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Your Havening Handbook Supplement Scripts, Articles, Interviews, Case Stories, Self-Havening Guidelines, and Resilient Well-being Tool Kit Supplemental Materials for the Havening Techniques ® Training Written, compiled and edited by Harry Pickens 1 Your Havening Handbook Supplement Written, compiled and edited by Harry Pickens Copyright 2018 Havening For Humanity. All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher. Havening Techniques is a registered trade mark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York, New York. www.havening.org. Harry Pickens is a Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner and Trainer. All practitioners, trainers, and participants featured in The Havening Handbook have given the editor written consent/permission to include their stories/articles in this manual for learning purposes. Handbook design and layout by Anne Romoser Bell DISCLAIMER Although the authors, compiler, editor and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the information in this book was correct at press time, the authors, compiler, editor and publisher do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause. This document is intended as a reference manual only, not as a substitute for the medical advice of physicians. The reader should regularly consult a physician and/or mental health professional in matters related to his/her health and particularly with respect to any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention. 2 3 Introducing Havening Techniques®: Better Living Through Neuroscience By Dr. Ronald Ruden, M.D. Havening Techniques (HT) is a new and revolutionary way to heal emotional disturbances, empower an individual’s quest and optimize one’s performance. Says who? I seem to have no choice at this time but to be guilty of imposing on you this bold statement based only on empirical evidence instead of difficult rigorous controlled trials. However, those that have learned and used Havening already know that its ability to achieve amazing results goes well beyond mere conjecture. It is up to us to now prove it. While proof is on the way, we wish to share with you what we know so far. This training conference will describe and demonstrate why Havening is indeed both new and revolutionary. You will learn how to perform Havening and by attending this conference complete the first step in becoming certified as a Havening practitioner. Why do I say that Havening is NEW and REVOLUTIONARY? Let me explain. Mainstream methods for healing emotional and physical disturbances, empowering individuals and optimizing performance are based in two main therapeutic arms, language (as in talk) and chemicals (as in drugs). Talk enters the brain via the auditory cortex and uses words to treat emotions. For most of us it is difficult to talk oneself out of guilt or anger. Talk generally tries to reframe thoughts so that they are no longer distressing and the problems they create diminish. Drugs, on the other hand, enter the brain via the circulatory system after absorption through the digestive system. There, they alter the neurochemical landscape by which information is processed without dealing directly with the underlying problems. Thus, talk, while problem-specific, cannot easily reach the root cause of our problems, our emotions, and drugs, which are not problem-specific only mask the true underlying issues. How else can we enter the mind and the brain and be therapeutic? 4 The answer is Havening Touch. What? Do I really expect you to believe that simple touch can heal emotional trauma, cure pain, be empowering and optimize one’s performance? This strains credulity! Please, my friends sit through these next few days with an open mind ... enquiring skepticism is encouraged. Havening Touch® is one of the active components of a group of methods called Havening Techniques® (HT). The other two components are emotional activation and distraction. Havening Techniques is a psychosensory (the application of non-specific sensory input to alter the mind and brain) method, which uses simple touch as the therapeutic transducer to effect change. Firstly , HT is new and revolutionary because it enters the system differently from talk and drugs (by touch). HT enters the brain and generates special brain waves called Delta waves. How these waves interact in the mind/brain have everything to do with how the events that cause the distress are encoded. You will learn about this later. Secondly , Havening is new and revolutionary because it deals directly with the subconscious where negative emotions, such as chronic anger, fear, and guilt are stored. These immutably encoded emotions are the forces involved in the production of disease, distress, helplessness and poor performance. Talk deals with the consciously accessible thoughts and drugs do not deal at all with content. Most therapy is based on a clinician’s observation of behavior, what we would call symptoms. This leads to the practitioner making a diagnosis and outlining a treatment plan based on these symptoms. Havening is different. Thirdly , Havening is new and revolutionary because it does not deal with diagnosis. Unlike drug therapy, which is diagnostically driven (anti-anxiety drugs for anxiety, etc.), and talk therapy, which is diagnostically coded for insurance purposes, Havening seeks the events that cause the symptoms. Thus, trauma can produce anxiety, depression, substance abuse and so on. Havening views behavior as a consequence of encoding a symptom and seeks to uncover the event that has produced the symptoms. Fourthly , Havening is new and revolutionary in that once the encoded event is found and treated the individual is cured. CURED? One does not use this word in talk or drug therapies, remission, yes, but not cured. We will later explain how Havening cures. Finally , Havening is new and revolutionary in that it protects the practitioner from vicarious trauma. By performing Havening we are in essence Havening ourselves, for those that have applied Havening they know what I mean and so will you when you incorporate it into your practice. 5 Is Havening curative for all emotional and physical disturbances? Of course not. Some problems are inherently hard wired and we can only manage them. Talk and drugs are useful but it is important to begin to think differently so that we can recognize those that are amenable to Havening and offer treatment. So as to provide a framework for what you will witness and experience, Havening touch works by generating an electrical signal described as Delta waves. Activated at the right moment, these waves produce a cascade of events that lead to the extinguishing of the subconscious emotional stressor from an encoded traumatic event, altering its downstream co-encoded components, the cognitive, emotional, visceral and somatosensory aspects of the encoding moment. The mechanism by which this is accomplished is called depotentiation. This teaching conference will give you the knowledge and skills to apply this method. In my opinion, Havening deserves to be called new and revolutionary; hence, our Mission Statement: Event Havening was the first protocol developed by Dr. Ronald Ruden as he was seeking to understand the neurobiological mechanism through which traumatically encoded memories could be depotentiated. The process consists of three primary components: 1) activating the memory of the encoded event, 2) applying Havening Touch®, then 3) guiding the client through a series of simple distractions to engage working memory. The step-by-step process of Event Havening is outlined in detail in the Havening Techniques® Primer, on the introductory DVD, and in When the Past Is Always Present. 6 What is Havening and How Does It Work? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6PcEWDJbo Edited transcription of video narrative (narrative and video animation copyright Tam Johnston , Fresh Insight Coaching; used by permission) Havening is a new psychological technique that has the power to treat everything from work related stress, anxiety, fear, troubling memories and more in a straightforward set of steps that you can learn to do yourself. WHAT’S UNDER OUR HOOD? LEARNING ABOUT THE BRAIN We’re going to cover what it is, but first in order to understand how it works, we need to know a little more about our brain. So, let’s just pause, rewind for a moment and enter the world of what’s under our hood. Each of us is completely unique with different upbringings, experiences and exposures across our lives. We are our history—the collective results of our experiences to date. Individually this makes up what is known as the landscape of our brain, which is literally to get a little bit scientific, the electrochemical state of our brain at any given time. OUR BRAIN’S LANDSCAPE —RESILIENT OR VULNERABLE? As we grow and go through our lives, that landscape may have had good caretakers and been allowed to develop protected from harm and has grown into a beautifully formed environment with strong well laid out pathways, leading to beautiful places tall resilient foliage that is able to bend and bounce back in the wind without breaking, with its own resident gardener who’s been taught its work and understands the importance of feeding the land with water and a ready supply of valuable nutrients so it may yield the results of its fruit and contribute so that it fulfills its purpose in relation to the greater land that it exists amongst. Alternatively, that landscape may develop in an unprotected, polluted atmosphere, exposed to the harsh elements with pathways leading to dead ends, obstacles and hazards, leaving it weak vulnerable and purposeless, depleted of its richest resources and battling hard to survive in the conditions it is exposed to.