Clearing or Deeper Healing? What do I Need?

Clearing or Deeper Healing: What Your System Might Be Asking For

Many people arrive at healing because something feels overwhelming, reactive, or out of control.

In this post I want to help you to answer this question: Do I need clearing or deeper healing? 

Clearing emotional charge – calming reactions and restoring balance – can be a huge relief. For some people, it’s exactly what they need. But for others, after that initial settling, a different question appears:

“Why does this still come back?”

If you’re unsure whether you need more clearing or deeper healing, this post will help you make sense of that distinction – without turning it into a technical decision.

When Clearing Is Exactly What’s Needed

Clearing work is about calibration.

It helps when:

  • your system feels overstimulated

  • emotions feel too intense

  • reactions are happening faster than you can respond

  • life feels overwhelming or chaotic

Clearing brings the system back toward neutrality.

It creates space, reduces charge and allows you to think, feel, and respond more clearly.

For many people, this is transformational – and enough.

When Clearing Helps – But Doesn’t Complete the Picture

Sometimes, clearing works… but only temporarily.

You may notice that:

  • reactions reduce, then return

  • emotional themes repeat

  • the charge rebuilds after a while

  • you feel calmer, but not finished

This isn’t because clearing “didn’t work”. It’s often because clearing addressed the effects, not the source.

When the underlying emotional wound remains unresolved, the system can recalibrate again and again – but the charge eventually regenerates.

What Deeper Healing Works With

Deeper healing focuses on resolution, not regulation.

Instead of repeatedly calming the system, it works with:

  • the emotional wound that formed earlier

  • the unresolved experience that still carries charge

  • what feeds the reaction in the first place

When that wound resolves, the system no longer needs to generate the same response.

Absolute Healing is the name I use for this deeper layer of work – where healing happens at the source rather than the surface. The Absolute Healing Process is different to the Head Trash Clearance Method.

How to Tell Which One You Need Right Now

When pondering the question – do I need clearing or deeper healing – it isn’t about choosing a “better” approach, but about listening to what your system is asking for.

Clearing may be right if:

  • life feels overwhelming

  • emotions feel too intense to sit with

  • you need stability before going deeper

  • you want relief and space first

Deeper healing may be relevant if:

  • the same issues keep repeating

  • insight hasn’t led to lasting change

  • the charge feels older than the situation

  • you’re tired of managing the same pattern

Many people move between these layers over time. One doesn’t replace the other.

Healing Is Layered – Not Linear

Most healing journeys don’t follow a straight line. They often move through phases:

  1. Calming the system

  2. Clearing emotional charge

  3. Understanding patterns

  4. Resolving wounds

Each layer prepares the ground for the next.

Needing deeper healing doesn’t mean you skipped a step – it means you’ve reached the point where something more fundamental is ready to resolve.

If You’re Unsure, Start With Clarity

You don’t need to decide anything immediately.

The most helpful next step is understanding what level of healing makes sense for you right now, rather than trying to push yourself deeper or stay where you’ve outgrown.

You can explore that here:
👉 Absolute Healing –  what deeper healing involves, when it’s relevant, and how it supports resolution at the source.

👉 Clearing using HTC –  ideal place to start on your healing journey and can be used to address a wide variety of emotional challenges.

Healing works best when it meets you where you are.

Alexia Leachman
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