Make Peace with Your Emotions E150
June 18, 2024
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Welcome to today’s episode, where we’ll explore the full range of human emotions. Often, we embrace positive emotions while suppressing negative ones. But what if experiencing all emotions could lead to a more peaceful, harmonious life? Today, I’ll share why accepting our entire emotional spectrum is crucial and how it can transform your life. We’ll delve into clearing energy blockages, making peace with emotions, and embracing the richness they bring. Join me as we uncover the path to emotional freedom and a more fulfilling existence.
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You don’t like half of your emotions
Today I am going to talk to you about the full range of emotions we humans have for a reason. Most of us learned to invite half of our range of emotions, what we call the “positive emotions” and the other half of the emotions, the “negative” ones, we learned to suppress, to ignore or to deny.
If you have listened to similar episodes of my podcast before, I invite you to feel the full range of human emotions to be able to experience higher levels of emotions. But you might be reluctant to do so. Why would I want to feel the negative and uncomfortable emotions just to be able to feel more of the good emotions? Better I just stay where I am where I don’t feel much of anything.
The purpose of experiencing the full range of emotions is not to let them back into your life and overwhelm you. It’s about accepting and surrendering that we are built to feel a huge range of emotions. By accepting and surrendering to all of them, we can live a peaceful, harmonic and enjoyable life with the full range of emotions just being part of the life experience.
Making peace with all of the emotions
I shared with you in last week’s episode, that you want to clear out the energy blockages from your energy system as they are stuck emotions that keep getting triggered on and on and on. Until you are ready to feel them and release them. What I am sharing with you today is about making peace with all of the emotions that we humans are supposed to experience. And I will tell you why and how.
Every waking moment we interact with life on Earth. When we are awake, we constantly experience something that is part of our outer or inner world. If we want to experience a more peaceful, easy-flowing and enjoyable life, we must learn to use the interaction with life to clear out those energy blockages.
Last week (Episode 149) we talked about how these blockages are stuck emotions that we have collected across our lifetime and that they keep you trapped in a life of avoiding or clinging onto past memories. Your inability to handle the full range of emotions keeps you trapped in the human predicament of controlling life in order to be okay. If you wish to break free and live peacefully, you must learn to be at peace with your emotions.
Play the orchestra of emotions available to you
The full range of emotions is like an orchestra. An orchestra is composed of 10, 20 or 30 different kinds of instruments. And even one instrument like a violin might play variations of notes to create part of the symphony. When something happens in your life, the orchestra of your emotions begins to play. It adds richness to your life by playing high notes or low notes whatever is appropriate to the events that are currently occurring in your life. Your emotions are a beautiful gift that makes life that much more interesting and colourful.
Your body in collaboration with your brain and your heart can experience absolute ecstasy to deep pain and sorrow in a matter of seconds. Your emotions can make you feel like you are flying on angel wings and they can bring you down crashing hard. Our ability to experience emotions is an amazing instrument we carry inside of us.
The trouble is that you might not be okay with the full range of your emotions. You want to control your emotions so it only plays the notes that you can handle. Spiritual growth is about learning to be grateful for the experience of emotions in general. All of them. But if you reflect on your life, you will realize that you can’t do that. There are emotions that your brain and body create inside of you that you are not willing to experience. You resist them.
Get comfortable feeling all kinds of emotions
As you expand your spiritual horizon by letting go of the energy blockages inside of you, your range of comfort with all emotions becomes wider and wider, allowing you to handle more of the moments passing in front of you and the emotions that they create inside of you.
Little by little, as you learn to accept that emotions are a reality of this human life, they will come and go if you let them be what they are. This is spiritual evolution. It’s not like an evolved spiritual human has no emotions or that they are able to handle all of the emotions as intensely as you imagine them to be. That would be another way of ignoring emotions or putting emotions on a pedestal. As an evolved human being you can handle the different shades of emotions happening as a normal part of life.
If something sad happens in your life, it’s natural to feel a sense of loss and sadness. That is your brain and body creating an emotion in harmony with what’s happening. Like an instrument playing something beautiful, your body is composing a song of sadness for you. The thing is that you are not okay with that.
Emotions are not the problem – You are!
At some point on this journey, you will realize that the emotion is not the problem – the problem is you are not able to handle the emotion. We come back to the same place as we were in last week’s episode: Do you want to devote your life to controlling the world around you so you can avoid feeling certain negative emotions which you can’t handle? Or do you want to devote yourself to the inner work of becoming comfortable with the full range of emotions?
When you begin with the inner work of removing those energy blockages inside of you, it might feel heavy, disruptive and kind of unhinged. That is because your body is not used to experiencing these emotions anymore. It’s full of these roadblocks that it’s now trying to remove one by one. It first has to get into a groove of doing so. It’s about learning the process of letting go. Your emotional state has become out of balance and it will get more and more back into balance when you continue this work.
Spiritual growth is about returning to a state of balance and well-being and the more you continue with this practice of letting go, the easier it gets because you get better at it. You normalize the process and create a habit inside of you. It will become normal and familiar for your brain and body to work together to release more and more blockages out of your energy system. The same as it was familiar to create them in the first half of your life. That was a habit, too.
Learn to handle your emotions
It should be clear to you by now that the problem is not outside of you. The problem is your inability to handle certain emotions and therefore you can’t handle the full expression of life. Learning to handle these expressions and make them part of everyday life like eating, sleeping and breathing is the solution. It is the essence of spiritual growth.
Feelings of loss, fear or anger in your body are just expressions of what you experience. They cannot harm you unless you resist them. The same with love, beauty and happiness. They are wonderful to experience unless you start to cling to them and suddenly “need” them in your life. You either start to push feelings away or pull them towards you, instead of wanting them to pass through you in their natural state.
I invite you to come to peace with the full range of emotions. It may seem impossible to be comfortable with emotions that are uncomfortable, but the truth is you already have experience doing that.
It works for you while watching a movie
Take any movie that you like. Imagine yourself not feeling any emotions watching that movie. How dull would that be? What an awfully boring experience. We enjoy watching movies because they create emotions inside of us. And we love movies that make us feel joy, laughter, relief, love, bliss and happiness for what is happening to the characters in the movie. But most of us love as well movies that make us feel scared, fearful, worried, outraged, despair, disgust and so on. We love to get involved in the experience of the characters even if these are emotions that you generally classify as “negative”.
But you have no problems experiencing them while watching a movie. And the higher the emotion, the more you will tell people that they have to watch that movie. It’s just so good – because it was able to create high emotions inside of you. That’s the kind of acceptance you want to bring into your life on Earth. That’s the difference between accepting the expression of the emotion and resisting it.
Emotions make life interesting
The universe, God, source, creation – whatever you want to call it – has put a full orchestra of emotions inside of you, free of charge. That makes life so much more interesting and vibrant. Learn to enjoy your emotions by ceasing to resist them. It’s not about losing yourself in your emotions. It’s about being willing to experience them in the same way as you experience a great movie.
Sometimes the movie ends in joy and celebration. Sometimes the movie ends sad. But you process it in the same way: your awareness is experiencing the emotions created by the story of the movie. You are not clinging to it or suppressing it once it’s over. You are simply experiencing it and then letting it go shortly afterwards.
It’s your choice!
When emotions are suppressed or stored in your energy system, they rot inside of you. They will pop up at the wrong time and cause serious problems in your life. Learning to make peace with your emotions is a major step toward shedding yourself from the very human predicament we all find ourselves in.
We learned already in the last episode that we don’t want to suppress emotions and we don’t want them running our life either. There is a sacred space between suppression and expression. And that is to experience the emotion. In the state of experiencing the emotion, you are neither suppressing the energy internally nor expressing it externally to other people.
You are willing to experience the energy coming from your brain and body. The sadness of a breakup or the joy of a birth both come up inside of you and feed your soul. They enrich your life’s experience. Feeling emotions is simply a gift we receive from the universe. And we can be grateful for it!
Learn how to feel all emotions inside Energy Academy
If you want to learn how to remove these blocked energies and start being okay with feeling all emotions, then join my program Energy Academy where I teach you how to do it. Other than in the words I shared with you today, it is very hard to describe how peaceful and freeing it is once you release to resist or cling to emotions. But once you experience it, you will never stop with the process of releasing.
Head over to lindalange.com/energyacademy. The more you release, the more you enjoy your life again. You can find joy in the so-called good and bad. It’s a magical way to experience life.
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