When working with an emotion from a situation or event, or an emotion in response to a specific situation or event, we may have mechanisms in place to protect ourselves from fully experiencing or expressing that emotion. Whether consciously or unconsciously we keep ourselves from experiencing emotions. So, when we’re not fully aware or consciously feeling an emotion, our body or brain may have built defenses to prevent us from being fully aware of it. These defenses could manifest tension, emotional numbness, disease, physical pains, and aches, or repression.
This is because an emotion, especially an overwhelming one, has the potential to be present throughout the entirety of the brain and body. We don’t need to know which part of our body or brain is preventing us from feeling a certain emotion, but we can still understand that there may be some kind of block happening. It’s an opportunity for information and we get, yes get, to notice that and simply suspend and gently be with it. We also can invite ourselves not to overanalyze the specific physical response just recognize that something is going on in the brain and or body that prevents emotion from being fully processed or experienced.
We can work with tools and established resources such as gentle awareness, intention, breath, and self-touch, to undo defenses in that area to expand the emotional experience to that area. By simply suspending and witnessing the emotion or pain for what it is, we surprise ourselves with a drop in the level of suffering compared to just a moment ago.
The resistance is half the suffering.
We get to go slow. We get to step out of the thinking mind and honor the body for what it knows.
Recently, in deep contemplation, it intuitively became so blatantly obvious how we, our souls, need a human body to heal. I’ve heard our souls are here healing and learning lessons, but when it was presented to me from the lens of ‘Souls need a human body to heal”, everything felt a bit clearer and lifted. This also inspired me to want to work with even greater devotion with my Soul through my body. Dear Soul, let’s get to work! I am here! I believe beyond my physical body. And I believe very much in my abilities within my physical body. I am willing to lean in and learn how to hold this duality with deep intention.
May we invite ourselves to devote our energy differently from just a moment ago. Maybe it’s managing your energy better, or the quality of your internal dialog is going to think, feel, and embrace what evolves you. Allow yourself to sit with the body and the emotions that arise. Release the resistance, powerlessness, and subtle victimhood by consciously deciding what you feed your energy. You have the power to manage your mental and inner world. We have the power to heal ourselves.
We get to meet ourselves with patience and nurturing awareness and touch as we evolve and learn. Please give yourself the space to be with you. Place your energy toward being flexible and grounded like a tree in a constant state of enlightened neutrality. If we are constantly being activated and triggered we can’t access our inner light or truth. Plain and simple. Live intuitively. Live knowing your body.
My high love,
xo Tiffany
