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Emotional Mind Integration (EMI) is a neuro-trance-psychotherapy to treat a wide range of disturbances, conflicts and trauma that are held in repressed disturbed emotional mind states. These disturbed states may be triggered into thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It uses theory and techniques from a wide range of psychotherapeutic theory and practice fields, in a brief, solution-focused approach.

The Emotional Mind Integration model has grown out of the model of personality introduced by John G Watkins in his development of Ego-state therapy. This concept of the personality proposes that is it composed of states or parts that dates back to Freud’s theory of personality development.

Emotional Mind States The concept of Emotional Mind states was proposed by Yildiz Sethi in her development of Emotional Mind Integration and presented in Rapid Core Healing (2016). This approach proposes a model of the personality or mind that is composed of a range of Emotional Mind states that develop to assist us in dealing with situations in daily life. These and are for the most part healthy, as younger states continue to grow through new experiences, knowledge and our ability to process thoughts and emotions into maturity.

Disturbed Emotional Mind states form when an emotional mind state experiences conflicts, disturbed emotions, shocks and trauma that they are not able to process. They become frozen at the age of the disturbance and repressed in the unconscious mind and become potent triggers to cues in daily life, such as a look, tone of voice, smell, stress or situations. Once triggered they take over the personality with the essence of the disturbed state. This may be rage, sadness, depression, fear and anxiety, to name only a few. Once triggered they are normally present involuntarily for a period of time, before receding to the unconscious mind again.

Many have seen a mature adult stamping their feet in a rage, that has the energy of a 5-year-old tantrum, that was triggered by a seemingly insignificant event. This is likely to be a triggered disturbed EM state.

Disturbed Emotional Mind states are frequently created in formative years, but may also form at any point in life. For most people these are not overly problematic, but for some, disturbed Emotional Mind states may result in a range of problematic involuntary behaviour, emotions, thoughts resulting in self-esteem, mental health, and addictions issues and the trauma symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Further, the EMI model proposes that disturbed Emotional Mind states are more likely to form when the EMI proposed requirements for wellness are absent. These are ‘love, connection, safety, justice, dignity and autonomy’ and have been taken from Systemic Family Constellations theory, Maslow's hierarchy of needs and humanistic psychotherapy, and seen as necessary foundations for emotional mind-health, with their absence often contributing to mental dis-ease.

EMI is a psychodynamic, phenomenological, brief and solution-focused, client-centred (entering the client’s inner world), emotionally and somatically focused hypnotherapy approach.

Disturbances, conflicts, mental health and trauma The process is designed to complete and release the arrested fight-or-flight response of trauma and to internally reinstate the conditions for wellness and engage the human capacity for homeostasis towards self-healing.

Doidge in his book the Brains Way of Healing (2015), draws attention to the value of simple realities that allow patients to find their resources and what is important to them in the healing process.

Components of the EMI Process

Psychodynamic- in seeking to go to the original cause of the formation of the disturbance or trauma.

Phenomenological- seeking to put aside practitioner analysis and prejudgments of the client’s issue or symptom, to allow other possibilities to arise.

Client centred and solution focused- in trusting the EMI process and the client’s body and mind to locate the cause and also, find their best solution.

Emotionally and somatically focused- follow neural pathways from the symptom or somatic experience to its origin.

Trauma Recovery- Complete and release the arrested fight and flight response and complete unfinished business where appropriate.

Hypnotherapy- hypnotherapy is psychotherapy within a light hypnotic trance to allow access to the unconscious mind and complete the therapeutic process primarily in the limbic (amygdala), the emotional centre of the brain, where new memories may be formed from past experiences. From the triune brain model

Homeostasis- is the process that has a natural impulse towards wellness and balance, where possible and hence, self-healing.

Brief - up to 3-5 sessions for most clients for each specified issue.

The EMI approach consists of a series of sequential processes that take place within one session at a time. It is composed of hypnosis to relax the conscious mind and focus on the somatic sensing that is related to their problematic symptom or disturbed EM state. A process of regression to the disturbed state takes place with other processes to ensure safety within the mind to avoid re-traumatisation or abreaction. Facilitation by the practitioner in creating a safe space within the mind and body of the client, where they may compete any unfinished business and release trapped emotions. The final process is a process of integration through several steps, before coming back into consciousness awareness. The Emotional Mind Integration approach involves the engagement of many sensory, emotional, psychological, somatic aspects of the problem or issue within one session that Norman Doidge in his book The Brain that Changes Itself (2010) explains is important in the healing process, in referring to how neurons reorganise (see neuroplasticity) in his statement that “what wires together fires together”.

Emotional Mind Integration may be used for personal development, mental health and trauma recovery.

See also

• Gestalt therapy