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By working with a patient’s subconscious, I developed a treatment intervention to control flooding while doing EMDR The treatment intervention provides for painless treatment of trauma pain by combining EMDR and the dissociative process. By suggesting that the pain be dissociated while treating the trauma with EMDR, the dissociation process takes place and the trauma pain moves from the conscious experience into the unconscious experience as the processing continues. The patient does not feel the painful trauma emotions during the treatment.

Stimulation of the brain with the eye movements causes an exchange of the painful trauma emotions with the relaxed or neutral emotions that are active (Flint, 1996, 2004). With repeated eye movements, the pain gradually reduces to the point where the trauma memory is no longer painful. I used this process with four or five other patients who also helped with minor details in developing this treatment technique. The technique has been effective in treating severe trauma because it lowers the chance of emotional flooding into the conscious experience. Patients ranging from nine to 52 years have responded well to this procedure.