Serenity Now Part 2 Emotional Energy
Are you in sync with your emotional energy? Are you able to articulate your feelings effectively? Without reactivity? Poor emotional health can weaken the body's immune system. Thus making us more susceptible to colds and other infections during emotionally difficult times. Also, when we are feeling stressed, anxious, or upset, we may not take care of our health as well as we should leaving the door open for "un-wellness".
Our emotional energy comes from our emotional body. When in balance we are equal parts, 25% each - of our physical body, our emotional body, our mental body, and our spiritual body. So what happens when we are off in our emotional bodies? Our emotional body is the nervous system, our hormones, touch, water absorption and water release - tears. It is the bridge between the physical body and the mental body. It represents our feelings and relationship to all things. How we react, interpret and respond to life situations.
Emotions are messengers. Many people have not been taught how to express or integrate their emotions let alone self regulate. Instead have learned how to avoid or suppress them, push them down as an act of survival and/or avoidance. This becomes the norm - to fit in, to earn love and to be accepted. This learned behavior usually begins early on in life. Have you heard the saying "children are to be seen and not heard"? This is a prime example that leaves little to no room for emotional expression let alone acceptance. It saddens me to think about it in this way. I can't even begin to imagine how many are negatively impacted by their emotions because they haven't been taught how to effectively express them.
And so it goes that people focus on their physical and mental bodies while neglecting their feelings via the emotional body. With no one there to validate or help process our emotions in a positive way the end result becomes feelings of anger, fear and often shame. Ruefully our parents and/or our role models have struggled with this themselves. And the cycle continues if we do not recognize it. Taking the time to understand the emotional body is an important part of our everyday life. It brings grounding, balance, better alignment into our lives and self awareness.
People who are experiencing good emotional health are aware of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. They have learned healthy ways to cope with the stress and problems that are a normal part of life. They feel good about themselves and have healthy relationships. Our bodies respond to the way we think, feel, and act. It's the “mind/body connection.” and when we are stressed, anxious, or upset, our body reacts in a way that often tells us that something isn’t quite right. Whether it be minor health concerns or serious complications.
So how do we cope our stress and emotions in a positive way? Just the thought of wanting to improve ones emotional health is a step in the right direction. Actively recognizing our emotions and understanding why we are having them. Sorting out the possible causes sadness, stress, and anxiety in our lives can help to better manage our emotional health.
Good news is there are so many ways to help bring the emotional body back into balance. Activities like meditation, yoga, static dance and breath work even journaling - writing about past experiences perhaps form childhood, and feeling what comes up. Practicing gratitude and forgiveness. Forgiveness for ourselves and for others. And more importantly having a regular routine for eating healthful meals, exercising, getting enough sleep and learning constructive ways to relieve pent up frustration.
It's up to us to take charge of our emotional energy and find ways to enrich our lives for the better. So often we hold ourselves back without even realizing it. It's important to graciously accept ourselves and to honor the journey we have chosen. To be willing to learn and grow from all that we did not know without punishing ourselves or others by projecting our wounds onto them. A dear friend said to me once - "life is school" and she couldn't be anymore right but more importantly It's up to us how we respond to it.
Our well-being, our general health depends not only on the physical, which is only one part but also our mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. It is so important that we seek harmony within each of these 4 bodies so we can begin to clear blocks we may not have known we had, heal past wounds and see our overall health improve. To be in touch and in flow with our experiences rather than fight them. Emotional freedom is within reach, for all of us. Wishing you much peace on the journey.
XO
Sheila
Founder YANA ™
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