Will, Desire & Faith

Part 9 of 9:  Energy in Motion

Dear Students:
A reader emailed me with a question relating to the Energy In Motion blog post.  He said that his friends suggested he may want to address his suppressed emotions.  He expressed his willingness to proceed in this direction & asked me exactly how to go about it.  I suggested he read all of the 8 part series and that I would delve a little deeper into answering his specific question afterwards.  This post is dedicated to this thoughtful man with ways for him to get started.

First in order to feel the emotions held inside yourself, you must become aware of what habits & addictions stop you from sensing them.  You can read more about this in Part 2 of this series of blog posts.

Next make a list of any beliefs you have about emotions that encourage you to ignore your state of being.  After becoming aware of your false beliefs it is important to explore the root causal reasons & events that created them.

Common False Beliefs that Block the Flow of Emotions:
▪Brave Men Don’t Cry▪Men Need to Hold it Together▪Anger is not Lady-like ▪Emotional Women are Hysterical▪Emotions are a Liability ▪ Emotional Individuals are not Spiritually Evolved▪I am Spiritually Above Emotions▪ I am Not Made to Feel Painful Emotions▪I Don’t Have Time for Emotions▪I Don’t Have Repressed Emotions▪

For example, if you have stopped your tears from falling since childhood, focus your awareness on how you physically & mentally restrain yourself from crying. Maybe you were  taught the mantra, “big boys don’t cry”. Ask yourself, “who, what, when, where & how” was this reinforced? Read part 1 &  part 3 of this series of posts for more details.

Free-Will:  After recognizing your roadblocks, it is time to use your free-will to develop the desire to want to experience your emotions.  Think of how you went about achieving a personal goal in the past and use the same game plan for succeeding with this ambition.

Desire:  Develop your positive desires to become greater than your negative ones.  An incentive is to realize that growing into a more loving individual is a result of emotional processing.  Another benefit is, by attending to the spectrum of your emotions (from painful to pleasurable ones), it allows all of them to become richer. For example, by feeling anger & sadness completely, the intensity of sensing joy & happiness expands naturally. Feeling dull, depressed or irritated most of the time, is an undesirable consequence of this phenomenon. Reminding yourself of this information can inspire you to take the actions needed, such as simply setting time aside to quietly self-reflect, each day.

Faith:  All the tools that Feldenkrais has to offer are valuable in helping you release & integrate blockages & can heighten your faith in your healing abilities.  Also, I believe if you experiment you may find that another way to progress more easily is to wish for the Divine Creator to reveal her truth & love to you about your situation. The more sincerely you ask & patiently wait, the more clearly you may see your barriers without judging yourself or others. May your positive outcomes help you develop faith & continue on this self-exploratory journey with a steady pace. Peace!
~Donna