How to use eye movements to fix cravings
It Works for any addiction & tested with over 50 clients
Time for a lesson 🧵
It Works for any addiction & tested with over 50 clients
Time for a lesson 🧵
When you experience addiction cravings,
There is reduced control of the pre-frontal cortex over the activated amygdala and hippocampus
(the amygdala and hippocampus become overstimulated and the frontal cortex is disengaged).
This means,
There is reduced control of the pre-frontal cortex over the activated amygdala and hippocampus
(the amygdala and hippocampus become overstimulated and the frontal cortex is disengaged).
This means,
When you are triggered, the rational thinking part of your brain can’t control the emotional part of your brain.
This is why when you get triggered, you can’t think and you feel overwhelmed.
This is the primary cause for any relapse.
This is why when you get triggered, you can’t think and you feel overwhelmed.
This is the primary cause for any relapse.
What happens when you sleep?
You process and move memories from the hippocampus to the neocortex.
From your emotional brain to the logical.
This means as you sleep, due to your REM sleep phase (rapid eye movement sleep i.e, the deepest part of your sleep cycle)...
You process and move memories from the hippocampus to the neocortex.
From your emotional brain to the logical.
This means as you sleep, due to your REM sleep phase (rapid eye movement sleep i.e, the deepest part of your sleep cycle)...
These memories are moved out of the amygdala-hippocampal (mid brain - limbic brain) complex and processed by the rest of the brain.
This is why you feel so much better after a good night’s sleep.
But wait,
This thread is about managing addiction cravings..
This is why you feel so much better after a good night’s sleep.
But wait,
This thread is about managing addiction cravings..
So how is this important?
What happens during REM (dream) sleep happens during EMDR.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
EMDR temporarily slows your over-stimulated amygdala down and synchronizes your brain waves helping you reactivate your logical brain.
What happens during REM (dream) sleep happens during EMDR.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
EMDR temporarily slows your over-stimulated amygdala down and synchronizes your brain waves helping you reactivate your logical brain.
Okay, so how do you practice this?
Traditionally EMDR is done in a clinical setting, in the presence of a therapist.
However, you can make use of a simplified version of this i.e,
Lateral Eye Movements that you can practice anytime you have cravings at any place.
Traditionally EMDR is done in a clinical setting, in the presence of a therapist.
However, you can make use of a simplified version of this i.e,
Lateral Eye Movements that you can practice anytime you have cravings at any place.
This is how you do it : Lateral eye movement (side-to-side) during self-generated forward motion (e.g., walking or cycling), has the effect of quietening the amygdala.
In other words,
In other words,
You can hack your brain to break free from stress-induced tunnel visions & cravings by something as simple as taking a walk in open space whilst looking side to side.
When walking forward, naturally scan the space ahead laterally (left to right).
When walking forward, naturally scan the space ahead laterally (left to right).
This tells your brain: “Hey! There’s no imminent threat ahead. So chill out!”
This breaks you out of flight or freeze by hushing your amygdala and keeping the neo-cortex active and in charge.
Doing this for 10 - 15 mins will quiet your mid and ease cravings
This breaks you out of flight or freeze by hushing your amygdala and keeping the neo-cortex active and in charge.
Doing this for 10 - 15 mins will quiet your mid and ease cravings
Next time you feel cravings coming on, simply taking a stroll in open spaces and doing some later eye movements for a few minutes will put you at ease.
Incredibly powerful but extremely simple system to adopt into your lifestyle.
Incredibly powerful but extremely simple system to adopt into your lifestyle.
This is one of the systems I use on my program to help clients with addictions from porn, weed, alcohol to adderall (I've dealt with them all)
You can implement them into your life as well
You can implement them into your life as well
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< Brain chemistry healing
< Reversing effects of addiction
< lifestyle optimization
< Sustainable life transformation
With guaranteed results
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