I’m going to share something personal here. Not because it’s comfortable, but because it’s the most honest answer I can give to the question: does healing actually raise your consciousness?
Yes. Measurably. And I can show you the numbers.
In this post:
The moment everything changed
Before I fell pregnant, I was calibrating at around 162 on the 0-1,000 scale used in Dr David R. Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness and Frederick Dodson’s Levels of Energy. That’s below the 200 threshold – the line Hawkins describes as the boundary between contractive and expansive consciousness.
I didn’t know any of this at the time. I didn’t know about the scale. I didn’t know about calibration. I just knew that when I discovered I was pregnant, something broke open inside me – and not in a good way.
I was terrified. Not the normal nervousness most people describe. This was full-body, consuming fear. I couldn’t think about the pregnancy without panic. I couldn’t imagine the birth without spiralling. I later learned this had a name – tokophobia – but at the time I just thought something was deeply wrong with me.
That fear forced me to the healing table. I had no choice. I couldn’t stay where I was and survive the pregnancy, let alone the birth. So I started clearing. Everything I could find. Every wound, every fear, every piece of inherited material that was feeding the terror.
What I measured as I healed – and how it helped me raise my consciousness
Years later, when I discovered the map of consciousness and started taking retrospective readings, I was able to track what had actually happened to my level of consciousness during that period. The trajectory was striking.
Pre-pregnancy: 162. Below the line. Fear-based. Contractive. Life felt heavy and effortful, though I wouldn’t have described it that way at the time. I thought that was just how life was.
After initial healing work: 174. A modest shift, but meaningful. The acute terror had softened. I could hold the idea of pregnancy without spiralling. I was still below 200, still in contractive territory, but the direction was upward.
After intensive clearing: 203. I crossed the 200 threshold. This is where things started to feel genuinely different. Not just “better” – different. I had more space. More perspective. The fear was still there, but it no longer ran the show. I could see it rather than be consumed by it.
After birth: 303. This was the leap that surprised me most. The birth itself was a profound experience – not because it was easy, but because I met it from a completely different place than I would have without the healing. The courage and presence I’d built through clearance work meant I could be with the experience rather than fighting it. And the consciousness shift reflected that.
After the wound healing period: 460. This came later, during the intensive period where I was developing and testing my wound healing process on myself. Months of deep, structural clearing. And the result was a 300-point total shift from where I’d started.
Why this matters if you want to raise your consciousness
I’m sharing these numbers not because they’re about me, but because they show something important about how consciousness actually moves.
It doesn’t move through positive thinking. It doesn’t move through willpower. It moves through healing – specifically, through clearing the dense material that’s suppressing it.
Every time I cleared something significant – a core fear, an ancestral pattern, a pre-verbal wound from in-utero – my reading shifted. Not temporarily. Permanently. The baseline itself moved.
And the things that created the biggest shifts were not the surface-level clearances. They were the deep ones. The wounds I didn’t want to look at. The fears I’d been carrying so long I’d stopped noticing them. The inherited material that didn’t even feel like mine.
Where’s your starting point?
The free Head Trash Quiz maps where your emotional weight is concentrated – your equivalent of what I was carrying at 162 before I knew what was weighing me down.
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The apartment building metaphor
There’s a way of picturing this that I find helpful. Imagine your consciousness as an apartment building. At the ground floor, the view is limited. You can see the street, the bins, the wall of the building opposite. Everything feels close and confined.
As you move up through the building, the view expands. You start to see over the wall. You can see the park. The rooftops. The horizon. The higher you go, the more you can see – not because reality has changed, but because your vantage point has.
At 162, I was in the basement. I couldn’t see the street, let alone the horizon. Everything felt threatening because my view was so narrow. By 460, I could see the whole landscape. The same challenges still existed – bills, deadlines, difficult conversations – but they looked completely different from up there. Smaller. More manageable. More navigable.
That’s what a genuine shift in consciousness feels like. Not a bypass. Not pretending you’re above it all. A genuine expansion of what you can see, feel, and respond to.
What I’d do differently if I were starting now
If I could go back to that terrified woman at 162 and give her one piece of advice, it would be this: stop trying to fix the surface and go straight to the wounds.
I spent time on coping strategies. Breathing techniques. Affirmations. They helped in the moment but didn’t shift anything structurally. The real movement came from clearance work – from identifying and releasing the dense material that was holding everything down.
If you want to raise your consciousness, don’t start with the strategy. Start with the weight. Find out what you’re carrying. Find out where it came from. And start clearing it.
The Ladder of Growth measures this across multiple life lenses – not just an overall number, but where specific areas are heavier than others. Money, relationships, health, visibility, business. Because your consciousness doesn’t sit at one level uniformly. Some compartments carry more weight than others, and the targeted approach is always more effective than the general one.
The invitation
My journey from 162 to 460 wasn’t linear. It wasn’t comfortable. And it certainly wasn’t quick in the way a weekend workshop promises transformation. But it was real. Every point shift was earned through healing, and every shift stuck.
If something in this has resonated, you don’t need to take my trajectory as a template. Your starting point is different. Your material is different. Your pace will be different. But the principle holds: clear the weight, and consciousness rises. Not because you forced it. Because you freed it.
Where to go deeper
- Free Head Trash Quiz – find out where your emotional weight is concentrated and what’s holding your baseline in place.
- The Clearance Club (£49/mo) – ongoing clearance support. Guided audio clearances, tracking, and community. The steady practice that moves the baseline.
- The Ascent (£5,777) – three months of structured deep clearing with measurement at every stage. Designed to do deliberately what took me years to figure out on my own.
By Alexia Leachman · Method developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions
About the author: Alexia Leachman is the creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method and founder of Ladder of Growth – the consciousness measurement framework that maps where you are on the path of becoming. She’s worked with clients to raise their consciousness 200+ points on the Hawkins scale, and built The Ascent, a three-month deep clearing programme for people moving from 3D to 4D with measurement at every stage. More about Alexia
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