Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

Paul McKenna heals her grief in 30 seconds

20 Jul 2022 · 1 min

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A short transcript of a live/recorded session where therapist Paul McKenna guides a participant named Mabel through a brief psychosensory therapy exercise to address grief after her father's death. The process uses touch metaphors (placing sadness in one hand, peace in the other) and lateral eye movements; within the excerpt Mabel reports reduced sadness and increased sense of peace.

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Your father died and you're sad. Come and join me. What I'm going to do with you, Mabel, if it's okay, is I'm going to do a process which is called a psychosensory therapy. Now, you may have seen there's a number of these, about the best. One of the lot involves a touch of here, here, here. And lateral eye movements. Now, I want you to go inside and summon the sadness. Yes. And clear your mind. Clear your mind. And I'd like you to imagine that we're walking together on a beach. Keep your eyes closed and move them laterally to the left and laterally to the right. What I'd like you to do is I want you to put your sadness in this hand here. Now, this hand, Mabel, put peace. Here we go. Now open your eyes. Think about your dad. Feel sad?
No, I do not. Just my left hand felt much heavier with the peace and the grief.
The peace was bigger than the grief.
Yeah.
Yeah. That's great. And so it will be from this day. 4. Thank you so much for coming up. Let's give it a nice, nice round of applause. Thank you. All right. God bless.