Bilateral stimulation.

It sounds made up, yet is clinically validated. It’s using light, sound or touch, and alternating between the left and right side. This helps people recall fragmented traumatic memories. “Bilateral stimulation increases a client’s and therapist’s ability to access traumatic memories and makes focusing on such memories less unpleasant. It activates both hemispheres of the brain in a similar way that REM (rapid eye movement) sleep does; like bilateral stimulation, people in REM sleep move their eyes rapidly and process and integrate information.” ~ learn more