Post-Session Care Guide

During your session, the energy connected to your imbalances has been released and realigned according to your body’s priorities, including updates to your belief systems where requested. Beliefs form in several ways - through personal experience, suggestions we accepted as true, or inherited patterns - and not all of them will make sense to your conscious mind.

Your subconscious sets the priority for what is addressed, focusing on the core issue(s) - those that overlap with others, like the center of a Venn diagram. Even if you brought a long list of topics, your body does not need to address each individually. It works with associations, naturally highlighting key areas. Focusing on these core areas often supports all related topics without decoding each one separately, which helps sensitive clients avoid overwhelm.

It’s normal if something that surfaced feels confusing, unexpected, or unrelated. Your subconscious organizes vast amounts of information by association, and some connections may not be immediately clear to your conscious mind. What appears in a session is simply what is incongruent and ready to be released. Even if you don’t understand the “why,” trust that anything surfacing is no longer supportive.

The release from your session is permanent, though new layers may emerge over time as your system continues to adjust. You may notice subtle sensations, emotional shifts, or changes in how you respond to situations - sometimes immediately, sometimes gradually. These shifts are part of the natural rebalancing process.

Your body will be procession for 1-3 days, which is shown in your session notes. During this time:

• Stay hydrated with filtered water.

• Follow what feels nourishing and supportive for your body.

Review your session notes; any items requiring your attention are highlighted in yellow. Always trust your instincts and if it doesn’t feel aligned for you do not act on it.

Some people experience profound change from a single session, while others return for additional sessions as new areas surface or to continue supporting alignment.

Trust your timing and your experience. When you’re ready, book another session at www.birchcove.co.

Statements or feelings that arise during a session may feel intense, confusing, or surprising. It’s important to remember:

• These statements are not literal reflections of behavior, but symbolic expressions of subconscious beliefs, such as feelings of shame, fear, unworthiness, or self-judgment.

• Beliefs are figurative, not literal, representing patterns absorbed from early experiences, suggestions accepted as true, or inherited tendencies.

• Your subconscious organizes vast sensory information by association, forming a network of patterns that may seem unclear to your conscious mind.

Visualizing Layers as a Tree:

• Negative programs → branches and leaves influencing daily thoughts, behaviors, and actions

• Limiting beliefs → trunk

• Faulty core beliefs → roots anchoring deep patterns

• Faulty core identity (formed ages 0–7) → soil

Even if some statements or feelings don’t make logical sense, they are ready to be released according to your body’s subconscious. Releasing these beliefs is a safe and supportive process for the body.

Belief systems are like trees in the mind. Belief systems grow from our core identity which is established during the ages of 0-7. During an energy balancing session, different types of belief systems may appear:

• Basic: One single tree. One core belief forms one limiting belief and one set of negative programs.

• Split: One tree that forks into two trunks. A single core belief leads to two limiting beliefs.

• Parallel: Several trees growing side by side. Separate belief systems exist alongside each other.

• Tangled: Trees with roots intertwined. Multiple core beliefs share the same limiting beliefs and negative programs.

• Partial: A belief system that is incomplete or missing parts of the conventional hierarchy. Like a pile of wood logs needing to be cleared. Partial systems come up for individuals that have already worked on dismantling the belief system, and fragments are left ready to release.

Why this matters: Understanding the type of belief system present helps track what is being addressed during a session and supports reflection on how subconscious beliefs are structured.

When belief system work comes up it is like an operating system update for the body, vs a software update when the emotion or body code is used.

If your body asked for the belief code, when an old belief system is cleared, your body doesn’t leave empty space - it asks, “How should I fill these gaps?”

Think of your subconscious as having access to a vast library of life experiences and it creates associations with all those experiences. After a belief system is cleared, your subconscious decides how to update the “shelves”:

• Defragmenting the shelves: Push remaining “books” together so there are no gaps, creating a stable, integrated system.

• Adding new empowering books: Introduce new, supportive beliefs to replace what was cleared, so future references are aligned with empowerment and wellbeing.

During the session, your body decides which approach is needed—sometimes defragmenting, sometimes adding new beliefs, or a combination. Trust that your system knows exactly how to fill the space to best support you. A belief system update is a deep change for your body, it’s like an operating system update, vs a software update. It is very profound for your body.

Integration is your body and subconscious fully absorbing the changes from the session. This can happen instantly or gradually. You may notice:

• Subtle physical sensations in the body

• Emotional shifts

• Changes in responses to situations or adjustments in your perception

Sometimes, your body’s natural processing period may intensify, creating stronger physical or emotional sensations. This is a normal part of your system adjusting and reorganizing. Other times, shifts are gentle and subtle—both are valid and expected.

Supporting yourself during this phase:

• Trust your body’s wisdom - what is occurring is part of its natural process.

• Be gentle and patient with yourself. Moments of intensity or subtle change are both meaningful.

• Remind yourself that your body is recalibrating, integrating, and reorganizing safely.

• Celebrate small shifts and acknowledge the work your system is doing.

Your unique integration journey:

• Everyone’s experience is unique and personal. There is no fast track—your body knows its own timing and is always seeking balance.

• Energy both reflects and affects physiology, meaning shifts in your energy system naturally influence your body, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

• Changes may appear quickly for some, subtly for others, and in layers over time. Trust that your body is intelligent and always working in your favor.

Your session notes indicate if a dedicated integration period is expected. If none is listed, your body has integrated naturally. Trust the process - your system continues to process, rebalance, and adjust even after the session ends.

Every body is unique, so the timing and experience of shifts vary. Some changes are immediate, while others unfold gradually over hours, days, weeks, or months.

How you may notice changes:

• Physical sensations: Subtle shifts in tension, energy, or comfort in the body.

• Emotional release: Feeling lighter, calmer, or more open, or noticing emotions surface and resolve.

• Mental clarity: New insights, perspectives, or changes in thought patterns.

• Behavioral or relational shifts: Responses to situations may feel different, easier, or more aligned.

Timing of results:

• Immediate: Some clients notice shifts right after the session, including emotional or physical changes.

• Gradual: Other effects may develop over hours or days as your system continues to reorganize and integrate.

• Layered: A session can create ripple effects, naturally supporting related areas over time.

• Individual timing: Everyone’s system processes differently. Sensitivity, complexity of the issues, and your body’s readiness all influence how quickly and in what ways results appear.

Key reminder: There is no “wrong” way to experience results. Your body and subconscious determine the pace and form of integration, ensuring changes are safe, aligned, and lasting.

There is nothing to force or fix when it comes to emotions. Your body is wise and always working in your favor - even when it doesn’t feel like it is. Many emotions are processed subconsciously, often beyond conscious awareness. Your body holds a record of everything you’ve experienced in life.

• Trust the process: Emotions - including difficult ones - are natural and here to guide and support you. They are part of your intricate bio-GPS system.

• Acknowledge your body: Remind yourself, “Good job, body. Thank you for caring for me.” Let your body do what it knows best. Rest fully into being yourself.

• Timing matters: Even lifelong or inherited trapped emotions are held for a reason - your body’s wisdom guided you to the right moment for release.

Repeating Emotions:
When an emotion appears to repeat, it is not the same trapped emotion resurfacing. Each instance carries a distinct vibrational charge, formed by a unique life experience. Even if the same label is used, it reflects a different energetic imprint. The reference set of emotions acts as umbrella categories, often representing a broader range of related feelings:

• Example: “Shock” could also include disbelief, sudden fear, or emotional paralysis

• Example: “Grief” could include sorrow, heartbreak, or deep sadness
  The specific meaning is encoded in your body and is unique to you.

A heart-wall is your body’s natural way of caring for and protecting you. It creates gentle layers of emotional “bubble wrap” around the heart to help keep you safe. During a session, you can ask if you have a heart-wall and whether it’s ready to clear - if you feel called to explore that.

• Sometimes a heart-wall clears in one session; other times, it may take multiple sessions.

• When your body is ready, it signals the time to release this heart-wall.

• During the process, it’s common to feel openness or vulnerability, often followed by a deeper connection with yourself and others.

• Clearing the heart-wall supports heart-brain coherence, promoting emotional balance and overall wellbeing.

• As life unfolds, new heart-walls may form in response to new experiences—this is a natural, protective part of your ongoing journey.

Trust your timing and your experience.

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Even though sessions are fully remote, your body’s energy system responds in measurable ways. Here’s how it works:

1. The Body as an Energy System:

   • Your body constantly generates and responds to electromagnetic fields. Every cell communicates through bioelectric signals. This energy network allows your system to detect shifts, imbalances, or areas needing support.

   • Remote energy work interacts with these fields - not by moving your physical body, but by influencing the energy patterns your body is already constantly monitoring and adjusting.

2. Subconscious Intelligence:

   • Your subconscious functions like a sophisticated information-processing system, constantly organizing data and creating associations from life experiences, beliefs, and emotions.

   • During a session, the practitioner sets intention and follows the guidance of your subconscious. Your body determines what needs attention, release, or recalibration, much like an internal “biofeedback loop.”

3. Non-Locality and Information Fields:

   • Research in quantum biology and energy medicine suggests that energy and information are not strictly localized. The body can respond to intentional energy guidance at a distance.

   • Your system perceives these subtle energetic cues and makes the necessary adjustments, whether that’s releasing emotional blocks, updating beliefs, or rebalancing energy patterns.

4. Integration:

   • Your nervous system, endocrine system, and body tissues adjust in response to the shifts. Even if you can’t consciously “feel” the changes immediately, your body continues to reorganize, integrate, and stabilize the new energy patterns over hours or days.

Safety and Accessibility:

• Remote energy work is a gentle, safe, and supportive modality suitable for anyone - including adults, children, older adults, and even animals.

• It is suitable for any condition or experience. Your practitioner will guide about whether they specialize in a specific field.

• Your body decides what to release and how to respond, making this a highly personalized and non-invasive approach to energy, emotions, and beliefs.

In essence: Your body does the work. Remote energy sessions provide focused intention and guidance, while your subconscious and energy systems determine what needs to shift, release, or realign - safely and naturally.

In general, when the body and mind encounter challenges, stress, or significant life events, they often move through three natural stages of recovery. This framework is meant to help you understand how physical and emotional adjustments typically unfold - though everyone’s experience is unique.

1. Reaction Stage

• Physical: Fatigue, mild discomfort, tension, or other temporary sensations.

• Emotional: Shock, denial, anger, overwhelm, or emotional dissonance.

• Purpose: Your system is responding to the challenge and beginning to adjust.

2. Regeneration Stage

• Physical: The body actively repairs, reorganizes, and strengthens.

• Emotional: Processing emotions, taking constructive action, and embracing personal responsibility.

• Purpose: This stage supports integration of lessons and patterns from the experience.

3. Remodeling Stage

• Physical: Functionality and resilience improve, sometimes beyond previous levels.

• Emotional: Increased learning, acceptance, empathy, and emotional intelligence.

• Purpose: This stage reflects long-term adaptation, balance, and growth.

Note: These stages are general patterns and may vary widely. This is not prescriptive. Some stages may overlap, repeat, or appear subtly. Everyone’s journey is unique, and your system adjusts at its own pace.

Your session is safe, private, and guided by your body’s intelligence. A certified practitioner:

• Does not put their energy into you and does not take energy from you.

• Respects ethical and moral boundaries at all times.

• Cannot access your secrets.

• Can only conduct a session with your consent.

During a session, the practitioner is a guide, following your subconscious’ priorities and supporting what your system is ready to release, update, or realign. You remain in control at all times - your body decides what is addressed, how it is addressed, and when it is ready.

This ensures that every session is safe, respectful, and supportive, giving you confidence and trust in the process.

You must always consult your licensed medical practitioner for your health needs. This work does not diagnose, prescribe, cure, or treat.

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Abandonment: Physical abandonment is being left alone; left behind or deserted (this is the type of abandonment that we most often see in childhood). Emotional abandonment is being given up on; withdrew from; emotionally deserted or separated from; a feeling of being “left behind” in a non-physical form.

Anger: A strong displeasure and belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong; wrath. Anger is often used as a cover-up or form of denial for emotions of hurt or fear.

Anxiety: A generalized feeling of uneasiness and foreboding; a fear of the unknown; fear without a subject (e.g. she feels anxious and fearful all the time for no apparent reason).

Betrayal: Betrayed is to have your trust broken, to be deserted or hurt by a trusted one. Betrayal of another is to be unfaithful in guarding or fulfilling a trust; to be disloyal or violate a confidence, to desert someone who trusts you. Betrayal of the self is to break integrity; act against one’s morals, to abuse the body or soul.

Bitterness: A harsh, disagreeable, or cynical attitude. Being angry or resentful because of hurtful or unfair experiences.

Blaming: Being Blamed is to be held responsible; accused; or held guilty for something. Blaming another is to hold responsible; accuse; find fault with. Putting responsibility on someone or something else to avoid taking responsibility. This is a key emotion in creating a victim mentality and can cause a deterioration of personal power. Blaming the self is finding fault with oneself, which can lead to feelings of self-abuse, depression, etc.

Conflict: Internal Conflict is a mental and emotional struggle within the self, arising from opposing demands or impulses. (e.g. He was feeling conflicted about whether or not to take the new job) External Conflict is to fight; to disagree or be disagreeable; to struggle or battle against; to antagonize. Prolonged strife or struggle. (e.g. She and her ex-husband experience continual conflict about custody of their children).

Confusion: A disoriented feeling; foggy thinking; chaos; lack of distinctness or clearness; perplexity; bewilderment; a disturbed mental state.

Creative Insecurity: Feeling unsafe or untrusting the self about the creation or development of anything- relationships, family, health, money, career and/or artistic endeavors. A feeling of insecurity that arises and blocks the creative process. (e.g. writer’s block).

Crying: The (often) involuntary act of expressing a strong emotion; a response to pain or suffering (emotional or physical). A response to or expression of helplessness. A physical sensation felt in the throat, chest and/or diaphragm. Often becomes trapped when one does not allow him/herself to cry (i.e. suppressing this reaction or stuffing it down).

Defensiveness: A state of resisting attack or protecting oneself; being sensitive to the threat of criticism or injury to one’s ego; being on guard against real or imagined threats to one’s person, physical and/or emotional.

Depression: A state of being sad, gloomy, low in spirits, dejected. Often a secondary emotion caused by “anger turned inward” at the self and feelings of shame and guilt, etc.

Despair: A complete loss of hope; misery; difficult or unable to be helped or comforted. Discouragement: Feeling a lack of courage, hope or confidence; disheartened, dispirited. Losing the nerve to try or attempt something.

Discouragement: Feeling a lack of courage, hope, or confidence. Disheartened or dispirited. Lacking the nerve to try or attempt something.

Disgust: A feeling of loathing; when good taste or moral sense is offended; a strong aversion. (e.g. She felt disgusted when the killer was acquitted).

Dread: Fear of something that is about to happen; apprehension as to something in the future, usually real but sometimes unknown. (e.g. He dreaded going to the high school reunion and facing the bullies who had tormented him).

Effort Unreceived: When one’s work, achievement, attempts or endeavors are not accepted or recognized; when one’s best effort is not considered good enough; a feeling of being unappreciated. Not feeling approved of or validated.

Failure: When one falls short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, or desired; (e.g. The failure of a marriage or other relationship, being fired, bankruptcy, performing poorly in athletics, art, academics, etc.)

Fear: A strongly distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil or pain; the threat may be real or imagined.

Forlorn: Miserable; sad and lonely by reason of abandonment, desolation or emptiness; hopeless; forsaken.

Frustration: Exasperation; being stuck or unable to progress; feeling blocked from causing a change or achieving an objective or goal.

Grief: Intense emotional suffering caused by loss, disaster, misfortune, etc.; an acute sorrow and deep sadness. A universal reaction to bereavement. Also can be feeling harassed, vexed or exasperated (e.g. if someone gives you grief).

Guilt: The feeling of having done wrong or committed an offense. Feeling responsible for the harmful actions of another (e.g., abuse, parents’ divorce, death, etc.) Often accompanied by feelings of depression, shame and self-abuse.

Hatred: To loathe; despise; great dislike or aversion. Often comes as a result of “hurt love”. Often hatred is of a situation rather than a person (e.g. hatred of another’s behavior, unjust circumstances, etc.) Self-hatred creates destructive behaviors and illnesses.

Heartache: Anguish and pain of the heart; distress usually as a result of difficulty or sadness in a relationship. Felt as a crushing or burning physical sensation in the chest.

Helplessness: Being unable to help oneself; being without the aid or protection of another. Having little strength or personal power. A common emotion for those suffering from a “victim mentality”. Feeling unable to change one’s circumstances or state.

Hopelessness: Devoid of hope; having no expectation of good; having no remedy or cure; no prospect of change or improvement.

Horror: A strong emotion of alarm, disgust, or outrage caused by something frightful or shocking (e.g. an event of extreme violence, cruelty, or macabre.)

Humiliation: A painful loss of pride, dignity or self-respect; to feel mortified; embarrassed.

Indecisiveness: An inability to make a decision; wavering back and forth between one choice or another. Stems from distrust of the self or doubting the ability to make a good decision.

Insecurity: A lack of confidence; self-conscious; shy. Feeling unsafe from danger or ridicule.

Jealousy: Resentful and envious of someone’s success, achievements, or advantages. Having suspicious fears; fears of rivalry or unfaithfulness. Results from a fear of not being loved and/or from insecurity.

Lack of Control: Lacking restraint or direction; unable to regulate or command; a feeling that someone or something else determines your course.

Longing: To have a strong desire or craving; a yearning or pining; aching for; to miss someone or something; to want something you do not have (e.g. She longed for a different life).

Lost: Unable to see the correct or acceptable course; having no direction. Physically lost most often shows up from childhood- (e.g. being lost in the woods and can’t find the way home, etc.) Emotionally lost refers to a feeling of being unable to see what the right decision or direction, being unable to find emotional stability (e.g. He felt lost after his wife died; She hasn’t done anything with her life, she seems really lost.)

Love Unreceived: A feeling that love expressed is or has been rejected. Feeling unwanted, not cared for; not accepted; a lack of love where it is desired.

Low Self-Esteem: A low appraisal of one’s own worth or value; feeling and focusing on one’s flaws; holding a feeling of disrespect for the self; not confident; lack of self-love.

Lust: Intense sexual desire or appetite; an overwhelming want or craving (e.g., lust for power); passion; to covet.

Nervousness: Unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive; fearful; timid; to feel jumpy or on edge.

Overjoy: Intense delight or elation which is too overpowering for the body; joy that it is a shock to the system. This one emotion will appear for any and all positive emotions that have become trapped.

Overwhelm: To be overpowered in mind or emotion; extreme stress; feeling overpowered with superior force; feeling excessively burdened.

Panic: A sudden, overwhelming fear that produces hysterical behavior, unreasonably fearful thoughts or physical symptoms such as trembling and hyperventilation; a strong feeling of impending doom.

Peeved: Irritated; annoyed; exasperated; irked; aggravated; ticked off.

Pride: An overly high esteeming of oneself for some real or imagined merit or superiority; vanity (an excessive desire to be noticed, praised, or approved); feeling better than others; haughty; non-teachable; has to be right; expects more credit than earned; or treats others with disdain or contempt. Having a healthy amount of pride (self-respect or self-esteem) is a good thing, and this type of pride usually doesn’t show up as a trapped emotion (although it may show up if one’s healthy pride is injured).

Rejection: Feeling denied, refused or rebuffed; discarded as useless or unimportant; cast out; unwanted; forsaken.

Resentment: A feeling of displeasure or indignation at someone or something regarded as the cause of injury or insult; bitter for having been treated unfairly; unwilling to forgive. Often this emotion comes along with animosity (ill-will that displays itself in action, strong hostility or antagonism).

Sadness: Unhappy; sorrowful; mournful; affected by grief.

Self-Abuse: Abusing the self emotionally includes negative self-talk (e.g. “I’m such an idiot.”), blaming the self, etc. Abusing the self physically includes mistreating the body by use of addictive substances; to not care for the body by lack of sleep, proper diet or nutrition; to work beyond what one can or should endure; to punish or tax oneself excessively. This abuse may help atone for “sins”, real or imagined, and usually is driven by anger. Illnesses can be forms of self-abuse (e.g., “I don’t deserve to be healed.”)

Shame: A feeling of being wrong, defective or disreputable. The painful feeling of having done or experienced something dishonorable, improper or foolish; disgrace; humiliation; a cause for regret. The lowest vibration of all the emotions. Can lead to guilt, or depression.

Shock: A sudden or violent disturbance of the emotions or sensibilities; extreme surprise; to feel traumatized or stunned.

Sorrow: A sad regret; distress caused by loss, disappointment or grief; to feel or express grief, unhappiness, or sadness.

Stubbornness: Being difficult; unbendable; unable or unwilling to forgive; obstinate; headstrong; resistant.

Taken for Granted: Feels treated with careless indifference; not given thanks or for something accomplished, similar to ignored.

Terror: Intense, sharp, overmastering fear; extreme fright; alarm.

Unsupported: A lack of support, help or encouragement; not provided for by another; not defended when help is needed; feeling the burden is too heavy to bear alone, etc.

Unworthy: Not good enough; beneath the dignity of; not commendable or credible; undeserving; not valuable or suitable; unbecoming.

Vulnerability: Feeling susceptible to harm, either emotional or physical; unsafe; unstable.

Wishy Washy: Weak, spiritless; undecided irresolute; without strength of character. To lack conviction; without a backbone.

Worry: Dwelling on difficulty or troubles; unease or anxiety about a situation or a person; extreme concern over potential problems; concern about a loved one in possible distress.

Worthless: Of no importance or value; without excellence of character, quality or esteem; serving no purpose.