More about IEMT

Integral eye movement therapy (IEMT) is a psychotherapy model that aims to reduce intense negative emotional states. To give a simple example, if you have experienced something that every time you think about it the effect causes you to have a ‘bad’ response physically, emotionally or both, IEMT can be used to reduce your reaction to what has become an imprinted negative emotional response. 

Negative emotional imprinting occurs when a person experiences an event with high intensity emotional distress, which the brain stores as an emotionally charged memory. From then on, whenever that memory is accessed it triggers the associated negative emotions (the brain’s logic prompting you to ‘run’ from the danger as fast as possible). This is the brain logic protecting you, but of course the brain’s response can be flawed. In scientific speak, what happens in a high intensity emotional response is that the hippocampus area of the brain registers a memory that is highly associated with a ‘fight or flight’ response from the amygdala.

IEMT also works with a person’s identify, bringing about helpful resolutions in areas where someone has become ‘stuck’ due to a past negative experience, influencing the way they are now.