Learn How to Resolve & Release Emotional Pain

How can empathetic people let loose the burden of other people’s emotions?
When your body has disease, illness or painful conditions, suppressed (somatized) emotion can exacerbate symptoms and escalate deterioration or decline. In my last article, I shared a practice for identifying and acknowledging emotional energy to avoid suppressing it into the energy system of the physical body.
Validating and embracing emotions that you may have been taught are unacceptable or inappropriate for you, and taking ownership for clearing and releasing the energetic backlog empowers you to experience your life more wholly and holistically.
Your emotions offer context and meaning for your in-the-moment experience; allowing them to inform you minimizes the derailment or inhibition of your conscious awareness.
Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don’t lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier. ― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night
Have you ever had an experience where you overreacted, wondering in hindsight why you applied a scorched earth response to an annoyance or irritation? Repressed emotion often comes out sideways and out of context to experience.
We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t.
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
What emotions do you suppress, not allow, bury deeply? Anger...

Source: World of Psychology - March 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Publishers Self-Help Spirituality & Health Emotional Energy Emotional Pain Emotions Empathy Feelings Source Type: blogs