Monday, 18 July 2011

Polar Bear Releases Trauma

For many years when practising the Energy Clearing technique both for myself and for clients I had noticed that I often felt a judder/shudder through my upper body when releasing charge. Along with the burping and yawning I thought it was just one of those mysteries. Recently though I came across a piece of video which shows a Polar Bear which has been tracked by scientists in a helicopter, tranquilised and studied for research...all very traumatic for a wild animal.

What's interesting though is that when the polar bear regains consciousness it does something which the researchers describe as "completing the fight or flight process". So when the animal becomes stressed it enters into the fight or flight autonomic response which releases adrenalin and other chemicals into the body to help deal with the threat - but once the stress is over the bear has a mechanism to release that trauma from it's system. The process involves the animal shaking and shuddering in a similar way to my own experience with Energy Clearing.

Perhaps we have evolved socially out of this completion behaviour. People often begin to shake when they have been very scared and our tendency is to encourage people to return to normal as quickly as possible. In doing so perhaps we prevent ourselves from completing the fight or flight response and tend instead to store and accumulate trauma over time - eventually leading to an inability to cope with stress and then leading to ill-health and disease.