Author: Jaya Hollohan

Somatic Trauma Integration in Times of Collective Stress

Reflections on Connection, Survival, and Humanity

I recently read a powerful blog post by my Somatic Experiencing colleague, Madeline Dietrich, that deeply resonated with me. Her words reflected what I have been carrying inside for some time, and I felt inspired to expand on her reflections here.

She wrote:

“In my Somatic Experiencing work, I remind people that humans are mammals. In our basic make up we’re pack animals. Instinctually, we know our survival depends on being part of a tribe – on belonging. So, here we find ourselves in this very odd contradictory situation of opposing messages – your supposed survival depends on avoiding people and yet our survival, especially our emotional survival, depends on being in connection. It feels helpful to just articulate this cross current of imperatives.”

Madeline then asked:

“My concern is that this current situation will be our reality for some time to come, and I wonder what will be left of our social fabric by the time it’s over. How will we repair this rupture? Maybe friends and family will be okay, and will make those repairs, over time, but what about the bigger social matrix that holds us together?”

Her words touched something essential in me.

As humans, we are wired for connection. Our nervous systems depend on co-regulation, the way we settle, feel safe, and thrive in the presence of others. When this is disrupted, especially for prolonged periods of time, our survival instincts shift. Instead of moving toward connection, many of us begin to focus on protection.

The lock-downs and restrictions of recent years have amplified this paradox: we are told to isolate for survival, yet our very biology signals that isolation itself can feel like a threat. For children especially, this prolonged disconnection has lasting effects on the nervous system and developing psyche.

The Nervous System Under Collective Stress

One of the unique challenges of this global experience is that we cannot fight or flee the threat. The virus is invisible to our senses, so many people default into freeze responses—a nervous system state where energy becomes trapped, leading to numbness, shutdown, anxiety, or collapse.

For those with histories of childhood trauma, abuse, neglect, or medical trauma, these conditions can reactivate old wounds:

Masks may trigger memories of suffocation, anesthesia, or silencing.
Restrictions may echo experiences of control or punishment from oppressive systems, including intergenerational trauma from fascist or totalitarian regimes.
Social distancing can mirror neglect or abandonment, leading to deep feelings of disconnection and threat.

These somatic triggers aren’t just “in the mind.” They live in the body and nervous system, and they shape how safe, or unsafe, we feel in the present moment.

I often wonder how many people dissociate daily just to get through the demands of this time. I see it in my clients: people who wear masks even when medically exempt, people who go along with rules that overwhelm their bodies, all in order to avoid exclusion or conflict.

This kind of functional freeze may allow survival in the short term, but it comes at the cost of embodiment and vitality. When we disconnect from our bodies too often, we risk losing touch with our deeper needs, emotions, and human connection.

Another consequence of prolonged stress is division. Families and communities have experienced painful conflict over issues like masking, vaccines, hugging, and safety measures. These fractures can feel like further ruptures to the social fabric that normally supports us.

Yet beneath these differences, I believe most of us are doing our best to live according to our core values:

Integrity
Respect
Responsibility
Caring for ourselves and others

We are all navigating compromised versions of our “normal” reality. Some people suffer more, some benefit, and most experience a mix of both.

An Invitation to Compassion

As a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and fellow human-being, I share these reflections not to divide, but to invite compassion: for ourselves, for each other, and for our children.

Not everyone has the strength, time, or language to explain why they do what they do. Many people, especially those with pre-verbal trauma, literally cannot articulate the reasons behind their behaviour. They just know what helps them stay embodied and what does not.

When we hold this in mind, we can begin to see one another with more kindness. Instead of judgment, we can meet others with curiosity and compassion.

My hope is that as we navigate collective challenges, we can prioritize both physical health and emotional well-being. That we remember to care not only for our bodies, but also for our humanity.

Because in the end, what keeps us resilient is not only survival—it’s connection.

From Tension to Transformation: Healing Trauma with Somatic Touch

A New Chapter: Completing My Somatic Experiencing® Professional Training

I am so excited to share that I’ve just completed my three-year Somatic Experiencing® (SE) Professional training! This has been an incredible journey of learning, growth, and personal transformation. Most of all, I feel deeply grateful to now be even more skilled in helping people heal from developmental, acute, and complex trauma by addressing trauma where it lives: in the physiology of the body.

In our last six-day module, we learned how to incorporate gentle, therapeutic touch into SE sessions. With full consent, touch can be used to support the joints, diaphragms, and the viscera (our gut organs). Why? Because trauma often leaves survival energy locked inside the body, bound up in these systems.

This can come from experiences of “big T” trauma (such as accidents, surgeries, or violence) as well as “little t” trauma (such as ongoing stress, early developmental disruptions, or attachment wounds). These experiences can overwhelm the nervous system, preventing it from fully processing the event. Instead, the energy gets stored in the body, leaving behind patterns of tension, pain, or dysregulation.

By offering the body support through SE touch work, these bound survival responses are given the opportunity to unwind and release safely—sometimes for the first time.

One of the beautiful things about SE training is that we don’t just learn the techniques, we practice them with each other. During this recent module, I personally experienced profound shifts in my own body. It’s incredible how much tension we can carry without even realizing it… until it is finally released.

These moments of healing reminded me again how powerful and gentle SE can be.

Why Somatic Experiencing® Is So Transformative

At its core, SE helps the autonomic nervous system (the part of us that runs survival responses like fight, flight, and freeze) learn how to regulate itself again. Since the nervous system touches every aspect of our being, this regulation brings wide-reaching benefits, including:

Better emotional balance and mood regulation
Relief from symptoms of PTSD and traumatic stress
Support in unwinding addictive patterns
Reduced or eliminated chronic pain
Relief from trauma-related symptoms in the musculoskeletal system
Increased resilience and vitality in everyday life

Because trauma can also contribute to the development of complex syndromes and diseases, SE may help in unwinding underlying patterns that feed into chronic health issues (often in collaboration with other healthcare professionals).

Finishing this training feels both like a culmination and a beginning. I am thrilled to bring this deeper skill-set into my practice and to continue supporting people on their healing journeys.

Trauma is not a life sentence. With the right support, the nervous system can learn to settle, complete old survival responses, and find new patterns of ease, resilience, and connection.

I am so honored to walk alongside others in this process.

✨ Here’s to new possibilities—for myself, for my clients, and for anyone ready to reclaim their health and wholeness.

Healing Complex Trauma

I just completed another six-day Somatic Experiencing® training as part of the final year of my professional program, and I left feeling completely renewed, not only with new tools to support others, but with deep healing in my own body.

This training focused on how to help people with complex trauma, the kind of trauma that doesn’t just show up as one symptom, but as a whole cluster of challenges in body, mind, and emotions.

Why Trauma Affects the Body

When something overwhelming happens and our body doesn’t get to fully process it, our nervous system can get “stuck” in survival mode. Instead of turning off once the threat has passed, the system keeps running in the background.

This is why trauma often shows up as physical symptoms like:

Migraines
Digestive troubles (IBS, stomach issues)
Chronic fatigue
Fibromyalgia and body pain
Autoimmune issues
Asthma or breathing difficulties

In Western medicine, these are sometimes called “syndromal patterns”—clusters of symptoms that don’t respond well to traditional treatments.

When the Nervous System Gets Pulled in Two Directions

Imagine driving with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake at the same time. That’s what it’s like when trauma lives in the body.

The sympathetic system (gas pedal) revs us up into fight or flight.
The dorsal vagal system (brake pedal) can push us into freeze or collapse.

When both are stuck “on,” our bodies become drained, tense, and unable to fully heal.

The Missing Piece: Safety and Connection

Thanks to the work of Dr. Stephen Porges (Polyvagal Theory), we now know there’s another branch of the nervous system: the ventral vagal system.

This part of us allows us to:

Relax and rest deeply
Feel safe in our own skin
Connect with others with ease

Healing happens when our nervous system learns how to spend more time here—able to shift smoothly between activation and rest.

How Somatic Experiencing® Helps

Somatic Experiencing doesn’t push or force the body to change. Instead, it gives the nervous system space to complete unfinished survival responses and release the stuck energy of trauma.

Over time, this helps the body reset its natural rhythm, which can also support things like:

Stronger immunity
Less inflammation
Better energy and vitality
More resilience in daily life

In short: when your nervous system learns to regulate, your whole body has the chance to heal.

My Personal Shift

During this training, my own nervous system went through a profound reboot. Old pain and areas of numbness in my body fully released. My immune system felt stronger, and I could sense my energy flowing in ways it hadn’t for years.

I truly feel new again. And that’s the gift I want to share with others—because healing isn’t just possible, it’s something your body is always reaching for when given the right support.

An Invitation

If you’ve been living with symptoms that don’t resolve, or if you’ve been told “it’s all in your head,” please know: it’s not your fault, and you don’t have to stay stuck.

Your body holds incredible wisdom. With gentle support, your nervous system can learn to find balance again—and when it does, healing ripples out through every system in your body.

✨ Here’s to a new year, a new rhythm, and new possibilities for your health and well-being.

New Year ~ New Neural Circuitry!

The turn of the year always carries a sense of possibility. We reflect on where we’ve been, what has shaped us, and what we’d like to step into next. Often we resolve to do something different—exercise more, eat better, meditate daily. But lasting change doesn’t come from willpower alone. It comes from something deeper: rewiring the brain itself.

This is where the concept of neuroplasticity—our brain’s ability to reorganize and form new connections—becomes a powerful ally.

For much of the 20th century, science believed the brain was static by adulthood—fixed, unchanging, slowly declining. But now we know the opposite is true:

New neurons and connections can be formed at any age.
Old pathways can weaken if we stop using them.
New patterns of thought, behavior, and emotion can become our default with practice.

Every thought you repeat, every habit you practice, every emotional state you nurture—these are all strengthening certain neural pathways. The hopeful news is this: what you repeat, you become.

A new year offers a natural pause—a threshold moment. Our brains are especially receptive when we step outside of routine and allow ourselves to imagine something new. The symbolic “fresh start” primes your nervous system to open to possibility.

Instead of traditional resolutions that often fade by February, consider setting neural intentions—gentle, repeatable practices that literally rewire your circuitry.

How to Build New Neural Pathways

Here are some powerful ways to engage your brain’s natural plasticity in the months ahead:

Choose One Small Daily Practice
- 5 minutes of breathwork, a gratitude journal, or a walk outside.
- Small, consistent repetitions carve stronger pathways than big but unsustainable efforts.
Pair Intention with Emotion
- The brain encodes change more powerfully when it’s emotionally charged.
- For example, instead of vaguely saying “I’ll meditate,” anchor the practice to “I want to feel calmer and more open-hearted with my children.”
Engage All Three Brains
- Head brain: conscious thought, problem-solving.
- Heart brain: intuition, compassion, emotional wisdom.
- Gut brain: instinct, grounding, and safety.
  When your intention resonates through all three, change becomes embodied rather than just conceptual.
Practice Rest and Safety
- The nervous system learns best when it feels safe.
- Prioritize good sleep, gentle movement, and moments of genuine rest. These allow your brain to integrate new patterns.
Celebrate Micro-Shifts
- Each time you pause instead of react, soften instead of harden, or choose presence instead of autopilot—you are literally building new wiring.
- These “micro-moments” add up, becoming your new baseline.

Research in neuroscience shows that the brain’s circuits are shaped by experience-dependent plasticity, meaning, what you do daily is what you reinforce. Even conditions like chronic pain, anxiety, or trauma-related stress involve neural circuits that have become over-practiced. With time and intentionality, those same circuits can be softened and replaced.

In other words, you are not stuck with the brain you have—you are continually shaping it.

A Gentle Invitation

As you step into this new year, notice the moments that invite a different choice. Each breath, each pause, each act of kindness toward yourself is not just a nice idea—it’s the laying of new circuitry. We can do this through the support of alternative mind/body therapies, and related neuroplastic meditations like the work of Dr. Joe Dispenza. For an example of this work, please see my free “Rewire” meditation under “Resources” and then, “Books and Meditations” on my website!

Instead of striving for dramatic transformation overnight, trust in the slow but powerful work of repetition. You’re teaching your brain and body a new way of being. And over time, this becomes your natural rhythm.

✨ This year, may you gift yourself not just with resolutions, but with new neural pathways—ones that lead you home to greater peace, resilience, and joy.

Finding Relief from Stress & Trauma

The way we react, or respond, to the challenges of daily life is a reflection of how much space or tension we are carrying in our nervous system. If life constantly feels overwhelming or stressful, it may be because certain parts of the brain are still burdened by unintegrated feelings, memories, thought patterns, or energies from the past.

Over time, this unresolved stress doesn’t just stay “in the mind.” It shows up in the body. Physical tension, chronic pain, and even disease often develop when the nervous system is not given the chance to reset and heal.

As Canadian physician Dr. Gabor Maté reminds us:

“You cannot separate the mind from the body; whatever happens emotionally will have an impact on your physiology.”

Trauma and the Three Brains

Most of us have experienced some form of trauma—whether big or small. Trauma doesn’t always mean a single catastrophic event; it can also be the accumulation of smaller stresses and hurts over time. When this happens, the three brains—the head brain, the heart brain, and the gut brain—can become mobilized into survival modes such as:

Fight or flight: feeling anxious, restless, irritable, hyper-alert.
Freeze: feeling numb, shut down, disconnected, or fatigued.

These survival states are brilliant adaptations in the moment of trauma—but when the nervous system never fully discharges the energy, the body continues to live as if the danger is still present.

The Nervous System’s Need to Reset

When the nervous system is given safe space and support to process what it has been holding, it can integrate old memories, feelings, and patterns. This is not about erasing the past—it’s about allowing the body to release what is no longer needed so that healing can unfold.

Without this reset, the nervous system stays stuck in cycles of tension, which can contribute to stress-related illness, autoimmune issues, digestive challenges, pain syndromes, fatigue, and more.

How Somatic Experiencing Supports Healing

A powerful approach to restoring balance in the nervous system is Somatic Experiencing (SE), a body-based trauma healing method developed by Dr. Peter Levine.

Rather than focusing solely on the mind or on retelling traumatic events, SE works gently with the body’s natural rhythms to help it release the survival energy that was “stuck” at the time of trauma. Trauma isn’t in the event itself—it’s in the nervous system’s incomplete response to the event.

Through guided awareness of physical sensations, movements, and impulses, SE helps the nervous system:

Discharge survival energy that has been trapped in fight, flight, or freeze.
Build capacity to tolerate stress without becoming overwhelmed.
Reconnect with safety in the present moment.
Restore regulation so the body can shift naturally between activation and rest.

Rather than forcing a story or analysis, SE honors the body’s pace. This gentle, titrated approach allows healing to happen gradually, building resilience and a deeper sense of safety from the inside out.

When the nervous system is given the chance to complete what was once interrupted, the whole body can return to a state of balance, health, and vitality.

A Breath of Relief

Imagine the difference it makes when your body is no longer locked in fight, flight, or freeze. There is more space for calm. More resilience in the face of stress. More freedom to be present in your relationships, your work, and your life.

This is the profound relief we all long for—because when the nervous system heals, the whole self heals.

✨ Your nervous system holds the wisdom of survival, but it also carries the blueprint for your healing. Supporting it is one of the most powerful gifts you can give yourself.

Elevate your Frequency: Heal from the Inside Out

Science is increasingly showing what ancient wisdom has long suggested: the human body is not just a biochemical system — it’s also an energetic one. Every one of our trillions of cells emits measurable electromagnetic signals, creating a biofield around us that reflects our health and well-being.

Studies in biofield science suggest that when this cellular frequency is coherent and resilient, our bodies are better able to self-regulate, repair, and thrive. When it becomes dysregulated or depleted, we’re more vulnerable to illness. In fact, research in psychoneuroimmunology confirms that chronic stress, unresolved trauma, and negative emotional states can suppress immune function, increase inflammation, and disrupt the body’s natural rhythms of healing. (Dr. Gabor Mate)

So the question becomes: How can we elevate our frequency to support healing and vitality?

The Role of Beliefs and Cellular Health

Cellular biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton has shown through his work on epigenetics that our beliefs, perceptions, and environment can literally alter gene expression and cellular behavior. Instead of being hardwired, our biology is fluid and responsive.

Negative patterns — such as limiting beliefs, unresolved traumas, or chronic self-criticism — can act like “static” in our biofield. Lipton explains that these patterns rigidify the cell membranes, which are the gateways for nutrients and communication signals. A rigid membrane means less flow, less nourishment, and a slower cellular vibration. Over time, this stagnation contributes to physical symptoms and disease.

On the other hand, when we release and integrate these patterns, the membranes become more flexible and permeable, allowing higher-quality energy and nourishment to flow through. This translates into a more vibrant cellular frequency — one that supports resilience, vitality, and well-being.

Trauma, the Nervous System, and Vibrational Patterns

Neuroscience and somatic psychology show us that memories, emotions, and traumas are not just “mental” experiences — they are stored in the nervous system and tissues of the body. If they remain unresolved, they continually shape how our physiology functions, often keeping us stuck in cycles of stress, pain, or fatigue.

These unresolved patterns act as dense, lower-frequency imprints. That’s why you may have noticed that when you’re caught in worry, grief, or anger, your body feels heavy, drained, or even sick. In contrast, states of joy, compassion, and gratitude bring lightness, coherence, and measurable benefits for the immune and cardiovascular systems.

Nervous System Regulation and Frequency Shifts

This is where Somatic Experiencing (SE), a body-based approach to trauma resolution and nervous system regulation, can help. SE gently guides the body in completing survival responses (like fight, flight, or freeze) that may have been left unfinished during past overwhelming experiences.

By supporting the nervous system to discharge stored survival energy and find greater balance between activation and rest, SE helps:

Reduce chronic tension and stress patterns.
Restore natural rhythms of regulation in the autonomic nervous system.
Free up energy that was previously “stuck” in protective responses.
Enhance cellular communication and resilience.

When the nervous system is regulated, the body shifts from survival mode into repair, growth, and restoration. This coherence resonates all the way down to the cellular level, allowing frequency to rise into states that support healing, health and vitality.

The Takeaway

Your body is not static, it’s a dynamic, living system constantly in conversation with your beliefs, your environment, and your emotional state. By tending to unresolved patterns in the nervous system and cultivating practices that elevate our frequency, we support the body’s innate ability to heal.

Somatic Experiencing is not about erasing the past, it’s about helping the nervous system remember how to move fluidly between activation and rest, safety and vitality. In doing so, it supports a cellular frequency that promotes resilience, coherence, and thriving.

When your nervous system is regulated and your cells are vibrating with coherence, you don’t just survive: You THRIVE!

BodyTalk: Energetic Immune Booster

While the winter season is a beautiful time of year, our immune systems often take a toll from increased busyness, a lack of sunlight and working the same long hours in a typical season of hibernation! Vaccinating with the flu shot can have various harmful side effects, so why not take an energetic immune system booster shot instead?

When the immune system becomes compromised due to added stress, it can overreact, under react, or have abnormal reactions to the pathogens that enter our body through the environment or to abnormal cells, such as those that cause cancer. In addition to physical stress, the immune system can also become unbalanced due to our emotional state, related belief systems and ensuing reactions. For example, “the world is not safe” so my lungs or other organs must shut down when in contact with certain stimulus, resulting in allergies, asthma attacks and other related health issues. A healthy immune system enables a healthy engagement with the external environment. An energetic boost to balance your immune system can lessen over reactive responses to allergens and related attacks over time, as well as help it to defend against harmful viruses and bacteria more rapidly.

Some of our immune system’s recurrent reactions are inherited or so ingrained from repetition that we are only aware of them when their symptoms arise. For example, have you ever noticed that you often become sick just following times of increased emotional and mental stress? Studies have shown a direct correlation between the effectiveness of the natural killer T-cells that can kill viruses and abnormal cancer cells and your emotional state! By balancing recurrent and old emotions stuck within the connective tissue, diaphragm and other parts of your body, your immune response, as well as your overall state of health and well-being naturally improves.

BodyTalk facilitates this process by re-establishing communication between your brain and endocrines in this case, particularly the thymus which acts as central to your body’s immune response to foreign invaders. The thymus’ T-cells attack pathogens that enter the body ranging from viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi, as well as abnormal cells. Antibodies from the bones in the body can also be identified as requiring balancing to strengthen immune system health. BodyTalk works to identify the emotional, mental, spiritual and physical stresses that are compromising any particular part and/or system, brings them into awareness and shifts them energetically to enhance the overall functioning of that part and/or system.

Additional issues that BodyTalk addresses and has seen excellent results in, include: Arthritis, Headaches, Back Pain, Chronic Fatigue, Stress, Sports Injuries, Sports Performance, Emotional Disorders, Learning Disorders, Infections, Digestive Disorders, Endocrine Disorders, Pain and Allergies.

Immune system patterns and reactions, both physical and emotional, are accumulated over a lifetime and remain with many of us today. While some of these patterns may be beneficial, often they could use some re-evaluating for the benefit of our overall health and well-being. Help yourself to shed the old patterns that are limiting the function of your immune system and enjoy the experience of rejuvenated health and vitality!

Dr. James Oschman on Quantum BodyTalk

Dr. James Oschman, a leader in the field of energy medicine, has been fascinated by the scientific descriptions of the BodyTalk System. He presented the below presentation (summary) on Quantum Physics and Quantum Medicine entitled, “What is the body, where does it come from, and how does it talk?”, at last year’s International BodyTalk Association Members’ Conference.

“Explaining this varying approach to life and health to others can be challenging because of the ways our thinking has been influenced by the dominant materialistic paradigm. A number of breakthroughs have challenged this paradigm and forever changed our perception of ourselves and the world that we inhabit.”

“On December 14, 1900, one such breakthrough occurred when Physicist Max Planck presented findings about the nature of matter to the German Physical Society meeting. His discovery was totally contrary to the accepted notions at the time, which were widely viewed as a triumph of logic and reason and a “means to understand all of nature”.

“Max Planck’s upsetting presentation led to the birth of quantum physics, and the end of an era in which physicists knew that they could confidently fathom all of nature’s mysteries. From Planck’s discoveries arose an uncomfortable awareness that our basic concepts, our language, our whole way of thinking, are inadequate to describe the world which we live in. This change in awareness of relationships has altered every aspect of our reality.”

“There have been attempts to establish a Quantum Medicine, but it was not until Quantum BodyTalk that the discoveries in Quantum physics became part of the daily reality of many healthcare practitioners and their clients.”

What is BodyTalk? A consciousness-based, non-diagnostic, holistic therapy that works to re-synchronize the body’s energy systems so that they can operate as nature intended. It is based on pure science: 1) Quantum Theory, which explains the nature and behaviour of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level, and 2) Dynamic System’s Theory, which describes how the part functions as one with the whole.

According to Quantum Physics, we all have probabilities and possibilities to decrease the stress and pain in our bodyminds and increase our health.

I’ve had a small benign growth in my brain since I was born that has caused some undesirable effects. Lori told me that with BodyTalk treatments the growth might disappear. Imagine my surprise when a recent MRI didn’t find the growth, and only after looking more closely did the technicians spot a calcified area where the growth had been.

– Public Servant, Ottawa

How does a BodyTalk session work? The practitioner consults innate consciousness to find the factors that are contributing to ill health, e.g. emotional, environmental, dietary, physical, via muscle testing and their own innate wisdom. A mathematicalformula/morphogenic field, comprised of wave forms, is created that represents the bodymind’s new probabilities for health. The practitioner observes the client’s unique formula and introduces a catalyst that superimposes the new energy field over the existing one. The catalyst is a standing wave (soliton in physics) introduced by tapping over the brain, to make it aware of the changes suggested, and over the heart, to store the changes within the biggest electromagnetic field in the body. This causes a wave form collapse in the initial energy field, followed by changes to the bodymind’s cellular and related structures (matter follows energy).

This method heals issues on the physical, energetic, mental and supra-mental (sub- conscious) levels and is the most profound way to bring about increased balance to health in the bodymind.

Balancing the Sub-Conscious Mind

So what is it that drives our behaviours and influences our words on a daily basis? Where is it that 95% of our beliefs, thoughts and feelings are stored? Why do we sometimes feel as though we are robots on autopilot with little choice about the acting out the cyclical behaviours that no longer serve us?

It is the subconscious mind that serves all of these functions. And while it may be helpful in navigating our daily lives, e.g. how to interact in a “civilized manner” in society, other aspects of it may feel less beneficial, e.g. reacting to a detrimental belief system about the world not being safe since a traumatic fall in childhood and 20-40 years later, it still runs life via relationship fears, allergies, physical tension and other symptoms.

These types of belief systems, stored in the subconscious mind, can powerfully undermine our greatest intentions in life. In addition, the scientific experiments of Dr. Bruce Lipton, a well-known Cellular Biologist and Author, have shown that messages from our thoughts and beliefs control the function of our DNA and therefore our physical and mental/emotional health as well.

So how can we move past these long held beliefs, reflex behaviours and related mental or physical symptoms that provide less than the quality of life that we desire?

I use BodyTalk, as it is a phenomenal energy therapy that does just this. I watch client after client move through deeply held issues, that seem to go “Poof” (one client used this word recently!) and leave them as the filters/belief systems in the subconscious minds lose their charge and come into greater balance. I am in awe of what the subconscious mind reveals during a session and how, when brought to the surface, the detrimental, thought, belief, behaviour, feeling is able to shift. It also brings up memories related to various physical stressors within the body that have been stored in tissues for decades and helps them to move on when they have been adequately brought into awareness.

Healing in the 21^st century has become so much simpler than the past (though not every case is simple!) Yet, it seems that the conditions are right to move beyond past limiting and self-sabotaging belief systems that no longer serve where we are headed, both personally and as a collective.

Reverse Stress, Regain Health & Happiness

If we experience high levels of stress in our lives on a regular basis, the health of our bodies and minds will soon reflect this. The frequent release of stress related hormones, such as cortisol, adrenalin and noradrenalin, from the adrenal glands into the blood eventually wears on our muscle tissues, bones, brain, nervous and immune systems. Our bodies have been designed to fire these hormones in times of acute danger, e.g. when a tiger is running after us, not on a daily or even hourly basis.

Canadian Physician, Lecturer and Author, Dr. Gabor Maté, says that stress primarily “represents the absence of something that we perceive as necessary for survival ~ or its threatened loss,” e.g. food supply, shelter threatened, loss of love, etc. The unknown is a primary contributor to stress, or which the “research literature has identified three factors that universally lead to stress: uncertainty, the lack of information and the loss of control. All three are present in the lives of individuals with chronic illness.” In addition, Canadian Endocrinologist and famous stress researcher, Hans Selye supported this when he “said without hesitation, that for man the most important stressors are emotional.”

The effects of high levels of stress on our body include any of the following symptoms: digestive issues, weak immune system, chronic muscle and joint pain, heart disease, headaches, osteoporosis, fatigue, poor skin, insomnia, depression, anxiety, etc.

While the body can self~regulate around stress to a degree, over time and without support it weakens and is unable to regain its intrinsic balance. The good news is that the nervous system, the Sympathetic Nervous System and other affected body parts and systems can be reset so that the body and mind can recover from the effects of ongoing stress.

BodyTalk energy therapy is a phenomenal tool that helps us do just this. It resets the nervous system so that the body can heal itself. By following the BodyTalk Protocol, we are able to identify ongoing stressors in our environments, past events, belief systems, inherited factors, etc. and highlight the parts and systems of the body and mind that these stressors are primarily affecting. Once this information is brought into awareness and suggestions for change are made to the body’s information field, gentle tapping is used over the brain and heart to instigate and store the changes in the body’s memory.

If your body and mind could use support in regulating the effects of ongoing stressors on your body and mind, feel free to come in for a BodyTalk session and enjoy the benefits of increased health and peace of mind. I have practiced and received BodyTalk sessions for years and continue to be amazed at the efficiency and effectiveness of this simple, holistic, energy therapy.