We are living in an age where pressure, stress and anxiety are part of daily life.  This affects all ages, children and adults. Pressure from our peers, family and work commitments all affect our emotions that in turn affect our body physically and mentally.

Emotions affect how our body performs. Stress and emotions are responsible for many disorders and diseases.

Trials have shown that at least 75% of all disorders start from emotional and stressful conditions or events.

We secrete chemicals in the body. Chemicals coat the cells and that determines how our body is going to react. Our cells also hang onto the memory that created this action. i.e.: abandonment, grief, fear, trauma, devastation, despair, hurt, depression, anxiety, feeling unloved or unhappy etc., that creates a reaction that can come out as disorders /addictions: - eating, smoking, drinking, drugs, compulsive disorders etc.

By Candice Pert) Candice was part of the aids programme and found through her research that cells were coated with peptides/chemicals that created a reaction/pattern of emotion that created disorders within the body.

Sometimes when we are anxious, stressed, angry, emotionally upset or under any pressure that puts the body on red alert (fight or flight mode) the Adrenal kicks in - an explosion of hormones.

It is an automatic response from the body to help you to deal with the situation i.e.: -emergency.

This response closes down some of the systems of the body to move energy to other systems

• Shuts down digestive system and bladder
• Breathing, Heart rate and Blood pressure are increased.
• More blood pumped to the muscles 

This reaction is ok if it is for an emergency (to stand and fight or run away) but harmful if this reaction is ongoing due to pressure or worry. It is like using a battery over and over again without recharging it.  If we don’t use this energy, the chemicals that have been released will remain in the body for some time and it can take several hours for the systems to come back on line again.

We often repress and bottle up feelings.  It is when we bottle up and repress feelings that deep trauma in our body is created.

Trials have shown that this is when disease such as cancer can occur. Your Emotions are powerful. (See 'Events' for workshop on 'Power of emotions')

Somoto Emotional Release (SER) - Emotional & cellular healing guides you to the root cause of the problem that is causing the disorder or trauma and gives you the tools to help yourself.

SER is at the cutting edge of energy medicine and healing that can enable you to recover and move beyond illness, disease and performance limitations or restrictions.  It is healing on all levels.

SER - Scientifically and Clinically trialled by Dr. John Upledger who devised this therapy (-an offshoot of Cranio Sacral Therapy) on Vietnam war veterans who they found needed more than counselling because of their post traumatic stress and trauma

The treatment proved to be very successful especially with emotional trauma, post - traumatic stress etc.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

The symptoms of PTSD arise after an exceptionally threatening event that is outside the normal range of experience. 

These symptoms are manifestations of stress-induced changes in brain structure and function that result in altered neuro -chemical systems within specific brain regions, leading to chronic modification in brain circuits involved in stress response.

Sudden unexpected traumatic stresses or conversely prolonged exposure to inhumane treatment or significant abuse have a higher predictive value for the development of PTSD.

The psychological/physical/constitutional strengths and weaknesses of the individual are also relevant, as is the presence of concomitant bodily abuse or injury.

There are stages of reaction when PTSD is experienced: -

The stressor: the person may have experienced, witnessed or been confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury to self or others – i.e.: car accident

The reaction: the person’s response may have involved fear, helplessness or horror (or disorganised, agitated behaviour in children). 

Re-experiencing the trauma: the traumatic event is persistently re-experienced through recurrent or intrusive recollections or distressing dreams (e.g.: nightmares) or a sense of reliving the experience (e.g.: flashbacks) or distress or physiological reactivity on exposure to associated cues.

Avoidance:  there is persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma but numbing of general responsiveness to other stimuli. 

Hyper-arousal: there is a persistent symptom of increased arousal e.g.: heightened anxiety, startle responses, hyper-vigilance, sleep disturbance, difficulties with memory or concentration.

Distress: there is clinically significant impairment in important areas of functioning: e.g.: social or occupational. 

Duration: these disturbances may have been present for more than one month.  The condition is sub- divided into “acute” - less than 3 months duration, “chronic” - more than 3 months, or “delayed” -onset of symptoms is more than 6 months after traumatic stress.

Complex PTSD: includes impact of experiences on a person’s view of themselves and the world following severe trauma.

It affects those who have had a history of subjection to totalitarian control over a prolonged period.

As well as hostages, survivors of cults and so on there is the inclusion of sexual and domestic life, including domestic battering, childhood physical or sexual abuse, and organised sexual exploitation.

Symptoms are classified according to alterations in:

Mood  - including suicidal preoccupation

Consciousness – depersonalisation or de-realisation

Self- perception – shame, guild, sense of stigma or helplessness

Perception of perpetrator – preoccupation with revenge

Relationships with others – disruption in intimate relationships or withdrawal

Systems of meaning – sense of despair or loss of faith. 

Under normal stress reactions of fight or flight, the Adrenal response produces multiple and immediate effects on central nervous system Hormones are released to allow the body to function on red alert and fight or run away producing an automatic response that we don’t even have to think about. 

In chronic PTSD there is a super suppression (blunting) of the neuro endocrine response to acute stress but increased sympathetic nervous system ‘tone’.  Re-exposure to trauma or related cues heightens this ‘alarm state’.  The features are not only accompanied by anxiety but also by anger and depression.  It is as though the automatic nervous system (ANS) is a pendulum and is swinging widely from its normal state to that of super suppression or (blunting) as a compensatory mechanism by the body to avoid ‘burnout’.

The association between PTSD and physical disorders such as: chronic pain, hypertension, peptic ulcer disease and bronchial asthma, is easily understandable. 

When we have traumatic events in our lives, even in the womb, the memory stays in the body’s cells and creates reactions, conditioning, and creates patterns within us. 

We can even have these traumas with us from previous Karma and take

on parent’s issues of guilt, shame etc.,

The treatment of PTSD requires specialist expertise.

PTSD was trialled by Dr. John Upledger with Vietnam veterans, who had received counselling but found that it was not enough, as the trauma was not completely removed.

Somoto Emotional Release (SER) was found to be very successful and was further developed with their help.

Somoto Emotional Release (SER) helps to remove these memories, emotional reactions, patterns and disorders in a gentle and quick manner.

Treatment takes approx 1 ½ to 2 hours

Helping in a new way clearing mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually at the same time.

It doesn’t matter how long ago it happened. It could be 30 years ago and it will still help to clear the memories from the cells.  

Some people say: “I have dealt with it”. This can seem true to a degree with the mind, but not with the physical.  When we consequently do their SER treatment they often agree that they had not ‘dealt with it’ after all.  The depths we bury and can hold this information amazes me.  We need to clear the body of the memories as well as the mind to help us move on in a clear manner.

When I have done this treatment with others, their physical disorders have improved and for some, symptoms have gone completely.  After just one session they have looked and sounded different, and appeared brighter.

Many say to me: - ‘I feel as though a weight has been taken off my shoulders’

‘ I feel lighter’   ‘ I feel so different’

A powerful therapy creating profound and amazing results

Disorders helped:

• Addiction 
• Anger / Rage
• Self esteem     
• Grief
• Hurt and Abuse  
• Fear and abandonment
• Miscarriage/ post natal depression
• Abortion  
• Parental relations
• Longstanding problems
• Relationships
• Stuck in your life or Something holding you back
• OCD  & Comfort eating
• Depression/Anxiety
• Energy blockages - loss or lack of energy
• Pain
• Childhood abuse/fear problems
• Post traumatic stress
• Emotional trauma