Wash Away Fear Technique: How to Bring Your Joy and Productivity Back after PTSD

Have you heard that issues hide in tissues? Read on to learn how this pertains to you and to our current pandemic crisis.

Four Wash-Away Fear Techniques:

The first 2 therapies below are suggested for close family members who do not need to do social distancing.

Medium 1: Water

Water is an information carrier. Many people have heard about Dr. Massaru Emoto’s experiments with water, which have shown that our thoughts and words affect water’s molecular structure and therefore potentially everything that contains water (think the human body and brain). However, water also can not only carry information, but it can also remove and wash it away. Use this to wash away your fear.

There are multiple ways, here are two simple techniques you can use:

Hot Compresses

This is a very powerful way to remove tension from the body of your loved one after at the end of a stressful day.

How to do Hot Compresses:

1. Have your spouse/ partner or child lay under a blanket with bare legs and feet.
2. Take a large bath towel or two hand towels. Dip it in very warm water and wring well. Drape it over one leg and gently squeeze, letting the heat penetrate the skin. Tip: Imagine as if you were sending the heat to the very core of his/her bone, squeeze the entire leg firmly and do not pinch the skin.
3. Very slowly move the towel down to the feet, squeezing the leg along the way. Do not skip any areas.
4. Finish the treatment with a mini foot massage. Put the foot back under the blanket.
5. Repeat on the other leg. If you only have 1 towel, dip it into the warm water once again, before moving to the other foot.

Cold Water Facial

This therapy is very beneficial after an exhausting day, after an emotional or physical shock, or completion of a mentally exhausting project. Tip: It is best to do this therapy outside, while the person is standing barefoot (if your situation allows it). The earth is very grounding and will assist you with release of tension and excess of energy.

How to do a Cold Water Facial:

1. Take a medium bowl with cold water and a place on a chair. If you have ice available, add some, too.
2. Have the person close his/ her eyes. Explain what you will be doing and ask if it’s ok with some water gets on their clothes. If this is not desired, wrap a towel around the neck. But water dries quickly and won’t stain clothes.
3. Briefly deep your hands into the water and, beginning from the forehead area, do a slow facial massage. Re-apply water to your hands frequently. Use quite firm pressure, do not let it be too light. Go over the hair and neck, too.

Tip: Intention here is everything (as for all other therapies). If when you do the water facial,  you think about soup on the stove or your Harley in the garage,  the person will feel it. Stay present mentally and emotionally, set an intention of nurture, positivity and taking care of another individual.

Medium 2: Salt

The next 2 therapies can be done by yourself.

Salt Bath

For this therapy you will need some unrefined Celtic Sea Salt (grey salt) that you can get a local health food store. Epsom Salt, while is a great relaxant, has a much lower energetic pull than Celtic Sea Salt. The reason why we need the strong energetic pull here is because fear is a negative energy, and we need an agent that will be able to remove it from our cells and body organs.

How to Take a Sea Salt Bath:

1. Fill up the bathtub with warm water
2. Add 2 cups of salt
3. Take the bath for 20 min

Salt Scrub

How to Prepare Salt Scrub:

1. Mix 1 cup Himalayan Pink or Celtic Sea Salt. Important: salt should be quite fine so it would not scratch the person. Do not use white salt, as it was whitened with chlorine. Also do not use the one that was made with food colouring. Add some olive oil and mix. Your mixture should be quite saturated with oil, but not liquid. You need to have the consistency that allows the salt to stick well to your skin, but you do not want olive oil run off you.
2. If you have any pleasant essential oils, add 2-3 drops. It may be rose, jasmine or citrus.

How to Apply Salt Scrub:

3. Apply the salt while standing in the shower or a bathtub. It is very helpful to take a warm shower first – the shower/ bathtub itself will be warm and you will, too.
4. Rub the salt well into all parts of your body, avoiding wounds and any sensitive areas (be careful around eyes and private areas)
5. Cover your back with a large dry towel, so you don’t feel cold
6. Keep the salt oil mixture on, while standing in the shower or bathtub, for 12 minutes
7. Wash away the scrub. Your skin will be silky smooth. You do not need to remove oil 100%, but ensure that you are ok with getting small amount of oil on the clothes you’ll be wearing after.

Tip: Your salt scrub may turn into your romantic night, if you invite your spouse over and do it for each other.

Ania Kastashchuk is the Program Manager, Senior Program Director and Co-Founder of Fresh Start Health Retreat, specializing in health restoration using natural health methods. Fresh Start is located on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. The retreat focuses on 4 areas: Detox & Recharge, Physical Health, Emotional Wellness and Habits Re-patterning (quit smoking, mild social drinking, emotional eating). Over the last 15 years Ania with her husband Vasili and team of professionals have been assisting those who are ready for a change to transform their health and lifestyle naturally.