immediately increasing Dopamine **as well** as this ‘near far’ idea from brainspotting.

The main advantage to my idea of the combination of these 3 done in a kind of bespoke way, as you feel to, would be reduced muscle tiredness & stress from repetition & I can really see how using all 3 in sequence, again, as you feel it, would create a powerful mood improving tool & longer term improvement in brain health. These 3 techniques are all based on quite simple neuroscience.

Good luck 🩷

I’ve also posted one of my fav isochronic tones here, it is designed to be firmly mood regulatory as well - I often combined these on headphones with EMDR while managing overreactions to triggers in the early days of healing my BPD. I know it feels endless, that’s the lie, time perception is greatly slowed & exaggerated. It is not in fact endless but the segregated, clouded mind in mood dysphoria often achieves complete amnesia of the fact that positive mind states exist & are our natural unencumbered state. 

The Anti-Inflammatory Necessity of Things

 Everyone knows that inflammation in the body is a thing the body kind of does when it’s hurt in various ways & everyone know that some things that you put into you body are more inflammatory & others more anti-inflammatory. In extreme inflammation you might need to take powerful anti-inflammatory drugs to stop or slow down the damage your own body is doing to itself seemingly mistakenly or accidentally although a Naturopath would likely tell you different.

Anyway I digress, my point is that almost all the things I advocate for on my blog & in the street when I’m talking you into my special interest natural health corner hahaha, they are all largely for the purpose of a general anti-inflammatory game plan for the body & a specific one for the nervous system & mind.

My favourite analogy is that for some people the damage of a highly inflammatory diet (think western style fast food/processed, high sugar/hydrogenated fat low nutrient dense diet) will go to their bones & joints first & they will suffer from pain & stiffness possibly developing into Arthritis or Rheumatism or wtv. Well, in my experience the same goes for the brain & nervous system if that is your genetic predisposition, to be extra sensitive in that body system then an inflammatory diet will affect you there with increased low mood, lethargy, anxiety, unhealthy anger, even reaching as far as paranoia, psychosis & severe depression.

The Mainstream medical field would do well, although less so financially 😉 to adopt this angle much more for mental health than it does, often adding in medication that is not conducive to an anti-inflammatory perspective whilst simultaneously reducing metabolic functioning. Not helpful in the long run. I think medication should mainly be used in the short term only, whilst other situational, interpersonal & biological things are factored in.