Dealing with your emotions after a traumatic event

Energy Healing offers a means to access the emotional part of our brain and to release traumatic memories from the body.

What happens in our bodies and our brain when we perceive a threatening situation or we have been through a traumatic situation?

The amygdala, which is part of the limbic or emotional brain, sends adrenaline and other hormones into the blood stream. Feelings of anger, rage, fear, avoidance and defensiveness are involved in this part of the brain. The amygdala is what inspires the freeze reaction, sweaty palms, and muscles to tense, protective postures or facial expressions.

Traumatic events or situations can be overwhelming experiences. Trauma can be a series of events, abuse, and fear produced by a critical and unsupportive parent or anything that produces a feeling of helplessness. Our bodies store these traumatic events in our unconscious survival memory centers.

When we experience sensations, images, smells, sights or anything that reminds us of the trauma, our body reacts as if being a present threat. Our brains are unable to release this message of threat that it is receiving and shows up as symptoms of fear and anxiety. The traumatic experience still exists in our brain and contains the emotional and conscious memory traces of the event.

Most people that have gone through a traumatic situation do not want to keep re-living it. Something may trigger the release of the stored emotions from the event and the person reacts without knowing why. Instead of having to talk about a trauma and continually bring up emotions, energy-based therapies offer a healing sequence for releasing stuck fear patterns and brings a sense of calm.

Energy-based techniques that are done in a specific sequence can help persons with post-traumatic stress syndrome, chronic patterns of fear, panic and anxiety. This causes a shift in their energetic field allowing the fear-based energetic patterns to shift to a new response of calm and compassion. This feeling of calm helps to produce the relaxation response, thus allowing our bodies to heal.

This technique is great for anyone that has gone through any sort of traumatic situation or accident. This was developed as a technique to be used for the “Ready for the Return” of soldiers coming back from war and also for their family and friends. It has also been used with victims of hurricane disasters with great results.

This particular sequence can provide long lasting effects for people with PTSD, panic attacks, chronic anxiety and obsessive thinking. Each time that this technique is used, it has a cumulative effect as energetic changes last from one session to another.

For more information about this technique or other energy based therapies, please visit http://www.synergisticcenter.com
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Sue Heldenbrand BS, CHTP, CIET

Lafayette, La.

energyworker2003@yahoo.com

Sue became involved with Healing Touch in 1998 and received her certification as a Healing Touch practitioner in 2002.  She is also a Certified Integrated Energy Therapy Practitioner, a Reiki Practitioner, Trauma Release and a Quantum Touch Practitioner.  She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Personnel Management from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.  She has been a guest speaker for numerous organizations, as well as presenting at state conferences.  Sue has written articles on energy work for alternative and complementary newsletters. She has developed material and has been a trainer for education classes for child care providers in several cities in Louisiana since 2003.   She has been able to integrate energy- based therapies into local hospital’s operating and recovery rooms as well as providing these therapies to newborn babies at a local hospital.  As a volunteer at health fairs and cancer survivor retreats offering energy based therapies, Sue has gained experience in dealing with a variety of health challenges.  Sue is also an Instructor at Blue Cliff College and has helped conduct workshops with local hospitals and hospice for caregivers.

Training in an advanced Healing Touch technique for PTSD (“amygdala connection”) proved helpful for recovery personnel dealing with the aftermath of hurricanes as they dealt with anxiety, confusion, sleeping disturbances, undiagnosed pain and other symptoms of acute stress disorder. Trauma Release is helpful for health providers to reduce secondary stress effects of working with traumatized clients or in trauma settings like hospitals, first response settings, disasters, battle zones, etc.

Sue’s private clientele includes World War II and Iraqi war veterans, abuse victims and other individuals reporting symptoms of stress from life-threatening illnesses, chronic pain, accidents, and the death of loved ones. As a volunteer working with cancer survivors and hospital personnel, Sue has assisted individuals dealing with the trauma of their illness.

Sue has a private practice in Lafayette, Louisiana.

http://www.SynergisticCenter.com