Eye Movement Reprocessing and Integration

Eye Movement Reprocessing and Integration (EMRI) is rooted in NeuroLinguistic Programming, its understanding of how human experience is organized, and how eye movements are associated with neurological processes. It is a holistic technique that uses eye movements to help integrate distressing memories and reduce their emotional charge.

Similar to EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), the Eye Movement Reprocessing and Integration (EMRI) technique targets specific memories in order to change the way they are stored in the brain. However, unlike EMDR, which uses only bi-lateral stimulation to re-wire the neurology, the EMRI process directs the eyes in all directions for multi-dimensional stimulation. By activating and re-integrating memories stored as visual, auditory, verbal, and emotional neural networks, the impact of the trauma is dramatically reduced or eliminated.

Additionally, the multi-dimensional stimulation addresses “future constructs,” those things we are subconsciously anticipating in the future and guarding ourselves against. If we are anticipating seeing, hearing, or feeling traumatic things, this may manifest as constant anxiety or phobias. The NLP process shakes loose and unlinks those established neural networks that hold the trauma and then re-organizes them, establishing new neural patterns that no longer send signals of distress through your mind and body. While you will remember the event, the emotional content is gone.