Abstract
Through my healing practice, I have become increasingly aware of how much of the mental and physical suffering I see in my clients seems to be rooted in unresolved trauma. Soon after I started practising, I developed a way of working with trauma that combined energetic release on the cellular level with helping clients, usually using visualisation, to identify and draw strength from their resources. I was subsequently introduced to the work of Peter Levine (1998), who helps people to move between a safe, resourced place and a snapshot of the traumatic situation. This process, which Levine calls pendulation, avoids re-traumatisation by maintaining a distance from the trauma and the emphasis on resources.
I now use pendulation while working hands-on through the client's subtle energy system (see McNeil, 2007). The combination seems to speed up the release of the traumatic experience on physical, mental, emotional and energetic levels, increasing clients' vitality and enabling them to engage more fully with life. And for clients who seem to be affected by traumas experienced by earlier generation, I have adapted the Systemic Constellations approach (Stones, 2006), using visualisation of family members with energy healing.