Re: Starting soon also-me too

If you're starting EMDR soon, you can get a great deal of helpful information by reviewing the posts in this forum.

As to selecting a target - that is very important. Its kind of like going to get laser surgery -- you definitely want the laser pointed at the right spot. Different EMDR clinicians use different strategies to assist people in selecting those right spots, but here are two:

1) You decide what issue you wish to work on, and then think of a picture that best represents the worst part of that picture. It can be a current picture, or one that represents either the first time or maybe the worst time that issue showed up in your life. Generally, the earlier the better.

2) Another way is to make a list of the ten worst things that ever happened to you. For some people these are "Big T" traumas, that is bona fide horrible events such as child abuse, violence, disasters. For other people it isn't so much a big horrible event as a whole bunch of "Small t" traumas - being ignored, feeling unimportant, being criticized or laughed at -- things like that.

Once the "laser" is pointed at these targets, the EMDR work proceeds to cause shifts in the constellation of experiences, beliefs, emotions, expectancies, and so on, that are associated with those targets. That's how it works.

Good luck!

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