As an emotional eater I am learining I have to deal with the reasons I overeat. I am now at 50+ years old learning how to do that.
Here is an exerpt taken from an article I recently read on releasing emotions.
When you feel an emotion it is able to move through you and be released.
With acceptance itself, we can begin to naturally let go. It is what we resist and deny that persists!
What we deny does not go away, and will inevitably leak into our reality in the circumstances, people and events we attract. Repressed emotions distort our energy, and cloud the filters with which we create our world.
#1 Myth of the Law of Attraction
One mistake many people make when they first hear about the law of attraction is to start denying, controlling, judging or repressing their 'negative' feelings for fear of any negative consequences they may attract.
It is only when feelings are repressed however that they become problematic and toxic and leak into our world affecting our reality in not so pleasant ways, or come at us as a mirror in the people and experiences you attract.
When we accept and honor our feelings, they are naturally expressed and released. In the light of love and acceptance we can let go of feelings that do not serve us that much more easily.
Of course, it's important to first clear the actual beliefs that can lie at the core of emotional patterns and responses in your life.
Releasing Emotions
This might sound pretty obvious, but feeling your feelings is a fast way to release them. It's amazing how much energy is expended in avoiding and repressing our feelings, which can lead to ill-health, addictions, constriction and numbness.
Feeling your feelings doesn't mean indulging in them or giving them undue attention if they do not serve you (i.e. nip that self-pity in the bud!), nor does it mean venting them inappropriately at someone (writing them down would be far 'cleaner'). Feeling your feelings enables them to move through you and be expressed. It takes more energy to stuff emotions down than to experience them. Acknowledging, accepting and feeling an emotion will enable its release. Sensing where they are in your body can help to access and explore them.
There are many techniques for releasing your emotions, everything from the Sedona Method, release technique and the Emotoinal Freedom Technique.
External resources such as music, beauty and exercise and internal resources - your thoughts, choices, focus and imagination - can all be utilized.
Forgiveness of self and others is an incredibly powerful way to release and transform whole clusters of emotion which I'll be exploring in a future issue.
Forgiveness is the ultimate mind-body-soul detox and can liberate you from toxic emotions and draining attachments.
Appreciation and gratitude are also very effective in shifting your emotional resonance and disengaging lower vibration states.
You can also write them down. Journaling your feelings is an effective way to express and release them. I suggest burning the paper afterwards for a complete release - you'll feel a significant sense of freedom!
Beliefs are keystone, and the great thing about beliefs is that you can change them, and choose those aligned to your visions and dreams and all that you wish to be, do and have.
To be really, you want to get the heart of your emotional responses by identifying the limiting beliefs that lie at their root and releasing the emotional charge that surrounds and compounds them and triggers the unconscious emotional reactions.
By Aine Belton from the Belief Buster Kit
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