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Dense energies can get trapped in the body – contaminating every part of your life experience. Holding everything in until it deteriorates into bitterness is the worst way to live. So what can you do about it?
Learning how to release dense energies from your body can help you feel much better and clear your emotional slate. You need to regularly flush out everything that’s not serving you if you’re looking to maintain optimal well-being.
Therefore, whenever you feel some heavy emotions chipping away at you, emotional release therapy is an intuitive way to release stagnant energy and feel lighter. Let’s look at how you can reap the benefits of this form of self-therapy.
What Is Emotional Release Therapy?
Emotional release therapy is a way of discharging painful emotions – usually in the form of crying, venting, or screaming. Look at it as a way of releasing pent-up emotions by leveraging catharsis.
In other words, an emotional release is a purge. You’re getting rid of the emotional baggage that you’re consciously or unconsciously holding onto by giving it a passage out of your energetic body.
Whenever I’m feeling something painful, I’ve learned to go into the emotions, express them, and let them go. What once seemed counterintuitive has become a hugely helpful process that now works like a charm.
Sooner or later, something will happen. I’ll feel some dense emotions such as shame, guilt, resentment, or other forms of emotional baggage that are human, but I want to get rid of them as soon as possible.
Fighting those emotions has never helped me release them, but I have learned through my own experiences that when I sink into them and express them, this is what moves the needle. Generally, after this process, I’m almost immediately back to my happy self.
We’re supposed to feel great.
Feeling good is our natural state. When you’re not feeling good, it means you’re holding onto dense energies and need to let go of that emotional baggage, otherwise, it’s going to weigh you down.
Therefore, emotional release therapy is just a way of sinking into the feelings when you’re experiencing something painful, healthily expressing them, and naturally releasing them via an energetic purge.
We all experience emotional release therapy naturally at times, even if we’re not aware of it. This is why you tend to feel a whole lot better after you ‘get it all out’, and most of us are intuitively aware that expressing emotions is a passage to release them. This awareness, however, helps make the process easier and gives you more control over it.
Benefits of an Emotional Release
Releasing pent emotions is necessary to maintain a healthy emotional wellness. The people who carry around the most baggage tend to be the ones who not only suffer the most, but also have the most problems physically, mentally, and emotionally.
That’s because the stagnant energy you’re holding onto manifests. Body, mind, and emotions are intricately connected, and the emotional baggage you’re holding onto will leak out in other forms. This is why you need to let go of the baggage before it builds up – which leads to a lot of relief.
After emotional release therapy, you can expect to feel:
- Lighter in your body, like a blanket has been lifted off you
- Relaxed due to a release of tension and stress in your body
- Clear in your mind. You can think straight again without being clouded by stress or worry
- Reconnected with high-vibrational emotions such as gratitude, hope, and excitement
- Possible euphoria and joy – Feeling like life is good all of a sudden
While releasing emotions via catharsis does provide immediate relief, you should look at it as a form of maintenance – That is to release emotions whenever you feel like crap, rather than piling them up until they form dysfunction.
Emotional release therapy should be practiced every time you feel something heavy, and it may take a lot of practice until you start to unload some of the heaviest traumas and issues that have scarred you the deepest.
Why Emotions Need to Be Released
When something affects you deeply, it leaves an emotional wound. The wound can only be healed by processing it naturally. Therapists and counselors guide this process, but in most cases, they’re not necessary to heal.
Imagine trying to heal a wound while you have dirt in it. The wound needs to be cleaned before it can heal. Emotional wounds are alike, and this is how I view healing. If dense energies are trapped in your body, you won’t be able to heal.
Instead of cleansing themselves of painful emotions to naturally heal, many people attempt to escape those emotions.
Avoiding painful emotions only pushes them deeper into the subconscious to rot, where they become increasingly difficult to flush out. Just because that pain isn’t in the spotlight anymore doesn’t mean it’s not causing damage.
This is where emotional release therapy comes in; to stir up stagnant emotions and bring them back into the spotlight where you can properly deal with them.
How to Perform Emotional Release Therapy
Let’s have a look at how emotional release therapy works, and how you can effectively perform it on yourself.
1. Resurrect the Painful Experience
Suppressed emotions will resurface at times if the underlying wound has not been healed. These emotions may be triggered by certain situations, surface in the form of intrusive thoughts, or seemingly come up out of nowhere – Because those energies are still trapped within your emotional body.
When any painful emotion arises, the first step is to bring your awareness to it. Allow that painful emotion to surface, and sit with it.
In some cases, the repressed trauma is begging to be acknowledged – Which means you don’t need to flesh it out, it will come to you. However, if you generally feel miserable but can’t identify any distinct feeling, you may need to poke the hidden wounds a little.
You can manually dredge up stagnant energy by thinking back to painful events in your life. You might know exactly what’s left unresolved, and you might have no clear answer.
Regardless, here’s what to do:
- Think back to certain events that hurt you in the past, and see whether you get an emotional response from them.
- Visualize yourself going back into those painful memories, and replay them in as vivid detail as possible – With a focus on the emotions you were feeling.
If there is no emotional response associated with those memories, they have likely already been processed. On the other hand, if you start feeling uncomfortable when you think about these memories, this is a good indicator that the wound has not been cleaned.
You can tell how severe the trauma is by how painful thinking back to the memory is.
Thinking back to an embarrassing moment might make you cringe, and there could be some dense energy you’re holding onto because of that incident – Which may manifest as shame or guilt. Being cheated on by your spouse might trigger more severe emotions of betrayal and worthlessness, which have much more severe manifestations.
The magnitude of pain determines how much damage it is doing to you and how important it is to heal. If you have a severe, unresolved emotional wound, it may be necessary to seek support from a professional.
When you start experiencing emotional pain, dig into it. Think about the concomitant memories, thoughts, or associations that surface too.
Any heaviness you feel under the surface, consciously exacerbate this feeling by digging deep into the emotionally active memories and thoughts. This may be something recent, or something from a long time ago.
Paint as accurately a picture of the traumatic event as you can, and the pain and distress will start coming back. When those heavy feelings begin simmering to the surface, avoid the temptation to distract yourself.
Emotional pain can not physically harm you. It can simulate experiences and cause undesirable emotional responses, but you are safe. You have nothing to lose, despite what that pain convinces you to think.
When you have fully embodied those painful energies, they may cause tremors, shaking, or other physiological responses. This is when you dredge up this hidden trauma and confront it.
2. Sit With the Painful Emotions
After you have resurrected the painful emotions, allow them to manifest in your body. Don’t force them in or out, but surrender to the discomfort. Through nonresistance, the pain will reach a climax.
- How does it feel? What specific sensations arise when you’re feeling these painful emotions?
- Where is it? Is it a heaviness in your chest, butterflies in your stomach, or is it manifesting as a blockage in your throat, resulting in the inability to express yourself?
You don’t need to analyze it, but make the feelings as prominent as possible by locating the physical manifestations and sitting with them.
Within all trauma lie hidden lessons. I believe trauma is particularly hard to let go of when there is still a lesson to learn from the experience that caused it. Once you learn that lesson, the trauma has no leverage, which creates an easier passage for departure.
Now, you need to learn from the painful feelings. This can take some patience, and any barrier you erect will prevent you from heeding the lessons.
Don’t force the process (as forcing is an act of resistance), but be open to the wisdom of that pain. Be present with it and see what thoughts and feelings arise.
You might experience sudden insights or epiphanies when you’re in a state of nonresistance with the pain. You might have sudden ‘ah ha’ moments.
This is a good sign, as the purpose of emotional release therapy is to extract everything you can out of the trauma and allow it to shrivel in power.
Throughout my life journey, I’ve discovered that pain tends to linger around when there are still important lessons to be learned. Naturally, you will hold onto that pain, perhaps because that pain still has some service to you.
3. Purging the Trauma
Now that you’ve resurrected the painful feelings and extracted all the wisdom that you can from them, it’s time to let those painful feelings go. The purge is an important part of the healing process. It’s like energetically squeezing out all the dirty water you’ve been holding onto.
If you seep deep enough into your painful feelings, you will likely start having physiological reactions. This is the result of the unconscious trauma being pulled into your body – where it can now be discarded.
The purge usually happens naturally. Some examples of purging include:
- Crying
- Sweating
- Facial flushing
- Trembling
- Shaking
- Moaning
- Yawning
- Yelling
The purge is to get it all out. People have different processes of purging, and there is no right or wrong way to do it.
What you want to do is move that stagnant energy and get it outside your body. You’re essentially flushing these stagnant energies from your body and creating space for healing.
Therefore, express everything you feel when you are processing your pain. You don’t need to unnecessarily act it out or cause a forcing current, but if you feel like purging in some form, then do it.
Discarding the emotional baggage from an event that caused you a lot of damage may require you to perform emotional release therapy many times until you get to the bottom of it. If your energetic sponge is filled with very dirty water, it will take many squeezes until it’s clean.
Each consecutive time you do emotional release therapy, the more you will find the baggage, and the symptoms lessen. It might take 3 times, it might take 30 to fully squeeze out the dank water and restore your emotional body to optimal health.
Why Emotional Release Therapy Helps
Immediately after purging, you will feel a sense of relief.
When the pain starts to ease and your thoughts begin to wander again, be grateful. Replace that emptiness with high-vibrational emotions that you do want to carry with you.
Reinforce to yourself that it’s okay to let go of the pain. Once it has nothing left to offer, gracefully let it go and thank it for its service.
If there are still lessons to learn, these painful emotions will resurface again – Albeit to a lesser extent. If they do resurface, repeat the process.
When you have completely neutralized the trauma, you will be able to think about the traumatic event, but there will be no emotional response.
If there is still an emotional response, then it’s telling you that there is more work to be done, and use that as an opportunity to do emotional therapy again.
This technique should be practiced regularly, as the common person has a lot of trauma to heal. Unless you feel wonderful, there is more to process. With that said, we also experience more traumatic events in life as sometimes – Unexpected circumstances happen.
But now that you’re equipped with a remedy, whenever something does happen, go through this technique and hit it before it hits you.