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Frozen Emotions
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Are you stuck in a rut... going no where fast, stressed out?? Have you ever considered why? Your unprocessed and frozen emotions may be holding you back. When we stop processing our negative emotion for whatever reason we do harm to ourselves.
Emotions must be passed through the body. If they are not passed through the body, they clog all your systems and leave poisons everywhere. The body is not designed to hold onto feelings. The body is designed to process and release feelings. If we do not release and eliminate the waste that accumulates from feelings, we become diseased and crippled.
Our bodies become sick and do not function properly.
Our Feelings effect:
our thinking
our relationships
our ability to love
our ability to be creative
our peace of mind
our physical health.
THE FEELINGS DO NOT GO AWAY, THEY JUST MOVE OUT OF OUR AWARENESS.
We are unable to think clearly and we become ill-functioning in the mind. When we are backed up emotionally, our thinking becomes extremely clouded and distorted, we do not know what is true and what is false, and we do not understand our own actions and thoughts. We are unable to grasp reality because we are looking at our life and our experience through the waste of accumulated emotions that have poisoned our minds and bodies.
Our old emotions are suppressed and cannot function properly. They become pressurized and eventually erupt inappropriately, usually at someone we love.
This is one of the most important truths that we can embrace, because we all carry so much pain from the past.
It was Carl Jung who first used the term Shadow to refer to the dark side of the Psyche. Jung broke with his colleague & mentor Freud over many things including what Jung saw as man's basic need for Spirituality and for ever more efficient tools for dealing with emotional traumas as well as the emotional baggage we all carry around. Jung discovered the archetypes who inhabit the collective unconscious, a deep dwelling-place of energies accessible to every human soul.
FEELINGS ARE NOT WEAK; IN FACT THEY ARE THE STRONGEST PART OF US.
For instance, we like to believe that our will power is a facet of our minds. But our will and our power comes from our feelings. We DO things because of our desire and passion. We may decide what we want to do with our minds, but if our feelings are not in alignment, we will most surely fail.
Our feelings give our life purpose, meaning & direction
Our feelings give our life color, texture and dimension.
Our positive feelings tell us what we like.
Our negative feelings tell us what we don't like.
A truly mature and self-actualized person is not one who lives totally in his mind, but one who has come to understand his own feelings and acts on them appropriately. It is when we act inappropriately because of our feelings that we get into trouble and cause harm, both to others and ourselves.
But it is not the feelings themselves that cause problems. It is the suppression of feelings that causes problems.
ALL FEELINGS, PAST OR PRESENT, CAN BE RELEASED COMPLETELY AND WILL BE GONE FOREVER.
Once feelings have been released, wonderful natural processes begin to spontaneously activate. A re-evaluation process takes place and gives you new understanding. Awarenesses that you did not have before lead to changed beliefs and new decisions, and an outpouring of love and forgiveness takes place automatically.
There is no hurt that cannot be healed, whether it is a hurt we have given or hurt we have received. All hurt feelings can be released until they are gone. This is part of the miracle of how feelings work if they are allowed to function naturally.
Our feelings must be allowed to surface and we must process them if we are to understand what they have to teach us. Unprocessed feelings do cause many problems. But feelings that have been accepted, honored and allowed to move through tears, are the most valuable tool we have.
FEELINGS ARE NOT SET IN STONE AND THEY ARE NOT AN INDICATION OF WHO YOU ARE.
As long as emotions are allowed to express organically, as long as they are not suppressed or judged, they can heal and evolve.
You can feel murderous hatred and desire to kill someone. This does not make you evil or bad. This doesn't make you a murderer (unless you ACT on the feeling). All it means is you have a feeling that needs acceptance and expression, and once given those two precious gifts, will move itself to healing and will no longer be whatever it was. It will evolve naturally and spontaneously into something else. We all suffer under the weight of this lie that says what we feel is who we are, and therefore we try our best to suppress all feelings that we judge as bad, wrong, evil, or unloving. These emotions often end up in the Shadow Bag.
It has also been shown that mental illnesses such as; depression, anxiety, bi-polar as well as recreational drug use does effect how emotions are processed & stored.
Merely stuffing feelings NEVER WORKS.... buried feelings/emotions NEVER die....they will erupt and resurface when least wanted or expected to wreak havoc in your life once again UNTIL they are processed. "90% of physical problems have psychological roots"1
Here at Integrated Magic I've helped many people process, release & let go of "frozen" emotions forever! Working on frozen emotions and/Shadow Work can be part of any Integrated Magic session.
References & Links
[1] Emrika Padus, The Complete Guide to Your Emotions and Your Health p.563
Carl Jung - Wikipedia
The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden: Understanding the Wounded Feeling Function in Masculine and Feminine Psychology
Feelings Buried Alive Never Die
Truth Heals: What You Hide Can Hurt You
