Oodles of Visualization and Awareness Processes for Psychotherapy and Personal Development

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E-Mail Criticism, compliments, stories, questions...	Introduction: I have been accumulating these processes over about 25 years. Many of them are processes I use day in and day out as a therapist. I have my own favorites for my own use. I integrate many of them into EMDR as well. This page includes links to collections of exercises, and to information on integrating them into EMDR and psychotherapy in general. Many of the processes this page links to are especially suited to helping clients develop optimism in treatment because they discover that they can affect their own emotional or energetic or cognitive state. Some of the processes help create new behaviors or abilities. Some are inspired by EMDR and they attempt to facilitate reprocessing in valuable ways. Much of the material can readily be made into handouts. You are welcome to do this with this copyrighted material, but not to distribute for profit or to publish for distribution on a scale larger than lectures or for clients. When showing any such handouts to mental health or medical professionals, direct them to PsychInnovations.com for additional information. Downloading any of this copyrighted material indicates your acceptance of these conditions. If you care to submit any processes for publication, please do. See the policies page for writer's guidelines. Integrating Visualization and Awareness Exercises into Psychotherapy, Including EMDR This provides instructions to put these processes into perspective for psychotherapists. It discusses using handouts and guiding clients in these processes. IMPORTANT: This page contains links to some of the best processes for integration into psychotherapy, and they are annotated with information about this. This is the best document to start with. Sound in Visualization and Awareness Processes This briefly explains alternating bilateral sound and brainwave entrainment frequencies that can be used in visualization and awareness processes. EMDR practitioners who use sound will find this especially helpful. It provides guidelines for using alternating bilateral sound with visualization and awareness processes. It also gives step-by-step instructions for processes especially suited for such sound. The processes are sequenced to build skills requisite for rich experiences of visualization and awareness work. These processes can all be used without sound, and brainwave entrainment frequencies for such processes are also addressed. The Hypertext Guide to Inner Work Processes IMPORTANT: This guide is written for the general public, so expect informal, entertaining, not very professional sounding language. It uses hypertext to allow readers to explore this very lengthy collection and to find processes that may match their needs, and to learn more about them, if they like. Therapists may find these explanations helpful. Mental Rehearsal This provides step-by-step instructions in mental rehearsal that includes special features for increased effectiveness and relevants to psychotherapy if it is taking place. An excellent handout that I use more than any other. © Robert Yourell, 1998, Posted 8/98
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