When working with women and teaching them how to live into their Soul Profile to reach their limitless, radiant soul energy, one common 
factor arises… blocked emotions.
I believe we all block emotions at some level when an uncomfortable feeling arises and our first reaction to avoid it may be to watch Netflix, eat, dive into social media, grab a cig, have a drink, exercise excessively, call a friend etc…
I’m sure there is one here that you can identify with. Me, it’s Netflix and Facebook.
Here is what science has found:
That when you feel a strong emotion, and you repress it, it releases a biochemical into our blood stream which goes to certain cell receptors and blocks them. This means they are unable to communicate effectively with the rest of the cells in our body, and healthy biochemical processes can be compromised. Then, if over time, we get ill, the problem often occurs in the body areas where the cells are blocked.
Yet when we feel our emotions openly and freely, allowing them to flow until they are complete and naturally fade, then our cell receptors stay open. Our bodies remain healthier, more vibrant and energized.
Learning to befriend our emotions instead of blocking them is something I invite you to learn, as they are a gateway to our inner self, our soul and are vital to our overall health.
One way to do this is to recognize specific feelings and pause to allow them to be fully felt.
I know, some of you are saying, I do feel emotions Amy. Let me ask you this, is the main emotions frustration, sad, mad and glad. Do you put on a face of joy and happiness but feel differently on the inside but don’t quite know what that is? These I relate to as Armour Shielding your deeper more uncomfortable emotions. Blocking those cell receptors and your chakras.
When an emotion comes up, especially one that is unfamiliar, or one that you have protected yourself from in the past, I suggest, bringing all of your awareness to that part of the body and close your eyes. Take a deep breath in and flood that area with acceptance, so that you can welcome that emotion to be felt.
When you do this, it allows the emotion to be felt, that what you’re feeling is allowed to be there. A positive signal release to your physical body (those cell receptors), connecting the emotional body to the physical body.
When you feel resistance to opening and feeling emotions try these steps.
- Ask yourself where am I contracting, defending, protecting myself from this feeling?
- Notice where in your body the contraction or protection is located
- Guide the breath in your mind’s eye to that part of your body
- Take some good long slow deep breaths in and out
- Allow the tension to melt or dissolve with each breath
- Then move to accepting and welcoming whatever emotion wanted to be felt
- Release any judgment towards that emotion
- Such as feeling anger but you think it’s wrong to feel the anger about the situation. That would be judging your anger. You feel what you feel, its honest, it’s raw, it’s your truth. Go back through steps 3-6.
- Let the emotion grow.
- Stay relaxed and open and allow it to flood through you whole body. Let it get as strong as it wants to get. Then eventually, when the emotion is ready, let it pass, fade and either disappear or turn into the next emotion that arises. Then allow and welcome this fresh emotion… and so on.
Eventually you will feel deeper and deeper emotions, and if you simply welcome them they will all pass through you and leave. You will ultimately feel more spacious, freer, released. The whole process can be deeply healing.
When we ignore an emotion we don’t want to feel, it gets fussy, more worrisome and can even for some of us result in a big wake-up call in the form of an illness. We all need to face the truth of our emotional lives.
All the body wants is for you to listen, feel and be present.
Hugs,
Amy
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