Self-Guided EMDR Therapy Session with Spoken Instructions
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- Download this video on to your device: tinyurl.com/nuufk3fa
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a therapy that helps to process traumatic memories and alleviate related symptoms.
Self-administered EMDR, also known as self-guided or self-directed EMDR, is a variant that individuals can do independently without the help of a licensed therapist. However, it is important to note that self-guided EMDR is not a substitute for professional therapy, as EMDR can bring up intense emotions and memories. Working with a licensed therapist can provide additional support and guidance through the process. The use or application of this video is entirely at the user's responsibility and risk. The maker of this video excludes any liability for any damage, direct or indirect, arising out of or related to the use of or application of this video.
Chapters
00:00 Disclaimer
00:27 Introduction
01:37 Memory
03:23 Desensitization
26:25 Positive Cognition
28:35 Epilogue
This video uses synthetic speech technology.
This video is based on the EMDR Standard Protocol (version 2016) by ten Broeke, de Jongh & Hornsveld.
MindMotion, 2023©
TH-cam should be advertisement free! Unfortunately, it isn’t. Click this link to download the video directly on to your device: tinyurl.com/nuufk3fa
I just watched it on my pc, this is my first time trying this kind of therapy, all I can say is that my mind feels less heavy now, I had a good cry at first, but by the end of the video I was smiling and telling myself I am free, so thank you for putting this!
Thank you so much for this link! I tried not to let the ads get distracting, as I just did my first session. Ad free will be sooooo much better for this!
Do you have the other video with the sound for download? I like the sound and ball and color all same time
You can purchase a TH-cam subscription for ad-free viewing. It's only about $20 per month. Worth it!
Pls make this add free....
These types of videos need to be ad free.
I agree! TH-cam should be advertisement free! Unfortunately, it isn’t. Click this link to download the video directly on to your device: tinyurl.com/nuufk3fa
Advertisements go away when you have TH-cam Premium.
@ILoveSaintBernards not everyone can afford to pay that
All that effort they put towards making those videos need to be paid. They need to monetize. You want to watch for free and ad-free? 😕
Why not 2 ads before and after. Ads mid video are very distracting and completely take you out of it.
Most useful 29 minute of my life. Helped my PTSD tremendously in just one session
Didja continue using this? How is ur PTSD on a daily basis now?
Dear creator of this video, thanks so much for providing a pretty nice EMDR tool. It doesn't function exactly like therapy, and I know you have a disclaimer that it isn't meant to be a replacement, but it still feels nice to be able to use it when therapy is not currently available to me. Sending my gratitude, and a big shout out to everyone who is navigating the dark right now. May you find your way!
Just one session eased the inner sense of the rocky relationship with my dad and how it has manifested in perfectionism and people pleasing over 30 years. I finally felt ready to tackle the issue after doing EMDR for some time now. I can't express my gratitude enough. 💕
Im a big neville goddard /manifestibg fan and student. But id been trying to manifest a healthy loving romantic relationship for years (on and off). I realized id never experienced one and i only had bad memories and imprints to rely on while trying to create something new. I had no data in my storage to create what i wanted lol i finally tried this video. I choose the biggest moments of trauma id experienced with abandonment. After i did the video i replaced the scenes with new images of being loved and respected. It was almost immediate after this i met someone. Im now in my first relationship ever with a man that respects women and is good to me. Thank you ❤❤ im going to do it again today for business and success. Ps. For anyone interested - sometimes if i feel something happens that keeps looping in my mind and affecting me (meaning i havent processed it properly) i do whats in this video but on my own. Just quickly - seeing the ball go back and forth changing colors etc until the emotional reaction is gone. It can really help on the fly too!
congrats!
Fantastic!
This was my first time trying emdr and I'm happy this video exists free on TH-cam! Thanks for posting!
A thousand thanks for this amazing session. This is the second time I do on one memory, and I swear it works, it started off as a 8/10 of pain level, today is a 3. Thank God for this. Thank you so much for making it available to us who can't afford expensive EMDR sessions. I genuinely am grateful for you. God bless you :)
This was more helpful than other self administered emdr videos. More effective than when I work with my therapist.
That reprogramming can work with fear and bring the past to the present and knowing I’m safe . First time. Thank you
This is SO helpful! I hope everyone who is lucky enough to stumble on this video gives it a try! I was using it to desensitize myself from a "bad scenario" that I created in my own head, and during this session I discovered a deep angle of why this "bad scenario" even occurred in my head and why I felt so threatened by it, tracing the source back to something in my childhood. Thank you for creating this.
It is true that immediately following the session, your bad thoughts may get worse for a bit so definitely try not to think too much of your bad thoughts; those of you who are already in therapy or been on self-healing journey for a while, you know how to engage in your go-to techniques to handle upsetting thoughts. If you are very traumatized and you haven't been through any healing at all, you may want to try other methods of therapy first and not jump into the deep end with this video.
Thank you! I stumbled on this video after watching other video's on EMDR to learn about it as I am about to begin EMDR with a therapist who was recently brought on board at the clinic where I had been in weekly talk therapy with my first therapist for just about a full year. I met my new therapist last Friday, again today, she is learning a lot about me, as, I can cover a lot of information in an hour.
I am intrigued about EMDR especially since I will soon be experiencing it and hoping this will help my CPTSD. I am so intrigued that I am so tempted to play this video only to watch as an observer, not participating. I have many years of trauma in my life, I can not afford to add more to it. I appreciate your caution.
THIS IS AMAZING. It helped me root out a childhood trauma that has plagued me in different forms my whole life maybe. This feels so much better.
Thank you for the super useful video , whilst as you rightly say it's not intended as a substitute for in-person/practitioner led session but as someone who has had those sessions this is certainly good to bridge a gap whilst on waiting lists etc. Thank you for making it free and accessible
I can't believe how useful this was in uncovering negative core beliefs.
This is life changing. I didn't properly thank you for this video. So thank you from the bottom of my heart.
This technique is so subtle. My memory relates to a very difficult moment in childhood where I was under pressure to do something, had only one chance, and failure meant death or serious injury. Obviously, I succeeded and survived, yet the image haunts me and I suspect it's at the root of some long term behavioural and social problems, so I tried this exercise.
I was going to comment, saying I didn't experience any thoughts or feelings each time between sessions watching the coloured ball, except for mild anxiety that maybe wasn't doing it right, or wasn't able to do it properly. But only as I wrote those words out, I finally realised - that's it. That's the whole thing!
I feel so much lighter and upbeat right now, it's incredible.
Huge thanks to you! ❤
Every time i do this emdr session the days after i remember other experiences that i forgot! So i deal with a bad experience and after the session i remember an other one! Some of these experiences i never thought they traumatized me but they had an impact on me, and i truly love it, cause i usually forgot my past and my childhood.
My mind is blown that one TH-cam clip can help me this much.
Very effective...when I started at the beginning i felt overwhelmed of the emotions of remembering the traumatic event. i felt it was at an 8 and , as I followed the video it went to a 6...then the image and emotions began to soften/change and got covered in love & peace. New ways of seeing the images came...by about the 5th time of watching the ball the original disturbing image had completely changed to something I could handle and would say it ended at a 0. so awesome! Thank you for making this video!
I got really bad issues and anxiety attacks, due to the fact that stress is a major factor to my issues. When the colour shifts to fast for me to say it in time, my stress levels rise sky high, this did not reduce in any way. Just got worse due to me got scared of not managing it. Had to say inside to calm down a bit. The very nice about this is to understand how much stress is the cause of my issues.
I had similar, but got past it by realizing there is nobody listening, there won't be a quiz, I don't get points off for being wrong, nobody cares if I get a color wrong, and the point of saying the colors out loud isn't to get the colors right but to just occupy your brain with different sensory stimulis at once. Try saying "left, right" or even "change, change" when you see the ball move or change.
Second time trying it i was so angry and i felt more tension in my body compared with the first session, i also remembered more details (where more my imagination and my understanding of how it happens and how people looks like...) the last sentence "i can handle it" made feel more comfortable and shure of my self.
Definitely the most straightforward video in regards to EMDR. I really appreciate this video.
This is fantastic! In already feel some movement where before, a painful memory from my teens was just a solid block of anger/pain in me. And that's just my first go at this video. Saving this and making it a part of my life. Thank you!
Thank you for your efforts and the free video. I found freedom from a trauma memory today by using this video. I will be using the video many times in my healing journey. Blessings over you.
I first found this video nearly a year ago and has helped me immensely since. ❤ EMDR really works and this video is a great example.
How many session did you do
This is the best EMDR video I’ve seen. Thank you so much
this was very helpful ! i have cptsd and i get flashbacks from a memory of loss that it made me stressed and unable to sleep for almost 2 years, watching this made me yawn , i hope it gets better by time
OMG this is so amazing! I did it today around gaslighting and invalidation plus group bullying (narcissistic ex husband whom I co-parent with) and a situation that has had me stuck had been released. I'm so grateful and will be doing this as often as I can.
Good to hear he is your ex I am stuck with a narcisist husband for over 20 years is hell
My heart goes out for you. I suffer from, still in the present, n-abuse, invalidation and shaming/denigration attacks by a n-'parent.' Idk if a part of me wants to heal from c-ptsd epis wrt the past abuse if the traumatic environment is still perpetuated in the current reality. Your thoughts?
This is hands down the BEST MOST AMAZING video!!! Thank you so much for making this😊. I'm going to watch often.
You are very very kind to share this tool. Thank you
Thanks so much for your generosity in sharing this video. It is extremely helpful ❤
Excellent, this is so powerful and healing...you are the best for doing this 🙏✨️🙏✨️
This was super helpful today, many thanks! The memory is vivid but the emotion is way down about it.
Thank you, this is great! EMDR is really effective, and this vid is wonderful help!!
Very well done,
Thank you so much. This video is changing my life❤❤❤
Unbelievable!! So glad I finally tried this!
God bless you for this. May angels watch over you in all things.
This one is the best I have ever tried ! It really worked for me. Thanks.
What about just a bad situation? I can’t pinpoint a bad memory really. It’s an all around abusive relationship that I am trying to move on from.
Thank you, from bottom of my heart 💓 I cannot describe how much it helped me, just speechless
Awesome thank you so much 🙏
This is a gift to humanity thank you so much!
Who would have thought that that would work!
I'm a lot calmer and in control when the previously painful memory comes to mind.
Thanks Mind Motion!! : )
Thank you so much!! ♥
Increible, gracias ❤
Thank you!
So thankful for this video! It's really helped me
loved it
thank you so much
It certainly helps 🎉❤. Great video! Very grateful for your upload.🎉❤
This is a great tool, thank you
wonderful exprience
Thank you!!
Thank You!!!
This is super helpful. I found myself naturally saying " I will be resilient" and I decided to be resilient
This video did help me get from 10 to 0 quickly
Thank you, it was very very helpful
Thank you a lot. It is very helpful
Would be better without the colour changes on the moving ball. Having to name the colours requires a lot of attention, which switches the mind from dual attention (a key element of EMDR) to mono attention.
If you are retrieving the memory and at the same time you are distracted by naming the colors, the working memory gets overloaded. The working memory simply cannot cope. This creates a distance from the disturbing memory.
@@Mind-Motion thank you for this explanation. I have heard of EMDR including sound alternating from side to side in addition to the visual, but I had not heard of calling out colors. I did find it hard to stay on a thought or memory while calling out colors, but maybe that's the point? Sometimes I didn't call out the colors and sometimes I did. Either way, I felt so much better by the end of the video. I did a few sessions of EMDR with a therapist, but it wasn't nearly as helpful as this self-guided video. Thank you!!!
Naming colors made this so successful!!
@@melindavictor266 you said, "I did a few sessions of EMDR with a therapist, but it wasn't nearly as helpful as this self-guided video." That is incredible! I will be beginning EMDR soon with a therapist, so of course, I am learning as much as I can about this modality. I have years of trauma I need healing for but due to the extent of my trauma, I am terrified to try it outside of professional guidence, but I am also incredibly intrigued and curious. I am debating whether or not to play this video just for observation only. I'm not ready to get sucked into opening a trauma wound without immediate tools to cope. Maybe after a few EMDR sessions with my therapist, I'll seek her advice about trying this at home because one hour a week in a clinical setting will take the rest of my life to resolve all of my traumas. BTW, I have been in weekly counseling for a year now, talk therapy, it's up and down, not healed, sometimes I felt worse after so much trauma dumping for many weeks, I felt so overwhelmed, though it has helped a little, I definantly noticed a lot of dots connecting in my brain, especially early on. I am definately in a better place than I was a year ago.
@@Mind-Motion Outwardly, that feels like it's impeding my process, but I'm not sure if that IS the process at work. Should we try harder on naming those colors if that feels like it's to the detriment of holding those memories/ emotions during this process? I hope that made sense. It feels as though I'm rubbing my tummy and patting my head and I'm not sure if I'm working against what I should be to be successful in my attempts.
thank you so much it was really helpfull and working and at the end of session the trauma lessen to 0.5to .02 and handeling was also become so posative...god bless u....
Blimey, this actually does work. I'll report back after another couple of weeks with an update to see if it's still working
Is it working?
Useful and clear
this was really helpful thanks
Thanks
best EMDR video on youtube.
I just made it to 20 minutes and I'm feeling so sleepy, but my headache is getting worse and I need to take more Ibuprofen, lol. I had this headache before I started. Forgot to write I do feel better about the image I came here with.
Well, this worked.
I concentrate on the colors of the ball, and nothing comes into my mind because I’m concentrating on the color
Be careful, I have cptsd and a very sensitive nervous system and doing EMDR on my own put me out of my body. Another time it made me emotionally dysregulated for the rest of the day. Tread lightly
I have found that pairing this with vagus nerve stimulation music to calm helps a lot until things are manageable.
I had the same reaction this was not a good experience for me.
Well, it’s probably more for the fact that you’re forced to recall and confront your trauma rather than the EMDR itself, regular CBT therapy can be equally emotionally disregulating for me.
Is it crucial to think of a certain memory? Because I can access the feeling but not always the memory. Or I can think about a fear I’m having and feel the emotions but it hasn’t happened yet 👀
Thank you, the memory became non emotional pretty soon, and I got so sleeeeeepy. Should one continue the whole time no matter what?
This video is just like what I experienced with my therapist and is effective. Thanks!
Last night i did the emdr and felt a little anxious afterwards. (I have Gad&agoraphobia).
This morning woke up anxious but this afternoon i had an amazing relaxed walk. I felt waaaaay more relaxed than usual.
Could you make a guidence video for gad or agoraphobia emdr? Surely a lot of people would benefit
Yes. I second that!!
I literally can't focus on the memory from the start and the colour of the ball at the same time. After each time I'd been saying the colours out loud but nothing had come up because I was so focused on naming the colours... am I doing something wrong here?
Wow 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
TYP there's no ads and can download it, if you find it useful.
But you can’t do that unless you are subscribing to TH-cam at £15.99 a month
TH-cam should be advertisement free! Unfortunately, it isn’t. Click this link to download the video directly on to your device: tinyurl.com/nuufk3fa
also, thanks for the download link
I'm color blind and I felt that got in the way for me because I felt I was too busy trying to identify the colors and I couldn't think about the negative memory. Any suggestions?
Is it ok to do this before to go to sleep? And also before work maybe?
Great video! Hope it will get more views and will qualify to get add free
TH-cam should be advertisement free! Unfortunately, it isn’t. Click this link to download the video directly on to your device: tinyurl.com/nuufk3fa
I couldn't focus on a specific memory and i couldn't visualize an image. So whenever I was asked what would come up, it would be nothing. And the longer I went, the more tired i became. My brain felt super slow and at some point it felt like it was literally blocking something and when that happened, my eye tracking became extremely hard too. So the point that my eyes were sometimes forced shut and at one point i thought I was gonna lose consciousness. Idk exactly what i did wrong tbh. I now also just feel tired.
My current observations are you should turn the ads off on this video. Jarring!
@@blessedalldaynyc they also have full control over if the video has ads or not since there's no copyrighten content in the video
TH-cam should be advertisement free! Unfortunately, it isn’t. Click this link to download the video directly on to your device: tinyurl.com/nuufk3fa
Five advertisement interruptions during the actual processing routines is very concerning and stressful in itself.
I concur
I thinknit was helping until it popped in an ad. Pls do all at beginning. Pls. Txs
TH-cam should be advertisement free! Unfortunately, it isn’t. Click this link to download the video directly on to your device: tinyurl.com/nuufk3fa
How about showing gratitude for the creator providing this free of charge? Or subscribing to TH-cam premium for no ads? The entitlement is ridiculous.
During the section i kind of forgot the experience i believe i remember a neighbor that lived next to my house in a patio where many rooms were rented these were very small rooms there was a lemon tree in the middle of the the patio i remember going into another neighbor room they were cooking chicken why did i remember all of this while trying to focus on the b ad memory i had
That I thought it was just me that was seeing the ending font expand bigger and bigger without me knowing that it was expanding.
I don't know if I was doing this right or maybe I just need a therapist to help me in person. I couldn't keep up with the colors to the point of feeling panicked and anxious and my brain would just kind of freeze.
How can i use with memories of people that made me feeling ugly. I have images but i'm feeling ugly andd shame after the session
I just had a very strange experience where I watched the video halfway through and was getting annoyed with the commercials and then I realized that you had posted a link to download it which I thought was really kind of you and so I did that and then when I went to that download it didn’t have any audio that goes with the movement of the ball, so I came back to the original TH-cam video and now it doesn’t have any music to go with the ball movement either.
Gaslite is one of my trauma triggers and I just had to laugh that I felt like the video was gaslighting me 😂 I truly am laughing 😆
Is there any way to get a download of the video with all accompanying audio?
Thank you this is very helpful therapy ❤
😅Thank you for mentioning the download! I was annoyed by the interruptions and didn't read about the mp4. Downloaded and working properly...
The commercial killed it for me
Yes, it killed it for me too.
TH-cam should be advertisement free! Unfortunately, it isn’t. Click this link to download the video directly on to your device: tinyurl.com/nuufk3fa
Is it okay if I don’t close my eyes during the memory part? I feel distressed having my eyes closed for now
The memorie made me feel angry and i felt tension in my hands and feet and ly muscles, but i can handle it and deal with it it when from 9 to 6 in the first session wich is good
When he kept asking what was on my mind, each time i still thought about the image, but i felt less ..... im sorry my english isnt that great, oh i got it, i felt less affected. But my thought didnt change. Just felt less affected by it. I hope this means its working. I imagine it like its putting this thought or memory further back in the brain so that i dont live with it at all times in the present.
I was imagining the event and got stressed I couldn’t say the colors of the ball out loud…. I was just watching the ball , I paused the video, how can u focus on your feelings ( mine were fear and helplesness) and saying the colours? Am I doing this right… I need help, I think I will try tomorrow again ❤
This is something I'm struggling with as well. They responded when someone else asked the same thing, I'm not sure if you saw it, but this was their response:
"If you are retrieving the memory and at the same time you are distracted by naming the colors, the working memory gets overloaded. The working memory simply cannot cope. This creates a distance from the disturbing memory."
I asked if the trouble keeping up with naming the colors should be overtaking my energies. I'm waiting on a response. I worry that my focusing too much on something seemingly irrelevant isn't going to help me, but maybe that's actually the goal. I'm waiting to hear back from the OP to better understand.
Thank you
Is it normal to feel super tired and sleepy during the process?
What do you do when that initial replay is still a 10.
❤
i couldnt focus on my memory because i kept saying the wrong color of the ball. idk what that means but im frystrated and disappointed in myself. was really hoping this would work.
This is something I've always wanted and need 2 do. About 10 minutes in the memory became les and less vivid. But I'm also very ADHD and I kept ranting about my color blindness while watching the ball LoL then I couldn't stop thinking about this task I needed 2 complete and I didn't wanna think about the memory at all. Is that good? Or am I just super ADHD and can't focus on anything long enough to complete? I will say I feel better, thank you.
i dont want them to become less vivid. I want to never forget how horrible that woman treated me. I would feel better if she died of a broken neck
I am the same way.
The thoughts and feelings that were arising were that the ball was moving and changing colors so fast that I couldn't name the colors fast enough.
I got very irritated and frustrated.
If you are retrieving the memory and at the same time you are distracted by naming the colors, the working memory gets overloaded. The working memory simply cannot cope, that is the point of EMDR. This creates a distance from the disturbing memory.
At some point I also felt like an idiot haha
@@Mind-Motion thanks for this because i felt like i was not doing it right..however when ask what i got .. i was too distracted naming the colors that i got nothing after the first go round with the ball
@@kristinas2231 😂me too, but clearing the layers, the mind got clearer and could say the correct colours.