69 - Fully Feeling & Releasing Emotions

Fully Feeling & Releasing Emotions This practice comes from Jim Dethmer, author of Conscious Leadership. Emotions are feelings in the body. If we don’t feel them fully they energy gets trapped, and can cause a lot of suffering for quite a long time. We either engage in a lot of numbing - food, alcohol, tv, exercise - or we constantly replay the event and the story around the emotion. Dethmer calls this drama based/thought based emotion, and it intensifies the emotion. The first stage is to locate the sensation in the body and describe it as much as you. Ask yourself what are the bits doing in your body? Twisting, popping, bubbling, stabbing? Step two - breathe into the emotion. Feelings alters your breathing, so if you take some gentle full deep breathes you’ll help get the flow going again. Step three - allow, accept and appreciate the emotion. This takes work and I found this quite uncomfortable the first few times I did it! Still do at times! Step four - match your experience with your expression. Move, breathe, vocalise the emotion. Yes, make a sound!! Practice this next time you feel a strong emotion. Emotions only last about 90 second. Unless you repress them somehow. Then they last years! www.thementalhealthplan.com https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=18248924&appointmentType=11286512