3. Before we begin
• Those with mental health issues or medical
conditions should refrain from participation of
the exercises
• Please ask questions
• IEMT is a alternative/complementary therapy
4. No Phones Please
• I need your full attention
• All the slides will be sent out to you
• Just sit back and relax
5. What we are covering
• The different types of memory
• Belief systems
• Memory and time
• Memory Structure
• Understanding panic attacks
• IEMT and it’s applications
7. Client Work
• PTSD and Trauma recovery
• Helping people to become productive
• IEMT Training
8. So why I Do I These Talks?
• Because people are in pain, and they don’t
have to be.
• The NHS provides amazing services,
however waiting lists can be long.
• By learning and applying these techniques, it
can radically improve your quality of life
• Put you into a position of control
10. My own personal mission
• Hopefully some of what I share can be of help.
• I want to teach these skills to as many people as
possible
• So people can lead a life with less pain and more
enjoyment
11. Past success stories
• A guy went for an “embarrassing” GP appointment
and had an early prostate cancer diagnosis.
• A women finally let go her past marriage, met a new
partner and they are expecting their first child
• A guy spoke with his brother for the first time in 8
years
• A women passed her driving test after 15 previous
attempts
12. The 4 exercises we are doing
• Reduce the impact of a troublesome memory
• Help to resolve a ruminating memory/issue
• Reprocess a upsetting memory
• Reduce an unwanted emotion
16. Sensory Memory
(The internet)
• Stimulus from the outside world
• Sights, sounds, tastes etc
• Huge amount of data to process
• Most is lost or not remembered
• Things of importance are passed
to short term memory
17. Short Term Memory
(Open programs)
• It is like the display on your computer
screen. Documents and web browsers.
• This information is then processed and
then passed to long term memory
(LTM) to be stored, or it is forgotten.
18. Short Term Memory (STM)
• Also known as working memory
• STM takes sensory information and
links it to something in long term
memory (smell of your favourite food
or bad drink)
• Information is stored for about 20
seconds and it can hold 5-9 items
19. Short Term Memory (STM)
• Certain information is more likely to be
passed to LTM. Content seen as
important or of potential threat.
• Other information you can rehearse,
such as revising for exams.
• This rehearsal and committing to LTM
process is called memory consolidation.
21. Long Term Memory – Implicit
(operating system)
• Implicit means you can
not consciously access
them
• This emotional
conditioning and motor
skills
• There is no emotional
connection to them
22. Long Term Memory – Explicit
(Saved files and documents)
• Explicit memories can be
consciously recalled
• There are two types, episodic
and semantic.
23. Long Term Memory – Semantic
• General knowledge and non-
personal information.
• Numbers, colours, countries
etc
• You can recall them, but there
is no emotional connection.
24. Long Term Memory – Episodic
• These are your life defining
moments
• Getting married
• Graduating
• You can recall them and you
have an emotional
connection.
26. Amygdala
• Almond shaped
• FEAR
• Regulation of emotions
• Encodes sensory information
• The more emotion/arousal/stress, the more sensory
information is encoded.
27. Hippocampus
• Greek for seahorse
• It is responsible for putting a
date stamp on memory
• It holds onto the memory for a
while, before passing it onto
long term storage
• Increased levels of
stress/emotion/arousal impairs
its function.
29. Nice memory
• Encoded and stored with a
date stamp in ok detail.
• Available for you to
reconstruct whenever.
• Usually a picture and
objective
• You will also be aware that
this is an event from your
past.
30. What is a traumatic memory?
• May be in rich detail, a
movie and subjective
• A time stamp may not be
encoded
• You may not be aware
that this in the past and
over with.
31. How untreated trauma effects us
• As a result your brain will be working as though the event is
about to happen again now.
• You will be aware that you are on “red alert” and that you
will react suddenly to “cues” or “triggers” that are possible
reminders of the traumatic event.
• People can seem always “on edge”, nervous, shy and always
under threat.
34. Minimised Windows
• A traumatic memory can be considered as
a minimised window on your computer
• It is there, not filed away properly
• Can be easily open by triggers
• Can cause flashbacks and intrusive
thoughts, like pop ups.
36. So Why Do We Have Memory?
• To keep us alive and away from danger
• We remember what we have learned,
especially if it is a threat to our safety
• So we know how to act, feel and
respond to stimuli and our surrounding.
37. Early Development
• Our formative years are
aprox 4-12 years old.
• We are building up our
store house of long term
memories.
• We create our maps of how
to react to situations.
38. Initial Sensitising Event (ISE)
• When we experience things for
the first time (ISE) often high
emotion (can lead to not being
processed properly)
• It is like clicking on an advert
online. We then get targeted
with similar information.
41. Problems in the Present
• What you learned as a child was relevant
when you were young, however not so much
now.
• These irrational fears are cognitive
dissonance
• What’s wrong with me? It causes massive
frustration
42. Solutions
• Counselling to try and understand the issue (NHS)
• CBT to reinterpret what is being processed (NHS)
• Exposure therapy to the stimuli (NHS)
• Alcohol and drugs for courage
• Intervention work including NLP, Hypnosis and
IEMT
• Training in the skill set
44. Is Time Moving More Quickly?
• Three theories are;
• David Icke says “We are living in a vortex
that is controlled by our reptilian overlords
and they are speeding up time to control us”
• That we review time at certain points and see
a year as a percentage
• We are simply creating less long term
memories as we age
45. A year as a %
• When you are 10, 1 year is 10% of your
life
• When you are 50, 1 year is 2% of your
life
• We think of a year at two points in
time: NYE and birthdays
46. Less Long Term Memories
• Another theory is that we are producing less long
term memories
• We tend to live routine lives and therefore don’t
create as many long term memories as when we
were young
• Be creating more, it would make time seem
longer in retrospect
50. Make Nice Long Term Memories
• Do things that are different
• Has elevated emotion (excitement, pushing
boundaries)
• Also work to reduce your anxiety so you can be
more present
• Put the phone away and engage with the
sensory information
51. Create great change
• By learning and applying these tools to old
memories you can start to break down
patterns and beliefs.
• See it as an opportunity to change your
actions!
• Reduced emotions + action = massive change
52. Are you 180 Degrees Out?
• From my experience I have found that a lot of
people are 180 degrees out when trying to
solve problems
• People who live in the past
• People who live in the future
• People who are trying hard to be “present”
• All are escapism
53. Positive Personal Development
• To actively work on past negative memories and
emotions
• Whilst constantly adding new long term
memories.
• Choose a direction in life, use IEMT on
blockages
• Carefully monitor yourself so you can measure
the changes
54. The 3 ways to change memory
• You can manually reduce the sensory
information
• You can manually introduce a time stamp and
extra content
• You can reprocess it using IEMT/EMDR
55. What is a Memory?
Sensory content
Time stamp
Kinesthetic/feeling
Naritive
56. Submodalities
(sensory info)
• Is the picture black and white or colour?
• Is the picture near or far?
• Is the picture 2D or 3D?
• Is it a still picture or a movie?
• Is it associated (you see it through your own eyes)
or dissociated (you see yourself in the picture?
• Does it have sound?
57. Exercise Part 1
• Ask a partner about a troublesome memory.
• Is it a picture or a movie?
• Does it have sound?
• It is subjective or objective?
• Is it near or far away?
• Out of 10, how strong is the emotion?
58. Exercise Part 2
• Now begin to change the submodalities.
• Picture or a movie? Change it
• Does it have sound? Make it quieter or louder
• It is subjective or objective? Change it
• Distance? Move it closer and further away
• Out of 10, how strong is the emotion? Observe
59. Submodality Work
• If your memory is a movie, associated, bright, close
and with sound
• It will have a much higher emotional impact (0/10)
• At home you can experiment with your own
submodalities to lessen the emotional impact
• Make sure to record things and what progress you
make
61. Ruminating Memory/Decision
• Leaving a job/not taking a job
• Leaving a partner/staying in a relationship
• Not going to university
• Saying the wrong thing to someone
• I wish I had done something different
• We imagine what we missed out on
62. Ruminating Memory/issue
• Memories that we ruminate tend to start in the same
place, build up to a climax and then stop.
• Then then loop and start at the same point again.
• Thinking about something does not help! People
often go “internal” and problems worsen.
• Instead, we need to create an exit and put it in it’s
place in time.
79. Your Turn
• With a partner, ask them if they ruminate on a memory
or decision.
• Asked them what positive things they did afterwards in
time blocks (not consequences of the issue)
• Keep adding time and content until you reach the
present day
• Then ask when they think of the memory now, what is
it like?
82. Panic Attacks
• Panic is a future based issue. We are worrying
about what is going to happen.
• We project our future through past experiences.
• What if what if what if? We catastrophise and
cause overwhelm
• People then start to worry about having panic
attacks, which is a problem in itself
83. Panic Attacks
• Prevention is better than cure . Close the
open tabs!
• By working on your old negative
memories and issues with the tools you
learn tonight, it should alleviate a lot of
anxiety
• That will then prevent it from developing
into an attack
84. Reduce Panic – Mindfulness
• One thing you can do, is to practice
mindfulness.
• Simply start saying what is around you.
• Bring your attention outwards, instead
of inwards
85. Reduce Panic – Physical
• Also create physical sensation. Simple
technique is to rub your toes inside your
shoes
• Daily exercise, reduce caffeine, less screen
time
• Another technique is to tap out the rhythm
of the anxiety, then consciously lower it
86. IEMT
(Intergral Eye Movement Therapy)
• Emotional imprinting occurs when a person
lays down a new kinesthetic response to an
experience. This teaches the person how to feel
about certain things.
• IEMT addresses and resolves the question,
"how did this person learn to feel this way
about this thing?"
87. Changing Perception & IEMT
• IEMT allows the client to observe life
defining moments from the perspective
of who they are today
• The emotional connection, significance
and visual recall all tend to diminish and
have predictable outcomes.
88. Exercise – Memory 1
• With a partner, ask them if they have a negative or
upsetting memory (nothing to traumatic)
• Ask them for a label e.g. The school yard
• Ask if it is a picture or a movie
• Ask if it is a subjective or objective
• How clear and in focus is it
• Out of 10, how strong is the emotion
90. Predictable Outcomes
• The memory is harder to retrieve
• Movies turn into a picture, or at least broken up
• Pictures are harder to get, seem faded out
• The memory seems further away
• The emotion level drops
• The memory loses significance
92. Exercise – Memory 2
• Repeat the exercise on a DIFFERENT
memory
• Move the eyes x 6
• Recalibrate
• Hold what is left - Move the eyes again x 6
93. Finding the Imprint
• IEMT does NOT work on emotion
• It does however use emotion to locate the
imprint, which you then use the IEMT
process on
94. Unwanted emotions
• Anxiety and stress are not real emotions, they are an
overstimulation of the nervous system.
• Instead, good emotions to use are; guilt, regret, anger,
frustration.
• We often have guilt and anger cycles. Always anxious!
95. Exercise
• With a partner, ask;
• Do you have an unwanted feeling you want to reduce?
• How strong is the emotion when you think of it? ( /10)
• How familiar is this feeling?
• When was the first time you can remember feeling this
way?
• Allow them to locate the memory, then move the eyes.
Allow their mind to wander.
96. Result
• When you now think of the feeling
• It should seem less intense
• More manageable
• And it should be less overwhelming
97. Can I Do This on Myself?
• To get the best results I
recommend you work with a
certified IEMT Practitioner.
• Failing that, teach someone what to
do to you.
• Ask to “borrow their finger”
98. Why I Love IEMT
• Having used different therapy models,
I just love the way IEMT works
• It is content free, which means you
DO NOT talk about the content, just
the structure
• It works with most of the people,
most of the time
99. IEMT Training
• I run 6-8 trainings per year in London
• I get 2 types of people attending;
• Those who are therapists and want to add
to their skills, or want to get into therapy
• Those who just want to work on
themselves
100. Private Sessions
• I offer in person sessions from my clinic in
London Bridge
• Also sessions online
• I see people for 2 – 3 sessions max
• Anxiety, trauma, PTSD, emotional
problems
• I basically “Marie Kondo” your head
101. Thank you
• Thank you for your time
• I hope you enjoyed the talk and got some
useful information
• I hope to see you again for future talks and
presentations
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