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Accelerated OEI Therapy | Liana West, MSc.
Memories of Trauma Felt in the Body
The experience of unexplained emotions with no apparent present cause can often be traced to the body’s storage of unresolved trauma, where sensory or situational triggers unconsciously reactivate memories encoded during past distressing events.
Trauma disrupts how the brain processes memories, leading to fragmented recollections that bypass conscious awareness and instead manifest as sudden emotional or physiological reactions—such as panic, tension, or hyperarousal—mimicking the body’s original response to danger.
These reactions occur because trauma imprints itself on the nervous system, creating “body memories” tied to sights, sounds, or sensations that symbolically or indirectly recall the event, even if the connection isn’t consciously recognized.
Over time, unprocessed emotions and stress hormones like cortisol remain trapped in your body, and neural pathways, causing your body to reenact trauma responses as if the threat were in the here and now, but it's actually from the past. It's a memory.
Accelerated OEI Therapy processes and integrates these stored memories, helping the nervous system release unresolved trauma and restore emotional equilibrium. When trauma is integrated the past will feel like it is in the past, like a distant memory that gets further and further away with each day that passes.
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Accelerated OEI Therapy | Liana West, MSc.
We experience our emotions in our bodies.
Our bodies become the space where emotional stories unfold.
This concept is supported by neuroscientists like Antonio Damasio, who distinguish emotions as physical states occurring in the body, contrasting with feelings, which are mental interpretations of these bodily states.
Memories of trauma can be experienced in the body through somatic flashbacks, which involve reliving physical sensations associated with past traumatic events. Your nervous system may remain in a state of hyperarousal, leading to ongoing symptoms such as trouble sleeping, feeling overwhelmed and triggered AF, as the body continues to react as if the threat is still occurring int he present moment.
OEI therapy was created by my mentor, Dr. Rick Bradshaw, to treat trauma, gently without revivification of traumatic memories. Accelerated OEI therapy for trauma is accelerated with hypnotherapy for healing of trauma.
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