The Flash Technique

Introduction

The Flash Technique in a nutshell involves thinking bi-lateral (left/right) stimulation while making sure you are in a resourced state, then fluttering your eyes as a way of acknowledging that a trigger exists (while staying in the resourced state).   You do this by tapping your legs about a second and a half apart while lighting up a really cool memory or internal experience that makes you feel good or loved.  While feeding this embodied preferred state, you then flutter your eyes as a way of acknowledging that the trigger exists.  I use a metaphor of a USB drive having a trigger story on it and when I flutter my eyes it is a way of acknowledging the USB drive exists (without thinking about or visiting the content of the story).  You could use other metaphors as well (such as a book).  In the Flash Technique, you stay in your preferred experience while tapping and every 4-5 taps, you flutter your eyes.  You do this about 5 times.  Then you go into an assessment phase and see if the activation level has gone down (and it usually does).  You repeat this a few times until there is little or no activation.    Then you do it a few more times until the activation level is gone or minimal.  Then you assess how activated your nervous system is now (compared to how activated it would have been prior to doing this technique).