Hi Temperance,
That was very refreshing to read! I will piggy back on what you wrote and add a few differences on the approach I have, mostly with the ending point or goal. This is definitely one of my main interests when it comes to Neurofeedback.
The way you described the way you use it also one of the ways that I use NFB with Clinical EFT. EMDR and Clinical EFT share ocular mechanical methodology which I am sure are critical for emotional processing just like ocular movements during th REM sleep cycles.
Alpha Theta can definitely ignite the spark to powerful change stemming from profound trauma…which is really just the strong emotional memory anchoring the experience and generating the core belief system that drive most pressing issues or the escalated crisis of the week. It is really where the «maladaptive» pattern is born.
The way I use it is very much in line with what you wrote down. In a few words I would say I focus on updating the stored memory and reframing it. From there my focus to those willing to go down the rabbit hole is the following…which is where I’m headed through this post.
I like going a little bit farther than Jung’s psychoanalysis when it comes to reintegration and acceptance of the unconscious and unseen is my main focus. Alpha theta + EMDR or EFT (or other methods) has the potential to use trauma to guide right into post traumatic growth, the birth of the yang within the ying or viceversa (light being born from the dark). This is where mythology, particularly oriental field perception such as the Tao, Vedanta Hinduism and Buddhism (which is the exported application of interrelated field understanding) comes into play. From these viewpoints, framing trauma as something with a negative connotation that needs «treatment» makes no sense, it is actually the doorway to enlightenment. Suddenly «maladaptive» trauma or the symbolic hindu goddess «Shiva» becomes the seed that creates a superadaptive trait born from this perspective, it is the creation of the hero in mythology.
Other powerful ways of going into this territory through Neurofeedback is hinted at during the latest documentary of NewMind with the use of Ayahuasca. This is all taboo territory of course because it goes beyond clinical and the widely accepted field of practice and social morality. It is, however, the real hollistic approach of field interconnected information processing.
For what is neurofeedback and these other techniques if not for increasing lively functionality, with the potential of culminating at the end of the spectrum through experiential paradigm shift?
Anyways, this thread and topic evidently motivated me!