The Subconscious and Your Emotions

In my previous blog entry, I mentioned that we are made of mostly of energy and light and vibration. This is where I facilitate my healing work. In my healing systems I believe there are energy bodies that mirror, or look like, our physical bodies. In my system we have a mental body, an emotional body, a sexual body and an energy field we can call the aura or biofield. I work with these energies.

Working with and healing the energy bodies is a powerful approach into the subconscious mind. Energy practitioners doing this sort of work find that when we work with energy, the healing moves into the physical as well. How can we talk to the subconscious and find out what’s up?

There are many ways! I liken the subconscious mind to a combination of a guard dog, a quantum computer and a golden retriever puppy. The guard dog wants to protect you and keep you safe, so it may want to prevent you from trying anything risky. The computer is the aspect that is very literal, so if there is ‘programming’ in there that says you are not deserving of love, or should always be poor, it takes that very seriously and arranges your reality so that you do not find love or rarely have money. This is for real, folks. I believe ‘as inside, as outside,’ and that YOUR subconscious arranges situations for you that make your inner programming come true.

The puppy is the part that wants to have some attention and play a little and wants to please you, so it may fib a little to make you happy. I find this in my work with the subconscious. Think of a puppy with a ball in its mouth…it wants you to throw the ball but does not want to release it for you and it runs off, teasing. The subconscious works in dream language and symbols, not words and voices. And so, it is kind of tricky to access. Sometimes it tells you the truth. Sometimes it wants to be romanced or played with. And quicker insights appear to be more accurate. I find if I take too long to access, the ego can step in and change the message.

Emotions are key to understanding how we are doing. Run, do not walk, away from folks who tell you otherwise. In terms of your own personal work, and interpersonal relationships, emotions are invaluable. There are work situations, of course, when you need to put those emotions aside. But when you can, you need to dig in and see about those emotions. Some emotions are felt and are right at the surface. If they are challenging ones, we either process them and they go away, or they remain in our energy bodies and settle in like little balls of energy.

Emotions are neither good nor bad. They just are. Some we prefer, of course, because they feel better. If it is time to grieve, or lament, well, we should do that. If we have been hurt or betrayed, it behooves us to feel those feelings. If we do not process some emotions, or if too much was going on and we cannot manage processing them, they stick with us.

These emotions are little triggers, so when a similar issue comes up in the future, the trapped emotions ‘wake up’ and we feel emotions more intensely and we may overreact. Unprocessed emotions can also cause physical pain.

Subconsciously or consciously, sometimes we put our emotional trauma away and not look. This trauma can obviously come from moral injury, it can come from military sexual trauma or any type of trauma that we experience in life. Trauma can come from parental stuff, sibling stuff, and stuff that we do to other people. It may be stuff that is done to us. When they are not processed, they can get ‘stuck,’ and we call this emotional baggage. This is what we call a trapped emotion.

We have an energy field that surrounds us- I’ll it the biofield for now- and it turns out that as we begin to discuss painful things or bring up a hard memory, a trapped emotion can act up and cause us more emotional pain or further relational issues and career problems. We carry that trauma, sometimes our entire lives. As I work with a client, emotion comes forth as an energy ball into the biofield so we can work with it.

There is a Governing Vessel Meridian that runs from the top of the lip down to the base of the spine. That is a big, powerful meridian. This may sound odd, but you can use a magnet or just your hand and take that pesky ball of energy and bring it to the GV Meridian where it can be dissolved and removed, permanently.

This is an easy and direct way to release these trapped emotions.  Again, there are no inherently bad emotions, they just are. Emotions are neutral. It is important to feel them. It is just that when they get stuck or not processed, they cause issues.

You can try this for yourself right now. Think on something that is bothering you. Maybe it was an angry conversation you had this morning, or an annoying bill. Sit a minute with the feeling. Take a hand, with a refrigerator magnet if you have one, and, while thinking on that unpleasant emotion, move your hand from your forehead up over the midline of your head to the back of the head and down the neck. Move only in one direction, front to back. Do this motion at least three times. Sit and see how you feel.

Next, create and emplace a good affirmation for yourself, something believable, like, “It’s ok, I’ll figure out the silly bill issue when I get home later.” Or, “We always work out our differences, we will work this one out, too. I love her, she’s great.” You insert the good affirmation the same way. Say the new statement three times and you move your hand over the GV meridian three times. Sit and see how you feel.

Be aware, that if you are struggling with serious grief, loss, or rage, it may be important for you to process this a little longer and not try to remove it too fast with this simple technique. Use your discernment.