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Meditation v EMDR
Meditator · 07/28/03 at 11:29 ET
I would appreciate responses from people who can be certain of their answers. I have practiced meditation for many years. There are many names for the "AHA" experiences attained through meditation that are both healing and knowledge, life-changing. I've experienced them many times, and even have experienced some grander experiences that people characterize as "enlightenment". After having had these sorts of experiences in meditation, I tried EMDR. From what I have read about EMDR, and the experiences that people have from it, it sounds as if the therapuetic effect of EMDR is the same therapeutic effect achieved in meditation from larger and smaller experiences with "enlightenment". However, for me, EMDR was little more than an annoying and anxiety producing experience of someone waving their finger in front of me while my eyes bobbed back and forth in my head,leading nowhere. I would have achieved more by beating the floor with a radiator hose, or better yet, getting a manicure. I guess as I am writing this, I've also tried similar techiniques which I believe are part of NLP, cranial tapping and timeline therapy. Again, hocus pokus,nothing like the knowledge and profound change brought about by meditation. I believe that there is little difference between EMDR and meditation, both at times triggering part of the mind that brings both healing and knowledge. However, many people meditate, or learn about meditation, and believe it's little more than a relaxation exercise, and don't understand that it is, in fact, the "original" EMDR.
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