– Jean Degenaar (Certified BodyTalk
Practitioner)
What
is the purpose of our emotions?
Our emotions are meant to be felt,
expressed, and released. They are information about our environment, our
experience and ourselves. Healthy emotions have health
benefits. For example without grief, we linger in the sadness of loss. Grieving
is the process of letting go of what is past so that we can make room in our
hearts and minds for new life and new experiences. Physical and mental symptoms
arise when we are not expressing our emotions optimally. In our need to be
accepted and feel safe, we repress our emotions which
distorts them and they then become reactionary emotions. At some
point these unresolved and repressed emotional issues will be triggered
by an experience in life and we will over-react to the new experience because
of the filter of our past pain that we are unconsciously looking through. Since
this is typically an unconscious process and because of that we don’t
understand our over-reaction and its connections to the past, we focus on
blaming the current person or experience. This means our wound is
unacknowledged and goes unhealed; only to be detonated again at a later time.
These stored emotions deplete the organs, endocrines, and body-parts associated
with it, leading to disfunction or disease.
How do you know if
you are expressing your emotions healthily?
If you experience emotional
discomfort in reaction to a situation and this discomfort lingers, you are
being shown you have an unresolved issue stored within you. Your
level of functioning and harmony within yourself are good indicators of how
healthy your relationship is with your emotions.
What can you do to
release unprocessed emotions?
Fortunately there are some very good modalities
out there to help people release unprocessed emotions. BodyTalk is one of
these modalities which will help to get to the source of the emotional
imbalance on a subconscious level and through tapping, release the emotional
charge and bring balance back to the body/mind.
