Monday, June 28, 2010

Stress Survival and Somatic Emotional Acupressure

Overwhelming shock to our system must be suppressed and controlled within seconds. That means that the brain has to be flipping switches like mad to relay and divide, confuse, delete, you name it. Imagine. An overwhelming traumatic shock could be from accident, from violation, from any number of things, and often it is misunderstood by us at the time.

Dr. Hamer's German New Medicine approach says that the shock is coded in the brain as dark areas, and where those dark areas are will later determine where they will get diseases such as Cancer. It's an interesting premise, and he claims this after doing more than 10,000 brain scans. He suggests that finding and releasing the repressed tension will often shift them into a state of healing.

The Daily Guru observes: “Many of us are carrying repressed memories of unhealed emotional wounds or traumas from childhood and sometimes from past lives. As long as these things are repressed within you, they will be activated from time to time, pulling you out of Presence or simply preventing you from being present. The ego will be constantly on alert to protect you against a recurrence of these painful experiences. And if the ego is on alert, it will keep you in the world of the mind. These emotions and memories need to be allowed to surface into the light of consciousness for healing and release. When this occurs, we can say that the past is released from you and you are released from the past. This allows you to deepen and settle into the present moment.”

Now, I wouldn't call it the ego. The ego has gotten a bad wrap. But there is definitely a part of us on alert for when IT will happen again. Our entire survival system believes that IT will happen again-that's what antibodies are. They are the protection against the next invasion. So it stands to reason that the emotional self would do the same strategy. Remember Candace Pert's "Molecules of Emotion"? How about "The Biology of Belief" by Bruce Lipton. 

With the EnK / S.E.A. work, this is exactly what we do. I am specifically asking the body to access and release the repressed charge around events buried in the past. We are not engaging the story, we are releasing the charge. When, and if the memories come up, if repressed, they will surface in a manageable way. 

I've never thought that the best way to help someone with trauma in the past was to make them remember. If the body/mind self has made the decision that it was too much to recall, I have come to respect that wisdom. Don't push the river.

We can't solve the past with the conscious mind because the conscious mind doesn't hold the issue. The unconscious does. We think we can figure things out, find a solution, muscle ourselves, control it. None of those things work and they are time consuming and frustrating.
Sometimes they can even drive the trauma deeper.

Somatic Emotional Acupressure is a safe and effective way to deconstruct the charge even when you don't know what the truth of what happened is. Yet. Remember, the mind is influenced all the time-that's called learning. You might have a feeling, you might suspect. You might even have been told by a psychic some details of your past that you don't remember.

Never accept anything as a truth that hasn't come from yourself, and certainly not without exploring it further. Trust yourself. Your own body/self system remembers everything. If it feels like something happened, something did. The question is WHAT? And often, what was traumatic and overwhelming for the child isn't what the adult would consider. 

Here's a true example:
A young woman had a head on 50 mph car accident a year ago. Since then, she had been nauseated, dizzy, unable to work, unable to move without extreme vertigo. She had been to neurologists, doctors, chiropractors. She had neck pain and shoulder pain. Finally, she was referred to my office. Her body referenced 3 years old as the imprint moment that was active in her now, which means that the current state 'felt the same' to her inside self as something that happened at 3 years of age. She said "my parents got divorced." 

I said to her, "you body is saying that that car accident, head on at 50 mph felt the same, hit you with the same force and overwhelm as your parents divorce did when you were 3 years old." 

She blinked and her body began to release the trauma. At the end of an hour and a half, she was done. She got off the table, danced around the room and was completely clear and out of pain and vertigo. 

How? Because her body was responding to the signaling volume of the emotional response, not to the event. The body doesn't do story or sequential time. It stores bits of sensory information based on volume and resonance. If something NOW hits the same resonant emotional and sensory volume as the event in the past, for the body, it IS the same and it will begin to run the same autonomic survival strategy that it did the first time. If it worked once, it will work again.

Change the referencing field of influence, and you change the current state. Now, most clients take more than one session so this was truly dramatic but this has also happened more than once. It depends on how deeply the trauma is stored, and how much the conscious thinking mind is invested in distracting.

People that work the best with this technique are not afraid of feeling physical sensory information. Tight, tense, heavy, sticky, moving, stuck. People that are afraid of what is down inside and distract themselves with a very active intelligence, may take longer. They may have  more highly developed structures of distraction based on the need to stay safe by remaining in control. It all works if survival is the name of the game. At some point though we realize that with all that focus on survival we aren't really living. When the intelligence lets go of its need to control, we can find our way to peace. 

Surrendering to the process, and trusting that we do not need the old story, just a signal line and listening to the body as it talks in physical sensations, noticing how the energy moves, can be an amazing experience. Noticing the bits of memory fragments that seem random and unrelated shows what is in the 'file folder' accessed by the feelings. Letting go of the old patterns can allow us to move into more life. 

Each time the past is relinquished we have more life force energy to meet each day with. Comments I hear are "Colors are brighter", "I feel taller", "I can hear more", "I feel different", "I'm more here". I know what they mean. With one part of us constantly looking over our shoulder, we aren't living. We are existing. And we are existing in a state of negative expectation. Is it no wonder that we get it? We believe it will happen again and as long as there are active files that the body references, it will happen again, because the system is on alert for it, honed for it, just like the immune system is.