Last month, I promised readers that I would share methods that I have found effective in releasing stored trauma. To do this will mean that I will have to break the larger method up into smaller bite-sized chunks since the overall system is enough to fill a book. For now, these are the basics of one important method for you to use in your own work at home.
First Things First
By now you probably know that you not only have a body, but you also have an energetic template that meshes perfectly with your body that allows your consciousness to focus itself in the physical body.
The soul, which is beyond the time construct, lives in time as a focus courtesy of the projection it creates that allows it to mesh with the physical body. This projection is like a series of nonphysical bodies that allow for a broad range of experience and expression to occur. These bodies are in truth aspects of a still larger awareness, bodies that each deal with different aspects of experience. The ancients described these bodies as the mental body, the emotional body, the karmic body, the pranic of light body, and so on.
The light body is one important interface between the physical and nonphysical. It is itself not physical, but can manipulate and create with energy that also happens to stimulate and guide the endocrine system, which are the glands that help stimulate healing and govern emotional well being. This energy changes form depending on how it’s needed. Most of the time we are all so enmeshed in what’s happening that this reality escapes us. In the body this energy is most often experienced as prana or chi (qi) and we are most aware of it during contemplation and healing work. This is but one state of the energy because energy can become anything when consciousness is in the process of creating with it. So that’s the baseline.
The big challenge for most who slumber, unawakened, and even those who are awake, is how this template, that is a projection that focuses us in the body, can become cluttered with thought forms. These serve to disrupt a clearer flow of awareness from soul to body and from soul to all the different parts of the self (intellect, reason, id, ego, emotions, feelings/beliefs, etc.).
Clearing the blocks that exist serves to bring us closer to the light of our souls and the kingdom that is within each of us. Maybe that sounds like woo-woo to you, but is precisely what it does. Welcome to the next world, folks. When you can dissolve these blocks, which are made up of thoughts, beliefs, and feelings that serve to, in some way, limit and divide you from yourself, the pathway or channel to the awakened state can more easily emerge. This is precisely what kundalini yoga, pranayama yoga, and all other yogas seek to do, which is to help clear the light body of these old conflicts expressed as blocked energy. They are called blocks because if you do not clear them before awakening, when the energy of prana (kundalini) does move, it is like bringing your baggage into a wind tunnel.
The act of awakening, itself, is a substantive union of opposites in consciousness, which IS this energetic flow. It is being triggered naturally in many people who often unwittingly remove enough divisive psychological material so that the energy appears to “rise.” There are numerous ways that this union of self begins, but it always revolves around an act or event that catalyzes a reduction in inner division of one kind or another.
What I have developed is a master method (made up of a series of methods used together) which is at its root similar to the same goals that yogic traditions such as pranayam and kundalini yoga have which is clearing the nonphysical pathways (called and nadi and also meridians in the Indian and Chinese systems, respectively) to make the presence of awakening easier or smoother.
The first method that I will describe to you appears to be much more effective at cleansing the light body of blocks than the eastern methods have been, at least for the average person. Those currently using this method do not know that this can be an important first step to awakening (which is as it should be). This is one case where a contemporary method trumps a thousands’ year set of yogic methods or tradition. If you haven’t caught on to it yet, my hope in developing this system is to provide an effective and efficient means to clear stored material that is holding the majority of humanity in a certain level of consciousness.
The idea that awakening is only for the special chosen few sounds preposterous and the height of arrogance to me. This is each of our birth right to know this level of awareness, and it’s emergence in this time is critical for our survival.. Further, the race needs this as a whole if we are to keep a balance with the pace that technology is taking in its development. We must, I feel, learn to extend our reach and improve our grasp as humans so that neither exceeds the capacity of the other (thank-you, Nicola Tesla).
Understand that when you are dealing with old systems from other cultures, you can wind up with inefficiencies as well as cultural biases and beliefs that can limit experience for all who follow them. To start with, many gurus in India operate under the belief that you cannot awaken without a guru or that anything you try without a guru will be wrong (I’m paraphrasing an Indian guru who writes on WordPress, so this is not an exaggeration). Obviously, we know that this is not correct because of the thousands of us who have awakened without yoga or a practice, let alone a guru. Having others more experienced around you is helpful, but it’s not a must. You simply have to be clear enough to hear your own soul communicating to you amidst the remaining static from the “baggage” remaining.
One class of blockage that occurs in the light body is stored trauma. This can be just about anything. Your birth may have been traumatic. Someone disciplining you for the first time as a child using a stern voice may have felt traumatic. Whenever we encounter something that causes us to resist feeling it, this becomes a stored experience. In fact, the experience doesn’t need to be that bad; if there is enough belief that it’s terrible or bad, the block is stored. This, by the way, is what many people wind up experiencing in awakenings where they might struggle for days, weeks, or even years (yes years!) with a stored block only to find that it was itself built entirely on a misperception or belief about how they viewed an event in the past. These are what I call, in my own work, “the mouse that roars.” That is, it was never so big than it was in our own belief or thoughts about it.
The effect of releasing this stored material is that you can see the world as it really is to the degree that you release this overburden of material within.
Without it, life is being viewed in much the same way as my pinhole camera picture only reveals a limited and distorted view of what we each think we are and what our existence is. I have had a front row seat to see how this lack of awareness manifests in people through an inability to see how their actions bring drama and cause harm, or how their inability to be honest limits their lives and hurts those they claim to love. So blinded are these people they cannot see that they are hurting others…and they wonder why their lives are a mess. It winds up being the fault of others so long as these people remain in the trap of their own trauma, unable to look at themselves honestly and have that “come to Jesus” moment which is so important for undoing years of junk. What I’m proposing will help to release this burden immediately and can be put into use on a daily or weekly basis to eliminate the material that blinds and binds us.
The wonderful thing about this work is that you have a “get out of jail free” card that comes in the form of a series of somatic exercises that allows you to bypass the trauma and effectively toss it to the curb without so much as dirtying your hands. While there may be a few instances where encountering a block directly could prove effective in its release, the vast majority can simply be let go. Your conscious mind does not always need to know the contents of your subconscious in order to let things go; it only needs to be willing to participate in letting it all go so that it can set its sights on a future that is brighter and not bearing the limits that these blocks put on the self and it’s awareness of the soul.
That said; a background on the method….
Most mammals share a triadic coping mechanism for dealing with stress and trauma. Humans, however, do not share this mechanism in the same way as animals in the wild do. When animals experience severe trauma their nervous system instigates a coping mechanism that takes the form of nervous shaking immediately following a traumatic experience. Researchers have found that this helps release the emotional energy and keeps it from being stored.
Normally the coping mechanisms humans have are fight, flee, or freeze when a traumatic experience comes our way. Most often we freeze. When we do this, we are actively storing the energy we are feeling, and this energy is not stored in the brain, it’s shoved aside, annexed, to reside in the body.
That last statement is something of a stumbling block for some people because as Westerners, we have been taught to believe that all past experience resides in the brain. But what the ancients have observed for thousands of years, modern psychological and neuroanatomy research is only just beginning to recognize. What we are slowly catching on to is that the body has a capacity for storing memory, and thus far, it appears to be emotionally-based memory.
My research has led me to find, based on the urgings of my higher self in meditation, the clues about how this is so. When I was writing a section in my manuscript about methods for assisting the clarifying effect that awakenings have in regards to these blocks, I had a series of synchronicity events where an important method fell into my lap three times over the span of two days. This unusual discovery led me on a hunt to find supporting evidence for why we store memory in this way, and how we can release it.
This hunt led me to two important clues to the body’s connection with memory, which is that the body has neurons located all through it (and you thought neurons were just in the brain!) as well as research that shows that memory is stored in organs such as the liver, kidney, and heart.
The research that is being done in the arena of organs storing memory has to do with the curious capacity donor organs have to transfer memory and personality traits to those receiving the donated organ. Bear in mind that nearly all organ donation is done anonymously so as to protect the family members of the donor from unwanted intrusion from strangers receiving the organs.
Notable cases involve a murder that was solved because the child who received the organ began having dreams that revealed the last things the donor saw before their death (which included the name and description of the murderer). One recipient was able to locate her donor’s obituary, and another had both her sexual orientation change to the choice of her donor as well as her food preferences (going from lesbian to straight, and vegetarian to meat-eating).The research in this area is fascinating, and I feel is helping to show how it is that emotional memory is being stored.
This research has become a substantive body of work which I wrote about on this blog several years ago and will add the link to at the end of this article so you can see for yourself.
By finding the most effective way of mimicking what the animals do to release trauma, you can begin digging down into your own body to release this overburden that every human on the earth lives with but is largely unaware of.
The Method
Position yourself on a comfortable surface such as a yoga mat or firm flat futon, lying on your back. You can support the base of your spine by rolling up a towel or firm pillow to raise you bottom up into the air about four to eight inches if you want. Begin to relax by breathing slowly and deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth until you find yourself feeling like you have made the transition to a more relaxed state. This step is necessary for all that follows.
Let yourself sink into a relaxed and quiet state where your busy mind slows down. Imagine floating down a lazy river with the warm sun beating down on your skin; you feel like you don’t have a worry in the world. Keep breathing nice and deep so you can relax deeply, too.
Now, with your feet flat on the floor, raise your buttocks upwards so that your feet and legs are supporting most of the weight of your body on them. Your feet might curve to rest more on the balls of your feet for support. You only need to lift your body up a few inches. Support yourself in this way until you begin to feel your legs shaking. This is essentially an effort to fatique muscles so you shake. This may take some time to achieve. Also, you can induce mild trembling to strong shaking, and this works just as well.
Most often, you will feel like you should reposition yourself in order to stop shaking, but with this method you need to stay with the shaking for enough time that it can do its work, which is to begin to release stored material.If you center weight on your legs, you can eleviate any stress to the lower back muscles in the event that you have a history with lower back problems.
Do this exercise for as long as you are comfortable, with repetitions of a few minutes each, with up to three to five minutes being optimal if you can do it for this length of time. Fifteen minutes at a time is optimal. Once the shaking begins, it is enough to stir you and begin to release material.
You want to avoid physical strain and remain in the “sweet spot” of shaking for at least several minutes at a time or as long as you are physically comfortable doing so. Mammals in the wild shake an average of fifteen minutes.Just follow your own comfort level. The shaking is the thing.
As you do this, increasingly find your breathing going into your lower diaphragm and begin to open the lower solar plexus up by breathing this way. As you are shaking, you might feel emotions rising to the surface. When you breathe, give those emotions a voice in simple ways. It could be gutteral, it could be something different, but let whatever emotion rises be given a voice. Instead of going deep into the emotion, you are helping to release it, to let it express and then go. Don’t let yourself feel self-conscious if you can help it; this is a path to positive self care, so let yourself explore this area. Don’t censor yourself; this is all about acknowledging the feeling in order to let it go. This is different from marinating in the feeling.
To get deep into how trauma is stored, it’s useful to understand some of the muscles involved and their proximity to the more emotionally charged energy centers of solar plexus, sacral, and root chakras.
The set of muscles you are using that causes most of she shaking are the legs and an area of the pelvis that is situated in your hips The interesting thing here is that it is this region of the body where a lot of our earliest trauma can be stored from childhood.this is where the solar plexus ends, the sacral begins, and the root is close by. This exercise helps to clear this region most effectively and is being used to treat PTSD.
Another posture is possible if lying on your back doesn’t work for you. This position is done while standing.
Position yourself so that your back is against a wall, and then slide down from a standing position to one that is just above the position that you have when sitting in a chair. This posture is meant to fatigue your legs and hips so that you begin to shake or tremble. When you do both of these methods correctly, you will feel like you are getting a real work out both physically and emotionally!
One big plus for doing release work of this kind is that your physiological reactions to stress and anxiety can change significantly for the better by removing the root cause of the stress, anxiety, or depression to begin with. If you have been on antianxiety medication, this could be a great way to finally reduce the load of stress or anxiety so that the medication might not be needed (since it is possible to release the store trauma that may have been causing the condition to begin with).
Sometimes it can be helpful to have someone with you whom you trust who can sit with your head in their lap as they cradle your head and help to let you know that everything is going to be okay. You have been suppressing these emotions and it’s not unusual to feel vulnerable when they bubble up. Very often, you won’t know what these emotions are tied to, but letting them bubble up releases them for all time.
Another benefit to this method is that once you release something, you will feel a measure of relief and clarity. If it’s a block that is central to many of your problems that you have in life, the bad feelings surrounding this will go away and you will feel like a new person where this old issue is concerned. I describe this experience as erasing an old program in my subconscious that has been running on its own on auto pilot for years, giving me all kinds of grief. Once it’s gone, the fear or anger or stuck feeling is gone as well. Just like that.
This method is the least invasive of any method I can think of for releasing stored emotional material. It is important to not resist whatever comes up. It was resistance that stored the material in the first place, and no matter how bad you think a feeling might be, your acceptance will always be the key that allows you to cope with just about anything. Once you do, it will be gone, and it will only be a dim memory within a matter of days. You will have shifted your own probable time line. Sounds like a big deal, but we do this with every decision that we make.
It is worth mentioning that other methods that achieve the same result often work with moving the body. In the practice of pranayam, pumping the stomach is a method that gets close to the shaking in the body that this method achieves. Chi Gong is a body movement method that works with the human energy field by using energy and body movement together to stir and release blocks. But for sheer speed and efficiency, the leg shaking method can’t be beat.
If you find that you can’t do the leg shaking method I have just described, I will be including more of the methods that go to make up the “master method” which are a constellation of exercises and therapies designed to clear blocked material fast.
One very simple way to feel whether you are healed in a given issue or area is to simply gauge how you feel about something. Are you resisting it? When you feel yourself needing to pull away from something to keep from feeling it, there is something not yet healed. The Zen concept of “Zero” which is often called today as the “Zero Point” is what happens when pent up material is released. Healing happens when you reach neutrality, which is a deep state of balance which is achieved block by released block.
Now I have an admission to make: I was not altogether truthful about the number of coping mechanisms that we have available to us. I recalled that they were fight, flight, and freeze. To be truthful, there is another “f” word and it’s central to never building trauma to begin with. I promise that I’ll cover this important coping state in my very next post.
So begin trying this method and let me know what your experience is with it. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask. Until next time, light-bearers…
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http://www.paulpearsall.com/info/press/3.html
Waking The Infinite 
interesting, I use a lot of different methods to release any traumas or emotions, this one I haven’t tried yet, if I will I will let you know . 🙂
Hi there, thanks for your comment. Like you, I have used many different methods, too. The challenge for me has been trying to explain them since they often involve subtle manipulations of feeling…and saying “just surrender” can get old, lol! I’d love to compare notes, though, or read about what’s worked for you.
[…] good ways to release trauma, the source of these issues. I have a good trauma release exercise HERE . Chi Gong is helpful as are other forms of movement to free up emotional armoring. Body work […]
Priceless. I have gathered roughly the same information as you mentioned, but all of it was still in a haze of “feeling knowingness” and I am not able to express it as articulately as you do, even to myself. So thank you. I highly appreciate everything you write here, it resonates strongly with that deep, instinctual “being” inside. And I bow to that. Please, please keep on writing.
I am glad that it has helped, Eve. No matter whether you can articulate it to your own satisfaction isn’t the important part, that you can feel onto it and relate from a feeling way is.
After reading a lot of discussion, and doing a lot of these kinds of activating modalities – dynamic meditation, breathwork, bioenergetics, etc – I would like to offer a more critical perspective here. There is a growing debate going on around this kind of approach to therapy/healing. Even in more conservative medical circles, there seems to be agreement that certain things can be used to activate the system, and bring about various reactions. With breathing, movement, dance, drumming, “energy” work, drugs, and so on. It is quite well understood at this point, from a scientific perspective, why doing these “activating” things can often have a fairly reliable range of reactions – from physical, emotional, mental, “energetic” (electrical)
The debate is mostly around what is actually happening when we do these things, and whether there is solid evidence for sustained healing – and if it is helpful (and even harmful) for certain people with certain issues.
For example, the language used within these kinds of alternative modalities is that by doing these things, we are “accessing” “old” “blockages” and “releasing” them so that there is more integration, flow, alignment, awakening and so on.
But one of the critical questions is whether we are actually unlocking old blocked trauma/blockages, or whether we are stirring up the system, and with the various reactions, which can be strong sometimes, assuming that they must be related to various known/unknown traumas in our past. Memories and thoughts and sensory input may be attached to purely physical/emotional/electrical reactions.
And the feeling of calm, joy, peace, clarity, lightness, etc that often follow, can be explained by the same reliable chemical reaction that ensues from these activating exercises.
Which could explain why they are almost always short lived – much like a drug experience has an ending – these activating exercises have an ending.
It is often described as expansion and contraction, with spiritual/energetic meanings, leading towards greater and greater expansion and awakening.
But the medical/science perspective is suggesting that it is mainly (or entirely) chemical/physical.
And while these cathartic experiences certainly can lead to big activation and release, and that can lead to real changes in thinking/feeling/life issues – there is question as to how effective it has been on the whole, how indelible those changes actually are, and what is actually going on when doing this kind of thing.
I can say personally, in the last 3 years or so, having done a lot of these things, there have been many experiences, insights, and so on.
But barely anything has shifted as far as the underlying issues of anxiety, depression, tension, life structure, relationships and so on.
My sense is that it may not actually be that we have this set of stored/blocked traumas and experiences, which are waiting to be accessed and released, and then there is this magical Flow.
If it were the case, presumably people would reliably transform considerably and noticeably as they are working through all of these various blockages.
And of course some clearly do, whether it is directly from that, or some combination of therapy, time, willpower, life changes, luck, health, etc.
But I have seen far more getting stuck in a rut of repeating activation/release/buildup patterns. Getting attached to activation/release. And really not changing much in their day to day lives.
Something I hear/read regularly, is that I keep doing these things, activating, releasing, feeling better, and then I’m back to the usual.
And not only that, but regular activation of this kind also seems to have the effect of generating an ongoing pattern of build up which then needs to be addressed with more activation and so on.
Whether this is because it starts a process of clearing which eventually lessens, or whether this is more of a chemical/bio phenomenon which “subsides” when we do less activating exercises, is another area of debate.
Another issue is whether this kind of activating pattern is helpful, and perhaps harmful, for some people.
For example, does everyone benefit from activating the system, which can be quite draining and destabilizing, regardless of what issues they are dealing with.
Within these modalities, there tends to be a belief that it is natural, it is intelligent, and it is healing/helpful for all people.
I would definitely challenge those notions.
Bottom line – there is an ongoing and growing discussion about this whole field.
And I hope everyone will get informed and keep an open mind.
I would be interested to know the author’s reaction/opinions around all of this.
And other people within any of these fields, as well as anyone reading this.
Thanks,
Gray
First, Gray, thanks for reaching out. Second, I will try to approach this in the same way as I have approached this subject on the blog, something which I write extensively about.
I write from and report from a first-hand perspective from a person who has had thousands of releases and I know what the net result has been for me emotionally. As a result of this, I do not consider my experience to be a casual one but more on the level of professional observer. In addition to this, I am part of a large and growing community of others who have all had the same type of experience, which is awakening, and is itself tied into the release of trauma in important and critical ways. Awakening, if you do not know yet, itself serves to aid in the release of stored trauma, and this can be so significant an activity that the person involved will be able to see the net result of years of this work in a short span of time, much shorter than the average person. I do, however, write about this topic in a fairly exhaustive manner throughout the blog. Just search using “blocked energy” or “clearing blocks” or “trauma release” or similar search terms and you will see a lot there about the effectiveness of this practice as someone who is in the context of awakening.
In fact, most yogic practices involve this very method of trauma release as a precursor to awakening. There are many practices that concern themselves with this process of clearing. Even in the yoga circles, teachers speak of how this can be a lifetime process, that it can be a multi-life process. While many will shrug this all off as nonsense, my expeirnece has been that for the average person just clearing stored traum is most certainly on the order of a multi-life process. It may not be identifiable to many people as such (as removing stored trauma—they don’t use the term “trauma” for one in the Upanishads or Vedas or in books on yoga or kundalini yoga), but it is precisely the same thing going on when they write or teach about cleansing the naddis, for example. What is happening in these yogic practices, which reads on paper as a benign release or clearing of energy in the pranic body, is the release of emotional energy which has indeed been stored. When I tell you that energy is stored, I do so from an experience which appears to show the release of it. It may in fact be the release or transfer of one reaction to a memory to that of another, which results in a referred effect of there feeling as though an energetic event has taken place (with thought and emotion being energy). So this is why from the yogis on down to the present day we use the term “stored” because by all appearances, this is just what the phenomenon shows us.
My observation through my own first hand experience is that there is a significant overburden of this trauma or stored emotional energy in each person. This is the one thing that I do not emphasis in my writing that much except when I am addressing others who have themselves experienced awakening for the simple fact that I think that it would dissuade any seeker wanting to improve their lot only to find such a huge mountain that they have to plough through. So what you are seeing as no effect is itself the result of there being so much more material there that it seem to have had no effect. I promise you that this is indeed the case. People are unaware of just how bad all of this is, this repressing of emotions. In every day there could be a hundred different subsumations, a word I use to suggest how we subsume energy as a regular act in any given day. These are big and small events, most small, but they all get shelved and stored and will have to be released, most as singular events. This takes time for most people who are in the usual unawakened state. With the awakened state it is possible to clear many blocks all at once, which is why I mention why awakening is significant here in our discussion of trauma release. It isn’t that you need awakening to release trauma, no, it is that it can and does make the releasing process much more efficient.
You either have a faithful approach that this work will in fact help you if you are not awake, or you have awakening on your side in which case, you might have pretty dramatic releases of material in one go (and releasing more stored material in that one session than most might have in a lifetime). In fact, in the Indian system, yogis would write or teach about how the goal of yoga is preparing for awakening. Part of this preparation was the need to clear the naddis, which are the energetic pathways that prana flows through and which can also store old emotional energy. Without clearing these pathways, the yogis said, it would make awakening much more chaotic, difficult, perhaps in a way, impossible. When I say “impossible” I mean a force released in consciousness that is so great that the personality would have difficulty with dealing with it or coping if they tried to hold onto the old conventions of self (which is what happens to people who are strongly tied to the ego self for example). When I say “personality” what I really mean is the ego, which is the first to rise when one awakens and must be the first to be dispatched and transformed if awakening is to be a smooth process. So this is not a new idea at all, but is simply a modern take on a very old process. We are not the first to be talking about this. I found that my own experience, entirely devoid of any awareness of the Eastern practices of kundalini yoga or the like, actually followed many of the process that were described in ancient texts. We are all talking about the same phenomenon but across large time scales and over multiple cultures….which is a way to say it looks like these traditions may have had a thing or two figured out long before we got here.
The process of this release is not one that you will ever be able to get to by using the intellect or the rational mind. This must itself involve emotional maturity and emotional understanding. This means that the self has to have a high capacity for simply letting go of many things that they are unable to understand. Since awakening involves an expansion of ones awareness, it is natural to expect that some parts of the self may be quickly outclassed in this process. What is interesting to observe is that the rational mind is the structure that gets outclassed the most. It goes and is set aside. It works as a good stenographer, a gatherer of data, but forget being able to see the big picture with it. In fact, in cosmic consciousness, the rational mind is like looking at the universe through a telescope backwards. This is very much a left brained process. We need to shift into right brain thinking, which is precisely what the right brain excels at, which is seeing the meta views, an important thing to be able to do when you reach this point. It often provides a perspective not possible with the rational mind.
There is a lot that is not understood in our lives, and while learning more certainly helps, we are not talking about a process of acquiring more knowledge but in the actual release of what it is that you THINK you know and then being able to let go of vast swaths of deeply invested stuck emotional energy. So? You will not find what you are seeking by way of the rational….ever. In fact, the rational has been treated as the end-all in our culture which is so materialistic (as in materialistic science) to the point of a deep loss in our ability to deal with approaching the subject of who we are and what we are on a larger scale of awareness. Every single yogi, every single person who writes on nonduality and on awakening also will describe in their own way how they moved beyond old structures of mind to reach new ones. To do this you have to let intellect go for a bit. The rational is a very good servant but it does poorly here as master. Many get stunted in these waters when they lean on the rational. I have seen it, even amongst, perhaps especially amongst, people who have had an awakening. I am here waving my arms trying to get their attention, but to no avail. It is what it is. The bottom line is that when I say that you need to embrace the mystery more in order to do this work more effectively, you will feel like I am talking gobbledygook and will dismiss it, not knowing how there is this very important domain inside of you that has nothing to do with parsing facts figures or ideas. It is why so many of us simply go silent. That said, observation plays a critical role here. The problem is that without full observation of the facts and understanding what those fact actually mean, we can wind up choosing a result or meaning of those facts which may not be the whole story.
I will propose that what you think is the ineffectiveness of a trauma release process or method is in truth the result of draining off a droplet from an otherwise large lake of water. I can tell you that it is an arduous process sometimes and even in my case, it took me five years of daily dedication to this work to clear enough of the material to begin to actually see results. So study those who have had the most significant releases and follow those traces and not someone who has had a dozen or three releases because that wont be enough and it will make you to believe that you are seeing a false positive when in fact that is not the case. That is really the core of my response to your comment, which is that for those not seeing results, not nearly enough has in fact been done. And yes, seemingly “new” issues can indeed arise as you release material, and this I have found to be the case with me. I have in fact had a healer tell me that she could not feel any blocked energy where I said there was, and she chided me for trying to make something out of nothing. I went on to a more gifted healer who was able to in fact release a very old trauma that the previous healer was unable to even see as being present. Bear in mind, I did not put the second healer on to the other block, she naturally gravitated to it and began talking about its presence, so I know that she was in fact able to pick up on it. When stored emotion is released, it is released and it results in a permanent release from whatever that stored energy represented.
What can happen, though, is the self may be unconsciously addicted to the drama that these hot button issues and their stored emotions can have on the self and in a person’s life. This is why the rational mind has no place in this kind of work, because none of this is rational…at all. So as old material is lost, the self will feel buried material rising into awareness. The work here is not to grab hold of what seems to be something new but that was simply less noticed or known. You have to continue to release, continue this work and trust that as things emerge, it is not a mere fabrication, which sounds like what you may be suspecting it is. The other side to this process, which you have not mentioned but I will, is that less noticed material will come more and more into focus over time. My observation is that this is NOT merely creating new problems, but was itself stored material of a lesser type or harder to get at. As you clean house and go through the piles of junk, there is a point where you turn around and realize that things have gotten much cleaner, except now there is still clutter and after a time the smaller things will seem disproportionately big, the same way that one piece of trash in the middle of a clean room will seem a much bigger problem than it is. But it is in fact still there, so the work is to continue to shift focus and work on the next thing that emerges or comes into view. I am speaking directly from experience.
As a result of this work, I have found that I have found the contents of over a dozen different lifetimes, and in each of them I found that what I was dealing with here and now was more than just the stored material from this one life, but I was in fact releasing the stored emotional material from lifetimes…and yes, the answer is that even in this one lifetime you have very important hints as to what your own inner glitches are in those other times by looking at what is coming up here and now. Some material is shared, a kind of multi-generational problem or glitch that goes from one life to another. This should be a clue as to how hard it can be to release this work. And yet people like myself are doing it. Maybe these trauma release circles need the input of those who are going through awakening, just to help add fresh perspective.
The process is a much longer one than you could believe, but I promise that if you do enough and are dedicated, you will eventually see results. I recommend a process that is as efficient and effective as possible. Otherwise, people tend to lose focus. It isn’t easy to remain focused over decades on this type of work, but it may be what is needed to get back to the garden, the tabula rosa. I hope that clarifies a few things.
I tried this after I read this post. I’ve been dealing with some trauma that I had suppressed and at first I wasn’t sure if this was going to work. Once my legs started shaking after a few minutes, everything went to town. I didn’t limit it as you suggested, so there was a lot of quiet screaming into the pillow and a lot of intense, almost violent shaking of my legs and hips.
As this went on, the screams turned to hums and instead of intense feelings, images of what happened in my life that I considered painful ran through my head. After about 5 or 10 minutes of this, it felt like something “popped,” not physically but emotionally. I felt confused, shocked, but decided to keep going. My body replayed the physical feelings of the trauma, my mind replayed the images of the things I considered traumatic or hurtful and I kept humming until the shaking, images, and feelings subsided.
I feel relief. I feel like myself again. I feel like crying and being happy and shouting and I can’t exactly explain it. Was this supposed to happen? Because this is really nice. I’ll probably do this again in a couple of days to see if I suppressed anything the first time around.
Well, Sam, I have had a range of experiences in trauma release and they have run the gammut. That said, yes, I have felt powerful emotional energy bubbling up through me that I resisted pushing down and it just shot right on out. Relief! It was always followed with an increasing level or sense of lightness, of being less burdened. I felt different. An odd sense of being suspended, buoyant perhaps. A few days later, or maybe hours later, things seemed to return to normal. I think the most dramatic effects were felt early in my history of this kind of work.
There are few things to my mind as revolutionary as being able to do what you have done. It can alter or “right” consciousness, it can return you to a state of consciousness different from what you have known. It’s revolutionary because so few have achieved what you have.
My only advice is if you continue to remember this is stored emotion and it is in the past. These replays can be vivid, but if you can let them through, they will be gone for good. And let yourself distance yourself from them. In addition, if you do more of this, don’t feel dismayed if you find more and more. I was shown in a kind of vision that I had quite an inventory of this material. I just kept chipping away at my mountain of things until one day I realized I was in a very different space. It made doing inner work much easier. Imagine dragging all of that weight around. Every single release is a victory, and I am thrilled for you. My hat is off to you. I would be interested in hearing anything you would like to include going forward for those who actually take the time to read these comments (including my effusive and rambling replies, lol!!).
I have actually read of the “pop” you mention in other accounts of similar but also different experiences. I suspect it is an energetic effect of some kind, perhaps a signal of breaking through?
Thank you for being willing to share your experience, Sam.