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Overcoming anxiety: Jane´s Case.
When Jean set up her appointment to meet me, there was trembling in her voice and a sense of anxiety permeating her being. She was a beautiful young woman in her late twenties who was a massage therapist and yoga teacher. Jean had been experiencing severe panic disorders for the past few years. This had escalated so that she was having great anxiety traveling in a car. When driving, she became panic-stricken and refused to go on any interstate highways. Our friend Jean would take only the back roads, doubling or tripling the time to reach her destination. This simultaneously multiplied the possibility of having an accident.
Having a horrible accident was what she was frightened would occur. Even when she was a passenger, she kept her feet firmly fixed to the dashboard, closed her eyes, and tensed her body while clenching her teeth and keeping her arms rigid. Each moment, Jean was stuck in a fight or flight mindset, waiting for something horrible to happen. She knew something was grossly wrong, and she wanted a way out of her misery.
I discussed with Jean the possibility of a hidden unconscious impulse that had an unknown purpose that was behind this reaction. I explained, “When someone experiences this type of panic, it usually represents something buried in the unconscious mind. The body is the unconscious mind”. This has been demonstrated in my research and the National Institute of Health research. This is well stated by Dr. Candace Pert, formerly with the National Institute of Health, whose excellent book Molecules of Emotion explains this science.
The paradigm I use of your existence as a human being is composed of five levels of the same “substance”, levels of consciousness, life’s essence or spirit. Compare this “substance ” to H20.
H20 can be either vapor, water, or ice. Each level is a more condensed state of the H20 molecule.
Although each of these different states of H20 acts differently, they were nevertheless all the same substance. When you deal with H20 in the form of vapor while driving along the road, if you see fog, you might slow down, knowing you will be able to continue through the fog safely.
Fog can be blown easily away using the air in our mouth. Yet if that same H20 had condensed into a large body of water and this was the only road through which you could drive, you could not blow it away. You would first have to get a bucket or a pump to clear away this water or build a bridge over it to continue your path. Yet if a huge chunk of ice or iceberg was blocking your path, neither the bucket nor the pump would be very effective in helping you get through.
You would need a different tool to always get through the iceberg, such as an ice pick or even some dynamite on your path along the healing road you are traveling, the only interference you deal with is the one substance, “H20″ which I use as a metaphor to represent consciousness. To move forward on your path, you need the proper tools to move through whatever level of H20 (consciousness) is condensed into, which is blocking your progress. Before the “H20″ joined together as a molecule, it was hydrogen and an oxygen atom. Before it became an element of hydrogen or oxygen, it was just pure space from the un-manifest, implicate order. The space condensed itself to become hydrogen and oxygen atoms, eventually joining to form the H20 molecule.
Einstein concluded, “Everything is nothingness or condensed nothingness.” Human beings are similar. They are pure consciousness, electromagnetic energy we call life’s essence or spirit at different levels of condensation. Your thinking is analogous to vapor. Water represents your emotions, your body is the ice, and you are the spiritual being, the space. All these three levels come from the pure space of the Source of all life and existence.
I call it pure consciousness, pure existence, pure life. Some might even call it “God.” Call it anything you like: Love’s Presence, Eternal Light, Universal Consciousness, Christ, Buddha, or Allah. It is the Ultimate Source from where all the Manifest Universe as we know it has unfolded. Quantum Embodiment addresses unwanted conditions at each level to remove any interferences and restore optimal functioning. Each level must be dealt with the healing tools that would be effective at that level. Most people try to resolve all their issues manifesting at the four levels by talk therapy.
This would be equivalent to only dealing with the level of vapor you’re thinking. This does not work well. You cannot push the emotional waters away and melt the body’s frozen traumas by talking to it or trying to blow it away with your breath. If there is an emotional attachment, physical pain, or limitations, then you use what is effective to remove the blockage at those levels. This is why talk therapy may only be effective for a short time.
An issue must be faced and embraced at all levels of your existence. The issue’s core is buried in the body/unconscious mind and must be removed at that level, or it will one day reassert itself. A garden full of weeds can be mowed to temporarily look good. But soon, the roots of the weeds still in the ground will grow back and strangle the flowers. Most issues are rooted in the “ground” of the unconscious mind/body and take place during the highly hypnotic years of early childhood.
Talking, meditating, and other techniques at the level of the conscious mind may temporarily work. Disturbing emotions may temporarily settle down if the surrounding conditions are improved. Nevertheless, the weeds’ roots will once again cause them to re-sprout, creating more waves of disturbance and instability. When the “weeds” re-emerge, or the surrounding conditions are no longer perfect” the underlying peace will be lost.
Jean understood my analogy very clearly. As a yoga teacher, she truly understood how the body was anchored into this world as a representation of Life’s essence, consciousness, and spirit. She knew how the purification of the mind and the emotions could be chronically locked into areas of the body. She had addressed this continually through massage.
Most people she had worked with were heavily stressed in their shoulders, neck, and hips. Many had chronic holding in their chests, reducing their breathing capacity by fifty percent or more. Educating a client on the dynamics of mind, spirit, body, emotion, and relationships is essential to the help I provide. I continued to explain. “When a person has a trauma that they have buried and not faced, it causes chronic holding in their body”.
Whenever they experience fear or threats of loss, danger, or death, the unconscious represses these incidents into the unconscious mind/body. The intent is to place their painful memories “out of sight and shut off from feelings”. This enables an individual to deny them and not have to address them to meet their primary objective, to survive. As your anxiety and panic disorder were primarily directed at driving, this would be the first area that I do a thorough search on.
I use different therapeutic tools to assess what is happening at each level of consciousness. You will check within your unconscious mind/body, emotions, and conscious mind to uncover the “roots” of this interference. Something has sprouted from the “ground” of your unconscious mind in the last few years, and you have not responded to any type of talk therapy, meditation, yoga, medications, or massage. These therapies didn’t access the right level of consciousness with an effective tool. I gently directed her to search her timeline to examine if there were any car accidents, she had been personally involved in.
I stayed observant of the movement of her body while she did this. By my observation of a person’s unconscious mind/body while they do an inner search, I can observe a deeper movement occurring below conscious awareness. She is only aware of a portion of the memory. While I’m noticing the responses in her body, I observe the movement of her postures and respiration. Bioenergetics and Formative Psychology, two major components of QE work, are the quickest way to access her body memory and bring it back into consciousness.
Using these helped Jean remember some fender-bender accidents while driving with her parents. While she did, I did not feel any significant movement of energy or notice any constrictions in her body to signify that there was anything more than a minor effect.
Before utilizing any hypnosis to do a deeper inner search, I explained, “The mind responds not only to what happens to one person but what that person causes to happen to another”. She did an inner search for any accidents she may have caused while driving or being in a car with a different driver. The slate was completely clean in all respects.
One of the most impactful areas that the mind can hold onto is the interaction between one person and another, in which you are the observer. These memories can be filled with strong feelings of helplessness of not being able to do anything to stop the trauma.
In all circumstances of things that “happen” to you, being caused by you, or are observed by you of one person causing it to happen to another, it is not necessary these events happened! If you imagine an event thoroughly enough, the created mental image of this event can be filled with emotions and feelings of threat(s) that can feel as real as if it did happen. You traumatize yourself each time these memories are dwelled on. Memories impact, strengthen, and deepen the initial separation trauma by making new impressions of the past trauma! (Morphic fields strengthen with repetition.)
Finally, I asked her to search for any events observed or known about of an accident happening to another. Immediately, her breathing became strained and shallow. Her face tensed, and her body started to contort. A look of panic filled her eyes. At first, she had no awareness of what was happening or why. She had not consciously remembered anything concerning this possibility.
To access the triggered unconscious memory, I utilized a specialized embodiment technique. This method could bring into conscious awareness what was happening unconsciously in her body. My role was to provide a safe containment for her to feel supported and protected. Through the embodiment process, she embraced what was happening. That which had been frozen in the “ice” (unconscious mind/body) was given attention for it to emerge. At first, she showed a little resistance. With encouragement, she released her resistance and embraced these feelings.
She quickly experienced a full-stage panic attack. I supported her through this realm of uncertainty. (There is some truth to the saying better the devil you know than the one you don’t!) Within minutes, the ice began to melt, and the emotions/water began to pour out (sobbing). Slowly, the images of what had been buried inside appeared. I helped her stabilize her breathing and strengthen her inner foundation.
The panic and strong emotions settled down. She shared, “I forgot all about this. When I was a sophomore in high school, one of my best friends was in a horrible car accident. She was the head of the cheerleading squad and one of the smartest and most popular kids in school. She had been out partying one night, and while driving home with two of her friends, they were in a terrible accident.”
Jean had not seen her friend’s accident but was told all about it. She detailed the moment she first heard about it as if it was today. “I was in class, and our teacher stopped the class to tell us what had happened the night before about my friend’s accident. My teacher was planning to have the entire class visit our classmates and bring them good wishes to the hospital.”
Jean was there back in her high school classroom, sharing this event with me as if it happened for the first time. She experienced the shock of that moment. She had not seen the accident but immediately began to vividly imagine what happened. Her body trembled when she thought of this. Jean remembered being at the hospital with other students who had come to visit. The more attention she gave to this event, the clearer the specifics became.
“The other two girls in the car were barely hurt. Yet my close friend had had her spinal cord severed and would never be able to walk again”. Her memories triggered strong emotions in her body as the trauma was being recalled. I encouraged her to recount the event as it unfolded. “When I saw my friend in the hospital room, she was banged up and unable to move. There were supportive structures all around her. Facially, she didn’t look too bad. I thought that she would fully recover, and everything would be okay. Yet, as time went on, everything wasn’t okay. Months later, my friend came back to school to graduate with everyone else.”
I encouraged Jean to fully embrace whatever she was feeling or experiencing “back then.” As she re-experienced the memory, I encouraged her to give her feelings a full voice. Providing movement, breath, and remobilization of all that was repressed and frozen “back then” retrains the three brains and creates an empowered morphic field and memory that is edited into the subconscious mind. Yet, it wasn’t until she reviewed this trauma deeper that the real key came into view.
The final piece of this trauma/symptom puzzle from her friend’s tragic accident was an unexpected shock she experienced three years later. This occurred when Jean saw her friend with her mother after school one day, getting into a specially designed van for the handicapped. Jean then realized how much damage had occurred. This once beautiful girl was now emaciated.
“Her body had lost all of its tones, and her vitality for life had completely drained away. This shocked me as much, if not more, than the initial shock of the accident.” Jean added, “Oh my God, I am so glad this didn’t happen to me. I am sorry it happened to you, but better to you than to me, as I could never have dealt with it.”
Jean felt horrible when she shared this thought. Instantly, her Catholic childhood upbringing about sin, guilt, and punishment was unconsciously activated. She had been sternly told many times by the nuns and priests in the church she regularly attended that having an unloving thought was as bad as acting. Her unconscious mind labeled her a horrible sinner. God would now punish her for her guilt. She believed this would cause something even worse to happen to her than what happened to her friend.
It was a terrorizing notion. Jean had her Ah-Ha moment and connected these dots. Her body shook with terror. She had buried her guilt and fear deep inside. She denied it with all her might. At that moment, she decided, “God would now make me pay for my evil thought!”
Jean grew up for the first ten years of her life in a Catholic household. Today, she did not consider herself a practicing Catholic. Her spiritual path was connected with yoga and other new-age beliefs.
“In the first eight years of our life, children are in a constant state of hypnosis. Whatever training we received in childhood, even though it was not consciously chosen, formed the foundation of our belief systems. These beliefs were the roots of our conditions and the sense of anxiety that can arise.”
The training you receive from your religion or parents acts as pictures of perfection, Ideals, that are built into the super-ego. When these ideals are violated, they create a deep sense of guilt. When you feel guilt, it taps into the beliefs of guilt’s consequences; guilt demands punishment!
Unconsciously, this guilt deserves punishment mechanism, which causes people to trigger different types of panic from the imagined fear of being punished. Unconsciously, this repressed guilt-punishment mechanism gets activated even while consciously you say, “I don’t believe in my religious upbringing anymore.”
The ego loves to minimize and deny what is happening at deeper levels of the unconscious mind/body. Your body is panicking, filled with anxiety, yet the head will think, “That has nothing to do with my childhood conditioning”.
“It couldn’t be that because I don’t follow those beliefs anymore.”
“I look at things from a phenomenological basis and observed what was happening to your body and working with you at the level your issue was being presented. I had you process what you were experiencing to have this ice (unconsciousness)melt and vaporize. This allowed you to see the decisions you made that held these beliefs in place to deal with your subconscious thinking on the conscious level”.
I integrated a forgiveness intervention to reframe her experience and create free inner space. Piece by piece, thoughts that had been repressed returned to her awareness. She had repressed her fearful thought of being punished by God. Hidden inside her unconscious/mind/body was the thought of how God was going to punish her. She felt God would strike her dead for her having unloving thoughts about her friend.
For an unknown reason, this fear began to seep through her defenses and emerge into her life. She did not understand what sparked it. This inner seed of fear began to grow and create a deep sense of the anxiety of being in A horrible car accident. Unconscious triggers could have been the time of year, seeing someone who reminded her of her friend, having gone to church, a song on the radio, a certain smell reminiscent of that time, anything! Egoic defenses begin to crumble when the weight of other issues’ defenses is placed upon them. For Jean, there was a major subconscious trigger that predisposed her to weakness. This occurred when she formed a serious relationship with a man (stirring up dormant father issues).
The key to issue resolution was the recognition of the terror she felt of being punished by God. This was as important as the trauma of her friend’s accident. Her belief in being punished and the trauma of her friend were fused together. Jean worked her way through her “ice” using many different QE tools. These helped release the repressed energy and emotions to access and release the underlying negative thinking.
While processing Jean’s new realization, the room brightened up with a huge burst of light. It was delightful to perceive. A huge smile radiated on her face. She realized she had found the seed of her anxiety and had pulled its’ roots buried in the subconscious. She was now free! Her body vibrated, and a joyous energy lit up her eyes with love. A new opening had provided an expanded space of freedom to surround her.
Jean became absorbed in a delightful state of bliss. Once grounded, I did some therapeutic assessments to generalize the shift into other possible realms of her life. She considered different situations to see if there were any other remnants of “ice” we missed and responded coherently without any feelings or embodiment of guilt, fear, or pain. She commented to me, “You know, had you brought these things up before, I would have gone into panic. These beliefs do not serve me and were nothing, but this irrational fear that was imprinted in my mind was that I was a child God is always watching to catch me as a sinner. OMG, that is crazy! I had no idea of the power of that one thought. I feel free now and see my life in a new light.” She happily left my office to drive home.
This was an e-mail I received from her the next day: “The work we did was unbelievable. I was driving down the interstate with no anxiety. And I also noticed when I was riding with my fiancée, I wasn’t freaking out either. When I say it in words, it seems so small, but I feel like I’ve gotten my life back. Also, my meditation practice has become much deeper from the work as well”. Many thanks to you for this wonderful gift. Namaste.” Months later, when we met on a different concern, she said with a big smile, “I have been 100% fine ever since.”
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