The Emotional Body: Why healing it matters - The Story, The Pain, The Truth

I want to speak to you today about the most valuable healling you can offer yourself and the most neglected aspect of healing. We are often willing to “do something” to support our physical healing in the myriad of ways that are offered through traditional and alternative health care and maybe even metaphysical techniques. The mental body gets attention through cognitive therapy, behavioral modification, herbal supplements and meditation. Most people direct their attention to these two aspects of life. They have some success but, if the root cause of the mental or physical change is due to a block in the emotional body, you will not have lasting results.

First, we must recognize the inversion of truth we are programmed into. What is given the least amount of importance is actually the most important and this is true when we talk about emotional healing. We are conditioned to believe that feeling and expressing emotions is a sign of weakness. We are taught at a very young age to bury our feelings. Boys are told to toughen up and girls are told to stop being so dramatic. If you are emotionally expressive in any way (good or bad) you are often described as crazy, someone who has lost there marbles or at the very least someone who is clueless about life.  We are literally taught to stuff our feelings, bury them in a box, lock it up and throw away the key.

Which brings us to the deep buried pain that you may or may not know you have. When you barely touch upon it , it feels like a pressure cooker that might explode. You have a lifetime of buried emotions in there, trapped in your body. You may ask: Why can’t we just leave it there? I’m managiing just fine without it. Are you? really? We have learned to soothe ourselves in many other ways to over compensate for the lack of real feeling. We rely on others to make us feel good, eat sweets, go shopping, scroll and any type of addiction, small or large. Our lack of understanding is not our fault. Remember, you are trained to ignore and bury your feelings, they have no value. Society even trys to fix emotional issues with cognitive techniques. The truth of the matter is your feeling nature is your most valuable asset.  You can not access your true feeling nature when it is covered up with unfelt emotions.

You may ask what is the difference between true feeling nature and emotions? aren’t they the same thing? Not exactly. Your feeling nature is the feelings that arise from your trueself. It is a means of communication from your higherself to your tureself. Did you ever have a felt sense knowing that something was wrong before you even had an experience of it. Or a knowing or excitement that yes! this is right for me. This is gnosis or knowing through your feeling nature. As you might already realize it is through the heart chakra that this occurs. Emotions are ego centered, based on your life experiences. They range from experiences of joy, happiness and connection or sadness, even anger  and are not held onto if they are allowed to be experienced and completed in real time. It’s the stuffed emotions that fester and build and actually scare us with the intensity. What do we do with this?

Healing the emotional body begins with opening the box a little at a time and let the feelings emerge, be seen and be felt. The only way out is through.  Feeling emotional pain can seem unbearable. It can be explosive, loud, sad and angry all at the same time. Our biggest fear is we feel out of control and in a world where we are conditioned to be in control and feelings are considered useless and unnecessary. We must let go of the programming and allow the process of feeling to take place, it is necessary in order to bring true healing into your life. Offer yourself the love and comfort you may have been looking for, outside of yourself, that led to your deep anguish. You may also need the support of others around you that offer you safety and comfort, an energy healer or a support group perhaps

. It is in loving yourself that you begin to feel safe enough to allow the passage of the emotion and listen to the message it may have for you. There is nothing like the lightness and freedom you feel after releasing emotions.

In reality, your feelings and emotions are actually energy in motion, it is your powerhouse and movement is necessary.  Your true feeling nature is your pathway to true gnosis. The thinking mind can't discern, it only regurgitates information.  Let this marinate within you and begin the process of emotional awareness. This journey will lead you to true freedom.