EMDR is a structured therapy in which you focus briefly on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and PTSD symptoms.
Sometimes old disturbing memories can be stored in the brain in isolation - they get locked in the nervous system with the original images, sounds, thoughts and feelings involved. The old distressing material gets stuck, just keeps getting triggered over and over again. This prevents healing taking place. In another part of the brain you already have most of the information you need to resolve this problem - the two just don't connect.
With EMDR, linking starts to take place. New information can come to mind to resolve the old problems. This may be what happens spontaneously in REM or dream sleep when eye movements help to process unconscious material. EMD involves coupling negative cognition with a chosen target image, selecting a positive replacement cognition, then reprocessing traumatic memories into more adaptive thoughts.
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