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Introduction
My name is Doug Hilton. I have a Masters degree from the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
I am certified at Level Two in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. I have been
training and working in the field since 1984. At one time or another I have specialized in working
with each age group and have worked with individuals, couples, families and groups in a variety of
settings. I have mostly focused on working with addictions, but have also specialized in treating
trauma and psychiatric issues. I am really excited about working with Master Chia. Master Chia is
the founder of the Healing Tao in the U.S.A. and Tao Yoga in Europe. He has also established
the Universal Healing Tao Center and Tao Master School at Tao Garden Health Resort. This
is his worldwide center for Taoist training as well as for holistic healing, detoxification and
rejuvenation. It is in the northern Thailand countryside near Chiang Mai.
His practices of the Tao to combine with what I consider to be the most effective counseling
approach that the West has to offer with the incredibly effective Universal Tao practices. Eye
Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, called EMDR for short, was discovered in the
United States by Dr. Francine Shapiro. It involves alternating stimulation to the senses while
people focus on key aspects of old problems that still plague them. Its use has spread around the
world and has been used to treat emotional upsets of all kinds, including such traumas as people
experience from going to war, from being in a car accident, and from being abused physically,
emotionally, or sexually.
In my clinical work I quickly found out that EMDR worked much quicker and more effectively than
any of the other approaches that I had used previously. Just as promised in the training, using
EMDR brought about permanent releases of emotion even if a person was skeptical about the
process. It required no interpretation and little clinical intervention. I have used EMDR on close to
one thousand clients, including using it in a drop-in group where none of the participants were
required to share what issues they were working on, and I have found that it works for most
people. However, the aspect of the treatment that focuses on clearing out any emotional effects
on the body due to being upset about the issue seemed to me to be less systematic and thorough
than the rest of the protocols. People still seemed to have hard or sore spots in their abdomens
after completing all of the EMDR protocols. Typical of the way the West views how the mind and
body are connected; EMDR seemed to put more emphasis on the brain, the top part of the body.
Taoism has used eye movements for 5000 years to help balance and create cooperation among
the emotions. Taoist practices create that balance through knowledge of how emotions are
created and stored in the internal organs. Negative emotions are not seen as sinful and positive
ones are not seen as holy. The practices emphasize creating an environment where positive and
negative emotions can work together. Their practices view the entire body as connected.
The brain is seen to operate similarly to the hard drive of the computer while the organs contain
the software. If there is a virus in the system it is important to fix the hard drive and the software or
the virus will keep coming back. The Inner Smile is a basic Taoist practice that is used to
transform negative emotions that are stored in the internal organs into positive virtues. By
combining EMDR with the Inner Smile a practice has been created that you can do yourself that
will effectively heal emotional wounds in both the mind and the body.
What To Expect
By following the instructions on this CD you will be guided through the questions you need to
answer in order to be prepared. Then you will go through two of the sections of the Inner Smile,
which involve clearing out and energizing nervous system and your digestive system. Then we will
use the EMDR practice to reprocess your feelings about a problem you have had by first helping
you create a secure place inside yourself, then build up your inner sense of being supported by
others in your efforts, then remove your negative feelings and beliefs about the problem, and then
build up your positive beliefs and feelings toward it. In the last part of the practice we will return to
the Inner Smile and transform any negative feelings or body sensations in your internal organs
into positive ones. Despite the effectiveness of the combined practice, be aware that you could
still have negative feelings come up in the process and people sometimes feel a bit emotionally
drained after it is over. Use this CD on a day when you are confident that you will be able to take
whatever time you need for the rest of the day to recuperate. Keep in mind that you should stop
the process and repeat the Safe Pl ace part of the practice if you feel overwhelmed at any point.
The purpose of the practice is to help you remove emotional wounds, not add to them.
Please also remember that you are the one in control of this practice. This process taps into your
ability to heal yourself. The practice just guides you through the process. It is also important to
know that each person will have a unique experience of the practice. You may experience
thoughts, feelings, body sensations, or some combination of those experiences. Your mind may
also seem like it is jumping around a lot. Some people experience nothing at times. Sometimes
people are quite emotional at the beginning of the processing and then their emotions quickly
subside. Others take some time to access emotions and then they dissolve slowly. Avoid judging
whether or not you think the process is working or you are doing it right. Whatever happens is the
right experience for you. All of those experiences are natural in this process. Please do not stop
the practice if you are questioning whether or not you are doing it right.
The purpose of this practice is to produce permanent relief from the emotions that you have had
toward your problem. It does not require that you believe it will work in order for you to benefit
from it. If you are skeptical, just suspend your judgments while you follow the instructions as best
you can and judge the effectiveness of the practice after you have completed all of the activities.
The Preparation
Before you begin the practice, please take out a sheet of paper and write down your answers to
the following questions. You will be using your answers in the practice.
First, what issue (if any) would you like to work on? If this is your first time doing this practice, you
may want to listen to the CD with no particular issue in mind or choose a relatively minor issue in
your life so that you will be more likely to have an experience that is not too emotional the first
time. However, having said that, be warned that issues can sometimes seem small at first but end
up being quite emotional once you start examining them, in a similar manner to how the tip of an
iceberg that pokes up out of the water can give one a deceiving impression of how big the entire
iceberg is.
Now write down your answer to this next question: What picture represents the worst part of that
issue? Describe the scene as if it is a snapshot of a moment in time. If you cannot decide what the
worst part of the issue was, take a moment to sit back with your eyes closed and allow your mind
to float back in time as you think about the issue until you remember your first memory about it
and write that down as your answer instead.
This next question might sound like it implies that you are to blame for your problem, but that is
not what it is trying to determine. Part of the reason that we have difficulty letting go of an issue is
because somewhere deep down inside of us there is a faulty belief that we should have been able
to prevent or stop the problem from happening. You know that you should not think that way, but
you still do. The following question tries to find out what belief is keeping your problem stuck to
you: When you think about that picture of the worst (or first) part of your problem, what negative
belief do you have about yourself now? Please write down your answer. Usually this type of deep-
rooted belief can be written in very few words and starts with “I am…”. If your answer describes
something about the situation or another person instead of describing you, try again. Examples of
suitable answers would be: “I am stupid”, “I don’t deserve…”, “I am not loveable”, “I am not safe”,
“I cannot stand up for myself”, or “I am not good enough”.
Now write down what, ideally, you would rather believe about yourself now when you think about
this issue after the practice is over. You may not be able to believe that statement yet. Again, your
answer should be in the form of “I…”. Your answer might be the exact opposite of the negative
belief that you wrote down before it, or it may be a whole new statement.
Next, please write down the numbers one through seven across your page from left to right. This
scale represents how true the ideal belief statement that you just wrote down feels to you right
now. Circling the number one would mean that you do not believe your ideal belief statement at
all. Circling the number seven would indicate that the statement feels totally true to you already.
Circle the number that suits your feelings the best. If your choice is the number seven, your ideal
belief statement many not be ambitious enough. You can change it if you like. Feel free to aim for
the best belief about yourself that you could possibly have when you think about that picture.
For your next response, ask yourself “When you think about the negative picture, what emotions
do you feel now?. Write down your answers.
The next question you need to answer in order to be prepared to do the practice is “On a scale
from 0 to 10 where 0 is no disturbance or neutral and 10 is the most disturbed that you can
imagine feeling, how disturbing does the picture feel to you now?”. Write down the number that fits
your feelings the best.
The last question is: “Where do you feel those emotions in your body?”. You may feel it in more
than one place. Write down your answers.
Congratulations. You have answered all of the questions. Now keep your answers close by so you
can read them when they are required during the practice. Now find a quiet and comfortable place
to sit and we will start the practice.
Now you can bring your hand down and relax with your hands clasped in your lap. Sit on the edge
of your chair so that your sexual organs are able to receive energy from the ground more
efficiently. Now smile. Lift up the corners of your mouth and eyes. Allow yourself to feel the warm,
energizing energy of your smile as it starts to flow throughout your face and head and throughout
your whole body. Smiling has been shown to produce incredible healing effects on the body. Bring
your focus to your forehead, the Center of Happiness. Allow that feeling to flow down your face
and neck, over your thymus gland just below your sternum notch, and then flow over your heart.
Sink your mind slowly down to your heart. The heart is the Lord of all the Organs. It is also the
Center of Peace and the Second Mind. Smiling to your heart reduces feelings of hastiness,
impatience, and hatred and increases feelings of love, joy, gratefulness, appreciation, and respect.
Look left and right inside your heart for ten sets. Always move your eyes at a pace that feels
comfortable for you. Keep the pace even and move your eyes as far in each direction directly left
or right as you can without straining your eye muscles. Keep your head still while you move your
eyes.
Now move your smiling energy and your mind down the center of your chest toward your navel.
The region about 1.5 inches behind your navel, just in front of your kidneys, is your Third Mind. It
is referred to as the lower tan tien. There are actually more neurons in your lower tan tien than
there are in your head. The lower tan tien is the Center of Control. Breathe deeply. Allow your
focus to sink deeper and deeper into your tan tien, exploring your inner universe.
Now we will move on to the part that people are often anxious to reach, where we remove the
negative feelings that are associated with a particular event from your past and replace them with
more positive ones. From this point forward you will need to refer to the answers that you wrote
down to the set of questions that were posed at the beginning of the CD. Remember as we go into
this part of the practice that everyone has different responses to the processing, none of which are
wrong. Try not to judge your experience. Please also remember that if you feel overwhelmed you
can stop at any time. If that happens, stop the processing and quickly focus on your safe place to
calm yourself down. You can do the eye movements to enhance the effects of the Safe Place if
you like. Also, if at any point in the processing you seem to get the same results over and over
you can return to your original image when you start the next set of eye movements. That often
helps to start your mind sorting out a new area of your problem.
Now blank out the experience and take a deep, cleansing breath. Reflect on what happened while
your eyes were moving. Now keep repeating this process until you are sure that when you think
about the negative image that you started with you feel completely undisturbed by it. If you notice
that you have negative feelings in your body when you are doing the eye movements you can
help remove those feelings by putting one or both hands where the discomfort is while you do the
eye movements. Remember, if you seem to get stuck in the processing where you get the exact
same experience each time you do the eye movements, you can go back to the original picture
when you start the next set. You can pause the disc now while you complete the Desensitization
Phase. Go ahead and pause the CD now.
Now we will start processing the event out of your body in this next section, which is called the
Body Scan. Close your eyes, think about the original picture that you chose, and mentally scan
your entire body. Take note of wherever you feel anything, positive or negative. If you have a
positive feeling, touch that place in your body with your hands and do the eye movements using
sets of ten. If the feeling is negative, touch where you feel it and then process it with your eyes
using sets of twenty eye movements. Then reflect on what happened in the processing and then
do another set of the same number of eye movements. Keep repeating the process until the
negative feeling is completely gone or the positive feeling does not improve with any more
processing. Do not be surprised if the feeling in your body moves around during the processing.
Well done. You have accomplished a lot already.
Gaining Perspective
Excellent. Now allow your mind to float slowly up until it is high above you. Now look down at the
problem situation that you have addressed in this practice today. Ask yourself, is there another
way to look at or resolve the situation that you have not considered? Is there another perspective
that you could take that would help you to let go of any remaining thoughts or feelings that you
have about the situation? You may want to write down any insights that you have gained as a
result of this exercise so that you do not forget them.
Congratulations. You have completed the entire practice. Remember to relax and take it easy for
the rest of the day so that the healing you have done can be fully absorbed by your body.