Havening Touch® is a tool that you can use to rapidly shift from a highly negative emotional state to an empowering, resourceful and creative state of being. It’s for anyone who finds themselves stuck in a distressing state of fear, anxiety, sadness, worry, or anger.
Great for:
- People who regularly experience anxiety, sadness, worry or anger.
- People who suffer from phobias, panic attacks or PTSD.
- People who want a natural method for improving their mental and physical health.
When it comes to getting results in any area of life, the one universal thing that everyone will have to deal with at one point or another is the mind and body’s reaction to fear and other stressful emotions, such as anxiety, worry, panic, sadness, anger, and rage. While we usually think of these emotions as negative, they really are not. They are primal stressors generated by the brain’s stress response mechanism in an effort to protect us from danger and to ensure our survival.
The problem is that this stress-response may be easily triggered any time we even think about something fearful or dangerous. In an instant, we are thrown into a fight-flight-freeze mode. We feel emotionally and physically distressed and we lose access to our best cognitive, creative, and performance abilities.
Havening Touch® is a specific kind of touch that can move you past your worries and fears and instantly restore you to a state of calmness, clarity, creativity, and resourcefulness.
Havening Touch® works by shutting off your sympathetic nervous system stress response known as the fight-or-flight internal alarm system using your own hands to generate an electroceutical signal that the brain associates with a “mother’s touch”. With this technique you touch areas of your face and body that are the same areas that a newborn baby comes into contact with from its mother immediately after birth. These touches signal the baby’s brain to let it know it is in a “safe haven” and that it is safe, loved, and not alone. The brain then generates delta waves and releases feel-good neurochemicals, such as GABA, serotonin, and oxytocin. Using this technique may free you from anxiety, anger, and fear so that you can get to work and create the life of your dreams.
How to apply Havening Touch®:
Havening Touch consists of caressing three main areas of your body: the upper arms, the hands, and the face. You are going to go through all of the steps with your eyes closed 먹튀검증커뮤니티.
Step 1: Arm Havening
Start by taking your right hand across the front of your body and placing it on the top of your left shoulder. Then take your left hand across the front of your body and place it on top of your right shoulder. Now I’d like you to firmly but gently, and moderately slowly, slide both of your hands down the upper and outer sides of your arms to the tops of your elbows. The stroke is in the downward motion only.
Release your grip, bring both hands back up to their starting position placed on the tops of your shoulders and do another stroke down the upper and outer sides of your arms to the tops of elbows. Now take a few moments to continue Arm Havening. Adjust the pressure and speed that you are using so that it feels comforting and soothing.
Step 2: Hand Havening
Place both of your hands together palm to palm and fingers to fingers just in front of the middle of your body. Anywhere within the region of your stomach or your chest is good. Firmly but gently, and moderately slowly, move each hand in a circular motion while keeping your hands touching each other. Now take a few moments to continue Hand Havening. Adjust the pressure and speed that you are using so that it feels comforting and soothing to you.
Step 3: Face Havening
The stroke of Face Havening is very much like what you would do if you were rinsing off your face with some water. And the starting position is just like you would use if you were playing peekaboo. So place both of your hands on your face, the right hand on the right side of your face and the left hand on the left side of your face. The pads of your fingertips should be on your forehead, and your palms should be under your eyes on your cheeks. Gently and slowly slide both of your hands down the sides of your face using the whole front of your hands ? fingers and palms, until your fingertips reach the bottom of your cheeks.
Lift your hands just off of your face and bring them back to the starting position like they would be if you were playing peekaboo, and then gently stroke the sides of your face in the downward direction until your fingertips get to the bottom of your cheeks. Take a few moments to continue Face Havening, and adjust the pressure and speed that you are using so that it feels comforting and soothing to you.
As you apply the technique you are helping to teach your brain to more finely distinguish between real danger and perceived danger. Over time this will result in your stress response not being so easily triggered by things that are not really a danger to you.
Step 4: Distraction
Applying Havening Touch after being startled or getting angry will work all by itself. But if you are stressing or worrying about something then you are still continuing to trigger your stress-response. In cases like these you need to take your mind off of the upsetting condition by distracting yourself as you apply Havening Touch. Make the distraction something that is a little difficult to do, for example, counting aloud backwards from forty to zero by 3’s or reciting the alphabet backwards. You’re just keeping your worrying thoughts away long enough for Havening Touch to take effect.
Step 5: Finishing
Stop Havening Touch, take a nice deep cleansing breath and open your eyes.
A Few Words of Caution
If you have been Havening for five or more minutes, make sure that you are feeling sharp and awake before you drive a car or do anything that requires care and attention. Finally, if you have been upset because someone has tried to harm you and you need to report what happened, do not use Havening Touch. You need to be able to report the facts just as they happened and generating all of those delta waves can affect that.
Watch a video of me demonstrating how to use Havening Touch: http://SuperfyYourLife.com/activate
Dr. Ronald A. Ruden, author of When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures, is the co-creator of Havening Techniques®.
