Our
ability to recognize, understand, accept, feel comfortable with
and express our emotions appropriately plays an integral role
in our emotional development. How we manage our feelings affects
our wellbeing. However, emotional stress in itself does not cause
dis-ease, rather it is our response to stress that makes us susceptible
to dis-ease. And there is a physiological reason why: the brain
controls both specific emotions and specific hormone patterns,
and our hormones affect our health. If we are in touch with our
emotions, we reduce any health risks we may face in our lives.
The mind and the spirit contribute to physical fitness, but may
also play a part in illness in that a large percentage of all
physical problems have emotional roots. Mounting evidence indicates
that virtually every illness may be influenced for good or bad
by our emotions and attitudes, which include factors such as faith
and hope.
Our emotions can be divided into two types: negative and positive
emotions. Our negative emotions, such as anger and frustration,
increase heart rate and constrict the arteries, putting extra
strain on the cardiovascular system. Our positive emotions, such
as happiness and hope, stimulate the nervous system which protects
the heart and reduces blood pressure.
Achieving emotional stability requires an ability to adjust to
change, cope with stress in a healthy way, accept limitations
and enjoy life despite its occasional disappointments and frustrations.
However, not everyone's emotions are on an evolutionary path of
development where there is enough understanding, discernment and
self-acceptance to integrate more emotional expression into their
outer lives. This leaves the emotions easy prey to others manipulation,
coercion, powers of persuasion, and essentially control. If the
emotions are shut down abhorrent acts can take place due to mental
polarization where there is little feeling. Such imbalance reduces
Heart presence on Earth.
Emotions
are
where our thoughts and feelings converge. Both are states of mind
that can be altered so that perceptions of the past no longer
limit us. How do we create inner coordination between the two?
There are a few things to know. Most helpful in uncovering emotional
issues is that the attachment to drama--ours or others
is enacted to distract attention from seeking inside self. It
is always feels safer to dwell on someone else’s issues
than to actually confront our own feelings. In addition, our emotional
reactions are defense mechanisms that cover something much deeper--
often a horribly uncomfortable feeling that comes to our awareness
when we are quiet or when it has been triggered by a personality,
place, scent, memory, or action.
Healing
Alignment: Listen, feel, Let go and take affirmative
action. Master your emotions to develop your intuition.
1-
Listen to your inner dialog and how you communicate to others.
Self-communication is imperative for healthy growth. As communication
becomes clearer you will feel empowered as you release judgment
and practice forgiveness with self and others. This practice leads
to compassion
opening the heart to new revelation.
2- Practice trusting that you can make good decisions
for yourself. As you make decisions, notice your body's reaction
to what you choose. Examine your attachments to ideas, ways of
doing things (habituations), other responses, objects, and addictions
(most of us have at least one) and take positive steps to address
the issues involved. The more we let go to what we cling to the
more room there is to fill us with love. We must "Let
Go to Let In ."
3- Strive for balance at every opportunity, even
when your emotions are whirling around you. If you recognize emotional
imbalance, you can quickly remove the emotions from a situation
and respond in proper context to the situation with reason. It's
up to you to control your reactions. YOUR RESPONSES ARE THE ONLY
THING YOU CAN CONTROL!
4- Open yourself to your inner wisdom and intuitive
awareness. Self-respect and keeping integrity with your word is
an important tool for continued intuitive growth that leads to
higher levels of awareness, contentment and wisdom.
5- Learn to detach with compassion from your
own problems and those of others. Maintain healthy boundaries
between feelings that are healthy and those that are counter productive.
As emotions evolve they lead
us to a deep kind of inner knowing and freedom that can move us
into a real alignment with others
without the use of pressure, coercion or manipulation.
Theta
Healing to release faulty belief systems that hold you in limitation.
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