Sunday, April 5, 2009 . 10:46 AM
NEW PARADIGMFOR
HEALING EMOTIONAL SHOCK AND TRAUMA
(part 1)
Emotional Shock and Trauma is a new approach to understanding and treating emotional wounds that are rooted in painful experiences of childhood, infancy, birth, or prenatal development (or before). Much of this work is influenced by the innovative developments and discoveries of William Emerson, Ph.D., and Graham Farrant, M.D.
Research continues to point to earlier and earlier experiences as the foundation for most of our conscious and unconscious issues, patterns and struggles. We have discovered (and are continuing to develop) protocols for recognizing and treating the emotional wounds that result from these very early experiences.
How these earliest memories are stored and transmitted is not understood at this time. However, there is clear evidence that these earliest memories ARE stored and transmitted, and I am certain that at some point we will understand how. Medical understanding has grown significantly in the past few years to accept that babies are more sensitive than previously believed, and the trend is toward accepting that that sensitivity begins at an earlier and earlier age.
The recognition that emotional shock (the most severe level of trauma) is different in most ways from emotional trauma is an exciting and encouraging innovation. Most therapies and most professionals do not recognize emotional shock and do not differentiate between the treatment for trauma and shock. This lack of understanding and skill is a major cause for therapeutic failure (or failure-to-progress).
Emotional trauma and shock usually arise from stressful experiences during our earliest development, including prenatal development and birth. Shock obscures access to full consciousness - including the deepest and most instinctual aspects of the Self - resulting in difficulties with intimacy, spirituality and self-esteem (just to name a few).
Shock is held in the body and reactivated by events in daily life until it is resolved. Shock requires completely different treatment from trauma plus the additional step of deconditioning the physiological shock response. This physiological shock response, if untreated, keeps us in a state of "overdrive" that leads to adrenal fatigue and, eventually, adrenal exhaustion and adrenal death. This adrenal drain is a major contributing factor to many conditions and diseases.
In addition, research has documented specific behaviour patterns as well as emotional, psychological and physiological predispositions caused by trauma or shock at various stages of development and birth (going back to pre-conception). This "road map" allows us to work effectively with persistent conscious and unconscious issues - even those that have failed to shift with other therapies. In fact, the failure to respond to good, deep, otherwise effective therapy is one of the most obvious signals that you are dealing with shock instead of trauma.
(Credits to:http://www.terrylarimore.com/Shock.html)
Done by: Malorie Tan