Although a very powerful healing tool, EMDR can sometimes cause client to have an overwhelming emotional experience. Recognizing need of many clients for a more gradual approach to dealing with their feelings, Vancouver-area clinicians Audrey Cook (no relation) and Dr. Rick Bradshaw developed an experimental offshoot to EMDR called One Eye Integration or OEI. OEI has in common with EMDR client visually tracking therapist’s fingers, and fact that they both operate on root of problem rather than just provide symptomatic relief.

Unlike EMDR, OEI uses a procedure called “switching” that involves covering and uncovering one eye at a time. This procedure takes advantage of fact that we often experience strong negative emotion differently when one eye is open, compared to when other eye is open. Try this by covering one eye and then other with inside corner of your palm, next time you feel upset. If you do notice more intensity in one eye than other, quickly switch away to calmer eye, and stay there as long as you need to calm down before switching back.

There are currently only two clinicians practising OEI on Vancouver Island at present time. Contact either me (881-1206) or clinical counsellor, Tanya Bedford (213-1455) for more information.

Low Carb Diet Can Produce Significant Weight Loss

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The Duke study shows part of why diet is so popular, it can produce significant weight loss. It also produces it without a lot of annoying calorie counting and irritability associated with diets.

Known for Easy Weight Loss

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"You're not as hungry as with other diets, and that is a really good thing," says Jenny Anderson, an Internet consultant from Mamaroneck, N.Y., who is on diet. "That makes it easier to stay on it. So does seeing results fairly quickly. One bad thing is that it forbids caffeine, and I had a lot of bad headaches from coffee withdrawal."

Another drawback to low-carb diet is its severely limited menu options.

"At first, eggs and bacon in butter for breakfast every day is fun, but day after day of only meat and fat at every meal can get tiresome," says Anderson.

So therein lies controversy. On one hand you have lots of stories of significant weight loss on a relatively user-friendly diet. On other, you have dietitians and nutritionists who maintain that weight loss produced is short-term and can threaten a person's overall health, despite fact that weight loss itself may have beneficial effect of lowering cholesterol.

Who is right? Maybe both sides. It provides weight loss at a very high cost to overall health, or at least that has been prevailing medical opinion.

Low Carbohydrate Diet May Not Be As Bad As We Thought

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"There have been reports in medical literature that say that this low-carb diet may not be as bad as we thought," says Susan Barr, registered dietitian in New York City. "That makes people interested again in this diet, but until there is more research on what stresses diet places on body, there is no way to know what it might be doing besides providing short-term weight loss.