Emotions – those feelings!

Did you know that emotions are at the core of many diseases? Check out Gabor Matē and Bessel van der Kolk and other well known physicians.

And yet, in our society, we tend to ignore them. Mental activity has a high status and we reply on our brains and minds to figure things out and keep us away from feeling emotions. We get so busy in our heads that we forget about emotions. Well, actually, we don’t forget, we just think we can think them out of existence. OR ignore them. And then we keep busy and then more busy so that we can block emotions out. Ever notice that when you have a quiet rest time, your body starts feeling uncomfortable? That’s emotions wanting to be felt.

Why do we want to ignore them? Because they are uncomfortable. Well, maybe not the happy ones, but even those, such as feeling excited are discouraged. Seems like we want to live life in mediocre comfort. Meaning of mediocre – “only average quality, not very good’.

This is all very well. You can get through life like this, for sure. But for some people, at some stage, the body say “NO”. It reacts to having pressure put on it to keep those emotions down, and parts of the body just can’t function properly.

If you want a healthy immune system, deal with the old thinking patterns, the stored emotions and the limiting beliefs. Because then, when your whole system is in balance, your immune system can do its job without extra pressures.

Top tip: learn to be aware of your emotions being felt in the body. Notice the sensations in there. Stop yourself from thinking and wondering why you feel that way, stop blaming, stop………..and feel.

All emotions are valid. All of them. They are a real sensation in your body. They get triggered by anything – a thought, a memory, a smell, a comment, someone’s action, a visual, a sound.

However, you label an emotion, it is not positive or negative, it is just an emotion. Some people really don’t want to feel anger. They might acknowledge frustration but this is a mild acknowledgement of anger. Anger can be so useful. Being felt and acknowledged in the body for a few minutes, it can then provide strength and clear action, rather than angry re-action. So let yourself feel it. Let your children feel it.

Ever noticed that the body sensations of fear and excitement are similar?

Maybe this all sounds strange to you. Let me know your questions and I’ll respond.