Often as children we receive messages that we should not feel or express feeling, especially "bad feelings". The truth is that being in touch with our emotions and expressing them appropriately is imperative to our health.
Study after study is showing that emotions that are not expressed commonly manifest themselves physiologically in our bodies and can greatly impact our immune system. There is truth in our statements about situations that are a "pain in the neck" for example.
So how do we undo that which we have been taught and have practiced for years?
We have to use more than just our brain to allow us to truly understand and react to our feelings. First we must recognize the emotion that we are feeling. Is it grief? Anger? Frustration? Elation? Then we must investigate where in our bodies we feel this emotion. Is it a gipping feeling in our gut? A headache? A lightness in our chest? We can then add in our logic. Why do we feel this way? What has occurred? Is there an explanation for how we feel?
The information we gather in this process will allow us to truly identify what we are feeling and express this emotion in the most healthy and appropriate manner.
Study after study is showing that emotions that are not expressed commonly manifest themselves physiologically in our bodies and can greatly impact our immune system. There is truth in our statements about situations that are a "pain in the neck" for example.
So how do we undo that which we have been taught and have practiced for years?
We have to use more than just our brain to allow us to truly understand and react to our feelings. First we must recognize the emotion that we are feeling. Is it grief? Anger? Frustration? Elation? Then we must investigate where in our bodies we feel this emotion. Is it a gipping feeling in our gut? A headache? A lightness in our chest? We can then add in our logic. Why do we feel this way? What has occurred? Is there an explanation for how we feel?
The information we gather in this process will allow us to truly identify what we are feeling and express this emotion in the most healthy and appropriate manner.
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