The Power of Emotion

The Power of Emotion

from the book “In Resonance” by Jasmuheen,
http://www.selfempowermentacademy.com.au/htm/cia-education.asp#ebooks

…emotional disease is a significant factor in the creation of disease. Our inability to cope with stress, often due to feelings of uncertainty or lack of control, is also very damaging to the physical body and can lead to a nervous breakdown.

Even though it may appear that our emotional reactions are automatic, the nerve pathways that carry the information to the brain take approximately three seconds to relay this information before the emotional responses, and our mind’s experience of them are triggered. In these three seconds the rest of the brain has already received the information via faster nerve pathways, so even though we are unaware of this process, we are built to think before we feel. We are not victims of our emotions.

When we spontaneously have an emotional reaction, because our buttons are being pushed, we need to learn to deal with these emotions effectively so as not to create energy blockages and eventually disease….events are emotionless. We assign an emotion to them according to our perception. Strong emotions that are unresolved are stored in the body and create blockages as they impede the flow of energy through the body’s energy systems.

If we wish to increase both the quality of life, if we desire to experience more joy, happiness, and harmony in our life, we must firstly decide to accept nothing less. By deciding to focus on, and accept positive feelings in our lives, we learn to bring our attitude in line with positive thinking and always look to see the silver lining in every cloud. Both positivity and negativity exist; we choose to focus on the positive aspects of life and, as a result of the laws of energy, what we focus on grows.

By understanding that all experiences are here to teach and inspire us. By understanding how we assign an emotional response to an event via our perception of it, we gain more control over the quality of our experiences. Even if a situation initially appears negative, we can choose to see it and accept it as positive. We can, and will, learn from it so it can be embraced for its teaching power.

Storing negative emotions in the physical body serves no purpose. If we were to dam a free-flowing river by building a wall, the plant life beyond the dam wall would atrophy and die due to lack of water. So it is with our bodies. Emotions must flow freely for the body to be healthy. They must be accepted and not denied. They need to be dealt wit in a positive manner via honoring, acceptance and release without overindulgence. The computer hardware of the body stores negative emotions in databases called our organs; the liver stores anger, the lungs store sadness, etc. simply because we have not learnt how to effectively deal with these emotions.

In his book Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. Dr. Chopra states that emotional pain in the present is experienced as hurt, in the past it is remembered as anger, in the future, it is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed anger redirected against yourself and held within is called guilt and the depletion of energy that occurs when anger is directed inward is called depression. If as he says in Quantum Healing, cells are just memories clothed in matter, then it is extremely important that we begin to look at and access cellular memory with a view to releasing energy blockages as we cleanse our cells of negativity and toxicity.

We can learn to deal with our emotions on a two-fold level. Firstly we can release negative emotions from past experiences stored in the cells and organs of the body. Secondly we can learn to deal more effectively with negative emotions as they confront us in an effective manner. By regular meditation we can take this one step further. We can learn detachment. We can act and not react. We can constantly experience life from that deep place within and see things in perspective.

1. Releasing negative emotions held in cellular memory.

a) This can be achieved by using creative visualization techniques…

b) A large selection of healing modalities are also available to aid the physical body to effect this release quickly and effectively: for example, kinesiology, homeopathy and body harmony. Aid the realigning and cleansing of the cellular structure and energy fields

of the body can be achieved through a number of alternative therapies which can achieve in hours what may otherwise take years of meditation.

c) We can also ask that our emotional body be cleansed and released of all negative beliefs and patterns of limitation while we sleep at night. Simply tune into your Higher Self and ask for this to be done. Do not doubt. You can ask for awareness of this being done via your dreams or you can specifically request that it be done without conscious memory.

I feel that all emotional release work can be a gentle and free-flowing experience and not traumatic unless one requires it to be. I do not support the saying, no pain, no gain, and feel that all can be achieved gently and lovingly if that is our intention and desire.

2. Learn to deal with negative emotions and hurt effectively

a) Dissipate negative emotions through breathing to regain a calm mind, body and emotions. Establish a deep, fine, rhythmical pattern and continue until you feel settled

b) Express your feelings in a non-attacking, non-threatening manner to the person who triggered the hurt and then deal with the issues that allow your buttons to be pushed. Remember, the external situation is only a mirror. If you held no issue within, you would not react. A good indicator for the success of the release work conducted is when you cease to react strongly to a situation that in the past was guaranteed to make you react.

c) Take responsibility for how you think and feel. Feelings always follow thought and perception. If you don’t like how you are feeling, change what you are thinking.

d) Approve of yourself and don’t seek approval from others. Set your standards of what is acceptable to you. We all have different standards of what we wish to experience and accept in life.

e) Top up your own energy by accessing your inner reservoir in meditation. By merging with the divine essence within we learn to love, honor and accept others and become our own well of happiness. Don’t depend on others to make you feel good.

f) Remember the most important person is you. If you are happy, you can positively deal with others and share more effectively.

g) Be in touch with your physical and emotional responses-do not deny how you feel. Burying something under the carpet or holding emotional dis-ease within, e.g. swallowing our tongue for the sake of peace or to not create waves will lead to disease, peptic ulcers, cancer, heart problems, etc.

h) Resolve why you feel hurt and let it go.

i) Learn to live in each moment.

j) Be willing to change-the only constant thing in the universe is change.

k) Don’t poison your body with harmful food, thoughts or emotions.

l) Release judgment. Choose to have only positive thoughts and assessments about others and also about yourself.

m) Replace fear motivation with love motivation.

One of the most powerful tools in healing the emotional body, and consequently the physical body, is forgiveness-forgiving both ourselves and others.

For years I practiced meditation, exercised regularly and followed a relatively pure diet. All this kept the cancer tumor in my liver relatively small. However, it was a direct result of unresolved anger. Although I had done much “personal growth”, rebirthing and used other tools to heal myself, I had not been able, or perhaps willing, to forgive until the diagnosis and “life threatening” situation forced me to. Orthodox medicine can save lives if cancers are detected early enough and removed. We must, however also look at why the cancer was created in the first place and remove the cause, not just the symptom.

3. Meditation as a preventive tool.

…The major benefit of meditation is in dealing with the emotions and the detachment we can achieve so that we no longer feel we are “at the mercy of others.” It allows us to be responsible for our own happiness in a dependable, guaranteed manner and also to readily identify problem ownership.

Mastering the emotional and the mental body does require discipline…we now can be aware and learn to discipline our thinking. An Indian guru once said that you cannot expect a wild horse that has roamed the plains since birth (like our undisciplined minds) to come into a corral simply because we whistle.

4. Set the Standards

I call the following technique and exercise “positive memory association”. It is designed to achieve two things. Firstly, to set a minimum standard of what is acceptable to you regarding your emotional experience. Secondly, to be used as a tool to tune your day when you get “out of the wrong side of the bed”. The technique is simple but powerful in its effectiveness.

Positive Memory Association

a) Sit in contemplation-breathe deeply, finely and connected until you feel a sense of inner peace. This will allow you to access memory more quickly.

b) Go back in time, search through your memory database. Find a time when you experienced your life to be just great, happy and fulfilling.

c)  Recapture the details, the time, the place, who you were with, what made it so special. In particular, pay attention to how you felt.

d)  When you have accessed the feeling of this event, decide to accept no less. The exact form the memory takes is not relevant. What is important is how you can use this memory to trigger feelings of joy and harmony.

The majority of people I have done this exercise with report that the most common feelings remembered were ones of joy, contentedness and being carefree…

The fact is that we have had these experiences in the past and, while we may not be able to recreate the same circumstances, we can set the standard for ourselves of what we wish to accept on an emotional level.

Simply by beginning each day by accessing a positive memory from your personal data base of memories, we can set the tone for each day. We can decide to accept no less and then evoke the feeling by reliving the memory. This will allow the day to begin on a positive note.

If the universe responds to our expectations and if we always expect the best for ourselves while vigilantly counteracting negative thoughts by being persistently positive, we will find our life changing quite magically-guaranteed!