Energy In Motion

Part 1 of 9: Emotional Awareness

Dear Students:
It may be helpful to imagine the word, “e-motion” as meaning “energy in motion” while reading this post today. When emotions can freely flow through your body it helps create easeful movement and healthy behavioral patterns.  In such a state, you become capable of lovingly expressing all emotions without harming or judging yourself or others.

When feelings, such as anger, shame, fear, sadness and grief, become internally pent up, you may tend to emotionally over react in ways that have little to do with present situations.  This usually taints communication and is harmful to all involved. Holding onto suppressed emotions can also result in skeletal and muscular pain that can advance into diseases.

All emotions are your friends as they connect you to yourself, your companions and to the Divine Source. When you choose to self-reflect and face what you suppress, the root cause of the injuries can be realized and healing can occur.  The people in your life can benefit just as much as you can, when you stop storing what you fear, within yourself as you will have less tendency to project it towards them. Self change may resemble loving thoughts, sensations, feelings, and actions streaming through you and onto others.

Feldenkrais work, has helped make it possible for many of my students, to look at and experience their psychosomatic, deep wounds.  They learn to integrate once overwhelming emotions into easy and graceful manners. Looking at these emotional patterns through movement is a very powerful way to release and create new ways of being.

 Part 1: Steps on How to Experience Emotions Gracefully:
1. When you decide to experience your emotions, I highly recommend to take lots of Feldenkrais, Awareness Through Movement classes and partake in regular Functional Integration sessions. A Feldenkrais Practitioner’s support and skills can help you release post traumatic stress in a manageable way. Lessons can help enhance your ability to sense, move, think and feel which you will need during your process.
2.Focus on becoming aware of when you hold back your emotions, during daily activities. At the moment of awareness, sense how you stop yourself from having an emotional experience.  Do you hold your breath? Do you clench your hands and jaw?  Do you squeeze your eyes and anal sphincter?
3.When you recognize how you prevent your emotions from flowing, let yourself internally feel them.  Where in your body does the emotion live? Is it hot, cold or warm? Does it make you want to scream, fight, cower, cry, hide, etc.?
4.If you can, remove yourself from the irritating situation so you can feel your emotions more fully and without projecting them onto others. If you can’t, then make a note of what triggered you. Later when you have the chance to be alone, remind yourself of the event and experience it fully.  Let your thoughts & emotions run their course unfiltered and without judgement of yourself or others. Stay with it until you get to your underlying, root causal emotional memories, usually from your childhood, so you can feel them fully and eventually release them. Now self-healing & understanding can begin.   
5.Ask for guidance during your processing. If you have a spiritual practice, ask the Creator, God, or a Spiritual Guide for divine truth and love about the situation to come into your heart & soul during your experiencing.  And/or, ask a trusted counselor, therapist or friend for guidance during your undertakings.

Remember that examining repressed emotions is a courageous and healthy act to endeavor. When you let go of old patterns you can attract new and different lessons and people into your life. Stay tuned for more on this in the next several blog posts. 

May you find the courage to face your emotions with grace and without criticism to yourself or others each day of this new year!  Peace!
~Donna

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