new to emdr

I just started reading shapiros book, emdr, and am very interested in this. I have just set up an appointment with a new therapist who is emdria certified. I also tried it on myself on smaller things twice just for about a minute each time, and actually did have some shifts in my thought both times, it was pretty neat.
What seems to be going on to me, I know this is still under debate, but to me it seems as though following my finger (I just moved my own finger back and forth) seems to keep my intellectual part of my mind busy, and the emotions seemed to get a bit stronger, and I felt this strange feeling as if I had stepped into a river or something. Like I could feel my emotions flowing through me and see what they were. I think usually I get caught up on either intellectual aspects or I get distracted by needing to feed the cat etc. I think feeling your emotions is so essential to being able to process through something, I wonder if this isn't what is happening here.
I also had a thought, if anybody knows...do you think that after time you would get used to the eye movements and have the effect of emdr be lessened? Like, if what I was thinking is true, that you could get so used to the eye movements that that part of your brain (the intellecutal part) could go back to distracting yourself the way you are in a normal state?
Thanks for any responses

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Re:new to emdr, by Sandra Paulsen PhD, 05/26/04

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