Self-Healing Beings

We are emotional beings because we are self-healing beings. As we see more clearly that everything we experience serves a loving purpose, we can make great stridestoward inner peace and joy. Our emotionalreactions, however strong or subtle, bring to us a message of healing. We have many activities to keep us busy each day, but when we can take the time to stop and pay closer attention to our selves, the messages are always there to offer support, healing and growth

Suppressed emotions cause depression, a lethargic, heavy feeling that can slow down our immune system. Depression is often confused with the emotion ofsadness. Depression is not an emotion; it is, rather, the suppression of emotions that occurs when we employ our vital energy to hold our emotions down. Like depression, anxiety is also not an emotion but an energetic force that keeps the underlying, upsetting emotion at bay. In the case of both depression and anxiety, the flow of unwanted or feared emotional energy is being blocked.

As self-healing beings, we are naturally ―wired‖ to express or let go of our emotions. We laugh, we cry, and we have a variety of emotional expressions when faced with something that is frightening, angering, funny, frustrating, and so on. Our body/mind, through these expressions, allows our emotional energies to flow. This is similar to what happens whenwe eat a carrot. We receive the nurturing energy of the carrot and then let go of what is left. If part of the carrot gets blocked and remains stuck inside the body, we experience a tummy ache. When we have an emotion that, for some reason, we either don’t want to feel or are afraid to express, we use our vital energy to hold it down—or hold it inside- and wind up with a different kind of a tummy ache: anxiety or depression.

Every emotion, thought, belief, action and relationship, including the relationship with your self, is energy. Every physical body and every object or situation that surrounds you is also energy. How you dance with this energy and how you allow it to flow through and out of you makes walking the path to the center of your heart either an easy or a difficult  journey. Just as ditches and hills make a journey long and tedious, judging and resisting or refusing to express emotions stops the energy flow.

To be clear, I am not suggesting that you act out your emotions by bopping someone over the head with a frying pan. There is a distinct difference between an emotion and a behavior. Instead, provide yourself with a safe place and a safe means to let these emotions flow by simply expressing them, possibly in a journal or in conversation with a therapist, rather than holding them inside of you.