My wife had a rapid eye therapy session (ack!) and there was this class that went along with it. This so called therapist taught her and others about so called cellular memory and how every part of our body somehow remembers events since we were born! This was part of the basis of her therapy, to help us remember this cellular memory, and learn how to “let it go” (double ack!).
Anyway, I smell quackery here, however, my wife said the therapist claims there is scientific evidence to support this. Is there?
This kind of stuff is why I’m prone to make the occasional snarky comments about therapy in general. I fully realize there are many extremely decent, committed, caring human beings in the profession. But the entire field needs desperately to jettison its love for quackeries that are merely pretty-sounding narratives.
Alarm bells would go off for me if someone I cared for was in therapy with someone who’s practice involved as a cornerstone the theory that “we remember EVERYTHING!”–via whatever mechanism. In itself, that’s a harmless belief; alarm bells because it’s a very brief sidle over into practicing the “recovery” of those memories, from the unconscious, or cellular memory banks, or engrams, or whatever. Not a good thing.
I saw a bit on msnbc a few months back about the kind of therapy I think you’re talking about. From what I could gather, it involved people paying someone hundreds of dollars to have them wave a finger back and forth in front of their face for an hour at a time. Nice gig if you can get it–saves you having to talk so much at people.