How I Released Old Travel Anxiety and Emotional Triggers Using Energy Healing
You can do a lot of work to change old behavioral patterns, and still have negative emotions get triggered in you.
That is what happened to me this week as we prepared to head back east for my niece’s wedding.
Leading up to that point, we had been going through a lot, as MaryBeth shared here. I had been doing my best to stay present and supportive, but was also moving through things.
However, the night before, we had a phenomenal final Mindful Minutes session at our local library. We have been teaching life-changing mindfulness tools to our local community. We were riding high and felt a huge positive shift in our energy the following day.
As we started our day as we normally do, meditating with our horses, I noticed an issue with our horses’ scratching post. One of the brushes had lost a screw that was holding it in place.
Our boys love this scratching post, especially Ollie. And Ollie is a big, strong draft horse. So I have had to fix this many times because he doesn’t realize his own strength.
Immediately, MaryBeth grabbed a piece of wire and went to fix it. I said, “Don’t do that, I will just fix it later!”
I didn’t think anything of it, but MaryBeth immediately made me aware of my negative, mansplaining, low-vibe tone and energy.
She said, “This is what happens when we are about to travel; you get into this type of energy.”
I immediately took it personally and started ruminating…
“What is she talking about? I didn’t mean that.”
“I have been supporting her all week. Why can’t she support me?”
“Why is this always happening to me?”
I was triggered into my Judge and Victim Mindset.
Which is ironic because this is what we were teaching about the night before.
So I went off, huffing and puffing. As I passed MaryBeth a few hours later, she asked if I was mad at her.
I told her I was (that victim was talking) and asked why she couldn’t support me more (which she was doing, I just couldn’t see it.)
She helped me become aware of my energy and what was happening inside of me. She helped me realize that this is a pattern that often occurs when we travel, and that her attempt to fix the post was her way of taking something off the to-do list to help me, too.
It made me present to the frantic energy I often find myself in before we travel, about feeling like “I have so many things to do, and I have to do it all!”
I instantly felt regret and then started judging myself again…
“Why did you say anything?”
“Why couldn’t you just let this go?”
I knew I had to clean this up right away, so I apologized. Then she headed into town to run some errands to help us out, so I didn’t have to do it, since I had a long list of to-dos before we left that required my physical strength.
While she was gone, I got to thinking…
I have had travel anxiety for a long time. Not that I am scared of flying. It is more about the preparation, getting things together, being in a crowded airport, wondering if there will be space for my overhead bag or if our flight will leave on time.
It was so bad that it manifested in my breath smelling terrible. Like something died in my mouth. It would never happen anywhere else, just when we were traveling. We called it my “airplane breath.”
In the past, I have let that get the best of me and have been rude to a few airline workers in my time, but I have done a ton of work to release that.
And it has been a long time since that angry, stinky breath James has shown up.
But here he was creeping in again without me even realizing it.
So it got me thinking about what else is happening here.
You see, much of the work I had done around this involved changing my mindset, reframing limiting beliefs, and utilizing my mindfulness tools to stay calm, which all work beautifully when I am present and aware.
However, what was apparent was that an underlying energy was still at work, bringing up this negative vibration in me. It was taking over my mind and body without me being aware of it.
And that is when I realized I knew what I had to do.
An energy healing session on myself!
I have recently become certified as an Emotion Code Practitioner and am currently completing my Body Code training as well.
And what I have learned is that our bodies can store trapped negative emotions from past experiences, and when those experiences recur, it can pull you into that negative energy without you even realizing it.
It’s like a virus that takes over your system that makes you completely unaware of what is happening.
So, I conducted an energy healing session on myself and identified these trapped negative energies, which resulted in an immediate sense of relief.
My Judge and Victim were gone. I felt more like myself again, and it reminded me of the power of this work and what it feels like to be free of those negative vibrations.
It also reminded me that when I know I am going to be doing things that have triggered me in the past, either certain experiences or being around certain people. I will proactively do an energy session so those negative vibes don’t take over me.
Because I don’t want to send those negative vibes to MaryBeth or anyone, but when they take over your mind and body, it’s hard not to.
And get this, the next day after doing the session, we headed to the airport to fly back. Our flight gets delayed and it looks like we might not make our connection.
The old James would have been freaking out, especially since everyone else in our terminal was. He would have rebooked a flight and just paid whatever (which I have done in the past) because there was a long line to talk to an agent, and the internet and phone was not working.
But the new James was calm, cool, and collected. I kept telling myself and MaryBeth that it all was going to work out, and we just had to trust and surrender.
And guess what?
It all worked out. Even with 4 hours of plane delays. We made our connection, manifested no one sitting next to us so we had extra room, and arrived only an hour and a half later than we were supposed to.
And I know I was able to be that island of peace because I was able to release what didn’t serve me.
These tools are life-changing, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to support others with their triggers.
If you can relate and want to release the negative vibe patterns you experience from certain situations, book an energy healing session with me and experience the freedom of releasing what no longer serves you.
PS
You don’t have to power through your triggers or let old emotional patterns run the show. Emotion Code sessions can help clear what’s stuck—so you can feel like yourself again.
