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Healing the Emotional Body |
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We see the emotional body as a very important point of focus in terms of healing because it is our emotions which trigger our thoughts—and our thoughts that create our reality. This is why it is very well to take a look at this area very carefully from the beginning. This will provide a lot of insight that we can use to further our healing, clear our consciousness, and manifest the reality that we truly desire.
Things are brought into manifestation by the power of our thoughts, which are qualified, energized, and activated by our emotions, which are mobilized and driven by our intention, our attention, and our focus. This is a powerful interrelated process and as such, requires a multidimensional approach.
It is really important to honor the feelings that we have had and to know that it is ok to feel whatever we are feeling. We don’t want to vilify our feelings. We really just want to release the feelings that are causing us harm and pain and stagnating our spiritual growth. It is perfectly understandable why one would feel hurt, or angry, or sad, or fearful, or distrusting, when one has been lied to, or treated poorly, or abused, or betrayed, or neglected, or harmed in some way. So we do not want to deny our feelings; we want to release unhealthy emotions so that we can heal, because holding onto them will make us sick.
Time and time again we have seen that the chronic holding of various discordant emotions and thought/behavior patterns like greed, self pity, unforgiveness, blame, hatred, scornfulness, judgmentalness, anger, resentment, bitterness, defensiveness, remorse, jealousy, envy, competitiveness, comparativeness, pettiness, superiority, inferiority, fear, guilt, shame, and the like does a great deal of damage to our bodies at every level.
And in order for us to heal and become whole again, we are going to need to reconcile ourselves to these feelings and the events which led to same — and let this stuff go. We need to realize that we can live another way that leads us to the peace and joy that our heart truly desires. |
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To get started with the process we first need to just become aware of the emotions that appear regularly in our feelings. We do not judge or criticize or condemn our self for holding these because we see that these are all our own valid responses to the various pains and struggles which we have experienced in life.
We learn to Listen to our Emotional Body
If we feel uneasy, angry, jealous, or sad, we can take a deep breath, and quiet our mind. We can turn within our own self and follow the emotion to its core. What were we thinking when this occurred? Who were we thinking about? What is the root of this feeling?
Is it fear?
So in doing this we first identify what types of discordant emotions come to us regularly. Whatever discordant emotion we identify in ourselves we give it our full attention, one at a time, that it may lead us to the core of it and to greater understanding of our true feelings, our true motives and our true intentions.
We see that it is vital to cultivate a calm awareness of our emotions as they arise because this will give us great insight into the areas of our lives that are in need of recalibration. It will also help us to get to know ourselves a lot better; which leads us to another fundamental requirement to healing— which is:
Know yourself honestly
We then acknowledge what were really doing and feeling. We acknowledge what was our real intention and motive. We acknowledge what we were/are really afraid of. We take a moment maybe to see how this holding and this pattern is distorting our experience and impairing our ability to be at ease with life and to feel happiness in life. Maybe we take a moment to see how, in not allowing these emotions to be expressed, heard, validated, healed, forgiven, reconciled, and let go, that they have caused our selves and others harm.
We own our own stuff
Forgiveness is a major alchemy behind healing. Forgiving self and forgiving others— without conditions. This frees our soul to move on to better things. Everybody has done things that they later wished they would have done differently, sometimes much differently. So it is. We cannot change the past. We cannot own, possess, control or change anyone else. We can only control and change ourselves. A lot of soul energy is tied up in holding old grudges and when they are let go of—truly— in compassionate forgiveness, we can heal and grow leaps and bounds as a result. So maybe we can see that we are all truly doing the best that we can with whatever various conditions and forces that are in our own consciousness at the time and that the only way to pass through this, is through accepting it as it is —and forgiving it. There really aren’t any other options.
Cultivating a calm awareness of our emotions will also assist us in identifying the toxic relationships in our lives. We can see that it is necessary to our healing and growth that toxic relationships be released. We can see that nothing productive can evolve when we are choosing to subject our self to the continuous depletion and discord associated with toxic relationships. This is an area that needs to be assessed if we wish to achieve healing and wholeness. And if we know that we have a toxic relationship that we need to let go of, maybe we can ask in prayer or meditation that we be assisted in doing so, and that all energetic ties to this person be dissolved into light, and that both parties be assisted in moving forward for their highest good. This will help all to get on with their lives and their spiritual growth.
Once we get to that place where we truly understand our own motives, intentions, feelings and responses —and we see the need for letting go, and for forgiveness, and for change in our self, we are really more than half way there! Much of our emotional pain and trauma is dissolved in the light of the truth and the understanding and the forgiveness that shall come through our own introspection, awareness, and inner knowingness.
Sometimes the subconscious mind still holds some patterning which puts up a bit of resistance when we try to let go of an old pattern and as a result, we may find that even though we have consciously done our work, that we still sometimes see the reappearance of old thoughtforms now and again.
And when that happens, we just relax and do not panic. It does not take away from all the work that we have done. We can see that these thoughtforms are no longer applicable to us for we have chosen love and forgiveness over fear and hatred. They are just old outdated thoughtforms and we understand that it may take a while for all the parts of ourselves to catch up to where we consciously are.
If we see the re-appearance of an old discordant thoughtform, we just simply do not identify with it. It is no longer relevant to us. It is just a thoughtform. We don’t judge it or condemn it. We don’t judge or condemn ourselves that it has found a space in our minds. We don’t reject it or get attached to it. And we don’t feed it by giving it our attention and energy, or by allowing it to ruminate in our mind. We just let it pass on through. We are ok and it is ok to have an old discordant thoughtform float through the space of our awareness. It has no power over us. It just is. No judging. No criticizing. We are just in calm awareness.
Eventually, the whole pattern losses its life because there is nothing in us for it to hold onto. This tends to be a gradual process. Sometimes we might like to invoke some help in this area through prayer, meditation, some type of psychotherapy, energy work, subconscious mind healing work, or other type of therapy to assist us and we can contemplate what feels right for us.
We are learning to become a master of our own consciousness. We have realized that just because we are around someone who is throwing discord around, that it doesn’t mean that we also have to pick it up. We learn to not take anything personally because we realize that we cannot change the past and we cannot control anyone else or their feelings. We see that we are all on a learning journey and that it is ok for people to be where they are and that we can only offer kindness and compassion in our dealings with others.
And when we bring our self into harmony in this area we will see a great new wave of peacefulness and stability emerge within us. Energetically, this stability will demonstrate itself as a great evenness in the feeling body and in the mood. The emotional body, through the process of this transformation becomes under the direction of the heart center [love] instead of the ego [fear] because one has realized that at any given time, we are all doing the best that we can and that the only true power there is, is Love. The heart then, becomes the cornerstone of the being. And this allows us to see all people, all events, and all of life through the eyes of our Source/God/Spirit; the eyes of love and compassion.
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