In last week’s post, I shared an example of how emotions, old memories and beliefs get stuck in the body and manifest as pain or illness. The story also showed how releasing emotions lead to healing the body.
The release can help you to break through limiting beliefs, and vice versa – how breaking through limiting beliefs can release the stuck energies of the emotions, memories and beliefs that get held in the body.
Today I want to talk about what emotions are and how healing emotions at a deep level lead to physical healing and spiritual evolution.
E-MOTIONS are energy in motion – they are meant to be in motion. They are just energies that are meant to flow freely through you, like waves. They don’t make you bad or wrong or weak or dangerous. Their presence is meant to give you information about the situation at hand and how you relate to it. Period.
Emotional discomfort is a natural part of the human journey. When emotions are uncomfortable, this is a message from the instinct – it often means we feel unsafe. As a part of protecting ourselves from a perceived threat, we tend to tense up – it’s a part of the Sympathetic Nervous System response of Fight, Flight or Freeze.
When we freeze, we hold onto the emotions – they become stuffed, stored, stifled in the body. We hold them tightly in place so they can’t move. This causes constriction. Holding constriction stops movement around the energy of the emotion. It constricts movement and flow in the physical tissues and the energy body.
All life must have movement. The flow of life is a cycle of expansion and contraction. Breath, circulation, digestion, Lymphatic drainage, and all of the processes of life require the movement of expansion and contraction. The space in which this movement happens must be relaxed to allow movement and flow necessary for these systems to function properly.
If there is no movement, or if there is restricted movement in physical tissues, it produces stagnation. Your body can’t receive what is needed, nor can it release what is not needed. Stagnation can lead to malfunction. Your body needs to take in what is good and release what is no longer good before it becomes toxic. If your body is not able to do this, it can eventually lead to pain and illness. Pain and illness can show up in physical, mental, emotional, energetic or spiritual ways.
All of the human biological systems are all dependent on the cycles of contraction and expansion. The systems of digestion, blood/circulation. Lymph, oxygen/carbon dioxide, etc., all take in what is needed and release what are waste materials.
The same also goes for emotions, thoughts, beliefs, relationships, eating patterns, money patterns, etc. If you can’t receive what you need, or can’t let go of something once you don’t need it any more, these patterns are reflected throughout your body and mirrored everywhere in your life.
Examining your patterns – your thoughts, beliefs, feelings and behavioral patterns – can lead you to places in the body where you hold constriction. Once you have awareness, you can take steps to release the constriction and restore the natural flow.
As a part of our human journey, the Universe brings situations to teach us and bring us healing for the physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual layers of our bodies. This is how we learn and our souls evolve to more awareness and higher states of consciousness.
The spirit moves through this journey in the same fashion with contraction and expansion – I think of the motion as similar to the way a jelly fish moves in the ocean. We, as spiritual beings, are swimming through an Ocean of Unconditional Love – every second of every minute of every day.
Releasing constriction and held emotions in a healthy way can free us to connect consciously with that Ocean, which leads to healing and spiritual transformation. The Spiritual Transformation is what gives you lasting change – once the transformation is made on that level, you just can’t go back.
You can’t un-know the Love and Beauty that exists within you and all around you. Life takes on new meaning, and you begin to feel whole again.
Releasing emotions in a healthy productive way really is a natural process. It’s just that most of us don’t learn this until later in life.
Here are some steps you can take to begin to open, make space, release and restore flow:
- If you feel an emotion, NOTICE where you feel it in your body. Notice where you hold physical constriction. If you are aware of constriction and not emotion, just focus on the constriction.
- BREATHE into the constriction. Let your breath expand the space around the area of tension.
- CALL on the energy of Unconditional Love. You can think of it as permeating the air that surrounds you. Inhale and draw Unconditional Love into the space created around the area of constriction as you inhale. As you exhale, let the space become soft and relax into the flow of the breath of Unconditional Love.
- WITNESS the space. Let go of your attachment to it. Move from connection to a perspective of observing from just outside the space. Watch as the space expands with your inhale and relaxes/contracts with your exhale.
- ALLOW the flow of Unconditional Love to wash away the energies that have been blocking flow. Celebrate as freedom and flow are restored. Let your whole being relax into the Ocean and become like a sponge drinking in the water of Unconditional Love.
I hope you find this helpful. Of course, if you would like support, I’m here, and I would be honored to support you in healing and transformation along any part of your life journey. If you’d like to connect, it’s really easy. Just click here for my online scheduler, and set up a time to chat.
Thanks for taking the time to read this post. I hope to hear from you.
Blessings,
Debra
