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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) works by using bilateral stimulation — typically guided eye movements, alternating taps, or tones — while a person briefly focuses on a distressing memory. This appears to activate the brain’s natural information-processing system, allowing a memory that got “stuck” in an unprocessed, highly charged state to move into a calmer, more resolved form of storage. The memory doesn’t disappear — but it stops firing the body and mind as if the event were happening now. That’s the short answer. Here’s what’s actually going on underneath it. Why some memories get “stuck” in the first […]