EMDR: Self Administered Clinical Version (Blue Point)

Directions:
Best practices involve a trained therapist. Before any self-use you should develop and anchor an emotional safe-place. Usually a happy memory will suffice. Practice anchoring this memory while incorporating a bilateral touch such as a hug. If at anytime during EMDR self-use you feel panic/anxiety, immediately disassociate from your thoughts and activate your safe-place anchor.

1. Locate negative memory. Associate memory or disassociate if too intense. On a scale from 1-10, how do you feel with 10 being the worst.
2. Where do you feel it? What word comes to mind that describes the feeling? For example, "I'm worthless."
3. Bring the Image + Feeling + Word together and experience it.
4. Watch the EMDR video for 30 seconds and then close your eyes and then break state by thinking of something completely different, like the color of your car. Activate your safe-place, if necessary.
5. Return to #1 and see how you feel on a scale from 1-10.
6. Repeat EMDR at 30 second intervals until scale is 1 or less. If the negative feeling is very intense, speed up the video and watch the entire segment.
7. If your scale gets stuck at a certain number, then finish up your session by activating your safe-zone for a couple of minutes and return to EMDR on another day.
8. Install a positive feeling about yourself by finding a word that is opposite of the word from #2. For example, if the word is "worthless" then your positive word would be "valuable" or "worthy."
9. After a minute or two in your safe zone, incorporate your new positive word within a 30 second EMDR segment. Repeat until the word becomes more real than its opposite.

[tornghost]

Thanks for putting this up. As someone who just wants to try this out for themselves without getting sucked into paying someone to do this for me, this has been very helpful.

[yortube]

Thanks for posting this, it's the most effective EMDR video on youtube. Really Helpful!

[levylost]

Tip: Do EMDR in fast speed only if the emotion feels very intolerable to even sit with it. After when it becomes tolerable enough reduce the speed to normal. Emotions get more effectively processed in normal speed.

[gettheloveyouwant]

Jeff, Thanks for this self-administered EMDR exercise. This and your white version are the best that I've found on YouTube. I find it much easier to focus on the dot because it has a tail.

[benboyd-taylor]

Thanks for this. I have found it a helpful aid to journaling about trauma. I watch this and then dictate a difficult event in the past. I am dictating using Otter AI. It is not a replacement for EMDR therapy. But certainly helpful.

[jeongyh]

Thank you so much for this video. I was looking for this and I'm sure this will help a lot. Thank you so much!

[yonko]

Very useful. Thanks
could you consider slowing it a bit? also you might consider music that goes from ear to ear

[renate]

Thanks for this - although I find it absolutely dangerous to use this fast signal on their own without therapeutical embedding, preparation and support.

However, a very slow signal for positive, resource based EMDR to anchor and preserve positive feelings and thoughts would be very helpful.

I digged through YouTube but so far I’ve not been successful. ;)

[ma]

How does this work? How do I do it on my own?

[St]

How does this work do I just follow into it going side to side ? Can someone explain how edmr works

[davidvuj]

What if my trauma has 2 or more negative beliefs ("I am ugly", "I am worthless", "I am different" and "I am unlovable"). My positive beliefs would be "I am attractive / worthwhile / like as other / loveable".


Can I use all 4 negative beliefs in one session, or I need to do one belief per session ?

[liam.]

I’ve tried emdr, faster eft, havening technique, mickel therapy and the lightning process and each one has made me feel worse, it’s my ambition in life to have good or even average mental health but I’ve never been able to achieve this, can you offer any advice, ? Is it my fault?