Havening is a brief psychotherapy using sensory inputs (touch) to eliminate the consequences of stressful or traumatic events.
It is a powerful psychosensory approach that relives disorders based on fear, anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias by allowing the rapid release of traumatic memories encoded in the amygdala.
Regardless of the stimulus that triggers fear, it is the activation of the amygdala that initiates a reaction (the brain’s amygdala complex decodes stimuli to dictate a behavioural reactions).
Dc. Ron Ruden1 has studied neuroscience for over 20 years and has devoted more than ten years to research the traumatic encoding process.
Why a Havening session ?
Each of us have likely experienced distressing, stressful, or even traumatic events, whether in our professional or personal lives. Generally, these experiences impact our daily lives, particularly our well-being and self-confidence, generating ruminations, fears, and emotional difficulties that are challenging to manage.
My personal experience has liberated me from a negative memory that was hindering my personal development. I was able to be accompanied by a certified practitioner, guiding me through the Havening approach with mental exercises during the session.
The psychosensory approach allows, through touch associated with mental activities, the creation of biological changes in the brain that liberate it from acquired fear responses. The results are exceptional and lasting, allowing one to release fears, traumas, and barrier.
Havening can be harmoniously combined with other therapeutic and personal development methods, enhancing its effectiveness.
Important : Havening is not a hypnosis technique.
Application Examples
I have accompanied individuals who kept bad memories of public speaking, of interviews or oral exams due to past bad experiences.
The Havening method provides an effective solution for these apprehensions.
The above examples are reflecting the impact of the emotional memory, which encodes the negative, stressful memory that will arise again, each time we face the same situation.
Through the memory re-encoding protocol, specific to this technique, the pain associated with this event disappears..
In sessions, mental activities enable the “depotentialization” of receptors involved in the initial encoding (traumatic memory).
Thus, through the “depotentialization” process, the memory of the event remains without the painful emotion.
Therapeutic Domains Where Havening is Utilized :
- Reducing the impact of chronic negative stress
- Releasing repressed emotions such as anger and frustration
- Treating emotional impacts resulting from difficult experiences and events
- Releasing sufferings and pains associated with distressing childhood memories
- Addressing constant and irrational fear (anxiety, panic attacks, hypervigilance)
- Removing inner barrier to achieving goals
- Enhancing performance in sports, business, creativity, etc
- Strengthening resilience/accessing positive emotional states
Havening requires a certified practitioner to understand how stress factors produce symptoms and act on the brain’s landscape.
The session involves understanding your issues and their emotional roots aiming to permanently release the emotional burdens that hold you back in life, reaching a sense of well-being and serenity.
- Dc Ruden began his research career at Northwestern, where he graduated his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the age of 24. In 1971, he trained at Harvard with Nobel laureate E.J. Corey. First as assistant professor at Rutgers, he attended medical school and graduated from the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Following his internship and residency in internal medicine, Dc. Ruden trained in clinical nutrition at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York. ↩︎