It is said that brain is still the least understood organ of the human body. There are several areas in the human brain whose functions we do not know and have yet to discover. However, despite the odds, the psychologists have come up with several techniques and therapies that help ease the mental and emotional stress or phobias of a person. The rewind technique is one such therapy for removing the post-traumatic stress or phobias based on a therapy called the Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).
Each one of us suffers from a certain type of phobia. Some of us are afraid of snakes, some of us are afraid of height or water. For some of us, these phobias become so severe that they disrupt our normal lives. This therapy though a very rare one is effectively used for treating phobias.
While reliving the incident the patient visualizes or sees the incident again and from a different perspective. It is like asking the patient to view the video of the incident. Except that it would be his mind that would be generating the video and it would be the mind's eye viewing the video.
It helps the patient is the sense that he doesn't have to actually use words to tell the psychologist that embarrassing or traumatic incidents again and again. Secondly, the patient can actually detach himself from the anxiety he feels at the time when his phobia triggers.
A great thing about this technique is that the patients who take this therapy do not have to explain in words to the psychologist about the traumatic incidents. They just have to visualize themselves. It saves them from the embarrassment of retelling the incidents again and again.
Although, the rewind technique has yet to become common but the technique is a promising one. It is great for a patient in the sense that it becomes effective in a short time and the patient is saved from the monotonous task of repeating embarrassing incidents that started the phobia to the psychologist. The patient can do his therapy himself with the psychologist just instructing. - 31969
Each one of us suffers from a certain type of phobia. Some of us are afraid of snakes, some of us are afraid of height or water. For some of us, these phobias become so severe that they disrupt our normal lives. This therapy though a very rare one is effectively used for treating phobias.
While reliving the incident the patient visualizes or sees the incident again and from a different perspective. It is like asking the patient to view the video of the incident. Except that it would be his mind that would be generating the video and it would be the mind's eye viewing the video.
It helps the patient is the sense that he doesn't have to actually use words to tell the psychologist that embarrassing or traumatic incidents again and again. Secondly, the patient can actually detach himself from the anxiety he feels at the time when his phobia triggers.
A great thing about this technique is that the patients who take this therapy do not have to explain in words to the psychologist about the traumatic incidents. They just have to visualize themselves. It saves them from the embarrassment of retelling the incidents again and again.
Although, the rewind technique has yet to become common but the technique is a promising one. It is great for a patient in the sense that it becomes effective in a short time and the patient is saved from the monotonous task of repeating embarrassing incidents that started the phobia to the psychologist. The patient can do his therapy himself with the psychologist just instructing. - 31969
