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HAVENING TECHNIQUES®Better Living Through Neuroscience Message

WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS• Welcome and Introductions• Housekeeping / Breaks• Confidentiality / Privacy • Respecting others backgrounds• Permission to touch – hand gel / tissues• Take time out if needed / emotional content • Support from Havening Ambassadors • Flexible ‘time keeping' dependent on needs of group

How does one enter the system?

THREE PILLARS OF ENTRY• PSYCHOTHERAPIES- Talk Therapy• PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPIES- Drug Therapy• PSYCHOSENSORY THERAPIES- Sensory Input

THE SENSESThe application of non-specific sensory input to treat/cure physical and emotional disturbances arising from traumatic stressPSYCHOSENSORY TECHNIQUES

• Empower and optimize an individual’s performance• Increase resilience• Change one’s view of the past (beliefs)• Create a preferred future by changing the lens of our perceptionAND…

Cansensory inputreally do this ?

An extrasensory response CNS InterpretationAn extrasensory response is one that arises from sensory input by the action of peripheral receptors and central nervous system interpretation

• Involve the application of sensory input to alter biological functioning• Are sensory receptor driven• Are electrical in nature• The response to the sensory input can be learned or innate• The effect due to an extrasensory response generated in the central nervous systemPsychosensory Techniques

HaveningEFT(Emotional Freedom Techniques)CT – TFT(Callahan Techniques – thought field therapy)EMDR(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)ACUPUNCTUREGROUP 1—SPECIFIC Types of Psychosensory TechniquesYogaBiofeedback / NeurofeedbackExercise and related activitiesMusicLightAromatherapyMassageGROUP 2—NON-SPECIFIC

• Psychosensorytherapy is based on the fact that the body is an electrochemical organ.• There is no chemistry without electricity and no electricity without chemistry

THE ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS OF THE BRAIN

We know that chemicals can affect brain function. Is there a way to use the electrical side?TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN

ELECTROCEUTICALS• Electrical waves created either by sensory input or external source that can alter sensitivity, function and activity of organ systems

EXTERNAL• ECT• rTMS• Vagal Stimulation• Transcutaneous ElectricalNerve Stimulators• Pacemaker• Defibrillator• Cochlear Implants SOURCE OF ELECTRICITYINTERNAL• Senses

“No sooner had the warm liquid and the crumbs with it touched my palate, a shudder ran through my whole body, and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, but individual, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, this brevity, illusory -this new sensation having had on me the effect which love has of filling me with a precious essence; or rather this essence was not in me, it was myself. I had ceased not to feel mediocre, accidental mortal. Whence could it have come to me, this all powerful joy?” - Marcel Prost“Remembrance of Things Past

ALL SENSORY INPUT IS TRANDUCED TO AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALMechanical ReceptorsTouch/Position(includes temperature/pain)It is the EMF signal that is essential toPsychosensoryTherapy= EMF

Havening Touch produces an EMF signal called a Delta wave

How does a DELTA wave generated by Havening Touch cure disturbances created by traumatic stress? Havening Touch generatesan extrasensory response of SAFETY

The Extrasensory Response to Havening Touch• Extrasensory Response of Safety• Increases Delta Brain Waves• Depotentiates AMPA Receptors• Alters the landscapes of the Brain

Self Havening practice of Havening Touch

Self Havening Touch

• Cheek 90x • Shoulder 5-38x• Palms Of Hands 5x • Back Of Hands 1.1x• Knee 1x• Vibrating Pads On Palms 3-4x• Lateral Eye Movement 12-20x• Gamut Point 1.1x • Meridian Points Vs Non Meridian Points 1xDelta Wave Power Generated as Multiple of Resting StateEffect of Tactile Stimulation of Various Areas

Facilitated Havening Touch

• Usually the presenting problem• Client history – some archaeology?• Ecology check – contra-indications?• Permission to touch or self haven• Bringing EVENT into working memory• Calibration of Subjective Units of Distress(SUDs)Event Havening Demonstration

• Position yourself as needed to make sure you are able to hear & observe the client’s body language• Follow the client’s lead – sometimes unexpected issues may arise• Remember that work here can be on a non-disclosure basis (content free) and that maintaining confidentiality is expected.Event Havening Demonstration

EVENT DEMO

15 minute break

Elements of EventHavening Session

Encoding a TraumaticMemoryEventMeaningLandscapeInescapabilityRequirements for Traumatization

Recall of the emotional core into working memoryEvent Havening Has Five ComponentsDistraction / other sensory input to working memoryHavening touch1234Calibration : Subjective Units of Distress (SUDs) 5 Debrief

12Recall of the emotional core into working memorySubjective Units of Distress (SUDs) Scale from 0-10 0 = no effect10 = overwhelming response (see print out on SUD for more details)Guiding the client, if assistance is needed, to reconnect with the traumatic emotional content(one last time) This may be verbalized, or non - disclosure

• Self-Applied - Indicated when Practitioner Applied Havening Touch is not possible (Skype) or declined by client (useful in Repetitive/Compulsive and Panic disorders)• Practitioner Applied- Find comfortable seating position, side to side or face to face.Comforting Relaxing Soothing UnhurriedHavening Touch3

• Distraction causes displacement of recalled event from working memoryDistraction / other sensory input to affect working memoryPHONOLOGICAL OR VISUALIZATIONHumming a tuneLateral eye movements(optional)CountingVisualising movementDoing arithmetic4

• Have the client attempt to recall memory and ask them to describe what they see• Have the client attempt to recall emotional state and ask them to describe how they feelDebrief5

Practitioner • Client SessionTouch Explained • Seating ProtocolsP: Practitioner PreparationC: Client CentricS: Safe Space

EVENT HAVENING GROUP PRACTICE

What Is Traumatic Stress?A highly EMOTIONAL EVENT that produces a potential encoding moment for a traumatic memory

RoutineReactiveReflectiveThe Three Types of Emotions

Reactive• Most primitive• Rapid processing and response• Significant physiological changes• Short term• Involves Limbic CortexSUCH ASFearDefensive Rage

Reflective• Involve prefrontal lobe evaluative center and amygdala• Requires cognition and recall• Can produce long term activation and physiological changesSUCH ASGuiltLoveRevengeShameJealousyLoyalty

Routine• Arise from sensory cortices• Are short term• Produce brief physiological changeSUCH ASHappyWorriedSurprisedBraveCalmConfident

Reactive and reflective emotions are generated by the limbic system.HippocampusThalamusCingulate GyrusFrontal LobeGray Matter relaySensory SignalsProcesses Learning and BehaviorComplex Cognitive BehaviorLT Memory Storage

At the Heart of the Limbic System is theAMYGDALAAmygdala

Ancient Emotions and Survival

FearDefensive RageReactive Emotions

FearReactive Emotions• Most primitive • Predator drivenTYPES OF FEARFreeze Flight or FightPanicFlaccidity / Thanatosis

Types of Fear ResponsesAWARENESSVIGILANCE / SALIENCE (if a threat is perceived)FREEZEFLIGHT/FIGHT PANIC THANATOSIS

Freeze- Pay Attention

FlightRun for your life

Fight Fight for your life

Panic—Prefrontal Cortex Taken Offline

Thanatosis

What stimulates a fear response?

Fear Is Stimulated By Our Senses

Hawk or Goose?

Fear Is Produced ByUnconditional Threat Stimuli (UTS)• Abandonment• Smell, sight and sound of predator• Being killed by predator• Somatic pain• Heights• Suffocation• Being trapped• Open spaces• Air based predators• Ground based predators• Darkness and nighttime

Pupil dilationFear Activates Physiologic Changes via the AmygdalaIncreases our ability to store and retrieve eventsHeightened sensory awarenessIncreased oxygen availabilityIncreased heart rateIncreased muscle strengthInhibition of all non survival activities

Pupils DilatedShoulders UpNasal FlaringTeeth ClenchedHands ClenchedPosture of Defensive Rage

Memory and Emotion

Why do we need emotions?SURVIVAL!They heighten our senses about a threatThey aid in our ability to recall similar eventsThey prepare us for action

Traumatic memory: Conscious activation or inadvertent reminders lead to the recalling of the event and its emotional contentAND THE RELEASE OF STRESS HORMONES

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E - EventM - MeaningL - LandscapeI - Inescapability

• Causes a change in neurochemical levels• First person, second and third hand• Produces intense emotional response anda 100Hz waveThreatening CONTENTCan Be Any SenseCOMPLEX CONTENTCONTEXTAN EVENT CONTAINS:Event

Threatening ContentLearnedInnate (unconditional)EscapableInescapableTYPES OF THREATUNCONDITIONAL THREAT STIMULIAbandonmentBeing killed (predator)Somatic painHeightsSuffocationBeing trappedOpen spacesAir based predatorsGround based predators Creepy crawly thingsDarkness and nighttime

• Is based on attachment• Without attachment there is no emotion • It is the threat of loss that produces emotion PhysicalPersonalPublicATTACHMENT CAN BE:Meaning

Loss of AttachmentAbuseStrokeLimb lossLoss of sensesIllnessAssaultPHYSICALFamily unitsFriendshipKinCo-workersReligionPossessionsPetsCombat unitsPERSONALLoss of statusLoss of cultural identity ExcommunicationShunningLoss of reputationPUBLIC

Meaning: Fear or Joy?

The neuro-electrochemical state at any given time based on experiential landscapers of the brain:CHRONICPovertyIllnessDisabilityHormones CulturalPainACUTEAnticipatory stressWorkSchoolWorry RelationshipsSleep deprivationLandscape…and inherent biological conditions leading to vulnerable or resilient landscapes.

LandscapesResilient or VulnerableTo TraumatizationPermissive or Non-permissiveFor Symptom Generation

The ability to regulate emotional responsivenessOptimismAppropriate attachment behaviorActive problem solvingSense of being self contained (self love)Resilient LandscapeCLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Overly empathetic Low self esteemDifficulty in regulating emotional responses (anxiety, OCD, substance abuse)Environmental challenges (poverty, low education level, physical disability, early life trauma)CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICSVulnerable Landscape

WHYAre some events traumatizingto some and not to others ?Different MeaningDifferent LandscapeDifferent Resilience/Vulnerability

• The perception (either conscious or subconscious) that you are trappedInescapability

Adverse Childhood Events (ACES)• Divorce • Death or disease in family• Physical abuse• Verbal abuse• Learning problems• Sex abuse• Childhood imagination• Unstable family life• Lack of appropriate touch• Abandonment• Watching inappropriate things

What are some of the characteristics of a traumatic memory?It is permanent and remains biologically active causing alterations of basic neurochemicals that alter perception and responseCertain components of the memory are retrievable while others are dissociatedIt is synaptically encoded in the amygdala and arises from recognition of an Unconditional Threat Stimulus123

What are the characteristics of a traumatic memory? (cont.)Sensory stimuli that are similar to the initial event can activate the originally encoded pathway causing the release of stress hormonesThis pathway can be activated without conscious awarenessIncreases susceptibility for a future trauma 456

If a stressful EVENT is encoded as a TRAUMATIC MEMORYit can producedisease.

Consequences of Traumatization• Chronic alteration of brain landscape• Increase vulnerability to further traumatizationINCREASES RISK TO DISORDERS SUCH AS:Major DepressionAnxiety disorders such as phobias and panicChronicity of reflective emotions such as guilt, shame, etc.Substance abuseObsessive-compulsive disorderChronic pain/somatizationPredisposition to PTSD…And may be passed on to descendants

TRAUMATIZATION at the neural level is the process that permanently encodes and synapticallyconsolidates linkages between the emotional, cognitive, autonomic, and somatosensory components present during the traumatizing event.emotionalcognitiveautonomicsomatosensory

EVENT DEMO

15 MINUTES BREAK

Encoding a TraumaNeuroscience 101 • Amygdala Pathway

• THREATENING CONTENT• COMPLEX CONTENT• CONTEXTASPECTS OF A TRAUMATIC ENCODING MOMENT

Sensory Input Contains:They all enter the AMYGDALA differently!Threatening ContentContent related but not threatening called Complex ContentThe surroundings called Context

Cortexdirectly and via hippocampusAmygdala Pathways During TraumatizationComponents Bound and StoredEmotionalSomatosensoryAutonomicCognitiveAMPA ReceptorPOTENTIATEDAmygdalaSensory Input Electrochemical TransductionTT TransductionEmotion Producing 100 HzComplex ContentContext and Context PKM zeta Like ThalamusAMYGDALAPKMzetaThreateningContent

THE AMYGDALA PATHWAYS

POTENTIATION OF AMPA RECEPTORS

At the Heart of the Limbic System is theAMYGDALAAmygdala

Pathway to the Amygdala via the ThalamusThreats enter the thalamus through our senses, which then are transmitted to the amygdala. An exception is the sense of smell whereby the olfactory neurons can directly activate the amygdala (Chen, 2006)

Sensory Pathways to the AmygdalaSight, Sound, Touch, TasteThalamusCortexSmellIf sensory input is perceived as threateningAmygdala

Post-Event Stressors not related to original event and which may or may not be at the level of EMLI can produce a permissive landscape for symptom generation.PERMISSSIVE LANDSCAPE FOR SYMPTOM GENERATION

EVENT HAVENING GROUP PRACTICEand Q & A

DAY 2

History Taking A Havening Perspective

History Taking• The meaning of the event• Previous landscapers• Sense of inescapability• Listen for emotion laden words or actions that can lead to UTS • If unable to find emotional core—focus on distressing symptom• Follow where client takes youUTSAbandonmentAngerChildhood eventsEvent Havening

History Taking is Ongoing1. What is the presenting problem?2. How long have you been experiencing this issue?3. How will you know when this is no longer a problem or issue?4. How would you like to feel?5. Have you had any accidents, surgeries or major illnesses?6. Are you taking any medications and/or currently seeing a therapist ?

• The practitioner must learn about the client’s readiness for touch.• Before touching, the practitioner must determine the appropriateness of potential contact and advise the client as to areas of touch.• The practitioner must be aware of how the client interprets the contact.• The practitioner must be aware of his or her own feelings.• The client’s family may misconstrue physical contact, and education of the family may be required.• Decision to touch should be based solely on the client’s needs.Havening Touch Clinical Guidelines

• Have the client attempt to recall memory and ask them to describe what they see• Have the client attempt to recall emotional state and ask them to describe how they feelDebriefing the Client

Post-Havening Debriefing• The memory is blocked and is inaccessible. Emotional content gone. • The memory is fuzzy and incomplete.• The memory is viewed from a distance and as a detached observer.• The memory is richer in peripheral detail with variable amount of complex content and context present. • The mind solves the problem metaphorically.

• Face changes• Sadness with anger removal• Temperature changes (hands go from cold to warm)• Spaciness• Lightness as if something has been lifted• Disbelief• Laughter• Desire to hug• Delayed reactionsPhenomenological AspectsPost-Havening

Role HaveningDemonstration

15 MINUTES BREAK

Abreactions

Abreactions• An emotional or physical response that is not under the control of the client, eg. crying, laughing, arm movements• An opportunity as this represents a powerful entry point• Most commonly seen with Role and Transpirational Havening• Be with the client but continue Havening until response is calm• Trust the process

ALL HAVENING TECHNIQUES INVOLVEHAVENING TOUCH• EVENT• TRANSPIRATONAL• IFFIRMATIONAL• OUTCOME• ROLE• AFFIRMATIONAL• HOPEFUL• OTHERS

• TranspirationalHavening– A technique that removes emotionally related componentsAdvanced TechniquesADDITIONALTYPESSeqTHTalkTHOppTHrTalkTH

Affirmational Havening / Iffirmational Havening / Hopeful Havening– Find something that they can affirm (loveable, strong, etc.)– If the individual cannot find something to affirm, use ‘What if I am …’ followed by ‘I am… because’, followed by ‘I am…’ – Find something they are hopeful for and have them chant it while applying Havening touch – Hopeful Havening is an excellent way to close sessionAdvanced Techniques

Role Havening / Outcome Havening– Havening Touch generates a delta wave in the thalamus as well as the cortex (Slow wave Sleep)– Systemically stored memory is in the cortex and hippocampus – In these types of havening the client changes the narrative of the event– In Role Havening the therapist takes the role of an individual involved with the trauma– In Outcome Havening the client finds an escape and the recalled narrative is changedAdvanced Techniques

HaveningGroup Practice

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AMPA ReceptorPOTENTIATEDAMPA ReceptorDEPOTENTIATEDHow Havening WorksLow FrequencyDelta Wave Generated by Havening TouchHavening TechniquesActivation of Post-Synaptic Neuron by Recall• Delta wave opens calcium channels in activated neurons• Calcium entry activates calcineurin for which the AMPA receptor are the critical substrate and parts of AMPA receptor dephosphorylated• Removal from surface and thus no longer able to transmit… receptor is depotentiated• The time course is in minutes, consistent with clinical observationscalcineurinThe FEAR producing

• Activation of Post-Synaptic Neuron by Recall• Low Frequency Delta Wave Produced by Havening Touch opens Calcium Channels in Activated Neurons• Calcium Entry activates Calcineurin for which the AMPA Receptor is the Critical Substrate• Parts of AMPA Receptor are Dephosphorylated• Removal from surface and thus no longer able to transmit… Receptor is Depotentiated• Calcineurin Inhibitors block this effect• The time course is in minutes, consistent with Clinical ObservationsDepotentiation of AMPA Receptors

DEPOTENTIATION OF AMPAR

Remaining Memory is WithoutEmotional Content Cortexdirectly and via hippocampusAmygdala Pathway is Disrupted after DepotentiationEmotionalsensoryAutonomicCognitiveActivation of Recalled Encoded Event Delta Wave Generated by Havening Touch Recalls Complex Content and Context Havening TechniquesAMPA ReceptorDEPOTENTIATEDAMYGDALAComplex Content and ContextThe FEAR producingComponents of EmotionalContent UnavailableSomatosensoryAutonomicCognitive

ADVANCED THEORIESElectroceuticals& Calcium Oscillations

Havening can be perfectly bolted onto...HYPNOSISCOACHINGTALKSENSORY MOTORSOMATICNEUROFEEDBACKNLPMIDWIFERYDiSC

• Addiction• Pain • Havening in the workplace• Self-Havening • Preventing vicarious trauma • Reducing Stress and Frustration • Weight and Havening• Dissociative states• Optimum Performance• Breaking Through Obstacles• Overcoming Procrastination• Improving Low Self-Esteem• Havening Without Borders (Skype Havening)• Finding Self-Love • Letting Go of Attachments • Paying Attention • Learning and Havening • Mindfulness and Havening• Sleep and Havening• Sex and Havening• RCT• ChildbirthAPPLICATIONS OF HAVENING

Transpirational HaveningDemo

Group Practice

Amygdala Based DisordersPhobiasSomatizationPathological EmotionsPTSDPanicChronic Pain

Phobia GenerationPhobic GenerationMemory Context (Bridge)Phobic EncodingPhobic Generation Phobic EncodingInnate Threat Stimulus → Ce → Fear(Heights)

• Phobos, meaning “fear” or “morbid fear” is an irrational intense and persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, animals or people.Phobias

• Western view = Physicalism•The site of the pain=The site of theproblemCHRONIC PAIN OF TRAUMATIC ORIGINNo history of recent injuryNo evidence of recent injuryNon-anatomical in distributionResponse to traditional modalities not successfulA history of unresolved emotional event is presentChronic Pain

“Pain can arise to preventtraumatically encoded rage and other negative emotions from reaching consciousness” • Low back pain• Neck and upper back pain• Sciatica• Somatization disorders• Radiculopathies• Phantom limb pain• Chest pain• Temporomandibular joint syndromePain can be from almost any previously traumatically encoded eventChronic Pain

Subconscious stimuli → Nociceptive Amygdala → PainSubconsciously evoked stimuli enter the amygdala and are processed reproducing the somatic aspects of the event and pain is perceived. Whereas consciously activating the emotional event raises norepinephrine inhibiting pain perception in the nociceptive amygdala Conscious Stimuli → NE → Nociceptive Amygdala → No painChronic Pain

• Panic is characterized by sudden attacks of terror.• More common in women than menSYMPTOMSPounding heartWeaknessDizzinessFlushed or chilledHands or feet tingleNumbnessPanic (Attack or Disorder)

• Re-experiencing the trauma• Emotional numbing • Avoidance• Increased arousal (hypervigilance)• Diminished capacity for problem solving• Nightmares, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts• Repetition compulsionPTSDPost Traumatic Stress Disorder

• Produce a landscape of the brain that sets the stage for further traumatization.Pathological EmotionsREFLECTIVE EMOTIONAL STATESGuiltShameJealousyGriefFearSubconscious anger

• A persistent physical symptom that has no anatomical component and no local factors.EXAMPLESBlindness ParalysisStutteringCopious vaginal secretionsVomitingStuffy nosePelvic floor dysfunctionSomatization

Thoughts, feelings and sensationsthat are experienced when activated by subconscious stimuli that arise from abnormal storage retrieval.Dissociated Traumatic Memory

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