How Emotion Frequencies Block Trauma Memory

Your body has incredible mechanisms for storing information – and that includes how it stores memories. Trauma memory is stored as an emotional frequency in the body, which can manifest in a number of ways throughout your life.

Beyond the mind

While the brain processes and stores information, including memories, the impact extends throughout a person’s entire body.

As psychologist Jennifer Sweeton explains, the body undergoes a strong physical response to the signals it receives from the brain. During everyday activities, that response follows a predictable path that raises no concern. In contrast, during periods of stress or trauma, the physical response becomes so heightened that it can affect memory processing. She writes:

“Anytime that we process information, we form explicit memories and implicit memories. Explicit memories are the factual information, general knowledge and autobiographical information. Implicit memories are the emotional responses and body sensations—this part doesn’t have to do with fact, but feeling. These two types of memories travel in different pathways in the brain and have to be integrated later to form one unified memory.”

She adds that many trauma victims have gaps in their memories because their brains and bodies were so intent on moving to safety that the normal memory-storing processes were short-circuited.

You have likely heard the term “muscle memory.” While we often think of that phrase in relation to recalling and using physical skills, such as riding a bike or playing tennis, it can also apply to emotions.

Post-traumatic stress disorder, for example, includes significant physical symptoms as well as emotional ones. Standford psychology professor Shaili Jain, M.D., explains that PTSD:

“...brings disruption to hormone secretion, neurochemistry and immune system functioning, all of which contribute to diseased cells, organs, and other bodily systems. Chromosomal studies have shown that PTSD patients have shorter telomeres—the segments on the ends of chromosomes that are a measure of cellular age—than their healthy counterparts do.”

The mind and body work together. In the case of PTSD, that mind-body link can result in physical expressions of unresolved emotions and trauma.

Uncovering emotional frequencies

Splankna practitioners and others who use mind-body therapies to address trauma apply a technique called muscle testing, also known as applied kinesiology, which helps detect emotional responses in the body.

The Splankna Institute explains that a muscle:

“...will respond to subtle electrical shifts that go off in the body. If a client holds an arm out forward, strengthening their deltoid muscle and a practitioner pushes down on the arm, the muscle will bounce back, resisting the pressure. But if an idea is presented that the client is incongruent with (such as having a male say that he is a female), the muscle will respond differently. The incongruence of the idea causes a slight energetic shift in the body…”

This “touch and thought” technique helps release old, stored memories to allow an individual to move forward. Once these memories are released, the individual can move forward and learn new, healthier responses to stress triggers.

Connecting spiritual practice to healing

In Splankna, we use prayer as a pathway for forming those healthier responses. As individuals release trauma memory through applied kinesiology, prayer allows them to connect with their spiritual side, which brings a sense of calm and peace. Over the course of several sessions, individuals can begin to move past trauma and develop more resilience.

When we view memories in the context of the whole person – mind, body and spirit – we can integrate them and spark lasting, positive change.

To learn more about applied kinesiology in trauma recovery and Splankna therapy, contact me.