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Have you ever found yourself obsessing about something you know is trivial, but find it hard to break out of that thought pattern? Have you just had the same kinds of thoughts keep streaming into your mind, no matter what you do? If this has happened to you, you may be falling victim to what I’ll call the ‘thought gremlins.’
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Have you ever found yourself perseverating about something that happened in the past and been unable to get your mind off it? Have you ever found yourself reacting to new situations as if they were something from your childhood or a recurring horrific event you consciously know has passed? Does this happen despite what you tell yourself before or during these events? If this is the case with you, your thinking may be being driven by trauma.
Read moreDo you find yourself reliving the past? Do memories come back over you with the same awful details that they always have? If this describes what you experience, you may have PTSD affecting your memories. PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is a condition where memories are frozen in the brain in a way that causes distress and negatively affects the brain and the rest of the nervous system.
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It is a gentle form of therapy for people who tend to be easily intimidated by typical forms of therapy, such as Exposure Therapy, traditional talk therapy, and even EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). All of these require the client to revisit the event that is troubling them in some degree of detail. Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT) enlists the body to help work through the issue(s) that the mind won’t or can’t get a grasp of. By visualizing a color in the body that represents the trapped pain or fear, it removes the burden of the client to revisit a painful memory or situation and helps to resolve it.
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