If Not Talk Therapy, Then What?

When I started my search for what would create sustained change for people I explored various spiritual traditions, energetic healing methods and body centered psychotherapies. What I learned from all of them is that we have an innate wisdom within us (well really it is not within us, it is us) that knows how to heal, physically, emotionally and psychologically. It is usually our conditioning (what we are told to believe or how to see the world, ourselves and others) or shock trauma that prevents us from healing spontaneously.

When you know how real profound change occurs it is not from thinking, figuring, understanding from our prefrontal cortex, it is from our innate wisdom/truth. Thinking, figuring & understanding from that much slower part of the brain (which processes only 6 bits of information per second – see “Why I am not a fan of talk therapy – Part 2) is out of the way and innate wisdom/truth can do what it knows how to do.

This is why EMDR therapy works so well. When the eye …