Common psychiatric issues can be treated in a variety of ways.  People who experience anxiety, phobias, PTSD, and other symptoms associated with stress and trauma are exhibiting coping mechanisms that serve a purpose from the perspective of the subconscious and the body's self-preservation instincts but which have become dysfunctional and out of congruence with the reality of their present environment.  To resolve these issues it is often important to address them at the level where they are embedded in the person's information processing system.


When we have any experience, our mind forms a perception and interpretation of that situation or experience.  When we view an experience in a negative way we may feel victimized, injured, betrayed, abused, demeaned, angry, helpless, embarrassed, or some other way that leaves us feeling less than whole.  Our perception and belief about the situation fosters our emotions, and these emotions are powerful energy patterns than can be expressed and released or which can become stuck in our energy field.  When the emotions become stuck they will lead us toward future situations that help retrigger those feelings, and they may also disturb the energy patterns in the physical body and foster illness.  Disturbances in energy flow are a chief factor in the develop of illness from a holistic medicine point of view.  Oriental and Indian medical systems focus a lot on clearing energy blocks and balancing energy flow through therapies like massage, acupuncture, reiki, chi gong, yoga, breathwork, diet, and herbs.

To heal these patterns we can allow the issue to arise in our awareness and release the energy and emotions while simultaneously shifting our thoughts and beliefs and perceptions about the experience.  When we let go of resistance to whatever the experience was or any challenging issue in our life, we allow energy to flow more freely.  We let the conscious and subconscious mind reconnect and cooperate instead of having the subconscious continue to run an old self-preservation program that the consious mind recognizes is no longer useful or constructive.  Since it was a limitation in our perceptions and beliefs that fostered an exaggerated anxiety response in the first place, we can identify that belief structure and transform it so that we don't recreate the issue in the future.


Energy psychology and hypnotic therapies, such as EMDR, EFT, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Regression Hypnosis, Neuromodulation Technique (NMT), Psych-K, Thought Field Therapy, Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET), and Emotional Release Bodywork, are ways of helping clear the old energy patterns and emotions and shifting self-limiting beliefs.  These are rapid healing approaches.  Pure laying on of hands types of vibrational healing therapies are also good ways of fostering release of old energies and emotions.  Reiki, CranioSacral Therapy, Radix, Rolfing, Pranic Healing, Quantum Touch, Healing Touch, and Shamanic Healing methods can all facilitate resolution of PTSD, anxiety, phobias, and other stress and trauma-related syndromes.  Rather than just suppressing symptoms with drugs or talking about experiences, individuals can truly accept their experiences and release any emotional and energetic patterns that tie them to the past and keep them from going forward in life free of excessive fear.  We have an opportunity to reclaim our self and release the old stories and reactions that have kept us in a prison of our own making.  Remember the old saying FEAR = false evidence appearing real?  Let us transform it into FEAR = Face Everything And Relax!  Once we learn to not reject any of our experiences or view them as negative or ourselves as victims then we can reclaim our power and know that we can choose to not live in fear any more.  Once we do move forward and realize that we're OK then the old fear dissolves as the subconscious no longer believes it needs to protect us.


Jed Shlackman, LMHC, C.Ht. is a counselor, hypnotherapist, energy healer, and holistic health guide in Miami, FL, who has assisted many clients in clearing and releasing old fears, phobias, and traumas, and moving forward.
Learn more about Jed at www.phinsights.com