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WHH, EFT, RPT and other therapies and heart health
Hello, I was wondering if there are any opinions, studies, personal experiences on the effect on heart health, heart rhythm and circulation health and working on traumas with different therapies that make one re-experience partly or completely trauma. I am having some concerns about how feeling and experiencing all these emotions and instincts can alter the fight/flight mechanism adrenaline cortisol and heart health and I wanted an experiences opinion on this, especially if this healing is on an ongoing basis not just a session a month or so
Thank you
Antonella Ercolani
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That being said, it is just what I feel, I have no rational for it.
How does one feel safe every time while re experiencing trauma? Sometimes i feel traumatized while working on something like I feel that I need to do a session to clear the trauma of having experienced all the emotions and stuff in the session.... Maybe I am too sensitive or I go in with too much fear?
The biggest one that comes to mind and that I can still remember clearly: in an EFT session more than 10 years ago when mid tapping (with a practitioner) my throat got closed up I couldn't breathe and I started choking and coughing for 5 minutes it was so unexpected and frightening it was beyond horrible. With WHH and RPT the going in feeling around feeling instincts and re experiencing is tough. With WHH the love part helps a bit, and with RPT the not having to dwell on the feelings for as long helps a bit. Both have their good and bad points when it comes to the risk of taxing the body mind and risk of re traumatizing in my personal subjective experience.
My third question would be this: Is there a way, since traumas are physical structures to clear the issues without going inside the trauma and re experiencing it at all? Has it been looked into and discarded or developing?
Thank you very much for any insights and help
Well, I've had the experience before of feeling frightened by the traumas I had to face. This doesn't happen anymore, but I'm not sure why. I think that's because I already experienced such horrible things, and got through them, I'm a bit more "immune".
The most frightening experiences were about dealing with evil parasites (amoeba & bugs mainly). The evil and feeling I could be destroyed was overwhelming. Healing these gave me a bit more confidence.
A while after, as I went deeper into my healing journey, I encountered 'suffocation trauma'. I thinks that's what you describe from your EFT session 10 years ago. That's horrible !!! However, the more you heal them, the better it gets. You learn to go through them, feeling the suffocation just enough to heal it (generationnals, yes !). The first time, I think I would die or hurt myself physically or something bad. Now, I notice it, I take a deep breath, decide to go into it, and give 100% of myself to heal it. It usually takes a few minutes, whereas the first one took over an hour.
Actualy, we all have the innate ability to blast all these traumas and break through. We just forgot that.
- I'm doing exchange sessions with other therapists regularly. That goes a loooooooong way in helping me. When I don't feel safe, my comapnion holds the space for me and make me feel safe. Honestly, the path is so much more difficult if you do it alone. So, find someone who doesn't have the same traumas than you, and work in a team. Or hire a therapist.
- I used to not be able to work on myself in the beginning. The first 2-3 years, I was often stuck. Luckily, I used to do about 2 exchange sessions a week with another therapist. Now I work on myself almost everyday. I don't remember what made me shift.
And finally, for your third question, there are some therapies that work on 'dissociated' feelings. WHH is not one of them, it is an 'associated' technique. EFT can work (tearless trauma technique, safelock, ...) but In my experience that doesn't go as profoundly as WHH. But eh, I don't work that way anymore.
Death and annihilation traumas feel like they sound : terrible !
To date the best technique I know is healing generationnals traumas, or rapidWHH for biographical. You get right at the root, where the damaged histone is. No need to re-experience a bad story, though you still have to feel the trauma completely.
Some ways that might be less traumatic are Yuen Method, kinesiology (applied kinesiology, etc.), BodyTalk, Inner Influencing, and someone really good at EFT who can do it silently and without the physical tapping. (I don't know, maybe the PSI has found something not good about any of them?) When I do super-EFT, the hardest part for the client is to write down their problem and a SUDS unit; most can get it without too much emotional release. When it releases, most express very little to no emotion.
You could try radionics, too (you can make a paper machine yourself that seems to work quite well--from online). For input, you might even just try writing "frequency of [emotion]" or something like that.
Yes, it would be nice to be able to dissolve every trauma string or have the cell wall spit them out or such.
I searched "paper radionics machine instructables" and some decent links came up. Use one with a very simple design--you can draw it out in two-three minutes, tops. Keep the input box blank, then drop your piece of paper with the current emotion/whatever in it. (I can't find it on my computer anymore...)