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CALM / SOOTHING EXPERIENCE

Develop and Enhance:

Step 1. Accessing a relaxing experience: “Imagine a place/experience where you feel calm and relaxed.”

Step 2. Emotions and sensations: “Tell me about the images, sensations, smells, sounds [etc.] you can recall.”

Step 3. Enhancement: “Tell me more about the images, sensations, smells, sounds [etc.] associated with that experience…. Okay, focus on those and follow…”  [4 to 6 sets of bilateral stimulation (BLS)]

Step 4. Cue word: “Give that positive experience a word or phrase and then repeat it to yourself while experiencing its positive emotions and sensations. What do you notice?” [If positive, proceed to Step 5. If not repeat the process.]

Practice

Step 5. Cuing with disturbance: “Now think of a mildly disturbing recent experience and access your cue word and its associated positive feelings and sensations. Notice any positive shift that occurs. What do you notice?” [Consider repeating the process above as necessary to strengthen the connections.]

Step 6. Self-cuing with disturbance: “Now think of a mildly disturbing recent experience, and without my prompting, access your cue word and its associated positive feelings and sensations and notice the shifts that occur. What do you notice?” [Consider repeating the process above as necessary to strengthen the connections.]

Integration

Step 7. Integrate: “Practice this process as often as possible between now and when we meet again. Use your cue word to help you feel calmer.”

(Shapiro, 2001)

From Roland’s Blog …

17: Dublin

Surface and Depths: Introduction

1: Surface & Depth – An Encounter with Death



Roland Evans, Psychotherapist • 303-998-1090 • roland@roland-evans.com • 948 North Street, Suite #5, Boulder, CO 80304