The Matrix Reimprinting EFT Workshop
The two-day Matrix Reimprinting EFT Workshop was held in Perth in September. There were over 20 attendees and the feedback was excellent!
The Matrix Reimprinting technique was developed by Karl Dawson, EFT master. It breaks new ground and has been taking the EFT world by storm over the last year or so. I flew over to Melbourne in October last year to find out more about it and to experience it personally. Karl had flown out from the UK to run that workshop. Matrix Reimprinting (MR) includes several significant breakthroughs and it can be self-applied.
There are some links below that will take you to an introductory article by Karl Dawson and a 10 minute video of an introduction to Matrix Reimprinting and a Matrix Reimprinting session. There's also information below on Karl's comprehensive book entitled "Matrix Reimprinting Using EFT".
The Matrix Reimprinting EFT Workshop was held in Perth on the 17th and 18th of September. It was presented by Caroline Paulzen, who is the sister of Karl Dawson (who developed Matrix Reimprinting) and resides in Victoria. Caroline is a very experienced EFT practitioner & trainer and is a certified Matrix Reimprinting practitioner and trainer. She was in touch with the development of MR from its early stages.
The pre-requisite for the Matrix Reimprinting EFT Workshop is Level 2 or comparable.
The development of Matrix Reimprinting (MR) started about five years ago almost by accident. This short article by Karl Dawson explains how it all began. The Matrix Reimprinting technique involves directly communicating and working with an "inner child" or (more correctly) a "younger self" who has been wounded or traumatized by a particular event. The "younger self" could be an inner child or it could be a baby at birth or growing in the womb. It can also be an "inner adult" if the trauma is more recent. A "younger self" is also known by some as a "part of me" (which it is) or a sub-personality. A wounded "younger self" is a part of us that has been fragmented or "split off" as a result of trauma and the aim is to heal and re-integrate that part.
In Matrix Reimprinting, the client imagines going into a selected painful memory (picture) and then does EFT directly with the younger self in that memory by tapping on this younger self (with his/her permission). The person is imagining tapping on this younger self while also (at the same time) being tapped on now by a practitioner or you're tapping on yourself now if self-applying the MR technique. It’s a new way of applying EFT but doesn't change the EFT technique at all.
This part of the MR technique (imagining tapping on the younger self) rapidly helps the client to cease being or becoming that "self" unconsciously and to then compassionately accept and assist this "self" (part of him/her) to heal his/her emotional wounds. This approach can effectively help to resolve thinking and behaviours that we may otherwise experience as self-sabotaging by accepting, owning and healing these wounded (fragmented) parts of ourselves.
And, there's more to MR than that. Karl’s step-by-step approach includes: (i) firstly, tapping away the emotional discomfort in a painful memory by literally going into the picture and tapping on the younger self in real time, and then, (ii) constructing and "installing" a positive memory in its place i.e. “reimprinting” it into "the matrix" (discussed below). The new "memory" functionally replaces the original memory (in the “matrix” or the “field”) which is empowering and becomes readily accessible to the person, giving him/her more zest in life.
The idea of "re-writing the story" may sound rather strange at first, but the bottom line is that it has ongoing positive effects that are measurable. None of this is a denial, burying or twisting of what actually happened as the traumatic event is acknowledged as it is and addressed (discharged) first. The icing on the cake is that MR helps to rewrite past events which transforms your future. It brings in a lasting sense of empowerment.
"Matrix Reimprinting" is a rather unusual name and needs some explanation. I suggest reading a short article by Karl About Matrix Reimprinting and watching an introductory video (10 minutes) in which Karl introduces this EFT technique and then demonstrates it's use in an EFT session with a client (Sasha Allenby, a colleague of Karl and author).
There are several earlier EFT techniques that have also worked well with wounded inner children, but the MR approach goes further and deeper, has a wider scope and is much more empowering for the younger self (who was severely overwhelmed and disempowered by the event). It goes beyond eliminating the emotional pain in a trauma, which is by itself extremely valuable. It also empowers that "younger self" (known as an "ECHO" in MR speak) by re-writing the story and then re-imprinting it from the heart into the surrounding matrix i.e. the body’s energy-field, also known simply as "the field". The quantum physics of the human "body-field" is explored and discussed in "The Living Matrix" DVD. The amazing thing is that MR works!
Karl Dawson's book entitled "Matrix Reimprinting Using EFT: Rewrite Your Past, Transform Your Future" includes everything about MR including the full background, theory and the MR technique in detail step-by-step (including using it with others and also self-applications of it). This Matrix Reimprinting book was published last year by big name Hay House who got wind of the attention MR was getting and approached Karl Dawson to publish it.
This is essential reading whether you're going to learn and use MR with others or to self-apply it. The demonstrations, interactions, practice sessions and questions and answers during the workshop are very useful. If you can, reading the book (especially, the first half of the book) will increase how much will be absorbed during the workshop.
An inexpensive place to buy this book is from The Book Depository in the UK (for under $20 AUD) with FREE and fast delivery to anywhere in the world. I strongly suggest you get a copy of this book and read as much of it as you can before doing the MR workshop. The more familiar you are with the technique and it's theory, the more you will absorb during the workshop. And, then thoroughly re-read the book again.
By the way, if later on you want to become a certified Matrix Reimprinting practitioner, a series of follow-on webinars can currently be logged into and attended (but this may be changed later this year). More details on this later.
This popular workshop will almost certainly be held again in Perth next year. If you have any queries, contact me by phone on (08) 9487 8363 or email me.
Contact: (08) 9487 8363
Email: pgraham@tap4peace.com.au
Last Updated: 26th of September 2011