Posted by roger gilbert hypnotherapist over 1 year ago
have you ever wondered why one person can have a scary experience - for example, a bad flight in an aeroplane - and forget about it, while someone else can have a similar experience and develop a phobia or anxiety for the rest of their life?
ronald ruden, a doctor in new york state, has puzzled over this for about fifteen years and believes that he has found the answer developing a treatment for anxiety, phobias and negative emotions which he has called “havening".
His approach, based on the latest neuro-science, does not involve taking drugs, undergoing hypnosis, adopting a special diet - or even a belief that it will work.
Havening, which was developed by ronald ruden, m. D. , an internist with a ph. D. In organic chemistry, generates delta waves that have a positive effect on regions of the brain that are involved in creating emotionally charged memories and trauma. One of these brain regions is the amygdala, which plays a major role in recording the emotions of our experiences. When it comes to traumatic experiences, the amygdala encodes emotions in a different way, and they become what neuroscientists call “potentiated. ” this means they get hard-wired into your brain where they stick like super glue. “that’s why you can close your eyes and within moments feel like you’re back in a traumatic moment,” says dr.
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The application of havening touch®, which creates delta brain waves can be applied by self touch (more popular now due to covid 19 & online sessions called self havening by many) or traditionally applied by myself (a certified havening techniques® practitioner), during the firing of neuro pathways linked to specific memories, events this activates chemical reactions from the old laid neuro pathway from our past, this in turn creates the necessary conditions in the brain for depotentiation to occur within a therapy setting (deleting the receptors so the pathway is not fired and connected) the result of removing the receptors means that stimulus received via our senses that would normally continue to trigger the upsetting emotions and physical response from a trauma based memory or event are cut.
What’s the evidence for Havening?
At this point, the havening technique hasn't been supported by research studies (fwiw, the havening website has a disclaimer about this ), leaving some mental health experts skeptical of the approach. "given the availability of evidence-based psychotherapies, they should be the first line of treatment ahead of alternative approaches that have not yet been tested in clinical trials," says sherry pagoto, ph. D. , a professor in the department of allied health science at the university of connecticut. "sometimes we assume that there is no harm to trying a new therapy, but this is not always the case. Harm can result from unsubstantiated therapies; for example, they could delay a patient from getting a treatment that works," she points out.
Nov 13, 2020 have you heard of the new approach called havening techniques® to helping people with mental health struggles, trauma and day-to-day anxiety and are wondering what the scientific evidence is behind it? havening is a fantastic new approach to helping people with trauma all the way through to day-day anxiety. It is phenomenally powerful, but also incredibly simple in terms of how it is used. We are all capable of using and applying havening techniques, particularly from a self-havening perspective, to help ourselves with our general low-level day-to-day struggles. So what is havening? havening is an approach that uses the power of havening touch - which is basically washing the palms of our hands, stroking our shoulders all the way down our arms, and also washing our face to generate calming delta waves in our brain.
The havening techniques is a set of revolutionary techniques which can help to permanently treat and heal traumas, anxiety, ptsd, and phobias quickly and easily. They can create positive alterations in our brain. These techniques were researched, created and developed over a 10 year period by dr. Ronald ruden , an american medical doctor and neuroscientist. Dr. Ruden's work has been hailed by his peers as one of the most significant breakthroughs ever in the field of psychology and neuroscience. Havening techniques are a type of pyscho sensory therapy, which applies sensory touch to produce a response (electrochemical) which literally can heal and positively alter our mind.
We will first chat about the situation you would like to change, and see whether havening can help. Once we agree to work together, the painful memory is briefly activated, gentle touch is applied to the hands, arms and face and distraction exercises are used. This creates the necessary conditions in the brain to remove the receptors that trigger distressing emotions and physical content of a trauma-based memory. If you don’t feel comfortable disclosing some the content of an event, i do not need to know all the details. Take-away: you can be shown how to do self-havening at home whenever required.