Matrix Reimprinting is a powerful and compassionate way of working with past experiences that still influence how we feel, react, and see ourselves today.
It was developed by EFT Master Karl Dawson and builds on the foundations of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). While EFT helps to calm the emotional charge around an experience, Matrix Reimprinting allows us to go a step further, to work directly with the memory itself and how it is held in the body and nervous system.
It is about resolving the past memory safely and respectfully, so it no longer runs the present, rather than reliving it painfully.
How Matrix Reimprinting works
Many of our current patterns such as anxiety, self-doubt, emotional reactivity, feeling unsafe or unworthy, have their roots in earlier experiences. Some of these experiences are obvious and significant. Others are quieter, easily dismissed, or remembered only as “that was just how it was”.
Matrix Reimprinting works by gently revisiting these moments with the support of tapping and guided awareness. Rather than pushing the memory away or trying to “reframe” it mentally, we work with the emotional and energetic imprint it left behind.
Clients often notice:
- a deep sense of compassion for their younger self
- a shift in long-held beliefs
- present-day reactions softening naturally
- The past is not erased, but it no longer feels active in the same way.
- Working with the future self
Matrix Reimprinting can also be used to work with a future version of yourself.
This allows us to gently “future pace” a situation, for example, feeling calmer in relationships, more confident at work, or more at ease in your body. By introducing the emotional state you would like to experience in the future, the nervous system can begin to recognise this as safe and achievable. Rather than pushing yourself to change, the system is supported in moving towards what it already knows is possible.
Big T and Small T trauma
Not all trauma feels equal in its essence, but maybe just as impactful, especially for a highly sensitive nervous system.
Small T trauma can include experiences that felt overwhelming, frightening, shaming or unsafe at the time, even if they were never acknowledged as “traumatic”. These experiences can quietly shape beliefs about ourselves and the world around us, influencing how we relate to others.
Big T trauma refers to more obvious events such as serious illness, loss, abuse, accidents or major disruptions. Matrix Reimprinting can be used with both. What matters is not the size of the event, but the impact it had on you.
Why this work can feel so transformative
Matrix Reimprinting allows space for something many people never received at the time:
- safety
- reassurance
- choice
- understanding
As these qualities are introduced into the memory, the nervous system often updates automatically. Situations which once triggered anxiety, fear or shutdown may lose their emotional charge. Change tends to feel organic rather than effortful.
What a session is like
Sessions are gentle, paced and collaborative. You remain fully present and in control throughout. We work with whatever feels ready and nothing is forced. Many people are surprised by how calm and contained the process feels, even when working with difficult situations. Matrix Reimprinting allows your system to move forward with greater ease and freedom.
Useful books and Links Karl Dawson is the author of two books on the subject which come highly recommended:
Matrix Reimprinting using EFT –rewrite your past, transform your future by Karl Dawson and Sasha Allenby
Transform your beliefs, transform your life- EFT tapping Using Matrix Reimprinting by Karl Dawson with Kate Kate Marillat
Heal your Birth, Heal your Life – Sharon King