First, a little more information about EMDR: “It’s bilateral brain stimulation,” says Bernstein. “So either you’re listening to a song that has a pitch in the right ear and then a pitch in the left ear, or you have buzzers in either hand, or you’re looking back and forth. The thesis is that if your eyes go back and forth, or you have a stimulus in either ear, you’re opening up your brain’s ability to reprocess old stories and, in the present moment, undo that story.”
Bernstein takes this concept a step further by adding it to a “rage on the page” journaling technique. Follow below:
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