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Mary Lindsey, MS LMFT 07/01/16 #38946
You ask some great questions and I thought I would give my experience. During my years of training clients with NFT I have had several clients who had great difficulty tolerating NFT at all and through patience and a combination of NFT (A/t and other protocols depending on TLC assessment -- and sometimes stopping NFT for a while) they were able to access prior trauma that had been completely disassociated from memory -- horrendous trauma that occurred at a young age that was post-verbal. As they access the memory it comes back in bits and pieces.... over an extended period of time. I have learned to screen carefully for dissociation experiences and, while not contraindicating NFT, I proceed extremely slowly. So the trauma could be pre-verbal or so overwhelming that the human mind is very defended against accessing it. So slow progress can actually be great progress. Hope this helps
I look forward to hearing how your client's progress evolves....
Pete Van Deusen 07/01/16 #38948
The only times (2) I've ever run into clients who had abreactions in alpha theta were times when there was a therapist "helping". It hasn't been my experience that the brain brings up more than the client can handle, but I leave that to the client to determine. One of the greatest parts of A/T in my experience is that most clients don't need to "process" the trauma memories. As they release the brain patterns, the memories tend to melt away.
What I've found in most of the early trauma clients I've worked with--especially abuse rather than neglect--is that they almost always have phenomena in one or more of the chakras: there are frozen or sometimes very activated centers where (I assume) the energy was locked up. I never ask the client about this, but I do ask them to pay attention to their bodies and tell me if they notice anything. Finding (if they do) that spot allows them to focus on their bodies so they are not so overwhelmed by emotions.
I would not fool around with frequencies. Your client is moving in the direction of ability to deal with the A/T experience, which is a sign of progress. I also don't ever change the music, though I know some trainers do. Those pieces were chose specifically for their functions, and most times when someone changes them, the selection doesn't really do the same thing. It's not uncommon for people to "not like" the music in the beginning, but I prefer to discuss that with them that mess around with the protocol. Which music don't they like? What about it do they find unpleasant? Why do they think that music has that effect on them?
The Pachelbel Canon is a 60-beat baroque piece which has been shown to be effective in increasing alpha levels in the brain. The instruction while the "piano is playing" is to disengage your mind from your thoughts: just watch them. When a thought comes in, don't fight it and don't ride it. Just notice it is there, as you notice the music and your body. The Chant of Metta is a beautiful prayer--a blessing song sung in sweet childlike voices, When "the girl begins to sing" the client is to begin her visualization. Before the sessioin--often a week before, I spend some time with the client to talk about her visualization. This can be oriented at changing an unwanted behavior or attracting herself toward some desired outcome. It can also be used to guide an experience. One client with a history of neglect very early in life told me at the end of one of her sessions that she let herself sink down into the Chant of Metta and feel herself as an infant surrounded by that love and gentleness. I've passed that along from time to time, and others have found it helpful. We choose what she will use prior to the session, talk about whether she has "videos" that run in her head replaying painful or humiliating experiences. We may spend a session or two showing her how to clear these. We talk about visualizing an experience, what happens, how she responded, then rewrite the script by having her visualize herself doing something different, how the experience changes, etc. After they have finished the visualization, then we tell them let your brain go where it goes.
Chant is a male voice, more of a primitive feel. Some see it as darker, scarier. The woman who visualized in the Chant of Metta, after a session or two could stay in it all the way through the piece. One session, after perhaps 5-6 Alpha Thetas she came up at the end with the news that she had been able to carry her experience into the male voice, which had always stopped her before. She felt Metta was caring/nurturing while chant was safety and protection, and she was finding sources of both within herself. The instruction here is just to continue your voyage, go where you go. Finally the Meditaion on Thais, the violin piece, tells us that we've turned for home. The music will end, we'll open our eyes (when ready) and recall what we choose. The higher frequency violin line tends to draw the brain toward faster speeds as well.
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