Tapping the Power of the Mind to Heal Trauma: How Energy Work Can Change Your Life

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Tapping the Power of the Mind to Heal Trauma: How Energy Work Can Change Your Life

The effects of trauma on the human body are only now starting to be understood. Research in this area has uncovered the many ways in which difficult experiences can turn into chronic anxiety and stress, as well as physical disease. In addition, studies have begun to show how various somatic healing therapies, such as yoga, dance, meditation, and more, can help people process the painful experiences of the past and reclaim their lives.

According to leading energy worker Birgitta Visser, the effectiveness of these practices taps into each human being’s innate power to heal themselves.

Breaking free from trauma

Visser understands the pain of trauma and the effect it can have on one’s life from firsthand experience.

“I felt trapped, yet I was extremely good at running from myself and shifting into automatic pilot,” she remembers. “That was the only way I knew how to exist, to show up for life — my mindset was ‘don’t let the buggers grind me down.’ I threw myself into my work, regardless of how I felt, as this was the mechanism that had always kept me going.”

To heal her own life, Visser needed to tune into her body. “I had been living with severe daily headaches and lower back pain for many years, all because I refused to address the many painful experiences I had gone through in life,” she explains. “I also suffered from acid reflux, so I used to pop Ibuprofen like TicTacs to keep me going throughout the day.”

Visser also needed to bridge the disconnect between her and the rest of her consciousness. “The key ingredient I was missing was loving myself,” she remembers. “I had been doing the opposite: punishing and starving myself.”

Deciding to take responsibility for her life, Visser started doing energy work. This was the turning point that changed everything.

Energy work leverages neuroplasticity

According to Visser, alternative healing modalities like energy work are effective because they take advantage of neuroplasticity — the brain’s natural ability to adapt and grow.

“Change your thinking, change your life,” she says. “The words we think and say have the power to shape our brains and our consciousness. Our focus controls our state, and in turn what controls our state is our language, because the words we attach to our experiences become our experiences. Our mind is an astute typist who listens intently to every word we think or speak.”

Leveraging the power of neuroplasticity effectively requires people to stop running away from their pain and treating only the symptoms, however. “Lots of people turn to band-aid solutions that just keep them hiccuping through life,” Visser says. “Part of the reason energy work is so effective is that it rips the band-aid off.”

For this reason, Visser emphasizes that embarking on a healing journey requires the courage and inner strength to face painful feelings and memories. “You need to walk through the darkness,” she says. “Face the trauma. Face the difficult emotions. Allow them to come up and acknowledge them.”

Instead of being afraid of our inner demons, she advises to see them as gateways to personal growth. “They are crying out for help, so listen to them,” Visser says. “If you approach your challenges with a sense of curiosity and even gratitude, then you can learn important lessons and break out of the identity of who you perceive yourself to be, and change your story.”

Still, healing is far from a one-and-done process. “Rewiring our brain does take a time commitment,” Visser explains. “It’s all about changing our story. When we change our story, we rewire the entangled wiring in our system. And we’re the only ones who can do that. It takes time and practice. It’s a long-term commitment to ourselves.”

Starting a healing journey

Visser herself specializes in Light Language, a healing modality that utilizes frequency and sound to help people connect with their bodies and souls. Yet she doesn’t believe that the particular kind of energy work someone chooses is actually important.

“Any modality can work for anyone,” she says. “Find whichever one calls to you personally and start to explore it regularly. It can be yoga, meditation, Reiki, or sound baths — whatever helps you reconnect with the lightness of your being, whatever brings you back to your bounce.”

For Visser, the most important thing is to accept responsibility for the reality of one’s own circumstances, avoid pointing the finger of blame at others, and start taking active steps to heal. 

“Change is a choice,” Visser says. “Change is scary, but remaining as you are gives you no joy. By doing the same thing over and over again, you remain on the merry-go-round forever, getting your good ole knickers in a twist.”

Moreover, she emphasizes that people need to prioritize healing regularly on an ongoing basis. “Change is a lifelong process, not a destination,” Visser adds. 

The world’s greatest guru is you

Visser suggests that, ultimately, healing from trauma involves breaking free of illusions about oneself and discovering one’s own true being.

“Always be you, not who the world wants you to be” she says. “The world’s greatest guru resides not without, but in the dormant chambers of your own heart waiting patiently to be rediscovered and awakened.”