Havening is a type of psychosensory therapy first developed by author and physician ronald ruden. It was brought to mainstream attention by british hypnotist paul mckenna.
It is an approach to healing that focuses on deactivating the fear we feel in response to trauma, phobias, and anxiety. In therapy, patients are supported as they recall their traumatic memories – memories of emotionally overwhelming and disturbing events and experiences. Recalling these memories can seem daunting, but the problem is that they come up anyway, whether or not the person is in therapy. Havening aims to reduce the power that these memories have over our well-being, so that clients can eventually recall the memory without having to experience the emotional and psychological difficulties that have been associated with it in the past.
The havening techniques system is comprised of protocols and methods that rely on the electrochemical makeup of our body to create healing. Utilizing similar functional mechanisms as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (emdr), they include the newest advancements neuroscience. Havening techniques provide a gentle, client-centered approach to the rapid release of encoded traumatic memories. This allows for fast and effective healing from posttraumatic stress disorder and other fear-based disorders such as anxiety, panic disorder, and phobias. How it works: when an individual is exposed to a traumatic event the brain activates a neurochemical cascade which decides how the individual is going to react or respond to the experience.
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dr ronald ruden the co-creator of havening along with his brother dr steven ruden says. When an event or experience is perceived as traumatic or very stressful it becomes immutably encoded, often with life altering consequences. However recent research in the field of neuroscience has shown us how it's possible to modify this encoding. We are all aware that sensory encoding changes our thought behaviour (think mozart, chicken soup, or hugging your child) but for the most part these changes are transient. Is it possible to use sensory input to create permanent change? the havening techniques™ is a method, which is designed to change the brain to de-traumatize the memory and permanently remove its negative effects from both our psyche and our body.
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