Has anyone tried the "rewind" technique?

Yesterday my T suggested we might try the rewind technique. I've never heard about it before. Most of my bad memories aren't traumatic enough on their own, it's million of small things that caused my trauma, so at first I wasn't sure if this technique would be useful. However there may be one thing that could be processed in this way.
I was just wondering if any of you guys have done it? What was your experience like?

Here's the description The ‘rewind’ technique | Human Givens Institute

I have never tried it but it sounds interesting!
Are you open to trying it? If so, I would love to hear about it. I believe that no one technique or therapy works for everyone so different strokes for different folks

I may try this out of curiosity. I'll see how I do with visualisation and change of perspective. I'm not a huge fan of visualisation but I'm a curious person willing to try new things. I'll certainly share here how it went.

No I’ve never even heard of it. I will look it up.

My counselor has talked of something similar. He’s talked about me putting myself in a safe place and then imagining the screen and I have a control that controls the video.

He has suggested that I could watch an event on the screen from my safe place and not be a part of it.

My visualization doesn’t happen from me doing it, if that makes sense. It feels like something that I can’t do.

Could you please explain what you mean by this?
I'm too not sure how I'll handle this because I hate looking at myself (disgusted by my looks) and I have a history of dissociation and bad experience with meditation so I'm not too sure what "double dissociation" will do to me.

i see from the site you shared that this is a technique that originated from NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming).

*This technique originated from NLP and was often called the Visual/Kinaesthetic Dissociation technique, the term 'Rewind Technique' being originally coined by Dr David Muss.

i did something like this with my first T. she was certified in NLP therapy and would try some of the NLP techniques with me in my sessions. at the time i was a bit skeptical of NLP because the research i had done into it indicated that there was little evidence of its effectiveness. and quite honestly, i never found any of the techniques she used with me overly helpful, especially for reducing truama symptoms like calming my dysregulation or desensitising intrusive thoughts about my truama. like you, i also disassociate and when i started therapy with her i had no idea, and neither did she, that i was DID.

Yes, I think sometimes dissociation doesn't work for dissociation issues but I also read it should be safe for trauma. Although I've only read about using it for simple trauma, like accidents, phobias of specific things (snakes, flying) or victims of crimes. So far I haven't found a mention of using it for more complicated long term issues.

However I do have something that may be used. It's a memory of an incredibly stressful year when I was a victim of bullying at work for one year and I had all the symptoms of acute PTSD (nightmares, insomnia, hypervigilance,...) maybe I could treat this memory as a single event with a starting and ending point and treat it as a simple trauma using this technique.

I’m not sure if I can explain what I mean and it make sense.

Visualization has happened for me, in a visual way and an internal way.

Some things I can see and they seem and feel so real to me. It’s like I’m there and I can actually feel being there. I have experienced this by myself and with the voice leadership of my counselor.

Sometimes I can “visualize” something and I’m not really seeing it. I am “feel” seeing it. It’s an internal thing that I can’t really put words to. I have also experienced this on my own and with my counselor’s leading.

These have come on their own or “softly” in session. By softly I mean it just flowed into happening.

If he straight out asks me to visualize something, I feel a panicky feeling like I’m going to be in trouble if I can’t do it and it shuts it down.

I don’t know if that makes any sense or is of any help. It’s really hard for me to find words to explain.

That sounds pretty much like EMDR.
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Just curious.

How so?

Thank you, yes I know what you mean. I'm a little concerned about that too. And also not sure if I even like the images required. I'll ask my T to describe the whole process in advance so I can think wether I like it and make some changes in advance so everything we do feels right to me.

I've never heard of it but it does sound intriguing. I'd be willing to try it.

EMDR is done over and over again like that to reduce emotions to trauma.

I'll do it tomorrow, so I'll report here.

We tried it yesterday, didn't go very well. When I was supposed to dissociate, suddenly the aliens appeared. They said everything's going to be OK and at first I wasn't afraid. However when my T suggested to "let them help me" I got into a bad and deep derealisation and was very scared.... I woke up several times at night and had a nightmare about a huge fire in my town.
This might be a useful technique but definitely not for people who suffer from too much dissociation.

Do you guys think I should try to "make peace with my fear" by going there again? Or would it make me psychotic? I don't really like that my T suggested that but on the other hand I wonder if she's right? Should I face my fear? I get it if I was afraid of snakes or spiders, it would be great to work with that and eventually touch them etc. But aliens? Why would I imagine them? Why would I ever want to work with my childhood fear that's deeply buried in my unconscious? I'm afraid if I do that I might get psychotic (I'm not psychotic but I'm scared this might happen).
What's your opinion?