Tools for Healing

Thoughts are images (that we see) and words (see or hear). Images include still photos, video clips with or without sound, and cartoons or drawings.

When thoughts are associated with energies, sensations and feelings in our body, they can feel true and grab our attention.

Learn these simple tools to break the trance and learn what these sensations are here to let us know.

Tapping or Touch

Tap lightly or make circles with your fingers on your forehead and take your attention away from thought and into the sensation of touch.

Tracing

With your eyes open, put the image or words into a frame on the wall on the other side of the room. Notice the image, then the frame, then the space around the outside of the frame. Take your eyes around the empty space a few times in each direction then look back at the image in the frame.

Zoom in and out: Look at an image as though it is on the wall on the other side of the room. Notice the distance between you and the image. Shift your focus from the image to what is outside of the image and back.

Locate and Describe Like a Scientist

Do you have an image of the sensation? Is it hot or cold? Moving or still? Noticing sensation in this way helps to break the association between sensation and thought.

What Does It Mean? Why Is It Here?

Trauma is stored in our body with associated thoughts and memories. Mining for meaning helps to bring these associations into awareness.