Emotional stress or trauma affects three major areas in our lives: our behaviors, our biochemistry, and our beliefs, all of which can lead to diseases and health conditions in later life.
Understanding Stress
When we face life stressors, the body responds by instructing the adrenals to release stress hormones including adrenaline and cortisol. These hormones prepare us to react or run away (fight or flight response).
This response is intended as a temporary injection of energy to help us deal with the stressor. Once the cause of the stress is dealt with, the body is meant to return to a more normal baseline. For example: running away from a tiger – once the threat has gone away we go back to living our life normally.
The Fight or Flight Priority
When we are in fight or flight mode, our body shifts its priorities to be able to fight or run away. The blood vessels in our gut constrict to allow more blood to rush into our muscles and extremities, our pupils dilate and we are on high alert. Digestion is put on hold as is powering the immune system.
When we are under chronic or acute stress our ability to fight off infection is dramatically reduced. Studies have shown that wound healing times were 40% longer for people under stress compared to others who were not experiencing stress. (Study) Reducing stress is not just a good idea, it is essential to our health and longevity.
Childhood stress or trauma is especially damaging as our natural defenses “fight or flight” are often not available to us at younger ages.
When the stressor cannot be dealt with, our stress response cannot switch off, two things result:
1/ The trauma becomes “frozen into the psyche and the body”
2/ In young developing brains, a low-grade intermittent stressor or shock resets the limbic-hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal system for good, resulting in a LOWERED threshold required to stimulate a response in the future.
The Adverse Childhood Experience Study
The first Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study took place in the late 1990s with over 17,000 participants from all walks of life. The groundbreaking study revealed that over 67% of all adults interviewed had experienced at least one ACE in their youth (0 – 17 years old). ACEs are traumatic events children have no control over such as divorce, loss of a parent, emotional neglect, physical neglect, parental abandonment, living with a mentally ill or addicted family member, verbal humiliation, and more.
This number alone was astounding but grossly underestimated as it did not take into account difficult births, early illness, hospitalizations, or other events from their earlier years that these adults could not possibly remember.
Why does this matter?
The study showed that children who had experienced a high number of ACEs had a higher risk of developing seven of the top ten causes of death.
With four or more ACEs the risk of developing:
- Depression is 4.5 times higher than people with no ACEs
- Stroke is 2.6 times higher
- Cancer is 2.5 times higher
- Hepatitis risk is 2.5 times higher
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD) is 2.5 times higher
- Diabetes is 1.6 times higher
- Suicidal tendencies is 12 times higher
A person with six or more ACEs was determined to have a potentially reduced lifespan of 20 years.
Want to go deeper and understand exactly how trauma effects our body? Great check out this article: The Integrated Understanding of Trauma’s Impact on the Body and Energy Field
Releasing Trauma Patterns
At this point you may be concerned, which is understandable as we all have several ACEs. So what can we do about it? How can we release stress and trauma patterns that may have been with us for decades or perhaps even since birth? How do we release trauma we don’t know we have?
Thankfully we don‘t have to remember or re-live the trauma to release it. Trauma patterns can easily be identified in a body-field scan and when the body has enough energy to let them go, those stored traumas will come up as strong priorities and we will be able to gently release them with simple liquid remedies (no talking necessary).
It can take a few months of remote sessions for some of the deeper trauma patterns to reveal themselves. In the meantime we can use other techniques like the Emotion Code to release trapped emotions, clearing the way for those deeper traumas to come out. At times Emotion Code sessions along with the quantum sessions are all that is needed to bring about a profound transformation in one’s life. This is why we offer Emotion Code sessions as add-one to your quantum packages.
What is the Emotion Code?
The Emotion Code is a gentle and non-invasive energy healing technique that helps identify and release trapped emotional energy in the body. These trapped emotions, often the result of difficult past experiences or trauma, can create emotional or physical imbalances and may hold you back from feeling fully well or thriving in life.
What drew me to this gentle yet powerful modality is that it too doesn’t require you to relive or talk through painful memories. Instead, it uses muscle testing and intuitive guidance to uncover emotional blocks and release them energetically. By dissolving these unseen patterns, many people experience a profound sense of relief, improved emotional clarity, and a renewed ability to move forward. I remember feeling an increased sense of peace, confidence, a growing positive outlook and an overall developing sense of appreciation for my life after just a few sessions.