Watts BWRT

Reboot your life with BrainWorking Recursive Therapy
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-78583-612-1
Verlag: Crown House Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 196 Seiten

BWRT is a completely personalised therapy that is customised specifically to the way your brain and mind work. The technique has a strong foundation in science and evolutionary biology and is designed to work directly in the cognitive gap between the reptilian complex responding to a trigger (such as a stressful situation) and the individual becoming aware of what's happening. This enables the individual to overwrite whatever problem they're experiencing with new information and in this book Terence Watts details the steps of the procedures to help you achieve this outcome. You'll discover the 'how and why' of the technique's efficiency and, after an experiential exercise to whet your appetite, Terence then presents the procedures to help you tackle a range of different challenges, including: Preparing to get the very best out of the major changes you're going to make. Boosting your self-worth what you've been taught about yourself shapes what you think about yourself but a lot of it is fake news! Understanding anxiety in all its different forms, why we have it and why we just don't need it most of the time. Dealing with the simple phobia even when it seems far from simple, and getting rid of it for good. Performance enhancement harnessing the resources you thought you had but weren't sure how to find. BrainWorking Recursive Therapy (BWRT) is a registered trademark of Terence Watts. Suitable for anyone wanting to rewire their psychological responses to life's challenges.

Terence Watts is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and the only psychology related therapist to have been awarded the 'MCGI' - Member of the City & Guilds Institute. Founder of the Essex Institute of Clinical Hypnosis, the Institute of BrainWorking Recursive Therapy and The British BrainWorking Research Society, he is an international lecturer and trainer and runs popular online training seminars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watts, Terence

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Introduction

What It Is and How It Works

First, a disclaimer: BrainWorking Recursive Therapy (BWRT) was only taught for the first time in 2013 so is still, in therapy terms, very new. But from the beginning it has astounded all who have studied the training and as a result it has been eagerly adopted by thousands of clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors and other therapists worldwide, including professors of psychology. They are using it on an everyday basis, often in preference to any other therapy, to relieve suffering and, in many cases, save lives. It is also in use by some police and military because of its ability to rapidly resolve post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).1

BWRT is a new process; it was initially met with scepticism, with therapists insisting there could be nothing in it that had not been taught before and that it could not possibly be as effective as was being claimed. It was first taught to a small group of professional therapists in October 2013, all of whom instantly recognised that it was something genuinely new and different and not just a rehash of one of the dozens – hundreds, probably – of other available therapies. They were impressed by the fact that BWRT is based strongly in science and evolutionary biology – and not only does it work, but, unlike the majority of other therapies, we also know exactly why it works. After that early beginning, the word spread quickly and now (in 2022) it is in worldwide use.

And now you have a chance to use this cutting-edge therapy in the comfort of your own home.

To the uninitiated, or untrained, it can seem that BWRT is just a quick fix that fades over time because unless you find the initial sensitising event (often referred to as the ISE) the presenting problem will always return. And that is absolutely correct – as far as standard therapy models are concerned. These older therapies trawl through conscious thought, sometimes childhood, looking for anything that causes discomfort and then working on it; but those things don’t actually exist in the mind, only appearing there when something triggers them into existence. BWRT, though, simply disables them at source. To give a simple analogy, if uncomfortable symptoms were like water flowing from a hose, older therapies seek to make the stream less powerful whereas BWRT simply turns off the tap.

You’ll discover more about the way BWRT works and how it does so in Chapter 1. But first it’s important to recognise that as good as this self-help is, it doesn’t pretend to be as effective as if you had a session with a registered BWRT practitioner. There’s actually a very sound reason for this. When you attend a session as a client, the practitioner does most of the work and all you have to do is relax and follow what they’re saying; it’s really very easy to get a super result in only one or two sessions for even quite complicated problems. Most of the time you would only have to tell them how you feel about something and how you would like to feel instead and they can get straight to work – you don’t even have to tell them about anything you’d rather keep to yourself, either. But with the self-help model, you have to become both therapist and client at the same time; your brain is tasked with thinking of two things at once or switching quickly between them. Having said that, the special procedures provided in this book mean you will, more often than not, be able to do what BWRT does best: enable your brain to completely overwrite whatever problem you’re experiencing with new information. You’ll discover exactly how to create the perfect replacement information from your own thoughts and, because it’s your own idea, your brain will happily accept it.

The sequence of therapy used in this book is identical to that which the professional therapist uses, though they employ slightly different techniques to enhance concentration and focus. Essentially, though, the routine is based around the same concepts:

• Bring the problem vividly to mind.
• Disable it within seconds (that really can happen when you know how).
• Replace how it feels with how you want to feel.
• Create a high level of intensity to emphasise its importance.
• Show the brain a vivid future where the problem no longer exists.
• Create what’s called a recursive loop to lock it all in place.
• Test and repeat if necessary.

There are several different life issues you can choose to work with, although you may, of course, decide to work on every single one of them. And it will get easier every time. You should always complete at least Chapters 1–6 before starting to work with any of the problems covered in the book, for two reasons: (1) you will gain a thorough understanding of how BWRT works; and (2) Chapters 4–6 in particular provide a solid framework upon which to base your new life. Also, at the end of Chapter 2, there’s a special relaxing and stabilising routine you will need in order to finish each therapy procedure. It’s called the Super Unwind and it’s in two parts, each of which can be used separately.

Two ways to work

Just like the professional version of BWRT, what you’re learning in this book will provide a completely personalised therapy that is customised specifically to the way your brain and mind works. In each procedure, there’s a full technical description of the ‘events’ techniques that are employed. One way to work is to just read through them carefully, giving your full attention to each step, and where it says something like ‘Repeat steps 3–6 five more times’ then do so with complete concentration. But it’s inestimably better to do a little more to create a self-help therapy most closely resembling that of a professional environment, which will give you the best mental healthcare possible with self-help. This simply involves recording the procedure for whatever you want to sort out, exactly as it’s written down in the text to record scripts in the book. You only need to do this once for any problem you want to fix. These are no ordinary therapy scripts, for two reasons:

1. BWRT is no ordinary therapy and lends itself to a specific structure. The structure and design are shown in more detail in the reading version before you get to the written script material. You don’t have to read the technical structure if you don’t want to – you can just go directly to the text to record section and that will work perfectly.
2. The scripts are written in speaking style and personalised to fit your psyche and processes of thought exactly, making them ultra-effective. Always keep the volume normal, even where you’re using emphasis, because loudness isn’t necessary and doesn’t actually work very well for BWRT.

Read the script into your mobile phone or digital recorder so that you can later sit back and follow along – ideally with your eyes closed to enhance concentration and imagination, just as you would within a professional setting. Everything is written up with clear instructions for you to follow, showing where you need emphasis and even explaining how to create the right atmosphere. You can change the wording a little if you need to make it sound more like the sort thing you might usually say (though it’s not really necessary) – but if you decide to do that, be quite certain not to change the meaning, since the texts are carefully worded.

Quite often you’ll be reading a series of statements five or six times, but it doesn’t have to be word perfect, nor do you have to use a therapy-style voice – whatever your voice is like will be just fine (mistakes, stumbles, stutters and coughs included). Now, this might sound a bit strange since you’d expect it was important that everything was crystal clear, but it’s not the words that do the job here – it’s the concept behind them. You will have already primed a special part of the brain (discussed later in Chapter 1) with the concept while you were creating the procedure and the repetition of the words is just to reinforce the importance of it. When your alarm clock goes off, you don’t think ‘I’ll just lie here for a few more minutes’ or ‘I must get up straight away today’, even though you know that’s what you’re going to do. You’re acting on the concept and that’s exactly what will be happening with BWRT. It’s another of the differences between this and other therapies, almost all of which rely on conscious understanding of what is being said. This is because they work through the higher part of the brain, while BWRT goes straight to the part that other therapies don’t always reach.

Much more than you expect

Because BWRT is so efficient, it can often do in one...