Trauma is defined as emotional, psychological or physiological symptoms that result from events that overwhelm the nervous system. Feelings of being out of control or helplessness may result after a traumatic experience.
This could be something as seemingly non life-threatening, but traumatic none the less as a dental or medical procedure, falls, or minor car accidents.
Whenever someone has experienced trauma, whether it’s from a particular event, accident, series of traumatic events or being in a traumatic and stressful environment, our brains may still perceive messages of being in danger. In a situation when we feel that we are in danger, the regions of our brain that are responsible for our survival are activated.
When a state of helplessness and lack of control accompanies negative life experiences, our brains are unable to rid themselves of the messages of threat. All of the experiences that accompanied these traumatic events are mainly stored in our unconscious survival memory centers. Our bodies may re-experience these memories in the form of body sensations, muscle bracing, images, smells, stomach and heart sensations, etc.
The conscious memories of traumatic emotional events are linked to emotions and sensations of the body, and show up as symptoms of fear, rage or anxiety. A person who has had a traumatic event may still have memories and body sensations when exposed to cues which are a reminder of the traumatic even, as is seen in PTSD.
Even after a trauma has been experienced, sights, smells, similar events and situations may be perceived as being a present threat, even though our logical brain realizes that the experience is actually over. The part of our brain that processes and stores these memories is the right-sided limbic or emotional brain.
When our brains are in a high state of arousal due to danger, the left side of the brain that serves logical thought and particularly speech is relatively shut down. You don’t need words to initiate the fight/flight/freeze response.
By helping areas in the body to communicate and become re-aligned and balanced energetically, we are able to help eliminate those memories cues that cause a “fight, flight or freeze reaction.” There are techniques available that do not require verbal responses such as in Healing Touch that help to extinguish the portions of traumatic memory with ease, without having to “re -live the experience”.
This new healing sequence can de-activate stuck reactive patterns to perceived life-threatening situations. Using Healing Touch techniques in a specific sequence, persons with post-traumatic stress syndrome, chronic patterns of fear, panic and anxiety are assisted to shift out of their fear-based energetic patterns. This shift opens energetic pathways for a new response of calm and compassion to previously perceived threatening situations.
This is great for anyone that has gone through any sort of traumatic situation or accident. This technique was developed to be used for the “Ready for the Return” of soldiers coming back from war and also for their family and friends.
Some persons with PTSD, panic attacks, chronic anxiety and obsessive thinking do not receive short or long term changes from energy based therapies. This particular sequence can provide long lasting changes in one session. When this technique is used again, it has a cumulative effect as energetic changes that last from one session to another. Each subsequent session will start from the new energetic state, not from the original place as the first session.
In addition, there are programs available that work with understanding the natural defensive responses to relieve the traumatic stress symptoms through
stabilizing the nervous system.One program in particular that Sue attended is called TOP (Trauma Outreach Program.For information on Energetic Trauma Release Workshops, CLICK HERE
