Healing Through Emotions
Image: Sanctuario de Chimayo, a sacred healing church in New Mexico where many miraculous healings have occured.
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Over the last month or so I have had the unique privilege to experience, once again, the magnificent power of what a physical illness can do to transform your life. I joke often with friends that the only way God can get my attention is through the physical. Many of us (not mentioning any names of course) that are stubborn as mules and enjoy running in 5th gear most of the time are usually only stopped when something physical makes us unable to move forward. This is when major transformation is at your doorstep.
What I have realized over and over again is that one experience not only brings up many experiences from our past that we have yet to actually clear emotionally, but attracts to us fairly quickly other experiences that will help with that clearing process. Everything, and I mean everything, in our lives happens for a reason. This is a hard pill to swallow when we define one of those experiences as "bad." We are conditioned to hold in our emotions and believe that any emotion we feel is bad and needs to be suppressed. This is the last thing we need to do.
Our emotional body is like a vessel sitting inside of us. It is filled with every emotion from every experience we have encountered in our lives. The lower vibration emotions such as anger, resentment, bitterness, take up more space in our vessel than the good ones. New feelings and emotions cannot enter your vessel until other emotions are cleared out. How do you clear them out? Well, how do you clean your closet? When you clean out your closet you have to take each item out, look at it, go through the pain of remembering you were silly enough to actually wear that at one point in your life and then choose to either keep it or discard it. It is the same with emotions. You have to let the emotions come up, feel them, cry, cry some more and let it out! It sucks, believe me, but that is the process of healing and releasing those emotional patterns that are holding you back. When I see someone crying I give them a tissue, I never, ever tell them "don't cry!" You want them to cry! That is how they are releasing what they no longer need in their emotional vessel.
In these times, many are experiencing trauma in one form or another. Loss of a job, loss of a relationship, loss of a loved one....fill in the blank. All of these experiences are there to teach us a lesson. The players involved are our teachers. The ones who give us the most pain are our greatest teachers. They all deserve a sincere "thank you." They love us enough to play the role that caused us enough pain to move us past our patterns. Once they play their role, the stage is then yours. What are you going to chose to do now? Are you going to chose to be angry, suppress how you feel, curse them for the role they played because it hurt you? Or will you chose to embrace the pain, learn the lesson and move forward to experience a freedom from the emotional patterns that have held you hostage for so long?
When we experience a loss of some form or another, we have in essence lost our power to that particular person or instance. Power is simply where you choose to put your energy to give back to the world. Healing is calling back that power; that energy, so you can then choose to use it to affect another area of your life in a more positive, productive way.
Take some time to look at the areas of your life where you feel you are being held back. Better yet, areas where you feel stuck and cannot seem to move forward. Areas that frustrate the heck out of you because you just cannot seem to figure out why you cannot get what you want. I bet you notice instance after instance pop up in your life where you are challenged on that pattern? That is simply the universe trying to work with you to clear that pattern once and for all from your life. The next time you see this happen, allow the feelings to surface and take some time to be with your feelings. Experience it for what it really is. Notice the meaning you are giving to the thoughts that cross your mind. Replace those feelings and thoughts with what you would rather think and feel.
At this time in our history we are best set up to clear those things out of our lives that no longer serve us. Take some time for you and take small steps to reclaiming who you truly are, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Chris
Every year, I gather a group and we travel to Peru. Those that go are usually looking for not an adventure, but a spiritual journey. Hiking the Inca Trail, visiting the Amazon Jungle rainforest and working with local Shaman are just part of this amazing trip. You will have one on one time with Shaman, take part in ancient Incan ceremonies and have the opportunity to open yourself up to other ways of thinking and living your life.
Most companies in this ecomony are realizing that the way they did business and made money in the past is no longer working. One of the things they are realizing is that it is not more training or development that their people need. It is not that they need to lay more people off. It is that they need to re-adjust their thinking, their plan and their attitudes toward this new economy. We need companies who are innovative, creative and willing to take risks. Companies who have the courage to do things differently than they have ever done them before.
