After releasing trapped emotions, imbalances, or beliefs through the Emotion Code®, Body Code™, or Belief Code®, there is a period of time referred to as processing. During this processing period, the body adjusts to the energetic changes brought about by the energy healing session. Read on to learn more about the Processing Period after energy healing sessions!
What is the Processing Period?
The processing period refers to the time after an energy healing session when energetic changes take place and are assimilated by the body. This processing period can be experienced in many different ways. For some, it is characterized by intense emotional or physical sensations, while others may experience hardly any symptoms!
During the processing period, the subconscious will not allow for additional energy healing. If you’re trying to proceed with a session when the body has gone into processing, you’ll likely receive a lot of confusing answers. If the answer to “Is there another trapped emotion I can clear now?” is “No”, accept it. You can muscle test to get an idea of how long the processing will take and come back to your session once that period is over.
How long does the energy healing processing period last?
This processing period typically lasts two or three days, though for some it may be shorter or longer! The processing period varies from person to person, and even from session to session. It can depend on several factors such as the type or intensity of energy healing practiced, the person’s physical, mental, and emotional state, and their sensitivity to energy work. Some people are naturally quite sensitive to energy work and may take much longer to process.
In these instances, when processing is prolonged, a Balancing Reset may be helpful. Certified Practitioners enrolled in our Practitioner Education Program can learn about Balancing Resets and how to perform them here! Join the Practitioner Education Program if you haven’t already!
Tips to help support your body, mind, and spirit during the processing period:
1. Stay hydrated
During this period it’s important to drink a lot of water. Energy work can dehydrate the body. Ample hydration will help the body process energy work more efficiently.
2. Rest
Take time to rest during this period! Get enough sleep, and take time to relax.
3. Nourish yourself
Consume healthy, delicious food. Sustain your body with the nutrients it needs, so that it can process the energy healing work.
4. Move your body
Gentle exercise can help to move energy throughout the body. Consider practicing yoga, tai chi, taking a walk, or stretching.
5. Listen to yourself!
You know yourself best, and it can be a powerful experience to simply listen to your intuition during this time. Ask yourself what you need, and then allow yourself to do those things.
Common Experiences During the Processing Period
During this period you may:
- Feel tired, and later very active, or the other way round.
- Feel hungry, or a lack of appetite.
- Be a bit achy, or have a headache.
- Experience a wide range of emotions, as they are processed and released.
- Physical symptoms may lessen dramatically, or you may experience more intensity of sensations for a short period.
- Feel physical sensations such as tingling, warmth, or slight discomfort.
- Feel nothing out of the ordinary at all!
- Feel quite relaxed and at peace.
- Sleep more deeply, or experience more intense vivid dreams during this time.
- Experience mental clarity.
- Feel more in tune with your intuition.
All this is normal! Every person has their own way of processing. These effects can also vary in a person. After one session they might experience intense sensation, then the next time feel nothing at all.
Talk to a Practitioner
If your processing period is too long or uncomfortable, you may want to seek support from a practitioner. If you experience prolonged discomfort or intense emotional or physical symptoms, it may be helpful to consult with your energy healer or a healthcare professional. Similarly, if you’re unsure about what you’re experiencing or need additional support, reach out for guidance.
How to Recognize Processing Symptoms as a Practitioner
Everyone using the Emotion Code, Body Code, or Belief Code will encounter a Processing Period at some point! But how can a practitioner become aware that their client is in a processing period?
Read on as practitioner Hazel Markou describes how you might notice these symptoms when they first begin to present.
When working on someone, it can be helpful to work slowly. This allows time for energetic processing between each release. Especially when you are working remotely, it can be tempting to breeze through release after release without pause. This can result in your client going into processing after just 2 or 3 released emotions, imbalances, or beliefs. To prolong the session and accomplish everything you can, take your time. Develop a habit to briefly chat with your client, take a few sips of water, or stand and stretch your legs for a moment between releases.
If you find you are getting confusing responses early on in your session, you may want to give the client a break. You can use muscle testing to determine when the client may be ready to continue.
Any negative symptoms experienced during the processing period can become amplified if you overload the body with clearances to process. Respecting the body’s needs will help your clients feel better after their session, and ultimately support their journey!
This article has been updated for accuracy! It was originally published in April 2014
“Shall we press on?” I ask my regular clients ,who are very familiar with this processing experience. I offer 30 min. booked sessions , if their subconscious is leading for a longer session, I text the client to ask their permission to proceed into the second session. I have found that praying for and asking the client to be praying during their session, the experienced freedom from these trapped energies far outweigh any discomforts that may be felt during their processing time.
Went through this process severely once myself. I had given my niece the project of working on me to help her hone her skills. I went through approximately three days of crying uncontrollably and didn’t know why. I actually thought I was having panic attacks or or even something more serious until I spoke with my niece and found out she had been doing some intense E.C. work on me. We now have an understanding about how many trapped emotions should be released at one time and what days she can work on me so I will not be processing on a W2 job workday! 🙂
Thank you Estela Davida for the very well-written & insightful article about processing! Sending all the best to you and to your clients!
Hi Estela,
Thanks for sharing this piece of information. Personally, I had had been experiencing processing before a session and my partner also experienced processing for the work done on me! Of course, I didn’t figure it out till now. Now everything normal.
Malik
Hi Estela,
Thanks so much for this insightful information about the possible side effects of processing. I will share this with several clients and family members as I believe it is valuable to hear this from an experienced practitioner.
In light and love,
Rose
After an Emotion Code telephone session–and learning that I was carrying “anxiety, betrayal, loneliness” for over 50 generation of women ancestors, I had a severe back ache for about a week. No fever. No prior lifting. No causation could be traced. No fever. And no relief! Laying in the hottest water in a tub, crying, I made a decision to stop taking aspirin–they weren’t even touching the pain. I knew it was something I “had to feel” and then I felt as if I was “taking one for the team.” I hope to NEVER experience pain like it ever again! I am grateful to the practitioner, but I still cannot wrap my mind around this process—I think my heart understands it but heart doesn’t communicate in words like mind does!
Hi, I am feeling right like that, horrible!! thank you for sharing this, as we don´t know that. I would like to know something about when we release emotions in relation with someone is already not here, I mean, she past away. I had already two times, different days, when after a kind of explosion crying, and asking something about it to this person who is already dead, I felt as if she would be there and it was as if very fast she answer to me in my mind, and as if I could see her face, but not really near from me, asking me for perdon or explaining something. Other time, I was trying to know what else my sister should know about an emotion, and I felt as an explosion of crying again as much as I couldn´t speak for a while, just crying and feeling that she sorry for that fact my sister had. Is this normal while doing this? I would appreciate your answer as I sometimes am worry, because I grow in a family who believes we shouldn´t speak with dead people. It dosn´t matter if it would be in dreams, In some way I got this feelings while releasing emptions from my siter, and from myself.
A very comprehensive account of “processing”. This article covers all the points that I have seen in my clients and those I experience myself when processing – I especially like the bit about spoiling yourself!!
Thank you, Estela, for taking the time to write this and share it with others. Blessings.
inherited emotions: On the next day I saw my emotional therapist my 35 year old son and his 15 year old son really got into a serious physical fight. This had not occurred before but I could feel the storm coming. It was as if I were battling myself. Even though I was upset by their alienation from one another I did not feel the need to fix them. I also saw quite clearly the reason for their subconscious riff but knew there was no way I could relate to them what they had going on was in large part a legacy of generational alienation. Still have not got it figured but can stand back and watch the process unfold without taking a side but wanting peace for all of us.