EMDR therapy from trauma to spiritual awakening: A mindful approach (Part 2)

As a brain-based therapy, EMDR can bridge the egoic and the trans-egoic experience, extending the range of healing trauma through expanded awareness and spiritual awakening. Daniel Siegel’s (2010) concept of triception (Triangle of Wellbeing) emphasizes the importance of the brain, mind, and relationship to increase brain integration while tracking information and energy flow between client and therapist within a mutual field. I suggest an expansion of his model to include soul as a component for even higher brain integration and processing related to Divine consciousness. This expanded model can take the client from a true and adaptive positive cognition, to a peak awareness of themselves as spiritual beings. Drawing on the fields of science, spirituality, and transpersonal psychology, the slideshow focuses the body of knowledge supporting that peak spiritual experiences within an expanded range of awareness offers an accelerated path to healing trauma, achieving exceptional health, and changing the content and context of therapy. Cognitive to cosmic interweaves will be demonstrated for positive resourcing, emotional stabilization, adaptive functioning, within AIP model. Case presentation and video also help explain how standard EMDR therapy provides a foundation for the emergence of peak spiritual awareness, as the therapist becomes the vibrational tool for change. The therapist learns to see a VOC of 7 as a starting point, taking the client beyond the initial positive cognition to an emerging sense of emotional and sensory connection to a larger cosmic whole, changing the content and context of treatment, and definition of self. Experiential exercise provides participants with tools to track the flow of energy and information, influencing consciousness, and accelerating the healing of trauma.

Conference

English

Irene Siegel

Siegel, I. (2017, April).  EMDR therapy from trauma to spiritual awakening: A mindful approach (Part 2). Presentation at the 13th Western Mass EMDRIA Regional Network Spring Conference, Amherst MA