In therapy, memory reconsolidation is often seen as an essential way to help people change their emotions and behaviors. However, most current therapy methods focus on explicit memory reconsolidation, which involves memories we can consciously recall. They often ignore implicit memory systems that shape our emotions and relationship patterns without awareness.
AXPT™ Therapy (Adaptive Experiential Processing & Transformation Therapy) stands out because it directly works with implicit memory reconsolidation. Unlike traditional methods, AXPT™ helps change deep-seated automatic patterns in our minds.
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Memory Reconsolidation: Explicit vs. Implicit
Explicit Memory Reconsolidation:
- Explicit memory is the ability to remember facts, events, and experiences that we can think about clearly. This includes details about a specific incident or a story about a traumatic event.
- In psychotherapy, traditional memory reconsolidation often works with explicit memories. This process involves activating and combining these memories with new insights or emotional experiences.
- Exposure therapy, cognitive reframing, and narrative therapy help change specific memories.
Why Explicit Memory Isn't Enough:
- Updating explicit memories can help us understand things better, but it often does not deal with the unconscious emotions and automatic reactions that come from implicit memory.
- Implicit memory works without our awareness. It helps us learn patterns, such as how we respond to fear, behave in relationships, and believe in our self-worth.
- Even if you know you are safe in a relationship, your past experiences can make you feel mistrustful or insecure. This can lead to ongoing emotional struggles.
Implicit Memory Reconsolidation:
- Implicit memories are formed early in life and through meaningful emotional experiences. These memories affect how we feel, interact with others, and respond to situations, often without knowing why.
- To create real change, we need to target and update implicit memory. Current therapy models often need to catch up on this critical step.
How AXPT Therapy™ Transforms Implicit Memory
AXPT Therapy™ provides a simple and effective way to improve implicit memory. It is different from traditional methods in the following ways:
Targeting Implicit Patterns:
- AXPT™ targets the unconscious patterns we hold in our memory. This includes our emotional reactions, how we relate to others, and the beliefs we form without realizing it.
- A person with chronic self-doubt doesn’t just think, “I’m not good enough.” They also feel it in their body and automatically act in ways that support this belief. AXPT focuses on changing this automatic reaction.
Experiential Engagement:
- AXPT™ uses hands-on methods to help people understand their hidden thoughts and patterns. This differs from traditional talk therapies, which focus on discussing conscious thoughts.
- Clients participate in role-playing activities that put them in meaningful situations. These experiences help to bring up deep-seated memories in real-time.
Contradictory Adaptive Experiences:
- Once we activate hidden patterns, AXPT™ provides experiences that help change emotions. These experiences directly challenge the old, unhelpful patterns stored in our memories.
- Someone who remembers being abandoned may create a fake relationship where they feel supported and valued. This helps them form new, positive emotions.
Rewriting Implicit Memory:
- AXPT™ helps the brain change old habits by creating experiences that allow it to learn new, healthier patterns.
- This process happens without you being aware of it. However, clients often feel lighter, freer, and more empowered. This shows that the change is real and lasting.
Why Current Psychotherapy Falls Short?
Most therapy methods focus on explicit memory because it is easier to access and discuss using words. However:
- Implicit memory stores our emotional experiences and relationships. Therefore, we need to change more than our explicit memory to make significant, lasting changes.
- Current methods need more practical tools to engage and update implicit memory. This leaves clients trapped in their automatic habits, even when they have gained intellectual insights.
- AXPT™ provides a clear and organized way to help improve implicit memory. It ensures that changes happen where they are most needed.
The Neuroscience Advantage of AXPT Therapy™
Direct Access to Implicit Memory:
- AXPT Therapy™ uses hands-on techniques to help people access and process deep memories that are often unspoken and unconscious.
- Clients can transform profoundly When they activate patterns in a safe and controlled environment.
Integrated Approach:
AXPT Therapy™ uses insights from neuroscience, hands-on methods, and emotional involvement. This approach helps treat the whole person—mind, body, and emotions.
Lasting Change:
- When clients update their implicit memory, they experience automatic and natural changes. They don’t have to struggle or force themselves to behave differently.
- This helps build genuine relationships, improves emotional management, and frees us from old, limiting habits.
AXPT™ Therapy: A New Era in Psychotherapy with Wellspring Counselling
Wellspring Counselling & Psychotherapy Inc. offers AXPT™ Therapy, a neuroscience-based method that goes beyond the limits of traditional memory work by directly addressing how we hold memories. AXPT Therapy™ can help you make profound changes in your emotions and relationships.
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