How to Free “Stuck” Emotions
Just before I embarked on my urgent healing journey I realized that in the busyness of daily life and caring for three young kids, a husband, and a home, I had gotten reeeally good at suppressing my emotions. There was just never a “convenient” time to cry or feel my emotions. Something else was always demanding me. But the problem is…
emotions can get stuck in our bodies
And since emotions carry just as much potential energy as your arm or leg does, stuck emotional energy BEGS to become kinetic. Expressed. Released.
Once the panic of my realization calmed down, I started talk-therapy once a week to help me get my emotions past the surface, expressed into actual feeling and eventual healing.
Tara Brach, a psychologist, author and teacher of meditation, teaches the acronym R.A.I.N. Here are a few practical daily actions you can take to step into emotional release and balance:
Recognize that an emotion is surfacing. You’re feeling sad, angry, impatient, etc. Good! There’s a reason for that.
Allow yourself to cry, get angry, scream...as long as you’re not directing your emotions at anyone else, feel them and let them flow. I promise they will pass within minutes and you will feel lighter.
Investigate the true source of that emotion. Was it a trigger that needs some attention? Was it a situation that you can avoid later? Investigating the source of our struggle finely tunes our emotional resilience.
Nourish. Flood your blood with nutrients that support, provide life & energy, and heal. Feed your soul the divinity, imagination, and enlightenment that it craves. Love your body with physical activity that supports its functions, regulations, and how it always carries you through.
I’ll leave you with this reminder of Newton’s 3rd Law:
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
For every deeply, intensely felt and released emotion there is an equal and opposite deeply, intensely felt state of peace and calm.
In love and healing,