Surgery and Energetic Trauma

Shannon O'Flaherty
4 min readJan 31, 2024

Have you ever had surgery as a young child?

Have you ever witnessed something horrific?

Have you ever been in a bad accident, whether physically hurt or not?

All of these things impact our energy field and if they happen when we are young children they can get stuck in our energy field.

When we are cut open for surgery, our energy body does not know the difference of being surgically sliced open or being stabbed!

It is a violation to our energy.

When we are children it is especially traumatic because we are taken away from our parents, we usually don’t understand fully what is going on, and then there’s the anesthetic…

So what’s the big deal you wonder? That happened ages ago, you’re not losing any sleep over it, yet maybe you have pain in your body for no apparent reason.

Maybe you tend to hold your breath, it could have registered in another way, emotionally perhaps.

Fear. Mistrust. Imbalanced boundaries. Escapism.

I had hernia surgeries at 5 and 6 years old, one on each side from a tricycle accident and a climbing frame mishap.

For one of those surgeries I remember the mask coming over my face and seeing the doctors face with his own mask…

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Shannon O'Flaherty
Shannon O'Flaherty

Written by Shannon O'Flaherty

Shamanic practitioner, therapist, coach, writer, speaker,educator & group leader on trips to Peru. https://shannonoflaherty.com