Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life With Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B0083UCML4 | Format: PDF
Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life With Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy Description
Whether we've experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don't fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical procedures that demystify the human condition and empower listeners looking to achieve real change.
Francine Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), explains how our personalities develop and why we become trapped into feeling, believing, and acting in ways that don't serve us. Through detailed examples and exercises, listeners will learn to understand themselves, and why the people in their lives act the way they do. Most importantly, listeners will also learn techniques to improve their relationships, break through emotional barriers, overcome limitations, and excel in ways taught to Olympic athletes, successful executives, and performers.
An easy conversational style, humor, and fascinating real life stories make it simple to understand the brain science behind why we get stuck in various ways and what we can about it.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 12 hours and 2 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Tantor Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: May 14, 2012
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0083UCML4
It's not as if Francine Shapiro, the author of this important new book, hasn't already given more than a life's worth of gifts to us through the blessing of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). Now she shares with us this marvel of a jewel that is a virtual manual for removing the effects of past pain and abuse and finding a deep inner peace. It puts a powerful self-healing tool into the hands of everyone - even those who don't have or can't afford a qualified therapist.
Not long after I met Dr. Shapiro for the first time at a training I was teaching in hypnosis and age regression techniques back in the 1980s, she began stopping by my office to share her remarkable research. She showed me videos of Vietnam Vets who had been suffering the effects of PTSD (flashbacks, insomnia, social avoidance) for more than ten years. As they responded to her carefully structured questions about their inner experiences and memories, she moved a finger back and forth in front of their eyes. Within as few as two or three sessions their symptoms would disappear. Each time she visited there were even more amazing things happening.
Soon she had developed a protocol and was teaching classes in how to apply this tool in a therapy session. I hurried to become certified, and now, some 25 years later, I have used this tool thousands of times - nearly always successfully, and often remarkably so. The principles of EMDR Therapy have become important elements in my practice of mind-body medicine and psychotherapy, as it has in the practices of so many others. I have integrated EMDR therapy with my cognitive restructuring and guided imagery approaches with remarkable success.
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Reading "Getting Past your Past" by Francine Shapiro a wonderfully empowering experience for me emotionally and intellectually. I have known about Shapiro's work first hand for a few years now. Even before I knew her name, I knew the power and the reach of her unique vision of the interplay of memory and mind. It was gratifying to finally hear her, in her own words, explain in such a clear way the possibilities her work has opened for all of us trudging down this challenging path of life.
As a survivor of childhood sexual trauma, I spent much of my adult life trying, unsuccessfully, to get past my own past. I attempted any number of routes to find peace and found myself in blind alleys and dead ends. Attempting to establish any semblance of control over forces within me that I did not understand, I bounced from crisis to crisis in my life. Relationships, career, my very survival, were all constantly at risk. Therapies, fellowships, religions, none offered a way through the roadblock that my own mind had created as a defense against the violence and damage done to me as a young boy. When I finally found EMDR, a new world of possibilities was opened. The approach worked. With the help of a therapist trained in EMDR, there was finally a way to heal. It was a blessing that saved my life then, and a new way of understanding that changes my life now - everyday.
In her book, "Getting Past Your Past," Francine Shapiro, the woman who discovered this breakthrough technique, brings the principles and possibilities of EMDR into an accessible forum where non-professionals - regular people like me - can understand and see all of the possibilities her insights offer.
We can all get "blocked" by seemingly minor or indisputably major events in our backstories.
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