Fact. We all know it. Emotion is simply energy in motion. Right? Yet the habit that is hardest to break in our relationship to emotion is the cyclical movement from emotion to thought. The belief is that our thoughts are needed to create safety within the emotion. This belief is a limiting belief based on wounds. The belief that emotions needs to be understood to be expressed is defense, not truth. This belief leads to the suppression of emotion and hides ourselves from our authentic reactions to the world around us.
Think of it this way…
Turning emotion into thought creates the death of motion within emotion. Thinking hardens emotions.
Emotions are energetic in nature. They are supposed to be sensations. When we can have emotions without grabbing onto them with our thoughts, they flow. The express themselves as their fluid selves, moving through our bodies and our consciousness without attachement. When we can be emotion, emotions stay as energy in motion.
When we need to think emotion, we become stagnant. When we think emotion, the trap is getting stuck in story. When we think into emotion, we risk losing the emotion and letting it get trapped inside physical body. This creates pain, disease, and suffering. Shadow emerges not through thinking it into being but through allowing emotion to surface and flow.
Alive people feel alive through feeling emotion. They accept emotions. They let every range of emotion be a part of their communication with the self. There is no “bad” emotion. There is simply holding onto emotion too tightly when we do not know how to let emotions flow. I want to teach you how to let emotion be sensation. This is the essence of my embodiment practice teachings.
We need to spend more time embracing our energetic nature to avoid having our physical nature weigh us down and consistently dampen our experience of being alive. Embodiment occurs when we can welcome our true nature into our physical body. When we can allow ourselves the freedom to be energetically alive, we connect with the vitally alive world around us.
Ultimately in any embodiment practice the goal is to be able to allow more feelings of vitality to be present in our body.
It’s weird (or at least to me it is) how so many modalities of energy healing require some sort of attunement or perfection or idealization to prepare oneself to practice it as an art. We shouldn’t need to be upgraded to do any sort of energy healing. We are energetic at our core nature and physically human as our secondary nature. To tap into our energetic self is not work and definitely does not need to be idealizied.
We simply need to be able to understand that we are not as strongly physical as we believe ourselves to be. Our thought oriented self can be put to the side. The more we can practice being energetic, the more potential we have to let emotions be a tide that run through our bodies instead of a control mechanism for our behavior.
Today’s post gives you two videos as part of my Embodiment Series. The first video is an explanation of the how what and why behind allowing ourselves to try to engage with emotion as energy in motion.
(I do also just want to note that as a perimenopausal woman, the ablity to allow emotion to be sensation has eased all of the potential health problems and mental struggles so often attributed to this stage of life. So there’s that too.)
The second video is a breath and energy healing exercise combined to move deeply embedded blocks in the physical body without having to think into them and create stories.
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Embodiment Lesson #11
In this lesson, I talked about two different breath practices that I’ve offered in the past. The first breath practice, as mentioned, is used with a trigger to move an emotion, found here. The second is used to remove emotion and enter into a parasympathetic state of being, found here.
If you would like to engage in a breath practice that moves stagnant blocks in your system, try the video below.
