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How your Visual Imagination can be a Barrier or a Blessing

Season 1, Ep. 8

Have you heard of Aphantasia or Hyperphantasia?

In todays episode I'm exploring something that totally blew my mind when I discovered it.

Aphantasia, Hypophantasia, Phantasia and Hyperphantasia are all types of visual imagery which ranges from 'mind-blindness' to hyper realistic images.

In this podcast episode I'll be exploring:

What Aphantasia is and the scale it sits upon.

Why I thought I was blocked/broken and how freeing it felt to understand myself and the way that I thought.

How I work with EFT & Matrix reimprinting without a visual imagination.

The problem with aphantasia - when we question our experiences and allow it to be a block or reason to doubt ourselves

My experience of multisensory aphantasia

Understanding your multi sensory experience and how images, tastes, sights, smells, feelings can be trigger points for us and opportunities to go deeper

How we can adapt meditation as a Aphant


Let me know if this episode resonated with you!



Connect with Emily:

Emily is an Accredited, Certified Advanced EFT Tapping Practitioner specialising in Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating, with a background in movement and fitness. Her approach integrates the mind-body and uses a mixture of evidence-based practices, personal experience and intuition to help you move from frozen to free with effective, long lasting results. Find out more:

https://www.wearemindbody.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/wearemindbody/

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