When was the last time you felt a strong emotion that kept on
holding you back?
Before any emotion can be cleared, it must be felt. Feeling each
emotion is what allows it to be cleared out of your mind and cellular
body.
Anything you are currently feeling, you are healing.
A return of old feelings or the upheaval of emotions is not proof
that you’re low vibrational or that you’re not as far along on your journey as
you thought.
The present feeling is actually proof of what is clearing out of
your mind and body. Stand in your courage and continue to feel everything
that is arising. It is only being felt by you as it is being healed through
you.⠀
This can be so intense, but remember that each thought, feeling, and emotion is part of a greater collective consciousness. It is not yours, it
does not belong to you, it is not your burden to bear. It’s only in your
awareness to be felt by you.
Conversely, when a feeling is repressed, it is stored in your
body to be processed later. Effectively, it is stuck within your mind and the
cellular memory of your body. Here’s how to fully feel each emotion as it
arises so it can be released, rather than stored within you.
The only reason you feel an intense emotion is because the
energy field within and around your body is transmuting this intensity into
lightness. It is the alchemizing of darkness, in the form of intense
emotion, into the light.
This may sound complicated, but this process happens
automatically through your body and energy field each time you feel an emotion
rather suppress it.
We awaken by choosing to lovingly welcome and feel our feelings
rather than deny them or brush them away.
Here are the steps to handle emotions as they begin to bubble up
in your awareness:
1. Take
three deep breaths into your abdomen. This will ground your
energy and center your awareness so the next steps are as effective as
possible.
2. Identify
where in your body you are feeling the emotion. This
brings you from your mind into your body where you can actually process each
emotion. Remember, emotions are not felt in your mind, they are only felt
within your body. This doesn’t make your mind or your thoughts bad, it just
makes them irrelevant in this specific process.
3. Breathe
into the area of your body where you feel the emotion most intensely until it
begins to dissipate. The lifespan of an emotion is 90
seconds, according to neuroscientist Jill Bolte-Taylor. If you can breathe into
the intensity for 90 seconds, not only will this emotion dissipate but it will
not get stuck within the cellular memory of your body for later
processing.
4. Invoke
Compassion. Talk to yourself as you would a 7-year-old who just experienced
the emotion you did. For example, if you just felt intense sadness, what would
you say to a child who just experienced this same sadness? You would probably
say “wow, I’m so proud of you for being brave enough to feel that. I’m sorry
you had to deal with this, but I admire how courageous you are. I love you”.
When you change your inner dialogue to softness, compassion, and kindness, you
will be astounded by how safe you will feel and how positively your nervous
system will react to this safety.
It’s not
always possible to practice this at the moment that emotion arises. However,
if you’re able to step away when you feel intensity arising within your body
and use these tools you will begin to free your body and mind of the burden of
stored and repressed emotions.
If you
can’t practice this process at the moment, check in with yourself later that
day. Take a few deep breaths, place your hand on your heart and ask yourself
how you are doing after experiencing such intensity. This will give your body
the chance it needs to purge any emotion that was stored and release it back
into light energy, rather than stay stuck.
Remember,
what you are feeling you are healing. Therefore, any emotion that arises is proof of how deeply you are healing and how powerful your energy system is
that because it has the capacity to transmute dense emotions back into the light.
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