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The Havening Technique

Havening is a gentle, effective, efficient and elegant technique for alleviating symptoms of anxiety, fear, panic, stress and trauma.

Havening uses touch to increase delta wave activity in the brain. Delta waves are calming brain waves that are naturally produced when we’re relaxed or in a deep sleep. The Havening touch causes a change in brain chemistry and permanently removes the emotion and nervous system response associated with a memory, craving or distressing thought.  

The Havening Techniques work by targeting the amygdala, the brain’s alarm, located in in the limbic system (the emotional part) of the brain. Havening creates new and positive neural pathways, replacing the old fear-based ones. It changes the negative thoughts, beliefs, emotions and nervous system reactions to the traumatic memory. Havening is also known as Amygdala Depotentiation Technique (ADT). 

How it works:

• You very briefly brings up the upsetting event, either in their mind or by verbalizing it.
• Immediately after a firm, slow movement on their arms, palms and face (optional) is used to activate the calming delta waves. 
• At the same time, we engage the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that is offline when we’re overwhelmed with emotion. For example, I might ask you to visualize walking on the beach while counting, humming a song, etc…
• The process continues until you no longer feel any distress when I ask you to bring back up the upsetting event. 

Havening appears to be a very simple process, but recent research from the field of neuroscience, shows how this process creates a powerful biological change in the brain and the nervous system.

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