Curious to find out how trauma affects the body? We all have things we go through that impact us in a big way. The traumas are stored in the body as energy. This energy gets blocked up and held, sometimes for a lifetime. It can cause dis-ease, and for most people, forms a lifetime of bad “habits” as far as the way you move your body and express yourself in your body. Above Photo Nine Kopfer
WELCOME TO THOUGHTFUL THURSDAY ME TIME with Body-Mind Healer, Heather Hundhausen where we talk about Releasing Tension. Everybody needs a little ME TIME! I want to acknowledge you for taking a few minutes today for yourself.
How Trauma Affects the Body: Four Steps to Releasing Tension
We all have traumas that we hold in the body. I had a client with tension in his shoulder. Every time he talked about the relationship issues he was having, he would tense up. A memory had come to him. He remembered he was playing bouncy ball as a boy with his friend who would pick on him and bully him. It brought along tension in his shoulder. He began holding on to that fear and shame long ago. There were physical signs of release as we worked to release the tension in the shoulder, including his tone of voice. His body released so deeply, he was able to fall asleep while talking to me! It’s unbelievable how trauma affects the body!
Think of a TRAUMA from your past.
It doesn’t have to be a devastating trauma. It could have been that you were sent to your room for making a mess. Maybe you went into protection mode when you were playing ball with the neighborhood bully.
Trauma Stored as Energy
The traumas are stored in the body as energy. As a body-mind therapist, I can FEEL them. There are different ways to feel them, but after 20 years of doing this, I can’t really explain how I feel it anymore! I use different techniques, and find where the body holds and blocks. I move the client’s body slowly through these “holding” patterns, until the tension releases.
You can know where your traumas are stored by ASKING your body, or FEELING your body. Feel into your body right now. Where do you feel tension in your body? Put it in the comments.
Blocking Energy
This energy gets blocked up and held, sometimes for a lifetime. It can cause disease, and for most people, forms a lifetime of bad “habits” as far as the way you move your body and express yourself in your body.
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I have had numerous clients come to see me to work out the dis-ease holding in their body. I have worked with people with depression, anxiety, MS, cancer, fibromyalgia, and all kinds of other inflammation. The clients that consistently come and do the work until the tension is released and have learned a new pattern are in remission.
How Trauma Affects the Body: The Diseases in You
Are you dealing with some kind of disease in your body? The disease can actually TEACH you where you are storing tension and traumas that you can then let go of!
The energy can get UNBLOCKED through body-mind therapy or hypnosis.
This is how it’s done:
- A TRAUMA HAPPENS – “you get bullied while throwing a ball”
- YOU STORE THE TRAUMA – “in your shoulder, you close down your heart chakra”
- YOU FORM A BELIEF – “people cannot be trusted”
- You ACT OUT your belief in your every day life – “You get TENSION when talking to your SPOUSE. Your heart chakra closes and your shoulders tighten.”
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TO UNDO we either MOVE your body slowly through the tension until it releases.
OR Go back to the original trauma and remove the blocked energy and belief system tension in your mind.
The MIND and BODY are intricately connected. You HELD the belief in your body. That’s the stored energy. Once the belief is dealt with, the body releases as well.
So many clients have experienced a LIGHTNESS or a RELEASE after leaving a coaching session or a hypnosis session because it’s your BELIEFS that have you tense and feeling so HEAVY.
Your beliefs cause your body to REACT.
For instance, if you are afraid of public speaking, what happens? Your body reacts. You sweat, your stomach wants to empty, and your mouth goes dry. WHY? Because it is reacting to a FEAR response.
ALERT MODE is where MOST people with BODY PAIN spend most of their day. The people with the most tension in their bodies had the roughest childhoods in my experience. Your body stores the not only just the beliefs, but also the physical trauma, such as beatings, sexual assault, positions you were physically held in, old wounds etc. Your body stores the information in these places where the physical abuse happened.
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When the energy becomes unblocked, there is freedom to start moving in a new way.
A new habit is formed, and the old habit gets released through
- Knowing it’s there – awareness
- Releasing the stored energy or belief
- Inhibiting it from happening – choosing not to allow the body into the old habit
- Choosing the new habit of freedom and relief.
Who wants homework that you can work on to tangibly make this happen in your life?
HOMEWORK:
Do this exercise called progressive relaxation:
- Get into a comfortable position
- Attempt to allow your body to relax all the way
- Once you feel you are relaxed all the way, put your attention on your tension
- See if you can just relax whatever you are holding
- Then, take a deep breath, and tense your body up ALL the way, as tight as it goes, your toes, legs, butt, stomach, hands, arms, chest, neck, face, mouth and eyes
- Then, let it go with an EXHALE. Feel your body relax completely.
You can do this exercise with each and every body part, one by one. You can clench your jaw, and relax your jaw. You can clench your fists and relax your fists. Let this be your homework so you can begin to experience what TENSION feels like, and relaxation.
Of course, if you want more information on how exactly to do this right now, you can work with me one on one. I DO BODY MIND THERAPY with people who are holding too much tightness in their bodies. You can experience it locally through touch, or remotely through visualization and hypnosis. I can show you how to let go, let those old emotional blocks come up and out, and how to love yourself again so you can be free.
Thank you for joining me. As a powerful, world changing woman, I know that catching a little time for yourself can be a challenge. I help guide women like you, who are struggling between Being in Control and SURRENDER to create their OWN LIGHT which of course, influences the world around them.
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Heather Hundhausen, a mind/body/spirit healer and facilitator, works with heart centered individuals who are ready to release their physical and emotional pain and reconnect their minds with their bodies so they can start living a life of passion and purpose. She assists people in making decisions in their lives by following their heart, mind, intuition and soul, from a place of being whole and in integrity.
With over fifteen years as a licensed massage therapist, Heather understands the connection between how someone's emotions can show up as physical pain. Using a variety of massage techniques, including neuromuscular therapy and structural realignment, she now does her ground breaking work by helping her clients to reach back through the pain and remember who they are to create wholeness and fullness.
During her years practicing traditional massage therapy, and while an intern working on her Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling, she realized that people responded strongly when addressing their feelings and not just their thoughts. Working with this knowledge, she began to create an experiential environment for her clients, having them focus less on what they were thinking and more on what they were feeling. She discovered that when people began to release their emotions, they also released their physical pain. Heather is now passionate about helping people do just this so they hear their inner voice and then act upon their intuition so they create a new physical, mental and emotional life for themselves.
Heather’s authenticity, integrity, honor, commitment to her clients, and ability to create trust ensures that client's have a safe space to experience the exploration and release of their pain. Her clients say she is skilled at spiritual and emotional healing and is a great partner to have on the journey to contentment. As one particular client stated, “She opened my heart so the grief could emerge and then joy was able to fill that space.”
Heather is a popular speaker and workshop leader and facilitator, with one of her most popular workshops, “Connect on Purpose: Interpreting Your Body's Signals for Greater Wisdom and Empowerment” helping guide people to live their purpose, which Heather describes as “being able to take your talents and gifts and put them into action.” She is currently authoring a book and developing additional workshops, including a meditation group.
A licensed massage therapist, specializing in Thai Massage, Neuromuscular Therapy and Myo-skeletal Alignment Technique, she has a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling, is certified in Redirecting Children’s Behavior as a facilitator and coach.
