Do you ever feel like screaming the house down and don't really know why?
The art of dealing with old suppressed emotions and moving beyond them
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Hello Lovely You,
it took me by surprise the day after I had seen the Chinese acupuncturist. A little thing triggering rage. Not really about anyone else but a surge of energy so powerful I had to go and shut myself in my room.
I put on very loud music from my Angry Playlist playing Billy Idol’s, Rebel Hell on repeat.
What was this element that wanted to be released?
I wanted to run AND beat something with my fists.
I paced around and around for a few moments. I wrung the theraband (a rolled up hand towel is just as effective) between my hands feeling the tension building up in my body.
What is it?
Jaw clenching. Teeth bared. Neck expanding
and
out it came.
A ROAR loud enough that I couldn’t hear anything else.
Then more roars so intense every muscle in head, neck and jaw was activated. Even my ears pinned back. My whole body sending energy up through my throat and out through my mouth like a lioness protecting her cubs.
Primitive.
Wild.
Satisfying.
But there was more.
I allowed myself the time.
I wondered who might be able to hear, feeling briefly self-conscious.
No matter.
Carry on.
It needs to come out.
Emotions that have had to be strapped down in the past through difficult experiences or a need to people please get stored deep in the cells of organs.
After I had let it all out and it felt like there was no more roaring to be done, I could still feel my indignant legs.
I stomped around my room, slapping my feet to the floor for a few minutes.
‘Huh! Huh! Huh!…’
Pent up frustration, anger, resentment often sits in the liver.
Suppressed emotions do not go away. They become stagnant, They become matter.
But energy needs to move.
And emotions are Energy.
It needs to flow…
And when they’re felt, expressed (safely) and you feel whole again, there’s a pot of gold
beyond.
A wholesomeness.
Energy, freed up, becomes available for other things.
The things you really want to do
but
now it’s scary.
Excuses fall away.
Now you have to take risks or go back to how you were. Reconstruct the steel box, the armour and continue to use it as a way to keep you safe when all it’s doing is keeping you prisoner.
It’s a choice point.
So, when you feel like screaming, go and find a safe space to do it.
A room. An empty building. Or go and drive somewhere. A mountain top. The sea.
Don’t get lured into the story of where it came from though. It doesn’t matter. And you don’t need to know.
Instead…
Feel it.
Allow it to be wild and ugly.
Loud and unappealing.
Give it full rein to be expressed
and
let it dissolve.
Don’t hang on to it.
It may take seconds, minutes or a few hours to get it all out but that’s okay. It’s been there a long time.
It might happen intermittently over time.
Let it.
Let yourself be Fully Expressed.
Feel the energy that is now available through you and create a Life that makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning.
With Love
from my True Self to Yours
xx Karen xx
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