A few weeks ago I witnessed a horrific car accident. It was a little after 9pm, we were dropping off some friends and heard an immense bang that sounded like a bomb blast.
I looked up to see one car spinning to the left whilst the other swerved to my right, hit the pavement and rolled in the air and skidded along on its roof towards where I was standing less than 40 metres away. The moments that followed were a blur, I ran up the road not knowing what do do, but certain I would be witnessing something horrible.
It was immediately apparent that the driver of the rolled car had not survived, there was a pedestrian who had been hit by that car who was being helped by someone else and the other car seemed to be ok.
I went back to the rolled car and heard someone screaming for help, I looked at the driver to make sure it wasn't him, but his face was lifeless and his head somehow trapped under the roof of his own car. I was certain his neck was broken.
The screaming continued, so I realised there was someone else inside the car. I could see fluid dripping down from the exposed engine and feared an explosion as happens in the movies, but I knew I needed to help the person trapped inside so I opened up the back door and found a women stuck in the front of the car.
Somehow her long braids had gotten stuck on the drivers side of the car, and now matter how hard I pulled, I simply could not get her loose. After what felt like an age someone came to the other back door which had very little space against a wall and managed to help pull her out. Miraculously she walked away seemingly unscathed.
The emergency services arrived and everyone else involved seemed to be fine.
There is much that can be said about this, especially since this is the 2nd time in my 9.5 years living in Cape Town that I have pulled people out of a rolled car driven by a drunk driver. But as an energy healer, I want to focus on the energetic impact of trauma on the energy field.
I was scheduled to be presenting a workshop the next morning at 10am and realised that I needed to get myself into a a good space mentally, emotionally and energetically in order to deliver the next day.
I realised that I was suffering from a mild trauma. Obviously nothing like the victims themselves, but a bit more than what the other observers may have experienced. It has still provided a very useful learning experience.
As I sat in my meditation space I firstly struggled to make sense of all that I had witnessed. I needed to process things, but my mind was racing and restless and it made it very difficult to calm and center myself. I used the tool of non-judgement to try to understand why things had happened as they did, plus some prayer to call in some help from above to assist with balancing my energy.
After what was probably an hour I managed to meditate and bit and then start some energy work on myself.
The first point to note was that the various components of my energy body were out of alignment by about 2%. This may not seem like much, but it is enough to leave one feeling out of sorts, drained of energy and to weaken the immune system. The other item was the stuck emotional energy, although that only surfaced after a few days.
In simple terms what this means is that the aura was not sitting perfectly on the body, and the chakras were not sitting perfectly in my aura, etc.
Over time, and with meditation and breathwork, these may align themselves, but without conscious effort, it could take a very long time for this to happen.
I have clients who have had worse energetic trauma that has lasted since WWII.
Once I knew what and where the problems were I was able to intentionally correct them and heal my energy field and by about 1am I was feeling much better and ready to call it a night and get some decent sleep.
There was much psychological processing that still needed to take place over the next several days, but with my energy body back to normal, everything else was easier to deal with.
It got me thinking about how much damage we carry in our energy bodies. We have all experienced trauma to some extent. Some children are born into trauma through traumatic birth experiences, some of us experience trauma regularly in our work, families or relationships, and come of us a born with the energetic effects of past life trauma.
The impact of energetic healing can really make a big difference to this and I am glad I had the tools to deal with this particular experience.