Re: Scientific Jargon vs. reality

Here I am, arriving fresh after meditation. Always in aw of the results. And results and experiences always different. Here's my latest epiphany about "eye movements" or any of the bells and whistles connected to emotional healing.

Scrap the quantitative for a while. Emotional healing isn't ahieved through a single technique with with just any healer, or alone for that matter. I am suspecting more and more that healing requires a combination of experiences unique to each person. If this is the case, proving that eye movements are absolutely necessary, or the dreaded negative, unnecessary, is fruitless and pointless.

It's time to move to the qualitative, subjective, experiential, testimonial in order to find out what is actually healing. Find 100 people who have recovered from the emotional brink. Ask them how they did it. Have them describe their twisted path of what succeeded, and probably more likely failed. Have them describe the small advances, the frustrating months and years of no progress sitting in dispair, and the quantum leaps a particular therapy or therapist, or even activity, promoted. Have these people describe the changes that occurred in their bodies, the feelings, the sensation. The clarity. The confusion. The cravings. And then write it down so that it would become a sort of map for everyone involved in the struggle to change or help people change. You see, I think that eye movements probably do create the crucial second attention in order to break away from repetitive emotions and open the conscious mind to the unconscious. But, whether it's necessary or always effective is the question. You already know that I believe that EMDR is just reinventing the meditation wheel--so that it can be more easily sold. But then again, does it matter if it works for some people and is being marketed ethically?

I think that most important is realizing that the bottom line is actually training the mind to "feel" differently. This is very difficult. Somehow, you do have to break into the wisdom of the unconscious mind in order to heal. Doing it is another story. I think that there are many paths, and each healing path is unique to the individual. Two of the most important components of this, however, are access to the unconscious mind and a loving supportive helper. It's about finding the chemistry that creates healing that is the challange.

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