EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:emdr and meditation
Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD · 09/17/02 at 3:25 PM ET
Your question is so ...well...divine, and pushes the edges of what I have myself been contemplating for some weeks and months, that I can't answer with authority, only with curiosity. A couple of free associations here and now, though.... 1. highly dissociative clients often have a profound sense of spirituality and other related phenomena 2. ego states that act as containers to hold unresolved traumatic material also act as blockages to internal integration and development, including I believe enlightened states. 3. once emotional blockages have been accessed and released through EMDR (and possibly other energy procedures) then there is less to stand in the way of our growth and development, including spiritual enlightenment. 4. for the highly dissociative client, ego state therapy is often necessary to safely access those held affective and functional states related to unresolved severe chronic and inescapable trauma. 5. I'm glad you have found David Grand's tapes helpful. Readers should be aware that not all dissociative clients will be able to use them without disturbances developing which can be destabilizing. His own materials caution about this and that therapists should know about dissociative disorders before treating them with his tapes. 6. The reason this caution is always present is NOT that EMDR fails to access and process traumatic material in highly dissociative clients. No, it is rather that it WILL access and process traumatic material, but that if that is done before getting consent from a sufficiency of the self system, there can be sudden blocking of the processing in the middle of high levels of arousal. This sufficiency of the self system includes parts of the self that for a living ....and I mean for survival ... learned to defend and are invested in maintaining homeostasis of the system. Often they are identified with the perpetrator, and are perpetrator introjects, strongly invested in sabotaging growth of the client as a whole. This has to be taken care of first to prevent harm to the client. 7. Once the relevant parts of self get it that they are in the same body with the rest of the client, their loyalty to the perpetrator shifts. Once the loyalty is to the self and healing and wholeness, processing can proceed. Once the blocks have been processed, energy that was bound up in containing the trauma and defending the system's homeostatis can be liberated for use by the self for growth. 8. Once the growth process is underway, and the individual has available means for further development, and energy is available, and the individual turns attention to a higher plane of awareness, the universe/God's love takes care of the rest. All becomes possible. Other comments?
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