Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation

by Bruce Ecker

Those juxtaposition experiences are the actual moments in which profound change occurs—the radical clearing away of troubled emotional learning with contradictory knowledge. Each juxtaposition experience consists of simultaneously experiencing the pro-symptom schema side by side with the sharply contradictory knowledge, with both knowings feeling vividly real, yet both cannot possibly be true. For the client, holding two utterly contradictory but equally real-feeling personal truths simultaneously is a peculiar experience, yet it is the experience required in order for new learning to nullify and replace old learning.