If you have ever been sexually abused or harassed it's likely that you still carry the traumatic scars of such an incident. Apart from the common symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder that accompany such unfortunate events is something that may be even more significant and debilitating than first recognized. This is the feelings one is left with about their own sexuality.

These feelings may take on some of the following forms: feelings of shame about one's sexuality or about one's self as a sexual being, fear of one's sexual thoughts and feelings, a tendency to diminish or cover up one's sexuality (i.e. poor hygiene, obesity, other habits that sabotage relationships) and others.

Turning against one's sexuality has spiritual consequences that I would like to discuss here because it is akin to annihilating what I call the "Core Spiritual Self". The Core Spiritual Self is the essence of who one is as a human and spiritual energy. This energy is essentially who one is, i.e. the Life Energy that is in that body of yours and which is responsible for its proper functioning.

It has been my experience, over the last 15 years helping individuals with trauma heal, that when an individual is traumatized their energy field becomes encoded with a negative and parasitic energy that does several things.

First, it stays lodged in the individual's energy field and by doing so depletes it of energy. This energy is the individual's life energy.

Second, it tends to disorganize what I have called the Divine Holographic Energy Field (see my article of the same title) and thereby causes malfunction to occur in the mental/emotional/physical body of that individual.

Thirdly, reduces what I call the energy density of the individual in that body. What this means is that it causes energy, i.e. your spiritual energy or "you", to flee the body because it becomes too uncomfortable to reside there for any period of time. This is what has often been described as out-of body experiences and as dissociation in traumatized individuals.

Fourth, but not last, by forcing one's spiritual energy out of the body it actually makes the body, at every level vulnerable to further trauma (because it's functional ability is already compromised) and it also makes the body breakdown (i.e. susceptible to illness, aging and death).

Now returning to the discussion of sexual trauma I would like to highlight one further consequence to this type of trauma. Since one's sexual energy is in essence equivalent to one's spiritual energy, when shame creeps in it becomes a case of one having turned against one's self or one's essence.

This leads to a form of death that goes beyond just a physical one. It becomes essentially a form of spiritual death because one is turning against one's spiritual self as well.

What's important to note here is that something like "shame" or "fear of one's sexuality" is actually easy to release from one's energy field employing a new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM).

The net result of doing so is a renewed and powerful connection and awareness of one's True Self.

Dr. Nick Arrizza is trained in Chemical Engineering, Business Management & Leadership, Medicine and Psychiatry. He is an Energy Psychiatrist, Healer, Key Note Speaker,Editor of a New Ezine Called "Spirituality And Science" (which is requesting high quality article submissions) Author of "Esteem for the Self: A Manual for Personal Transformation" (available in ebook format on his web site), Stress Management Coach, Peak Performance Coach & Energy Medicine Researcher, Specializes in Life and Executive Performance Coaching, is the Developer of a powerful new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) that helps build physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being by helping to permanently release negative beliefs, emotions, perceptions and memories. He holds live workshops, international telephone coaching sessions and international teleconference workshops on Physical. Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Well Being.

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