3 Ways Of Addressing Emotional Trauma

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi

Your level of emotional healing dictates your spiritual path.

Our present life is the result of our past experiences and how we perceived them. Every interaction leaves a mark. And over time, these marks shape our personality, our reactions, and the way we move through the world.

Most of these experiences are harmless, some are even beautiful.

But others run deeper.

Certain events, especially the ones from childhood, can wound the emotional body in ways we don’t notice until much later. Left untreated, they can transform into trauma (which is a cluster of negative programs that attach to our energetic field).

You’d think the pain alone would push you toward healing. That carrying something this heavy would make you desperate to put it down.

But more often, trauma does the opposite.

It convinces you to stay exactly where you are.

And most people never understand why.

Where Trauma Comes From

One of my Reiki teachers explained that childhood traumas happen as a balance in the karmic factor. The traumas you experience in this life mirror what you did in a previous one. This mirroring is meant to show you what requires healing, not harm you.

As I see it, emotional trauma forms in one of two ways:

  1. Through an unhealthy interaction with people.
  2. By experiencing an unpleasant event.

Ideally, we’d reconcile with the people tied to those wounds. But I’m well aware that’s not always possible. Some don’t let us in while others simply disappear.

Fortunately, you don’t have to wait for their approval because healing was never about them.

It was about your energetic connection to that memory.

Why We Stay Stuck

​Self-sabotage​ is a defensive act.

We all have a fear of success, irrespective of its nature. When we’re close to getting out of our comfort zones (and live a better life), a sense of conservation kicks in. Why? Because we fear novelty.

So we sink into guilt, start playing the victim, and bounce from one low-vibrational state to another.

Before taking action, you must come in prepared.

First, be honest with yourself. Become aware of the traumas you carry and accept that they exist. You can’t heal what you deny.

Second, release the guilt, hate, and animosity toward yourself and those who wronged you. The universal life force energy can dissolve the negative energy locked inside a traumatic memory, but only when you stop feeding that memory with resentment. Forgiveness is what opens the door for the energy to do its work.

Healing rarely happens overnight.

But the sooner you start, the quicker you’ll see results.

3 Ways Of Addressing Emotional Trauma

Now that the door is open, let’s put the energy to work. Each of these methods approaches the same wound from a different angle, so use the one that feels right for where you are.

1. Distance Healing

One of the simplest ways to heal your past is to send energy to the traumatic event:

Repeat two to three times per week to clear the effects still showing up in your present life.

Healing is a gradual process. Don’t sit for hours trying to remove every bit of information from this event. If you send too much energy too often, you risk bringing that memory into the present instead of healing it.

So don’t rush and be mindful of the insights you might receive.

Every lesson is a step forward.

2. Meditation

The second method is stillness.

  • Sit in a chair with your back straight, close your eyes, and place your palms in your lap facing up. You can always set the mood with some high-vibrational tunes, candles, or incense.
  • Activate your palms and chakras with the ​Reiki symbols​, then sit in meditation for 20 minutes.
  • Begin visualizing the traumatic event and surround it in pure, Divine light.
  • Offer forgiveness to the person(s) who wronged you. But more importantly, offer compassion and forgiveness to yourself. Acknowledge that you are a divine being who deserves light, love, and respect.

Like the first method, start with twice a week.

3. Reiki Self-Treatment In The Alpha State

The Alpha state empties your mind of stray thoughts and helps the universal life force energy flow freely, with no stress or resistance in its way.

  • Sit in a chair with your back straight, close your eyes, and place your palms in your lap facing up. You can always set the mood with some high-vibrational tunes, candles, or incense.
  • Activate your palms and chakras with the Reiki symbols.
  • ​Enter the Alpha State of Mind​.
  • Set your intention to transmute all traumas into pure light, in the best, healthiest, and least invasive way for your greater good on all levels.
  • Begin the Reiki self-treatment following the chakra pattern with an emphasis on your ​heart chakra​. This is where mist of these heavy emotions are store so you want to re-balance your soul and bring back the lost pieces.

Here, there’s no time limit. You’re working directly with your mental and emotional body, not sending energy to a past event. So you can practice the self-treatment as much as you want.

Forgiveness Is The Real Work

The same event that barely touches one person can devastate another.

But the universe always works in balance, offering us only what we can handle. Accepting this reality is the first step forward, and understanding why it has occurred is how you finally become free of it.

Forgiving yourself and others is the ability you want to develop in this journey because it has the potential to ​break the chains of karmic debt​.

Forgiveness breaks the chains of pain and karmic debt.

That’s where spiritual evolution begins.

IMPORTANT: Trauma can mean different things for different people. Some might find it easier to face while others almost impossible. Still, trauma isn’t something you heal from overnight. It can take a lifetime to diminish its influence. But, the sooner you start, the quicker you’ll be able to feel its grip loosening.