Empower Yourself by Healing Emotions

One of the most significant ways you can empower your life is by validating your emotions. Most people are never taught how to process emotions. As children, parents often teach their children to suppress, ignore, or reject them. They may respond to their kid’s emotions by saying “big boys/girls don’t cry you should be ashamed of yourself, or you shouldn’t feel that way.”

When parent rejects the child’s emotions they’re programming the child to deny, suppress, and ignore emotions.

E-motion is energy in motion. It’s energy moving through the body. Humans are designed to feel a full range of emotions compared to any other living creatures on earth. They are an instrumental part of human’s existence. When someone holds onto their emotions the natural flow of the body’s energy system is disrupted causing a break or short circuit in the natural flow. The childhood programming says, “feel something and suppress it.”

The difference between an emotion and a feeling is the length of time you choose to hold onto it. Feelings move through the body in 30 seconds or less, while an emotion is a feeling held in the body for more than 30 seconds. For example, when someone cuts you off on the road you instantly feel anger or frustration and rant and rave. An emotion is created when you return home or office and talk about the incident hours later; reliving it over and over.
Someone may hold onto emotions when they feel threatened or need attention. They may create stories around their emotions and events, becoming attached to them. These stories become the lens through which a person filters all future experiences through until they choose to change the lens.

Emotions create illusions by clouding perceptions of reality. For example, a child feels abandoned when her mother takes her to daycare. The change in the routine is traumatic. The child changes her behavior and personality to protect herself from feeling this way again. She’s created the illusion she’s been abandoned. The child fails to understand the purpose of the situation and only processes it from her perspective.

Emotions consume our power and short circuit the body. Healing emotions begins when you question them. Asking why you feel or respond a particular way is the easiest way to change the behavior and resolve the hold of the emotion. As you observe your emotions you reclaim your power instead of being controlled by them.
1 Observe your emotions - Why do I feel this way? What am I feeling?
2 Validate your emotions - I’m feeling mad, angry, sad, disappointed, discouraged, etc.
3 Release your emotions – Is there a legitimate reaso
I should feel this way? Why would I want to hold onto it? Can I let it go?
4 Use affirmations to “express gratitude” for recognizing the emotions and resolving them such as “I am so grateful that I have released and resolved resentment toward ___________.”

Emotions are an important part of our human existence. Empower yourself by choosing to take control of your emotions instead of allowing them to subconsciously rule you.