Emotions

Healthy Emotions Make You Stronger

Be brave, feel your pain, feel your emotions, they are completely natural, healthy and the key to your healing. You've got to feel it to heal it!

Letting go of the stigma around having emotions is one of the greatest things you could do for your healing and wellbeing. Emotions are simply the movement of energy within you. They are a completely natural and healthy part of being human, especially when we learn to feel them in a safe and healing way. There is nothing to be embarrassed or ashamed of about having emotions and they certainly are not a sign of weakness. Our ability to heal ourselves (and others), access our instincts, our ability to connect and empathize with others and experience the fullness of life and the human experience all come from our ability to feel our feelings.

Emotions Effect Your Health

Often, when I treat a client, I can feel when we are treating an important area of pain and tightness that needs to soften and has emotions within it. But I can also feel the client desperately trying not to cry, shout, feel their fear or 'fall apart' and it keeps the spot from releasing, which keeps them from healing fully. Our society has taken this amazing and completely natural part of being human, having emotions, and made it a bad thing. This stops our healing, messes with our minds causing chaotic pent up emotions to constantly swirl within us and can even cause physical pains as your body has to tighten down to hold in all the emotions that you don't want to feel.

If you don't let your emotions come up in a healthy way they can have a negative effects on your health. They can also come out in unhealthy ways like road rage, anger issues, passive aggression, poor decision making and so much more. Dysfunctional emotional expression happens when we suppress our feelings until they erupt out of us in inappropriate ways. This is not the same as expressing healthy emotions which is an important part of your healing and a healthy part of life.

Healthy Emotional Choices

So when a wave of intense emotion comes over you there are 2 healthier choices you could make rather than to shut it down and leave the emotion to fester within you: One, depending on the situation, you could let yourself feel the emotions and express yourself fully right then and there letting the emotions physically out of your body. While this could be emotionally healthy for you, this is not always safe or appropriate depending on where you are or who you are with.

The second option is when you feel a strong wave of emotions come up out in your daily life, you could tell yourself 'OK, I'm not in a place where I can feel this fully right now, so when I get home tonight I'm going to let this emotion come up again and feel it fully then', and then of course you have to keep that promise to yourself. Typically, you just have to replay the situation in your mind once you're home in a safe quiet environment and the feeling will usually come right up again if you let it. This may take a little practice, especially if like most of us, you've spent a lifetime shutting down your feelings, but it can be done and it's extremely healing. Then you can let that pent up emotion out in a safe and healthy way.

Close your pets and family out of your bedroom and let your emotions physically out of you. You may need to cry, hit a pillow over and over, beat up your bed, scream until your horse (into a pillow if others are nearby). Your body may need to shake out the trapped adrenaline or feel fear, terror, shame, guilt, sadness or whatever the feelings are that come up for you in that moment. When you let the emotions move physically through and out of you, then you don't leave them to solidify within you into fascial restrictions that can cause you pain and ill health or unhealthy emotional baggage like anxiety, depression, inappropriate rage, etc. Instead, you let the emotions fortify and power you and find energy and vitality or peace and calm you didn't know you had within you. When you do this, you'll feel for yourself how emotions in no way make you weak or small.

Feeling your feelings takes real courage and helps you step into your true power. This is how healthy emotions make you stronger.

	Healthy Emotions Make You Stronger Be brave, feel your pain, feel your emotions, they are completely natural, healthy and the key to your healing. You've got to feel it to heal it!
	Letting go of the stigma around having emotions is one of the greatest things you could do for your healing and wellbeing. Emotions are simply the movement of energy within you. They are a completely natural and healthy part of being human, especially when we learn to feel them in a safe and healing way. There is nothing to be embarrassed or ashamed of about having emotions and they certainly are not a sign of weakness. Our ability to heal ourselves (and others), access our instincts, our ability to connect and empathize with others and experience the fullness of life and the human experience all come from our ability to feel our feelings. Emotions Effect Your Health Often, when I treat a client, I can feel when we are treating an important area of pain and tightness that needs to soften and has emotions within it. But I can also feel the client desperately trying not to cry, shout, feel their fear or 'fall apart' and it keeps the spot from releasing, which keeps them from healing fully. Our society has taken this amazing and completely natural part of being human, having emotions, and made it a bad thing. This stops our healing, messes with our minds causing chaotic pent up emotions to constantly swirl within us and can even cause physical pains as your body has to tighten down to hold in all the emotions that you don't want to feel. If you don't let your emotions come up in a healthy way they can have a negative effects on your health. They can also come out in unhealthy ways like road rage, anger issues, passive aggression, poor decision making and so much more. Dysfunctional emotional expression happens when we suppress our feelings until they erupt out of us in inappropriate ways. This is not the same as expressing healthy emotions which is an important part of your healing and a healthy part of life. Healthy Emotional Choices So when a wave of intense emotion comes over you there are 2 healthier choices you could make rather than to shut it down and leave the emotion to fester within you: One, depending on the situation, you could let yourself feel the emotions and express yourself fully right then and there letting the emotions physically out of your body. While this could be emotionally healthy for you, this is not always safe or appropriate depending on where you are or who you are with. The second option is when you feel a strong wave of emotions come up out in your daily life, you could tell yourself 'OK, I'm not in a place where I can feel this fully right now, so when I get home tonight I'm going to let this emotion come up again and feel it fully then', and then of course you have to keep that promise to yourself. Typically, you just have to replay the situation in your mind once you're home in a safe quiet environment and the feeling will usually come right up again if you let it. This may take a little practice, especially if like most of us, you've spent a lifetime shutting down your feelings, but it can be done and it's extremely healing. Then you can let that pent up emotion out in a safe and healthy way. Close your pets and family out of your bedroom and let your emotions physically out of you. You may need to cry, hit a pillow over and over, beat up your bed, scream until your horse (into a pillow if others are nearby). Your body may need to shake out the trapped adrenaline or feel fear, terror, shame, guilt, sadness or whatever the feelings are that come up for you in that moment. When you let the emotions move physically through and out of you, then you don't leave them to solidify within you into fascial restrictions that can cause you pain and ill health or unhealthy emotional baggage like anxiety, depression, inappropriate rage, etc. Instead, you let the emotions fortify and power you and find energy and vitality or peace and calm you didn't know you had within you. When you do this, you'll feel for yourself how emotions in no way make you weak or small. Feeling your feelings takes real courage and helps you step into your true power. This is how healthy emotions make you stronger.