How Energy Healing Erased My Autoimmune Disease and Chronic Pain
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Traumatic imprints in our lives cause emotional issues but also leave physical imprints on the energy body. These imprints, when left unchecked, create dis-ease in the physical body.
For example, I had autoimmune disease for 10 years of my life. I had no idea what could be causing it, and nobody else did either. No doctors I spoke with could explain why a 35-year-old woman had rheumatoid arthritis, or why by the time I was 40, I had also developed fibromyalgia.
It took me years to unravel it myself, but eventually, a quiet practice of meditation led me to studying and pursuing energy and energy healing.
Multiple scholars, doctors, and psychologists understand the link between trauma, unfelt emotions, and the toll it all takes on the physical body.
Gabor Mate has built his career on the long-term effects of childhood trauma and autoimmune diseases and cancer, among other illnesses. He has written 5 books Including the bestseller, “When the Body Says No.”
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk wrote the bestseller, “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, about how psychological trauma physically reshapes both the brain and body.
Another great book that explores the intimate connection between physical illness and our emotional, psychological, and spiritual states, is “Your Body Speaks Your Mind”, by Deb Shapiro.
When we experience unresolved emotions and trauma, the memories of it get stuck in our energy body, our chakras. Studies have also recently linked our fascia as playing an important role in physically containing trauma.
In my personal life, I had a great deal of trauma in childhood, as did my siblings, but I developed a coping mechanism that included stoicism. I held it all together, as others seemed to have bigger problems than I did, since they were displaying theirs outwardly.
Inward, my body had been clenching the entire time.
It wasn’t until I sat in silence and meditated while, that things got quiet enough for me to learn what was was going on in my body, and how I could potentially heal it.
I was drawn to the energy body, and reiki energy healing, because the more I devoted to sitting in silence, the more I was able to tune out my “worrier and diagnoser” and tune in to what I was feeling. The subtle energy in my body.
Meditation enabled me to feel a part of me that I had never acknowledged.
Soon, I was studying reiki energy healing before I had even experienced a session myself. I learned how to channel the energy and focused on using it to heal myself.
I felt the energy in my body respond to the energy in my palms. My body would twitch, tighten, and release as the energy flowed. I would feel emotions and experience memories from long ago, that I’d forgotten.
I journaled through my experiences and found myself excavating memories, as I worked on healing my body.
The first things I healed from, were the physical symptoms of my autoimmune diseases. Before I began healing, I had been down to eating so few foods to manage my pain. I couldn’t eat gluten, soy, corn, dairy, night shades, and many random ingredients, as doing so, would have had me writhing in pain for days.
Within a few months of practicing reiki energy healing, I could eat everything but dairy with no repercussions. Dairy I’ve been intolerant of since birth. (Now I can have A2 milk – see my blog post about that here.)
My chronic pain from the last 10 years was gone. Instead of waking up in the morning with my muscles so painfully locked up and rigid, my body felt amazing! No joint pain, no muscle tension. Nada.
At first, I had a hard time believing it, but I couldn’t deny, it was gone.
It has been almost 6 years now, and it has never returned, and I know it never will.
With energy healing, it seems the physical symptoms of energetic trauma on the body tend to respond and heal first, because they are more surface level.
My scary moments from childhood lay dormant in my body for decades, before my physical body began to display the effects. This may not be the same for everyone, but it is my interpretation from my own experiences and the work I do with helping heal others.
The emotional healing came, as each layer of trauma began lifting into my awareness, realized, and processed out through energy healing or even simply recounting the memories in my journal.
We can heal the physical body, but if we do not acknowledge the underlying causes – traumas and unfelt emotions – the physical symptoms may likely return. Perhaps in another form of dis-ease.
Reiki healing will bring to light some trauma, without you even knowing what it was. Yet often, we are called to acknowledge the things we didn’t have the capacity to deal with in our younger life. We must feel the feelings we were afraid to feel then.
Inner child healing was a big part of my healing experience.
I spent time in silence, being present with the feelings that were coming up as memories would surface.
My role was in helping the child version of me, to feel cared for amid the painful experience that was playing out.
This would often bring a big release of emotions, and result in a huge weight being lifted off my energy body.
With each emotional release, came a more uplifted way of being. Triggers that were once prevalent were no longer there. Each uplifted trauma and healing brought me closer to the person I was before I ever experienced it. I felt so free, and, like a different person.
As you can imagine, when you have spent a lifetime carrying the energetic burdens of your own life and the lives of the people you’ve spent time around, it’s a huge release of pressure to let it all go.
Not only does your physical body have to calibrate to the weightlessness, but you must also get to know the person you are without all the hangups. Your personality changes as you become your authentic self, instead of the one trying to hold it all together.
We can also carry trauma imprints from past lives in our energy body. I have not to my knowledge, lifted a past life trauma from myself, but I have had clients who have experienced this.
Energy is everything, which is why healing on an energetic level can help to heal almost anything.
I write this, not to sell you on Reiki healing, as there are many modalities to healing energy and trauma.
I write this to give hope to those who were like me, suffering in silence with no answers as to why. Often, there are answers. We may just need to get quiet enough to hear them.
If you feel called to try a Reiki energy healing session with me, schedule a session here.
If you are interested in learning Reiki healing for yourself, I would love to teach you. I am a Reiki Master teacher and do in person trainings at my studio in downtown Corvallis. Call or text me at 541-760-7849, or email me, kris@healthytothesoul.com