![]() Maybe the part you want feels you’re not smart enough is Dr. Second, it can add some humor as you build a character around them. You realize they are not you and they are just parts of you. This does several things:įirst, it gives you the distance from them. However, I’ve found that the most effective way to release is to actually give these voices, these characters inside your head, a soapbox and let them rant like crazy. We often want nothing more than to shut them out. The voices in our heads are hard to listen to and often a big source of emotional pain. It can feel weird to get into but once you allow it, holy moly, some of my best revelations have come through tantrums and moving*. If you’re already screaming or sounding, may as well throw a tantrum and move your body with it. If more of us screamed at least once a day, I think the world would be a much calmer place to be. When I lived in NYC, I used to go to the end of the subway platform and wait for an express train to go by then scream at the top of my lungs and slowly come to a stop as the train sound faded away. I’m not feeling it.) but ultimately we’re costing ourselves a major opportunity to feel lighter. We can come up with so many excuses not to let it loose (what will my neighbors/roommates think? I don’t have a car to scream in, I take public transport. I’m a super quiet and shy person, but when I make myself scream to release (even when it feels silly, stupid, embarrassing, or I don’t want to), it’s pure magic. Never underestimate the power of screaming. Let yourself ride that wave until it dissipates. Actually visualize the breath or energy moving into that space in your body, expanding it, and then taking that pain with it out of your body as you exhale. At first, it may feel like it’s getting bigger, but that’s part of the process of release. Use your attention or breath to intentionally open up that space inside you. Have you ever noticed that anxiety so often feels like a tightness in the chest, guilt a heaviness in the heart or stomach? Once you notice a painful emotion, use your focused awareness to notice where it lives in your body. Here are my top 5 simple methods for emotional release: 1) Breathe Where It HurtsĮmotional pain is often embodied. If you feel stuck on how to do this, it happens to be one of my specialties. I’ve spent most of my life learning new and ancient tools for releasing big emotions. Emotions only lessen their grip when we process and release them. There is incredible freedom on the other side of pain. The thing is, we have so much practice keeping it all in, no one has taught us how to emotionally release. We are slowly learning to accept the deep well of emotion that lives inside us all. Yet, our Western version of the normal range of human emotion is excruciatingly narrow and hasn’t changed much over the decades, carrying with it many paternalistic and oppressive ideologies. Many of us are deemed ‘broken’ or ‘ill’ if we can’t at least pretend to be normal. Those of us who do express our deepest emotions or can’t lock them up any longer are pathologized and told there’s something wrong with us.
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