Releasing fear is easier than you think! Fear is one of the basic emotions. Many people hold fear in their body. The natural response to Fight or Flight, the sympathetic response (I got it backwards in the video! Sorry!), dumps cortisol and other neurotransmitters from our brain into our body. We actually cannot think rationally when the amydala takes over and you have this response. It is the brain-stem, or reptilian brain. You are basically in survival mode when the amydala takes over.
Releasing Fear to Overcome Pain
Here is the craziest part about fear.
When you are finished being afraid, or dealing with the stimulus, your body needs to release the fear.
This even happens to animals!
What I find in my practice is that people haven’t learned to experience their fear fully and completely.
Do Not Be Afraid …
Many of us were taught to NOT be afraid as children.
- We were taught to be fearless, or we weren’t allowed to express our emotions at all.
- We learned to tuck it all in, or “hold ourselves together.”
So, we walk around with our shoulders up, contracted and holding tightly.
We don’t take deep breaths, or allow ourselves to feel any fear at all!
However, holding our bodies like this sends us into a chronic panic mode, or chronic anxiety, which is not healthy.
Releasing Fear, Better than Any Massage
Today, I worked with a client on RELEASING her fear. We went into the fear, released it, reprogrammed the memory and took care of the inner child.
At the end she said, “Man, my arms feel so loose and limp,” and then said, “that was better than a massage!”
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That was a really cool thing to hear.
I love to hear that people can release stored up tension just by doing emotional release work, and I’m so grateful to be able to do that with my clients.
Stop Holding Fear and Allow Yourself to Just Let Go
So, if you are holding fear, I am going to just recommend for you to shake it out, allow yourself to go into it, feel the fear and the feelings.
Holding fear for too long can actually cause chronic joint pain, it can cause chronic body pain.
So, let your fear out, feel your feelings, and relax yourself!
If you are ready to release your fear, and want support doing it through a SomatoEmotional Release, Heather is available LIVE in her office HERE or you can schedule a virtual session to release your fear.
As you saw from this client, releasing her fear was BETTER than a massage, and some people would rather have these experiences in the comfort of their own home, via Skype.
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Over the years, I have been a serial learner and practitioner, taking in information about psychology, religion, spirituality, science, medicine, quantum physics, relationships, parenting, and overall, general happiness and work-life balance. I’ve been fascinated in what it takes to and have created my life of pure joy, happiness, balance and peace. It is my mission to spread what I have learned and practiced to you in ways that are simple, easy to understand AND implement. I have served people in achieving realignment in their bodies, relationships and purpose for over 20 years. If you liked this article and you want to read more, please visit one of the links below:
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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.
I held fear all over my body for years!! It was like the line of diapers in a diaper genie…id have fear and bunch it up..over and over. Once released, my body released as well…💓
I love that metaphor! Like the line of diapers in the diaper genie! What a perfect description of the stored fear… a bunch of POOP! It’s so true… let that shit go!!!
Sounds like you are AMAZING at what you do Heather! Totally resonate with the word “Heart-centered” you have in your bio.. that’s a word I use all the time… Looking forward to learning more from you!
Paul, Thank you for the wonderful compliment! Thank you for looking at my bio as well.
Heart-centered is the best way I know to describe the law of manifestation and intention creating reality. Our thoughts are these wild stallions, running all over the place. We don’t really have control of them, until we start paying attention. Even then, we cannot start creating with them, until we can start FEELING what our lives would be like when we truly tap into our potential. For me, living from THAT space, is what I’m hoping to not only achieve full-time for myself, but working to support everyone else at achieving too!
The tricky part is, so many of us are numb. When we start tapping in, we realize, “Oh no, there’s a lot of PAIN here I don’t want to deal with.” As we start handling and expressing the pain, it clears out, and makes SPACE and ROOM for the divine part of ourselves to take over again. Instead of operating from this hidden pain. And THEN, we are in our HEART space, divine space, creative intelligence 🙂 Wouldn’t you agree?