What is RIM & What it Does  

As an advanced tool, RIM (Regenerating Images in Memory), is a mind-body transformational technique that quickly produces extraordinary results, freeing clients of negative self-limiting beliefs and memories, empowering them to live their best life. RIM is done as a closed-eye personal journey guided by an experienced practitioner. (think interactive guided imagery, and much, much more)  

Our health, relationships, professions, businesses, and finances are tied directly to our beliefs about ourselves and our world view, most of which was decided/programmed into our subconscious as children. While we can use affirmations and will-power to choose a new path, RIM actually updates the original “programming” to create the positive outcomes we want in every aspect of our life.  

We all experience emotional blocks. As a practitioner, you know that your clients are experiencing a wide range of blocks, fears, dislikes, meeting new people, speaking their mind, confronting difficult conversations, saying no, asking for help, coping with politics, news events, family dynamics, work relationships, and everyday life events and stresses. At a deeper level these blocks can be more debilitating like past abuse, traumas, past major life events, self-worth, money issues, and more. RIM works to remove the source without reliving the old stories.  

We often think we have these issues under control, because we think we understand them intellectually, and we "know" how to handle them, we've been coping for years, right? As you know, this does not mean our emotions don't still take over our decisions and actions. The reason is, emotions live in our body and surface in what appears to be unrelated circumstances. Most importantly, we may not even be aware of what's blocking us.  

As a whole-brain experience, RIM removes the need for the practitioner, or the client to intellectually "know" the issues that need to be dealt with. We trust the RIM process because our Emotional Operating System (EOS) knows exactly what needs to be dealt with first, without reliving old hurt and pain. As the blocks organically present themselves during the RIM process, they begin to automatically dissolve, allowing the client to move quickly and easily to sustainable results.  

How RIM Works  

Who Created RIM? Dr. Deborah Sandella Ph.D., RN, award-winning therapist, university professor, best selling author, and founder of the RIM Institute, created the RIM method out of years of practice as a psyche nurse, therapist, and professor. She has trained many RIM Facilitators in the US and abroad. The RIM process allows you to re-generate your neurologically grounded sense of self in a profound way. Neuroscience findings support the efficacy of RIM by explaining that the brain and nervous system is changeable. A researcher at the College of William and Mary discovered that recalling a memory, biochemically destabilizes it, so it can be recreated in an affirming way.  

Since your nervous system imprints an imagined experience similar to an actual experience, you can re-generate emotional body memories to create neurologically-rooted positive endings to old hurt and pain. All the while, factual memory remains stable. Finally, during the RIM process, you integrate a new body-centered feeling that automatically stimulates health in your mind, body and spirit. You begin to trust that life wants you to thrive and succeed. 

The RIM process works in a way that can be challenging to understand intellectually. Our left brain (our intellect, the voices in our heads) thinks, plots, manipulates, calculates, figures things out, and speaks in words and thoughts.  

Our right brain (our emotions and imagination) speaks in metaphors, images, emotions, feelings, etc. RIM uses the power of our imagination to translate and synthesize, bridging the gap between both sides, creating a powerful whole-brain experience.  

For example, since the left brain needs tangible information to understand something, the RIM facilitator uses language to guide you on your journey, allowing your imagination (right brain) to make emotions more tangible to the left brain, with qualities such as shapes, sizes and colors.  

Now we have something tangible for the left brain to understand and keep it occupied while it follows the right brain in some amazing "teamwork". At this point, the whole brain is completely engaged so resolutions can be explored, resolved, and dissolved, while valuable insights can be brought back for practical use in real life, while feeling totally different about underlying core issues.  

This can be likened to how your icons on your phone work. When you touch and hold a specific icon, all the icons begin to jiggle. This allows you to move, change, and delete any of the icons. Similarly, the RIM process can push on a memory (jiggly icons) allowing it to be changed, dissolved, removed, etc. without having to relive old hurt & pain.  

For a lack of a better word, RIM is a "short cut" to removing emotional and/or mental blocks holding you back from achieving your goals. Very often, the RIM method resolves these blocks through seemingly unrelated related issues. Why this is important, neither client nor facilitator know in advance where the session will go. Our Emotional Operating System (EOS) knows what needs to be dealt with and will get right to it. That is the beauty of RIM, it removes the guessing or needing to know what the underlining blocks are.  

Another important point about the RIM process is, it can be done via phone, Skype, or in person. In fact, most RIM sessions are done by phone or Skype.  

Who Created RIM? 

Dr. Deborah Sandella PhD, RN, award-winning therapist, university professor, best selling author, and founder of the RIM Institute, created the RIM method out of years of practice as a psyche nurse, therapist, and professor. She has trained many RIM Facilitators in the US and abroad. 

What is the purpose of offering RIM trainings?

We want to share the power of RIM and to explore the extent to which RIM can be utilized as an adjunct tool for therapists, coaches, social workers, counselors, nurses and other helping professions. To date, RIM has been an invaluable tool for practitioners for their own personal growth, and their clients.  

We believe many practitioners are seeking ways to cut through the layers of emotional and mental minutia holding back their clients from whatever they are trying to achieve. We know that all decisions are emotional and these emotions live in the body. RIM cuts to the chase.  

Currently, a variety of professionals including coaches, therapists, social workers, nurses, teachers, corporate trainers and the like are using RIM as an adjunct tool with astonishing results. We want you to experience RIM to know if you or your clients would benefit from learning this groundbreaking mind-body tool. Dr. Deborah Sandella PhD, RN, award-winning therapist, university professor, best selling author, and founder of the RIM Institute, created the RIM method out of years of practice as a psyche nurse, therapist, and professor. She has trained many RIM Facilitators in the US and abroad.  

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