At one time or another, everyone has experienced trauma in their lives.  This can be from PTSD, chronic stress, illness, accidents, abuse, or a traumatic event or situation.

Dealing with your emotions after a traumatic event can be difficult. Although the event has ended, the memories may last for months or years to come. Similar events, sights, smells and sounds may trigger a traumatic memory. The traumatic experience still exists in our brain and contains the emotional and conscious memory traces of the event.

Our brains are unable to release this message of threat that it is receiving and shows up as symptoms of fear and anxiety. Often times our reactions to these events can produce fear and anxiety in our responses to it.

Energy-based therapies, such as Healing Touch use non-verbal Trauma Release techniques that address all levels of the individual: mental, emotional, spiritual as well as physical. Emotions from traumatic events may be released with energy-based therapies.

What happens in our bodies and our brain when we perceive a threatening situation or we have been through a traumatic situation? Our bodies go through a process after a traumatic event or a series of chronic stress.

Feelings of anger, rage, fear, avoidance and defensiveness are involved in the limbic brain or our emotional brain. The amygdala is part of the limbic or emotional brain. The amygdala inspires the freeze reaction, sweaty palms, and muscles to tense, protective postures or facial expressions. This area of the brain sends adrenaline and other hormones into the blood stream. This causes cortisol, stress hormones to flood the body.  The adrenal glands become exhausted and creates fatigue.

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