Comments on: Orphan Rescue Map & Instructions (Part Two) https://www.shift-it-coach.com/2011/02/orphan-rescue-map-instructions-part-two/ Become Your Next Self Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:53:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Daniel Dow https://www.shift-it-coach.com/2011/02/orphan-rescue-map-instructions-part-two/#comment-97723 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:05:09 +0000 http://www.shift-it-coach.com/?p=3778#comment-97723 This is very similar to a therapeutic approach called “Life Span Integration”. The major difference I see is that instead of simply inviting the “orphan” to join you, you visualize a series of neutral or positive events that have occured since the triggering event to the present. You visualize them in your mind much like scenes in a movie. You do this several times. This approach has the added effect of incorporating the brains “visual” capability and providing a stronger multi-sensory, fact-based approach that allows for faster integration. It is also thought to be rewiring the brain through a trauma so that it simply becomes one of many memories vs. a triggering memory. This therapy is most often used in “PSTD situations” but has many applications. Maybe, since this is a visual approach, you have the person draw a series of images that represent memories since then…create their own visual film strip.

Dan

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