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--Bill O’Hanlon: You had a health crisis that led to you becoming a psychologist. Is that right?
--Francine Shapiro: I was about 30 years old. I was finishing up a PhD in English literature and then I got cancer. Norman Cousins’ work was coming out at that time on the effect of stress on the immune system. It made sense. The principles seemed valid but there weren’t techniques widely available to help. I remember thinking: ‘If we’re putting men on the moon, how come we weren’t able to deal with our minds and bodies?’ I had been out to California previously and it seemed cutting-edge approaches were available.
So I left my PhD program and went to California to look for answers. I attended workshops on body work and applied kinesiology, hypnosis, and meditation - a whole slew of things. Then I decided to look at the formal field of psychology and entered a PhD program. I had no intention of becoming a psychologist. I just wanted to see what the principles might be. My goal was to find out what works and get it out to the general public.
One day, I took a walk in the parkand noticed the effect of eye movements on myself. I wasn’t looking at anything, just walking, and I noticed that disturbing thoughts were disappearing. When I brought them back, they didn’t have the same charge. So I started paying close attention because I had been using my own mind and body as a laboratory for the past seven years. I noticed that when a disturbing thought came to mind, my eyes started moving y rapidly in a certain way, and I noticed the thought shifting.
Again, when I brought it back, it didn’t bother me anymore. I wondered if I could do it deliberately. So I brought up something that bothered me, moved my eyes in the same way, and I got the same results.
When I established that I could do it for myself, I wanted to see if it could work with anyone else. I gathered every warm body I could lay my hands on - people at school, folks I knew, and asked, “Do you have anything you want to work on that’s bothering you?” Not surprisingly, everyone did. I showed them how my eyes had moved, asked them to think of the disturbance and move their eyes, but found out most people didn’t have the muscle control to do it.
So I said, “Follow my fingers with your eyes.” I started guiding them, and I found that the eye movements began to take away anxiety, but it would often stop. So I started developing procedures to make the eye movements more effective.

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