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Lightstream Grounding Technique for EMDR

This document describes the Lightstream Grounding Technique used in EMDR therapy. The technique involves asking a client to describe upsetting bodily sensations in terms of their shape, size, color, temperature, texture, and sound. The therapist then guides the client through an imagery exercise where healing light enters the body and interacts with the sensation, changing its properties until it is gone. The process is repeated as needed until the sensation is neutralized.

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Lightstream Grounding Technique for EMDR

This document describes the Lightstream Grounding Technique used in EMDR therapy. The technique involves asking a client to describe upsetting bodily sensations in terms of their shape, size, color, temperature, texture, and sound. The therapist then guides the client through an imagery exercise where healing light enters the body and interacts with the sensation, changing its properties until it is gone. The process is repeated as needed until the sensation is neutralized.

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Lightstream Grounding Technique

Used in EMDR as a grounding technique to reduce negative affect

If client reports upsetting bodily sensations, ask:

“If it had a shape, what shape would it be?”


“If it had a size, what size would it be?”
“If it had a colour, what colour would it be?”
“If it had a temperature, what temperature would it be? Hot or cold?”
“If it had a texture, what texture would it be?”
“If it had a sound, what sound would it make? High or low pitch?”

Then direct an imagery exercise:


“I would like you to imagine some healing light coming down from above and
moving in through the top of your head. This healing light is directing itself at the
shape in your body. I would like you to give this wonderful healing light your
favourite colour (make sure it is a different colour from the shape). I would like you
to decide whether this light is warm or cool. Now imagine this light coming in from
above, through your head, into your body. The light directs itself towards the shape in
your body and notice how it resonates with it, vibrates with it, in and around it. And
just notice as it does this what happens to the shape”

Repeat the suggestion and seek feedback about what is happening to the shape.
Repeat variations on the suggestion until the shape is gone/neutralised. After the
shape has gone bring light into the person’s whole body.

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