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Havening Techniques® Psychosensory Academy®1Children and adults find it very useful to understand that they are using and working with tiny receptors. And taking on board how powerful CASEs are experienced when minuscule receptors are activated (through sensory matching - stimuli and cues) has been described by them as ‘life-changing’. Therefore starting a session by sharing how we learn (Long-term Potentiation (discovered in 1973) and Long-term Depression (Nader, late 1990s) informs the client. This knowledge enables them to change their frames of reference and often frees the person of many fears, and any sense of inescapability is lifted. The terms that usually change are They can start to think about their responses and behaviours in a new way. It’s quite different choosing to change unwanted receptors compared to ‘all the bad coming out’. When they learn this as a starting point, it’s much easier to understand ‘fast-learning for survival’, which is described in detail in the Primer (we will explore approaches to introducing EMLI in later projects). You can learn anything! Putting the Knowledge into Practice my inner demons trauma in my brain, traumatised wound (in brain) sensitised, unconscious broken (healing required) bad thoughts triggeredtrapped broken stuck forever hopeless unbearable loss of normal, loss of happy

Havening Techniques® Psychosensory Academy®2Video showing animation of Long-term Potentiation (LTP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGKTH60rvoU&t=29shttps://youtu.be/v_EFLVHRF6Q

Havening Techniques® Psychosensory Academy®3We can show the processes of LTP and LTD using our hands. This can be useful throughout a session and the knowledge transfers easily when we start considering changes generated by using the Havening Techniques. Let’s look at how we can show the process as a diagram and as hand movements. And consider what metaphors we can use. Neuroscientists at McGill University, where they discovered LTD, call the receptors pores or doors. They are interested in ‘what opens and closes the doors’ and we are interested in how traic flow alters responses. Event - Learning about ice cream for the first time. Content - the ice cream (stimuli). For information about context, complex content sensory input - see videohttps://youtu.be/iECwVCFjmqcTwo closed hands can be used to show the start of the process of LTP (the mechanism of learning). A metaphor of the two neurons being buildings (shown by hands) and the neurochemical traic is represented by people wanting to go to a sale on the other side of the the street (vesicles allowing neurochemicals to pass through the membrane into the synapse). This helps people imagine the traic flow.

Havening Techniques® Psychosensory Academy®4Continued/Event - Learning about ice cream for the first time and experiencing CASE Cognitive - move toward, I like, rewarding Autonomic- parasympathetic Somatosensory- cold sensations Emotions - curious, amazed and enjoying Point the fingers of one hand to show how the receptors have been made and have moved up to the membrane surface. They are closed at this stage. In the metaphor the people are trying to make these doors open so they can get in.

Havening Techniques® Psychosensory Academy®5In the metaphor the people are going through the open doors and flooding into the second building creating changes. And we experience the changes as a change in CASE.Continued/Event - Learning about ice cream for the first time and experiencing CASE Cognitive - move toward, I like, rewarding Autonomic- parasympathetic Somatosensory- cold sensations Emotions - curious, amazed and enjoying Point the fingers of one hand to show how the receptors are now held open and traic can flow through them. LTP

Havening Techniques® Psychosensory Academy®6Cognitive - I don’t like ice cream Autonomic- sympathetic if they had to eat ice cream Somatosensory- dental pain Emotions - move away from / zero motivationEvent - many years later has toothache and eating ice cream is painful. Content - the ice cream (stimuli). Draw in the fingers of one hand to show how the receptors are now being absorbed back into the post synaptic neuron. Then make a little more distance between the hands as you describe that the neurochemical traic can no longer enter the post-synaptic neuron. The doors are gone and the tissue is being recycled. In the metaphor the people in the street are unable to enter the building. Neural changes take place and related receptors are absorbed back into the post-synaptic neuron. The ‘neurochemical traic’ in the synapse can no longer enter.LTD Once these hand signals are established you can use them throughout the session. They are very useful when explaining strong responses and how changes are experienced through using Havening Techniques.