Releasing Built Up Emotions. How?

[Muzzinho]

Hello Good People.

Recently, I have been meditating and spending time journaling. It is going well, but I have some emotions that have built up over the years and I would like to release them. Meditation helps and I suppose diet to a certain extent. I do feel a sense of heavy headedness through the day, but a strong release of emotions is what I feel ready for.

I have good friends and people that do help me but, no one who I can really fully express my emotions to on a deep level.

Naturally, any information is useful.

Thank you.

[dirtyhive]

Do you feel better for writing things down?

You can PM me if you like. Tell me everything. Write pages and pages of it. Scream and cry if you have to.

I WILL read it all, and I WILL respond.

Hope that helps.

[Plato]

Why not use them rather than resisting them?

Direct them into positive action. Emotion is motivation.

[blossom]

Screaming and punching pillows always helps me feel like I've released stuff. I also had the idea to stage a mock greek wedding by buying some plates from an op shop and writing or painting the emotions onto them, and then throwing them at a wall...maybe make a mosaic with the pieces later? I haven't done it yet, but it seemed like a good idea at the time?

[MiBeloved]

Recently, I have been meditating and spending time journaling. It is going well, but I have some emotions that have built up over the years and I would like to release them.


It is not possible to release or deal with all the emotions in your psyche just like that all at once, at your convenience.
Suppose someone said he wanted to experience all possible weather patterns at once, at his command, right now, once and for all. Then that would be an impractical request.
For one thing we are limited and the cosmic system is not concerned with fulfilling our every wish. That is evident by the frustrations of so many human beings from day to day. Yes, desires are fulfill but not all of them. Yes, we can release emotions now and get some relieve but the emotions will build up again and again after every release.
The technique is one of continual safe and constructive release.
Meditation and diet does help considerably but added to these and perhaps of the utmost important is learning to how to interact with persons with whom certain emotions must be resolved. Meditation may provide insight in how to efficiently carry out such interactions but it is not a replacement for his interactions themselves.
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[veranadine]

Try this exercise:

The cleansing element here is water. You can either do this as a visualization completely in meditation or by going out to a river or similar body of water.

1. Sit down in a meditative mind, somewhere private and away from prying eyes.

2. Imagine that there is a pure white room in your mind, all clean and clear.

3. Enter this room and see that someone has placed two boxes on the floor, one is white and the other is black.

4. You sit down between the boxes and you open the white box first. It is empty inside and it seems like it is bottomless, it continues down until you can't see it's sides anymore, like looking down a deep well.

5. You set the white box down and pick up the black box. Instantly you feel that it is much heavier. The weight of it makes you feel gloomy, but you decide to open it anyway.

6. This black box has but one thing in it, an emotion or past event that you have been unwilling to face but now feel ready to let go of. No one can say what this emotion looks like. It may be a photograph or a couple of words scribbled on a piece of paper. Maybe it is an old house-key or a girl scout badge, your mind will decide.

7. Hold this single emotion in your hands and scream out loud, cry out any pain related to it, speak out any self-doubts or judgments about yourself that come up. Remember the scene that tis emotion stems from, as you are doing this fill the white box with all of these emotions. You will most likely be truly sobbing or screaming by the end of it. When no more can come, place the symbolic emotional item (the photograph or house-key) into the white box and close the lids of both boxes.

8. Leave your mental white space and as you close the door behind you know that the white box has turned into a well filled with a wide-running underground stream. It has already taken your unneeded emotions to the ocean, which can transmute all negative energies into positive, life-giving energy.

**You can do this beside an actual flowing body of water, out in nature, if you like. This inner room can also be returned to at any time to process other emotions.

[rawxstasy]

I have found this site helpful.


Understanding and Releasing Emotions

[Michelle]

Check out Louise Hay's Anger Releasing Meditation. I find it extremely helpful in the anger expression process.

[Angela]

TIME Techniques! It'll take you less than two hours to let go of all of your old, stored up negative emotions, and the process feels really good.

[gerber]

Are you familiar with EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)? If you search through the forums you can find more information about EFT from other forum members.

I've also written an introduction to EFT on my blog:

How to Get Started with EFT | Everyday Improvement

And here's a list of EFT sites if you would like more information on this topic:

Top EFT Sites | Everyday Improvement

It might not solve everything, but it is certainly useful to have in your toolbox.

[garentee]

Yoga helps, yelling and screaming helps,breaking bottles helps,writing definitely helps,breathing helps,throwing or hitting a ball against a wall helpsswimming helps,etc etc etc hope this helps.

[bluedragon]

Originally Posted by Muzzinho

Recently, I have been meditating and spending time journaling. It is going well, but I have some emotions that have built up over the years and I would like to release them. Meditation helps and I suppose diet to a certain extent.

Try a healing meditation that focuses on the internal organs. The Inner Smile which you can find on Mantak Chia's site - Universal Tao, or the Six Healing Sounds. They work according to the Chinese Medicine understanding of the emotions and the energetic system, which is also used in Acupuncture. Acupuncture is also a great way.

Then, there is the Chi Nei Tsang abdominal massage - probably the most powerful technique. It works on the points situated around your navel, and the therapist is able to locate the tensions there and by using a one finger technique and spiraling in a counter-clockwise motion, he can release those tensions. It is supposed to be pretty powerful and not particularly comfortable , you will actually feel all those built-up emotions passing through you, but after the massage is over, you will feel a sense of release.

[Senin]

I did a little experiment with my 6 year old. I told her to pull out her emotion and see it in her hands (ofcourse I used simpler words). Then throw it away. Can you do that? She objected. She said, no, I need that. Hmmm interesting. Even a 6 year old (and probably not us) can see it. You need, for a certain degree, your anger, your fear, your lust, whatever. The trick is not to try to throw them away.

I guess, you need to feel them when they come up moment to moment, but not be consumed and driven by them on an ongoing basis.

[MiBeloved]

I don't believe she can throw it away.
It is not that simple
We do not have that much control
Sometimes it can be done and something it cannot be done because we do not have the power to thrown an emotional away if the emotion is overpowering or if it is rooted in our psychic nature.

Even physically, there are so many things which we cannot do.
Can I sever my arm from my body with my will power if I wanted to?
Some emotions are attached to my psyche even more so than my arm is attached to the trunk of my body.
Why pretend that we have so much power, when the fact is that we are not absolute.
It is only when Nature (physical or psychic) allows that we can fulfill any desire.
It is not and never was a free for all.

[Angela]

Originally Posted by Senin

I did a little experiment with my 6 year old. I told her to pull out her emotion and see it in her hands (ofcourse I used simpler words). Then throw it away. Can you do that? She objected. She said, no, I need that. Hmmm interesting. Even a 6 year old (and probably not us) can see it. You need, for a certain degree, your anger, your fear, your lust, whatever. The trick is not to try to throw them away.

I guess, you need to feel them when they come up moment to moment, but not be consumed and driven by them on an ongoing basis.

Smart girl! Of course she needs her authentic emotion -- that is, emotional response to something that's happening now, and the capacity to feel emotion.

What she doesn't need anymore to any degree at all is any old, stored-up negative emotion; she can get the learning from past events and let the emotion that camped out in your unconscious just go now.

Little kids seem to get that more easily than grown-ups do! It gives them an edge over their peers who aren't releasing their negative emotions when they're done with them, too, because they develop useful, positive inner resources much more quickly -- when their little pals are still using expressions of negative emotions (tears, tantrums, sulks) to get what they want, your kid can be building up real personal power.

[ethereal]

You can try using the imagination and your mind to probe into the emotions tied to certain thoughts and experiences. Consciously experiencing a thought or experience allows the emotional baggage that is tied to it to be released.

A very common one that is helpful to release, is the fear of death. That is probably the largest fear we have, and once we take that out all other fears subside. The way to release all emotions is to face them head on and experience it out -- they don't last forever, they have an end. Use your mind to probe what it's like to be dead -- with no awareness of anything, no experience of anything. The mind is terrified to be faced with the unknown, with death, with the Void. But if you push yourself past the fear, you'll experience what's underneath it, which is peace.

Another one is fear of no control. If you want to experience that, try walking around with your eyes closed There's a lot of just pure gut-level fear around these basic things.

Some other things:
-- this moment/state (here and now) isn't good enough for me, desire to change current experience, be somewhere other than here and now
-- attachment to pleasure / aversion to pain
-- social anxiety / embarrassment
-- desire for sex (this is probably the second biggest, after fear of death). I read somewhere that Gandhi used to sleep next to young girls, not for sex but to experience out his attachment to sex and to release it.

Another way to do all this is to work with your chakras and with kundalini. I'm not an expert on this so I can't say anything

[Kaybee]

Two suggestions - a good scream and/or a good laugh. Both work wonders.

Kim
Self Improvement and Motivation
Fuel-My-Motivation.com

[Tanemon]

I got an attunement (energy initiation) to Reiki and decades of emotional mess got resolved painlessly. That was my experience, and it's been the experience of others who have shared their story with me. I'm not just taling about a "Reiki healing session" - I'm talking about the training (usually done as a series of workshop session. (Doesn't have to be expensive... search out a good teacher).

Changed my life, and I mean profoundly. Lightened my burden. Better moods, more energy, more self-confidence, more personal ability. More people have liked me...


Hey, on a different track, have a look at this. !!! Seems like these guys got a powerful emotional cleansing. Takes about 8 minutes to watch (don't worry, Chinese writing goes away after few moments.)

YouTube - External Qi Emission

[Vlad Moskovski]

Hey,

Interesting discussion and there a bunch of great suggestions. Here is another. How about doing some dancing and really letting yourself get into the full experience both physically and emotionally releasing your whole being.

I like to do that when I feel like I have some pent up stuff. Frequently, the body actually keeps the memory of the experience and emotions stored inside. Even if your cleanse your mind - it may still remain in your body.

Dancing is a great cleanser and you can do it by yourself or with a partner or a group.

Good luck and if you need some additional meditation techniques on stress and emotional balance, check out my website/blog.

Vlad
Meditation Secrets Revealed