At certain times in life, you may feel emotionally blocked and don’t know how to express what you’re feeling. You may feel unable to identify the state of your mood and perceive it as a ghost, whose silhouette you cannot define.
“Each of us has its own climate and determines the color of the sky in the emotional universe we inhabit.
? Fulton J. Sheen?
The thing is that, for various reasons, at certain times in our lives, our emotions are encapsulated, as if they were locked in a cage, resistant at first, while creating enormous discomfort internally, influencing both our bodies and our relationships with others.
Do you think for a moment?
Maybe you’ve been wandering around in sadness for months, not being able to tear, externalize or share, maybe you felt powerless about a situation you thought was unfair but kept quiet, couldn’t identify your anger at some frustration, didn’t express how happy you were for fear of hurting yourself, or you just felt like you didn’t know how you felt, what you wanted, or where I was going?
He simply kept it, kissed a poison in the same way as the person who keeps a treasure.
Whatever the situation or experience, you did not know or could not express yourself completely, you suppressed your emotions, these were encapsulated, that is, blocked and accumulated inside you.
Protecting your emotions generates weight, creating a dangerous and difficult emotional burden, which sometimes reaches your body.
If we stop knowing and experiencing what we feel, whether consciously or unconsciously, we are no longer connected to ourselves.
Emotions are necessary and feel help. It is very important to allow them, because manifesting them is a privilege; are the bridge to get to know each other and know what we need.
The thing is, in most cases, they taught us to repress them from a young time, seeing them as dangerous. Therefore, we think it is OK to deny or control them. Thus, we learn from our childhood to stop experiencing them and send them to our unconscious.
However, if emotions are not expressed, they will not be overcome, being somehow inside us, in our body, invading us.
The problem is that encapsulated emotions can become a way of being or facing life, settling in as if they were quite normal in adults: emotional blockage as a form of protection so as not to feel so much pain.
Thus, we endure loads with a lot of unrecognized and unloaded pain, blocking our real needs and replacing them with false ones, without allowing us to grow or evolve, because we limit ourselves.
Do we end up disconnecting from what we feel, deafening ourselves to our inner voice, and above that, living automatically?
And even if feeling causes some fear, whether it’s hard to express what’s going on emotionally or if you don’t want to go through pain, being able to do all this is critical to healing.
The problem arises, as we have said, when we keep or repress what we feel, when we do not recognize our wounds; we live anesthetized and as if we are sleeping, our feelings and emotions are energy, and if we do not express them we will run out of it.
It is not bad, from time to time and above all in situations of particular importance, to wonder what it feels like and reflect for a few minutes with total sincerity.
It is necessary to accept your full range of emotions to have a full life, but careful not to express them in an extreme way. The secret is in the balance, the midpoint.
We need to be aware that our emotions function as indicators or alarms of what is happening to us within us.