That’s why this footage from the training I did with Karl Dawson, the originator of Matrix Reimprinting, still sends goosebumps down my arms. Watch as the polar bear discharges its trauma – almost as if its having a fit. This is vital to survival for animals in the wild - or in shamanistic ritual. But this is NOT the reality of humans – or caged or domesticated animals.

Our evolutionary development has provided us with a way to deal with trauma the moment it happens—yet our cultural training overrides our body’s natural instinct about what to do. The result is that we often store the energy trauma in the body, leading to unexplained physical problems, emotional issues, and psychological blockages. Especially true of intense or traumatic things that happen to us in the early years of life.

Question – if as humans we hold onto the trauma – is it any wonder we suffer pain and post-traumatic-distress? If not immediately – then sometime down the line. Something occurs many years later – like a small car accident causing whiplash – or a bigger event like 9/11 – and individuals holding buried childhood sexual abuse – all have trouble healing. Dr Robert Scaer explains this in his book The Body Bears The Burden – Trauma Dissociation and Disease – and he says he learned much from Dr Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger and creator of Somatic Experiencing.

Thankfully we now have Matrix Reimprinting with EFT tapping as a simple, speedy and highly effective way to heal past frozen trauma. It can literally help you to “break free fast”!

Michael Jackson: 5 Lessons to Heal or Change Your Life

Today being the one-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death, it seems an appropriate time to remember and re-focus on the benefits of healing the “inner child” of past pain and trauma with energy tools like EFT tapping with Matrix Reimprinting. When I wrote Michael Jackson: 5 Lessons to Heal of Change Your Life as an e-book (download free when you sign up now) and later recorded the audio, it was a few weeks after Michael’s passing.  I was filled with compassion as replays of interviews with him, pointed to his longing and sadness about his “lost childhood”.

NEW INSIGHTS ON TRAUMA Since then, I have trained with Karl Dawson and Sasha Allenby, co-authors of the soon to be released book on Matrix Reimprinting using EFT. They refer to this childhood part of us as an ECHO (Energy Consciousness Hologram) and describe it as energy that gets stuck or “frozen” in time in terms of the fight, flight or freeze syndrome.

My clients often report feelings of shame and low self-worth when they think back to a childhood or teen memory when they did not fight back – or run away –  but felt frozen on the spot, silent in the face of threat. “Why didn’t I say ‘STOP’?” they often ask me. The answer is because in the wild when an animal is being chased by a predator and losing hope of escape, they will collapse or freeze – a last resort which releases a flood of endorphins which will minimize the pain of an attack, should it occur.

A key factor here is explained in the work of trauma specialist Dr Robert Scaer, author of The Body Bears the Burden. Trauma is particularly damaging to children because it ruptures their boundaries necessary for feelings of safety – and this usually continues through into their feelings of being unsafe in the world as adults In the wild, an animal will shake, breathe quickly and perspire before running off.

But humans don’t have that releasing response. Hence the danger of long-held traumas frozen in time in our energy field…the body eventually cannot keep them at bay and they start to leak through to damage our health and well being. Today we can help release and repair the damage of traumas, big and small, to our inner child or ECHO.

For Michael Jackson, sadly this was not an option – but if we can learn something from that aspect of his life, we can contribute our bit to “save the world and make it a better place for you and me and the whole human race”.

I’ve been a trainer and therapist using EFT tapping for more than eight years – and helped introduce it in South Africa – but still I am thrilled and bowled over and amazed at all that I am learning from people like Patricia Carrington on Boosting the Law of Attraction, and Rick Wilkes on healing Inner Child Trauma. These are both in line with my own work.

EFT TAPPING HEALS CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

Empower your Younger You – shift old energies – ask permission first – picture yourself walking into the scene and you honor their boundary as to if they want help or not.
It’s wonderful to hear Rick describe this about transforming frozen energy into empowered energy in your life NOW.

Once cleared of inner pain and stuckness – NOW WHAT? What choices does this open up? Playfulness, re-parenting, compassion and comfort that was missing in the past. Allows your own body to flow and focus – radiate from your heart to the world in gratitude and appreciation.
ABUNDANCE
As for Carrington’s session – it reminds me to me to make a daily ritual of tapping in POSITIVE SNAPSHOTS from each day and tell the Universe: “I want MORE of that”.
Cool hey?
Here in Cape Town where I am currently based to launch my Break-Free Fast book in bookstores – I passionate about doing more to spread the healing word with workshops and talks. Plus I’m boosting my own journey of success and passion with EFT Tapping and the 2010 Tapping Summit interviews.

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Tapping into Abundance: Understanding What’s Really Going on with The Law of Attraction
-Using Meridian Tapping to Quickly Manage and Eliminate Pain fro Trauma, Injury, and Surgery
-Freedom From Food! Releasing Your Cravings and Compulsive Eating Habits to Lose Weight and Feel Great
-Breaking the Chain of Addictions with Meridian Tapping-
-Meridian Tapping for Cancer Support
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