I'm just being introduced to it too cpa3485. I finally had the courage to try it last week. Right now we are working on making a "container" for all my emotions and stuff that needs to be worked on. So we started by me visualising all my thoughts going from my head into a safe container and as we work in the next few months we will pick one out at a time to deal with.

My T is going very slow with me, so it's not straight into the EMDR and processing memories, i need to learn containment, how to feel safe first, how to not get overwhelmed, how to cope with my emotions etc so it's going to be a loooong process lol But an exercise we did last week was imagining a place where i feel safe, holding that place in my mind and where i feel it in my body, trying to feel all the sensations of that safe place. As i held that image in my mind my T tapped my feet right to left for a few minutes ( this is the bi-lateral beats or something) After that she asked me to think of the emotion shame and asked what image represented shame for me, then we did the tapping thing again with the image, she stopped and asked if the image changed any and then more tapping. If any emotion came up i had to tell her and she'd stop and get me to visualise putting that emotion into the "containment box" to be processed at another time. Right now we are just looking at the emotion not feeling them.

I have put up such a fight over doing EMDR cos i just haven't felt safe enough to try but actually it was ok and quite relaxing for me....