HAVENING

The Havening Technique was developed by US neuroscientist* Ronald Ruden
First is emotional content of the [traumatic] event by imaginal recall ... A gentle and soothing touch is then applied to the upper arms, palms and around the eyes. It produces an extrasensory response of safety that arises from the evolutionary equivalent of what a mother’s touch does at the time of birth. It is innately wired. Concurrently with havening touch the therapist distracts the individual. Since the mind cannot hold two thoughts simultaneously, the use of distraction displaces the recalled event from working memory and prevents it from re-activating the amygdala."
In an article for Dentistry ,  Ruden provides a more elaborate account of the havening process, in which the patient is stroked, rolls and shifts their eyes, takes deep breaths and sings Old McDonald Had a Farm. The eye-movement part is reminiscent of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), a form of trauma therapy which is controversial but is supported by evidence
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