I qualified as an EmoTrance practitioner in February 2007, and it has now become a valuable therapy in my practise. I can use it alone with patients who are suffering from emotional turmoil or unrest, or within a Reflexology treatment to help with a particular problem relating to their presenting symptoms.

EmoTrance was developed by Silvia Hartmann and brought to the UK in 2002. It is an Energy Psychology Therapy that works on the underlying energy in our system that has stagnated causing emotional unrest.

Along with our respiratory system, our circulatory system and the lymphatic system we also have an energy system that flows continuously around the body. All matter is energy; everything is made up of atoms that are in constant motion. If that energy is blocked for some reason it will cause problems on an emotional level just as a blockage in the circulatory system will cause a physical problem.

Sometimes we know where emotional pain has come from, sometimes we do not know; we just go through the days feeling under par, or ‘depressed’. With EmoTrance we do not need to know the cause of the distress; we can work with the feeling alone, softening the energy and allowing it to flow freely from the body taking with it the pain and discomfort.

Energy responds to thought and with EmoTrance we think about the pain we are suffering and feel where the pain is in our body. It could be in the head, the arm, over the heart or anywhere. When the location is decided upon, the character of the pain is assessed. Is it round, jagged, green, black, hard, like putty? The list is endless, but the more we know about the character of the energy the easier it is to accept that it is softening and flowing away from our body restoring the positive energy flow once more.

The treatment sessions last one hour and sometimes one session is enough to restore emotional health, but often a few sessions may be needed as when one problem is cleared away there is another waiting to take its place! Our emotions are complex and can be described as onion like, in that as soon as one layer is peeled away, there is another one there. We tend to accommodate a lot of the pain we feel and get on with our lives without ever thinking about that pain. Another issue occurs and we do likewise and so on until we can take no more, and the last argument perhaps is more than we can cope with. We believe that the pain we are feeling stems from that last argument and deal with it with EmoTrance or another therapy only to find that another ‘lump’ of pain is sitting there....where did that come from?? Our brain retains everything and until we allow a tidying up session that pain will remain hidden away. Although we do not think of it as causing us distress, if it is not dealt with effectively at the time, it will cause us to make decisions, or choices that we would not normally have done.

During the session we can deal with these subsequent energy blockages allowing the energy to flow freely and completely; it is a wonderful feeling, and once the technique has been understood and mastered, you have a tool that will help you for the rest of your life.