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

by Bruce Ecker

Here we cover only the pathway that developed with Richard, the one we call an opposite current experience. It often happens that experiences in daily life provide living knowledge that is contradictory of a person’s pro-symptom model, but because this model is normally unconscious, compartmentalized, and sealed off from contact with other knowings, the contradictory knowledge is not recognized as contradicting anything, use is not made of it, and the fleeting opportunity passes. However, when such an opportunity develops at the point in Coherence Therapy where the client’s pro-symptom model is well retrieved and unsealed, as it was for Richard at this juncture, the client feels and notices the significance of the contradictory experience and the therapist can make highly effective use of it,