Here in the north, we're well aware of the devastating harm that unresolved trauma presents. Roisin Armstrong examines new ways of healing that may help when talking just isn't enough
FOR some time there has been a powerful move towards exploring the massively exciting world of energy medicine. There have been hundreds of amazing books published examining the power of the subconscious mind, especially in respect of healing, both of the physical body and of the mind.
Healing trauma is essential if one is to live life to the fullest; in the north we are only too aware of the devastating and ongoing harm that unresolved trauma presents. Sometimes talking alone does not minimise the problem and allow the person to regain freedom of thought and action. We are such complex creatures but learning to understand more about how our brains work can lead us to a path of resolution.
The 'tapping' phenomenon has swept around the world giving people incredibly powerful tools to generate changes within our own emotional fields. The originator Gary Craig has trained thousands in the art of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) a combined practise which allows deep traumas to be permanently erased from the consciousness in a safe and painless manner.
EFT was further refined seven years ago by Karl Dawson who developed Matrix Reimprinting. This allowed a trauma experience stuck in the subconscious mind to be redrawn in the memory with a different outcome, freeing the person from that horrendous memory and experiences suffered, allowing them to return fully to life.
We are so fortunate that Ted Wilmott is returning to teach both the art of EFT and Matrix Reimprinting this November. Ted is listed by Karl Dawson in his new book Transform Your Beliefs, Transform Your Life, as "one of the most experienced EFT and Matrix Reimprinting practitioner/trainers in the world".
Incidentally Karl's book is a fantastic read for anyone interested in this discipline. In it he says "Like water, beliefs are fluid... Science has proven that we use 5 per cent of our creative conscious mind and 95 per cent of our subconscious mind - therefore the subconscious mind is in charge," hence the need for a therapy which can access the subconscious to allow change to happen.
Ted says: "Matrix Reimprinting is a brand new Meridian Tapping Therapy that is effective for the treatment of emotional or physical issues". It can also be used to manifest your goals and dreams. Like its predecessors, Matrix Reimprinting also uses the Traditional Chinese Medicine meridian system that has been used in acupuncture for thousands of years. EFT has a long and impressive history of resolving physical and emotional health issues," he says. The way it works is that you bring to mind and verbalise, in a specific manner, an issue that you want to work with. At the same time you tap on points on your meridians with your fingers, and this releases stress and trauma from the body's energy system, allowing the body-mind to return to a healthy physical and emotional state. "Results for EFT have always been phenomenal and have far-reaching positive consequences for our Western medical model of healing. "In simple terms, Matrix Reimprinting is a technique using EFT to access and resolve trauma (small t and big T trauma). Instead of bringing memories back into the body where we relive the somatic experience of the trauma we get the client to step out to the scene where the event took place and use EFT to move that energetic part through the trauma to a place
where they know the event is over."
Many trauma experts now see that we freeze in trauma (the freeze response) and when we can complete in procedural memory what we were doing when trauma hit and consciousness froze then we can release the effects of the trauma and move on.
Ted says: "Matrix Reimprinting and EFT is being used in Bosnia and other war-torn areas of the world to help resolve problems even 30-40 years after they occurred. The wars may be over but for the innocent the suffering goes on. I feel if we can help these professionals help the victims of conflict irrespective of the cause or actions that created the trauma then that can only be good for the individuals their wider families and communities."
Ted is hosting a Matrix Reimprinting Practitioner Training Course in the Park Avenue Hotel, Belfast on November 15-16 and in EFT levels one and two on November 27-29 plus Matrix Reimprinting November 30-December 1 in the Belmore Court Hotel, Enniskillen. For details and booking see eft4life. co.uk or call 0152 7894 151 or 0794 1259 156. For those of us already trained in these skills Ted is offering the opportunity to resit his courses for £75 for either one or £100 for both. r.armstrong@irishnews.com