We can go years and even decades, still never understand that we have caught up emotions or where they arise from. We wind up carrying on to hindered energy which can manifest into pain. When we chronically suppress emotions, we create toxicity in our body, mind, and heart. This unprocessed emotional energy is stored in our body as physical pain and can lead to suffering.
Our social molding begins in earlier years of our lives and is strengthened throughout the rest of our lives by our parents, friends, teachers, family members, relatives, and society. A lot of the muscle tension that we develop is the result of unspoken social beliefs that we were taught to adopt as a way of being “acceptable” or likable.
And this we develop psychological tension in the form of anxiety, frustration, sadness, or anger. The more negative, fearful, or fault-finding our perspective is, the more tension we tend to store in our muscles.
How Emotions get Stored in our Bodies as Physical Pain
Physical symptoms are merely actual evidence of what is going on in your unconscious mind and how you are really feeling deep inside. Even scientists are now able to measure the physiological effects of emotional states. Your body actually becomes weaker or stronger depending on your mental state.
Shame resonates at the lowest vibration, followed by guilt, and then apathy, grief, fear, anxiety, craving, anger, and hate.
Conversely, trust, optimism, willingness, acceptance, forgiveness, understanding, love, reverence, joy, serenity, and enlightenment strengthen you.
How to dissolve stored emotions?
The opposite of suppression is expression. In order to dissolve your emotional distress and move it out of your body, you need to learn to express your emotions in a healthy way. But as I always say, you need to learn to recognize and accept your feelings first.
1. Understand your emotional trauma
The challenge is to acknowledge the emotion and feel it in your body. The goal is to observe what’s happening within your body and accept it without any judgment.
Sit still for few minutes with your eyes closed. Listen to your body and become curious.
What does your body feel like right now?
Is there any pressure or tingling? Where?
Do you feel heavy, hot, contracted, warm, or cold?
What is the texture, weight, and shape of sensations you notice in your body?
What emotions are those sensations connected to?
Can you breathe into the parts that call your attention?
What do those parts of your body want to tell you?
2. Experience the emotion fully
Remember, you have to feel it to heal it.
Allow yourself to really feel it or metabolize it. One of the easiest ways to let go of muscle tension is to actively feel and let go of emotions when they come. Feeling these emotions might involve crying, punching, or screaming into a pillow, or any other form of catharsis.
You can practice mindfulness meditation to get better at recognizing your feelings and observing the bodily sensations connected to those feelings, as they come and go throughout the day. Or simply meditate. Meditation is a great way to become more present and conscious of muscle tension as it arises.
3. Adopt an attitude of non-judgment
When we judge our emotions as something “bad” or “wrong,” we actually deepen our suffering and solidify the tension within our muscles. Instead, simply realize that an emotion is an emotion.
4. Express those emotions
Emotions need to be expressed to get dissolve. This self-expression must be authentic and embodied. Remember, true healing occurs when body and mind integrate, so express the emotion on the bodily level first and foremost.
Practice journaling every day to get better at expressing and processing your feelings. Don’t censor or judge yourself; let it all out, completely unfiltered. Journal about how you feel. Let all of your emotions out in a journal, completely unfiltered. This is a very healing practice if done regularly.
Try to write the following thing
What is happening in your life right now that you wish you could change?
What is your largest source of frustration?
What needs healing, attention, or change?
As you write, notice the sensations in your body. Tune into the parts that are numb, in pain, or frozen.
5. Be gentle with yourself
Muscle tension tends to add to your negative inner voices which cause you even more tension. To break this cycle of the body feeding the mind and the mind feeding the body, be kind towards yourself. Treat yourself as you would a child or best friend. This practice is a simple but profound way to relax.
Last note
Take time to slow down and be alone, get out into nature, make art, listen to music while you cook your favorite dinner, meditate to cleanse your mind and relax your body, take a bubble bath or a nap to restore. Take good care of yourself to awaken to life’s joy and simple pleasures that will nourish your body, mind, and soul.
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