Somatic Hypnosis:
Beyond the Story

Written By Erin Touponse

“If telling a story were going to make us feel better, it would have already”

Let’s face it, we are all intimately aware of our stories, especially those that are rooted in suffering.  We have told them to ourselves and to others countless times, and if the actual telling of our story were going to make us feel better, it would have happened already.

For this reason, trauma is essentially a time disorder.  Old unprocessed emotions impact our energy field in the present moment as if that event were happening in current time.  This is because we are timeless beings in a *time-bound body*.  Our physical body holds events without understanding that what it is holding already happened.  Trauma vibration doesn’t have an attachment to time, a wound at 6 years old will just grow deeper each year until thoughts, habits and actions are all dominated by the roots of that wound. 

Somatic Hypnosis is a process that gently unravels that stuck trauma energy.

Rather than asking you to relive your past or endlessly analyze your story, Somatic Hypnosis creates a state of focused awareness where the subconscious becomes more accessible. From this place, we begin listening to the language of the body.

Instead of asking, "What happened?" we begin asking different questions.

What are you experiencing right now?

Where do you notice it in your body?

What sensation is asking to be felt?

What belief accompanies it?

What does this part of you need in order to feel safe?

As awareness deepens, the body begins revealing the places where unfinished experiences continue to live beneath conscious awareness.

To navigate this process, I use what I call the Five Channels of Somatic Healing.

The Five Channels are a way to access and digest this unprocessed vibrational energy.

The Five Channels:

1- The Mind Channel holds our agreements and stories.  In the mind channel we must ask ourselves, “Why do I think this? Is this really true?”. 

2- The Imagination Channel is the channel that we can use to create safety and resource;  it allows us to give to ourselves what we need to heal the invisible wounds that line our subconscious. 

3- The Posture Channel connects the mind with the body. By changing how we inhabit the body, we begin sending new signals to the nervous system, creating greater regulation, resilience and presence.

4- The Body Sensation Channel is where healing happens.  This channel is the PRESENT MOMENT; the only place where true change can occur.  It represents how something “feels” in the physical body. 

5- The Emotion channel is the deepest of the deep. Every habit and pattern is deeply rooted in emotion- either what we want or what we don’t want to happen.  We begin to shift and foster new emotional states by using the other channels.

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Healing is not about changing the past- it is about changing our relationship to it. Somatic Hypnosis offers a roadmap for reconnecting with the body's innate wisdom and returning to a place of presence, wholeness and self-compassion.

Interested in learning more?

Whether you're curious about the Five Channels or would like to experience a Somatic Hypnosis session for yourself, I'd love to support you on your journey toward greater awareness, healing and transformation.

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