Accepting and Releasing Emotions
Denying Your Feelings
by Madisyn Taylor
It's always best to acknowledge our feelings so they may rise to the surface rather than keep them suppressed and turned into anger.
Dealing with powerful emotions can be challenging, especially when we are going through chaotic, sad, or cruel experiences in our lives. Often, it can seem like we have only two options for dealing with our feelings so they don’t become too overwhelming. We may let our feelings out in an immediate and visceral way, or we may bottle them up by suppressing our emotions inside our bodies. Most people make the second choice, repressing their feelings in an attempt to deny them. The truth is that there are many positive ways to deal with emotions, and experiencing your negative feelings doesn’t have to constitute a negative experience. Denying your feelings is not only unhealthy for the mind and the body, but it may also rob you of valuable information you could be learning about yourself and your life. Suppressing your emotions can even impede your short-term memory. Acknowledging your feelings can help you better understand them and help you recover naturally from change, stres! s, and grief.
If you find that facing your feelings head on is proving too difficult during times of emotional distress, you may want to explore alternative ways of expressing them. Otherwise, the emotions you deny could morph into unconscious anger or self-hatred. Expressing your thoughts to friends or family can be helpful. If you don’t feel ready to share them, try giving them words by writing down what you are feeling. Give whatever you are feeling simple words like “livid” or “angry” or “excited” You can also funnel your feelings into a creative outlet, physical exercise, or chores. Even just accepting and speaking your feelings out loud to yourself can be a healing release. In releasing intense emotions, it is most beneficial to acknowledge the feelings, allow yourself to feel them, and let the feelings go. Those who are willing to experience and release their feelings without judgment also find that their lives become less stressful. Breathing deeply, going for a long walk, or doi! ng a constructive task can help you respond to your feelings in a healthy way.
While burying negative or uncomfortable feelings can numb the pain, it also may inevitably dull your ability to experience your more positive and pleasurable feelings. You may find yourself afraid to open up in the future for fear of getting hurt. The feelings we deny aren’t limited to anger and sadness. Suppressing our happiness or excitement can be just as unhealthy. In learning how to express your intense emotions in a healthy way, you are giving yourself the freedom to fully experience the more joyful emotions that come with being alive.
QUESTION: I need help understanding how to become conscious awareness.
How do I look at myself on the inside. I am struggling with this.ANSWER: Becoming conscious of your self takes practice. It begins with meditation and reconnecting to your inner being by "feeling" the subtle vibrations of truth and love within. As you continue to stay committed to your spiritual practice your chakra system will be begin to open and E~X~P~A~N~D. Your chakras are portals to your higher consciousness, once you begin to expand them, you will begin to tap into MORE of your true self.
When we begin the spiritual journey our chakra system is contracted and filled with distorted beliefs and energetic blocks. These blocks, "block us", from all the tubes and channels within our being that lead to the higher wisdom and love from our God Self. It will take time, patience, dedication and faith to remain committed to our inner healing so we can release the cobwebs that create static interference within our being so we can discover our truth. If it were easy ~ the whole world would be healed and connected to their truth, and we would have Peace On Earth. Humans naturally want to take the easiest, quickest route.....in essence, people generally want someone else to do the work for them. This is what I call the external path....the ego, which "Edges God Out." We look outside of our SELF, instead of inward, when clearly Jesus and Buddha have both shown us the way: "The Kingdom Of God Is Within".
Nothing Happens Suddenly
It’s sometimes tough to accept, but nothing happens suddenly. We don’t awaken one day and find a full grown tree in our front lawn, because in the world of physicality, there is always a process.
Every action we make plants a seed in our lives that will manifest something positive or negative.
A good deed today may manifest a blessing later when it is needed most.
When we begin the spiritual journey our chakra system is contracted and filled with distorted beliefs and energetic blocks. These blocks, "block us", from all the tubes and channels within our being that lead to the higher wisdom and love from our God Self. It will take time, patience, dedication and faith to remain committed to our inner healing so we can release the cobwebs that create static interference within our being so we can discover our truth. If it were easy ~ the whole world would be healed and connected to their truth, and we would have Peace On Earth. Humans naturally want to take the easiest, quickest route.....in essence, people generally want someone else to do the work for them. This is what I call the external path....the ego, which "Edges God Out." We look outside of our SELF, instead of inward, when clearly Jesus and Buddha have both shown us the way: "The Kingdom Of God Is Within".
Nothing Happens Suddenly
It’s sometimes tough to accept, but nothing happens suddenly. We don’t awaken one day and find a full grown tree in our front lawn, because in the world of physicality, there is always a process.
Every action we make plants a seed in our lives that will manifest something positive or negative.
A good deed today may manifest a blessing later when it is needed most.
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