Eye Movement Integration (EMI) is a brief therapy and quick process for reprocessing disturbing and traumatic memories. EMI can also be useful for resolving different emotional imprints.
Eye Movement Integration was created in 1989 by Steve and Connirae Andreas.
It works on the premise of when our eyes move we access specific parts of the processing functions in our brain. When we re-access memories, certain parts of our brain become active.
I think I can safely say that we have all experienced some kind of trauma, grief or painful negative emotions during our lives resulting in very disturbing and traumatic memories. These traumatic memories may be repressed memories or childhood memories. In most cases these memories are processed by our brain and the intensity of the trauma fades and the memory is remembered as just that: a memory, a memory with no intense emotion attached to it.
Some memories seem to get kind of ‘frozen or stuck’ in our memory network and when these traumatic memories are remembered they can produce powerful uncomfortable emotions which are associated to the traumatic memory, causing emotionally painful, unpleasant and traumatic experiences for us. These traumatic memories can sometimes last for years if they are not dealt with.
Talking therapies such as counselling and psychotherapy can often help with traumatic memories or repressed memories or even childhood memories, however, talking therapy can often take many sessions over many months or even years in order to achieve a fully reprocessed recollection of specific events.
Eye Movement Integration rapidly neutralises and successfully treats traumatic memories and the emotions that are associated with that memory.
