26/03/2026
Last night I was watching something on TV where a woman was trying to drive over a rickety bridge.
Every time she did it, she had to close her eyes 😫 and control her breathing because the panic would rise so strongly.
It made me think about how powerful these responses can be.
I remember years ago, not long after I first learnt EMO - Energy in Motion, I was at a party and someone started panicking about balloons 🎈
The squeak of them, the thought of them popping… her whole system went into reaction.
Even after a few glasses of wine, I found myself working with her there and then.
We softened it enough that she could stand in a room full of balloons without panic.
She didn’t quite want to hold one… but still, not bad for a party situation 😊
Another time, I worked with someone who couldn’t even walk down the vegetable aisle because of celery 🎋
It was the thought of it, the smell of it and the sight of it.
When we worked together, just bringing the image of it to mind created a full-body reaction.
In one session, that shifted.
She went from avoidance… to holding it… to smelling it… to being completely fine around it.
I’ve always found it fascinating, in that it’s not really the thing itself…. it’s what happens in the body.
Once you understand that, something changes.
You’re not at the mercy of it anymore.
There are ways to work with it that are gentle, practical, simple and logical.
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Out of curiosity…
what’s something that brings up that kind of reaction for you?
Sometimes it is not a thing, like balloons, it can be the fear of doing something like stepping into your power, public speaking or technology.
It is so interesting to observe and realise that the mind doesn’t have the power it thinks it does. The power to change resides in your energy 😊
This is a picture from 2018 when I was speaking to several thousand people in Turin.
Kim x
