Feeling Our Feelings

Anger. Unworthiness. Disappointment. Sorrow. Rejection. These can be unpleasant emotions to process. So what do we do? We deny we feel them. We buck up. We repress. We stay too busy to feel our feelings. And then those feelings turn into: Anxiety. Back Pain. Rage. Procrastination. Addictions. Migraines. Exhaustion. And, on top of those -- the double whammy: guilt and shame.

We need to listen to ourselves. We need to give ourselves time to feel our feelings. We need to be honest about where we are and what we are going through. There is no shame in being angry. There is nothing wrong with crying. Humans have feelings that need to be expressed!

Our feelings are our road maps to our dark, hidden false beliefs. Those are the beliefs we created as children to protect our tender, little hearts when they got hurt. If we don’t follow the map we can’t clear the roadblocks created from the beliefs. If we don’t clear the roadblocks, they get bigger and bigger and create more and more pain until we are forced to look at them. Most of the time we don’t even have a conscious awareness of what the original belief was.

Until we are clear of the negative feelings and beliefs it is impossible to feel the exuberant joy possible for us.

In this circle we will get honest with ourselves. What is no longer working? What am not admitting to myself? What is the world mirroring back to me that I am denying? Then, through the breathwork, we will clear that which we have repressed, uncover the original trauma/event and rewrite the underlying, false belief.

Let’s get real, get over it and get on with the good stuff. Haven’t we all suffered enough already?