Havening Techniques can be a powerful tool for emotional and psychological healing, offering rapid and gentle transformation. It is useful for a wide range of conditions and is applicable in both therapeutic and self-care contexts.
When to Seek Havening Treatment
- Havening treatment is recommended when attitudes, behaviours, feelings, or thoughts interfere with a person’s ability to be successful in their relationships, work, or personal well-being, especially when self-help techniques have not provided sufficient relief.
- It is particularly effective for amygdala-based disorders, including panic attacks, phobias, and PTSD.
- Havening can also be beneficial for relieving present moment emotional discomfort, reducing and eliminating the emotional roots of chronic pain, and for a wide variety of other issues.
- It can be a suitable option for individuals who have experienced trauma, even if the details are graphic or horrific and they don’t want to talk about the experience. It can be used when a person is unable or unwilling to disclose what happened to them.
- Havening can also be used to build resilience and positivity. It is a tool for stress reduction, and is useful for those who are feeling overwhelmed by day-to-day pressures.
- It can be used to address negative self-talk and enhance feelings of self-worth.
- Havening is suitable for those who have been carrying emotional burdens for years and cannot get rid of them.
How Havening Treatment is Received
Havening Techniques can be received in a number of ways:
- Facilitated Havening: This involves a certified practitioner guiding the client through the process and applying the Havening Touch. The practitioner will help to locate and activate the emotional core of the issue.
- Facilitated Self-Havening: The practitioner guides the client, but the client applies the Havening Touch themselves.
- Self-Havening: The client follows a set of instructions and applies the Havening Touch themselves. Self-Havening can be useful for acute emotional and physical states.
- Havening can be done with or without the client disclosing the content of the traumatic experience. What is necessary is that the individual can bring the emotion into awareness and generate a SUD (Subjective Units of Distress) score.
- The Havening touch typically involves gentle, soothing touch to the upper arms, palms, and around the eyes. These touches are often described as similar to washing your hands, hugging, or washing your face. The client may also be asked to do distracting tasks, such as counting or humming a tune.
- The process involves recalling the distressing event, rating the level of distress (SUD), and applying the Havening Touch with distraction until the distress is reduced or eliminated.
- The process can be combined with talk therapy, and the practitioner may help you to explore the benefits you have experienced by holding on to the trauma.
Expected Benefits of Havening Treatment
- Rapid and Efficient Results: Havening facilitates rapid, gentle, and permanent electrochemical changes in the cells of the amygdala, which can lead to nearly instantaneous transformation. This offers faster results than purely cognitive approaches.
- Reduced Emotional Distress: Havening can de-link the emotional and somatic content from distressing memories, removing the painful components. This leads to a sense of detachment and safety.
- Healing of Trauma: Havening can help heal amygdala-based disorders, and remove encoded trauma, enabling individuals to move forward from past experiences.
- Increased Resilience: Havening can build resilience by allowing people to process and find their own solutions. This means that people can develop a greater capacity to cope with future challenges.
- Improved Emotional Regulation: Havening can help individuals manage present moment emotional discomfort and reduce the emotional roots of chronic pain.
- Enhanced Well-being: Havening helps clients achieve a more grounded, clear, and peaceful state. This leads to a reduction in stress, and improved overall well-being. It can also clear out the fog that gets in the way of inner wisdom.
- Physical Benefits: Clients may experience physical changes, such as reduced wrinkles and a more relaxed appearance. They often feel lighter and more energetic after a session.
- Empowerment: Clients learn a tool they can use on their own. This provides them with a sense of security, and enables them to manage their well-being independently.
- Improved Sleep: Havening can help with sleeping disorders and nightmares.
- Accessing a Relaxed State: Havening can help clients to access a relaxed or trance-like state.
- Integration with Other Modalities: Havening can be used alongside other modalities.
Summary
Havening is a potent psychosensory therapy that utilizes touch and distraction to bring about rapid and gentle changes. It is beneficial for a variety of emotional and psychological issues, including trauma, phobias, and anxiety and can be done by a practitioner or as a self-care practice. Havening helps to reduce distress, build resilience, and improve overall well-being. It also empowers individuals by giving them a tool they can use independently to manage emotional challenges and stress. Havening is increasingly recognised as an effective method for promoting healing and personal growth.
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