All parents hope that their children will be born without complications. However, some parents are faced with unexpected challenges. One challenge that parents can face is birth trauma. Birth traumas always include a physical trauma and a non-physical trauma called a trauma scar. In this chapter, we will look into the energetic events that can traumatize a child and create a trauma scar during and after the birthing process.
What Causes Trauma Scars
A newborn can suffer a birth trauma if the mother has a Caesarean section or a difficult labor, or if the mother’s life is in danger during delivery. Of course, not all birth traumas occur during the actual birthing process. A baby can be traumatized directly after birth if it’s rejected by its mother or father or other family members—physically and/or psychologically—or if the child is separated from the mother for more than a few moments. Adults can also suffer from trauma scars if they’ve been physically, sexually, or psychologically abused.
Deloris, a single mother from New Mexico, whose younger child Sebastian suffered a birth trauma during delivery, illustrates how important it is to release trauma scars. Deloris had two boys, Lorenzo and Sebastian. Problems with Sebastian began immediately after birth. He refused to breastfeed and could only be nourished by drinking formula. He screamed continuously, which Deloris found increasingly difficult to tolerate. Deloris became increasingly desperate and feared that she would burn out if something didn’t change. As a last resort, she consulted us. We met her at her home and learned that she had had a difficult labor, which had ended with a Caesarean section. She also told us that Sebastian suffered anoxia, oxygen deprivation, during delivery because the umbilical cord became entangled around his neck.
We realized almost immediately that burnout was part of Deloris’s problem and that to heal the family dynamic, we had to deal with Sebastian’s birth trauma.
Although Sebastian was physically healthy, his subtle field contained several trauma scars that were caused by Deloris’s difficult delivery.
To stabilize the situation, we taught Deloris to perform the Prana Mudra so she would have the space she needed in her subtle field to cope with the issues her family faced. Then we taught her to locate and release the trauma scars in Sebastian’s subtle field. She quickly mastered the technique and released six trauma scars—four were located in and near Sebastian’s throat chakra and the other two by his second chakra. Deloris’s work produced the desired result within weeks. Sebastian’s screaming subsided and he began to accept his mother’s affection more readily.
Unfortunately, the trauma scars in Sebastian’s throat had negatively impacted his older half-brother Lorenzo by blocking the normal flow of energy through his governor and conceptual meridians. This was something we encountered in many families we worked with and is consistent with how energetic interactions take place on the subtle levels.
According to Deloris, the collateral effects Lorenzo suffered from his brother’s unconscious projections included throat problems, a lack of motivation, and an inability to control his anger, which had begun almost immediately after Sebastian was born. These symptoms revealed that Lorenzo was having problems radiating prana freely from his second and fifth chakras, the same chakras that had been blocked by trauma scars in his brother’s subtle field. While Deloris didn’t associate Lorenzo’s problems with the birth of Sebastian, a subtle relationship always exists between siblings. This means that blockages in one child’s field can interfere with their sibling’s field, especially if the children live in close proximity to each other. This was the case with Sebastian and Lorenzo, who shared the same bedroom.
When we finally met Lorenzo two weeks later, he barely spoke and was far less animated than a typical boy his age should have been. Sabine attempted to engage him in conversation several times without much success, and I provided him with several toys, which didn’t seem to interest him. While Sabine continued to engage him in conversation, I examined the condition of his subtle field. What I found was consistent with Sebastian’s condition. Lorenzo had blockages by both his second and fifth chakras. His fifth chakra appeared to have caused him the most discomfort, but experience has taught us that when someone experiences pressure, discomfort, or pain in a traditional chakra, it usually indicated that a more severe problem exists in its companion chakra, which, because of a greater accumulation of distorted energy, has become numb.
The second and fifth chakras are companion chakras, and they share similar functions, including self-expression and access to one’s personal space. The second and fifth chakras also regulate person’s ability to express joy and to share feelings and emotions freely.
During the session we treated both children by releasing the trauma scars in Sebastian’s subtle field. Then we used the prana box to release the blockages that had interfered with the functions of Lorenzo’s second and fifth chakras.
In chapter seven, you learned that Irene suffered a significant trauma in childhood when she was sexually abused by her high school swimming coach. She was twelve years old at the time. When we looked into her field, in her first session, we quickly recognized that she carried several trauma scars in her first and second chakra fields.
To rectify the situation, we taught her to locate the trauma scars and to use the prana box to release them. She agreed, but only if we allowed her to do the work in our presence. Like many survivors of sexual abuse, she feared facing the blockages alone and needed the support of people she trusted.
We used the same techniques to treat Sarah, Petra’s daughter, whose sleep problem had been caused by a combination of trauma scars that disrupted the functions of her first chakra and cords that had been projected into her field of sleep by her natural father who had abandoned the family a year after Sarah was born.
Trauma Scars
While it’s true that most physical symptoms associated with birth traumas are healed with few or no complications, the energetic trauma is rarely addressed. As a result, a newborn may appear perfectly normal after any of the events we described earlier in this chapter—but the trauma will be imprinted in their subtle field as a trauma scar. And it will continue to interfere with the child’s development and personal relationships for years afterward.
Fortunately, like Deloris and Petra, you can overcome the energetic effects of a birth trauma by locating and releasing the trauma scars associated with it. In the following two exercises, you will learn to do both. After that, you will learn to restore the flow of prana through the area of your child’s subtle field affected by the trauma scar.
Locating and Releasing a Trauma Scar
Before you can release a trauma scar, you must be able to locate it. This won’t be difficult because a trauma scar will be located in the same position as the original physical trauma. In addition, a trauma scar will make the area of the physical body where it’s located hot, cold, stiff, numb, overly sensitive, and/or prone to physical ailments.
To a person with discernment on the subtle levels, a trauma scar will look like a narrow piece of elastic that has been stretched and frozen in place. It will be clear when it’s first viewed because it has been suffused with prana. It’s only by looking more deeply into it that you will notice denser, darker energy in parallel bands running through it. These bands are composed of energy with individual qualities. It’s these bands that prevent prana from flowing freely through your child’s subtle field.
To locate a trauma scar, you will make a journey through your child’s subtle field. During your journey, it’s important to pay attention to the markers we’ve already provided as well as your intuition and discernment. It’s also important to be aware that a trauma scar is saturated with frozen prana, which means it will block your mental attention. So, if your child has a trauma scar in their throat because their breathing was restricted during delivery, your mental attention will be prevented from moving through their throat and the surrounding area.
Since it will be easier to locate and release a trauma scar when your child is inactive, we recommend that you perform the following two exercises while your child is asleep.
Exercise: Locating a Trauma Scar
To locate a trauma scar in your child’s subtle field, find a comfortable position with your back straight. Then close your eyes and breathe deeply through your nose for two to three minutes. Continue by asserting, “It’s my intent to go to my personal healing space.” Then bring your awareness to your body, soul, and spirit. Enjoy your healing space for five minutes. Then assert, “It’s my intent to visualize a white screen eight feet (two and a half meters) in front of me.” Once the visual screen has materialized, assert, “It’s my intent to visualize an image of (child’s name) on the screen.” Keep your appropriate senses (sight, hearing, feeling, etc.) open and active because it’s by turning your appropriate senses inward, on the subtle planes, that you will perceive the trauma scar more readily.
After you’ve examined your child’s image from eight feet (two and a half meters) away and located one or more trauma scars, assert, “It’s my intent to project myself into my child’s subtle field alongside the trauma scar I’ve chosen to release.” Use all the appropriate senses to move through the area and examine it. Pay special attention to everything you see and feel. Shifts in your emotional state and body awareness can provide you with additional information.
Don’t be concerned if you don’t find a trauma scar right away. If there is a trauma scar and you remain centered in your subtle field, with practice, its features will begin to emerge clearly.
Once you’ve observed the trauma scar and you’re satisfied with what you’ve learned, assert, “It’s my intent to return to my original position eight feet (two and a half meters) in front of my visual screen.” Release the image of your child and the visual screen. Then count from one to five. When you reach the number five, open your eyes and bring yourself out of the exercise.
After you’ve successfully located a trauma scar you can refine your ability through repetition. Even if you’ve had only limited success, with practice, your ability will improve—and, over time, you will be able to see and locate trauma scars in your child’s subtle field, your field and the fields of your other family members.
Exercise: Releasing Trauma Scars
In this exercise, you will use the prana box to release a trauma scar you located in your child’s subtle field.
To begin, find a comfortable position with your back straight. Close your eyes and breathe deeply through your nose for two to three minutes. Then count backward from five to one and from ten to one. Continue by asserting, “It’s my intent to go to my personal healing space.” Then bring your awareness to your body, soul, and spirit. Enjoy your healing space for five minutes. Then assert, “It’s my intent to create a visual screen eight feet (two and a half meters) in front of me.” Once the visual screen has materialized, assert, “It’s my intent to visualize an image of (child’s name) on the screen.”
Take a few moments to examine the image using the appropriate senses. Then bring your mental attention to the area where the trauma scar is located. When you’re ready to continue, assert, “It’s my intent to surround the trauma scar I have in mind with a prana box.” Once you can sense and/or see the box, assert, “It’s my intent to fill the box with prana and release the trauma scar and all the distorted energy fields within it.” Don’t do anything after that. Prana will fill the box you’ve created and release the trauma scar and the distorted energy that supports it automatically.
Once the distorted fields have been released, release the image of your child and the visual screen. Then count from one to five. When you reach the number five, open your eyes and bring yourself out of the exercise.
Continue to use the prana box until all the remaining trauma scars that afflict your child have been released.
Exercise: Zone Method for
Restoring the Flow of Prana
Once a trauma scar has been released, it’s important to enhance the flow of prana through the afflicted area of your child’s subtle field and physical-material body. To do that, you will perform an exercise we’ve developed from reflexology. We call it the Zone Method for Restoring the Flow of Prana.
Reflexology is an alternative medical practice that involves applying pressure to specific zones and reflex areas in the feet and hands. It’s based on a system of four zones and reflex areas that serve as an energetic extension of the subtle field. By stimulating these reflex zones in a balanced way, it’s possible to enhance the flow of prana through specific parts of your child’s subtle energy field and to cleanse their body of residual toxins.
Zone 1: Trauma Scar in the Head and Neck. To stimulate the flow of prana through your child’s head and neck, begin by rubbing the top and bottom of the big toe on your child’s right foot with your thumb and index finger for thirty seconds. Continue by rubbing the sides of the big toe with your thumb and index fingers for another thirty seconds. Do the same with the other toes. When you’ve finished the process on the right foot, perform the same process with the left foot. Continue until all ten toes have been stimulated.
Zone 2: Trauma Scar in the Spine and Back from the Waist to the Shoulders. This is the zone where Deloris found trauma scars in Sebastian’s subtle field. Like Deloris, you will use the outside of your index finger to rub the inside of your child’s feet, one at a time, from the base of the big toe to the heel. This will stimulate the flow of prana through your child’s spine and back. We recommend that you begin with the right foot and then move to the left foot, spending about five minutes stimulating the flow of prana through each foot.
Zone 3: Trauma Scar in the Front from the Waist to the Shoulders. To stimulate the flow of prana through your child’s chest, midsection, and abdomen, hold your child’s right foot with your positive hand (i.e., right hand if you’re right-handed, left hand if you’re left-handed) so that your thumb is positioned on the sole. Then, using the soft pad on the inside of your thumb, make clockwise circles. Do the same with your child’s left foot. Continue working with each foot for two to three minutes.
Zone 4: Trauma Scar in the Pelvis, Legs, and Feet. To stimulate the flow of prana through your child’s pelvis, legs, and feet, take their right foot in your feminine hand and their right leg in your positive hand. Using the soft pad of the thumb on your positive hand, rub the heel of your child’s foot by first making ten clockwise circles and then ten strokes on each side of the heel from the front of the foot to the back. Repeat the process with your child’s left foot.
Sebastian and Sarah benefited from having their trauma scars and blockages released and by having the flow of prana through their subtle fields restored. We recommend that like Deloris and Petra, you stimulate the flow of prana for your child every day for five days after you’ve released a trauma scar.