Experience the power of Healing and Meditation
by Sahara
I have written this article for my FB healing site Koha Aroha Healing Arts, and thought you may find the information helpful on your healing journey as well.
I share with you my personal experiences and what I have learned on my own journey to healing, and as a facilitator of healing for other people…
Often when we are detoxing, we find that mysterious aches and pains come up, but we do not always fully understand why other than to know that toxins are working there way out. I suggest to my clients if they choose to deeply connect with the discomfort in their body and embrace it, it will have much to teach us as we ask ourselves what emotion is being expressed by it.
Emotions play an important role in good health. From a Traditional Chinese, Shamanic and Energy Medicine perspective, most dis-ease is caused by emotional repression. The repressed emotions get held in the organs of the body and each emotion is associated with a particular organ. The liver stores anger, the kidneys hold fear, the spleen holds worry, the lungs hold grief and sadness and repressed emotions in the heart can cause depression and lack of joy. The emotions are not good or bad but just part of being human.
Unfortunately many children are taught from an early age that emotions are bad and they learn to suppress them. When the emotions are repressed they create energetic blockages in the associated organ. When this happens it can slow down circulation to the organ and toxins can build up. For example when sadness is repressed it can cause problems with the lungs and respiratory problems may result. Repressing fear can cause blockages in the kidneys that may lead to reproductive, bone, ear and other problems. Holding in emotions will correspond with possible problems in the related organ.
What is the proper way to deal with the emotions? The first thing is making them ok and letting them be and not making oneself or the emotion wrong or bad. The emotion just is.
Observing the emotion and fully feeling it is the way not to store the emotion in the body. There are three primary emotions, anger, fear and sadness. Acting appropriately when feeling emotional is important. If feeling angry then acknowledge and feel the anger and don’t lash out at others. If feelings of sadness come up then let the tears come up if it is a safe place to do it. We don’t want to be crying in situations that aren’t supportive and places like the workplace are generally not a good place to do it. If sadness comes up and we can’t express it then when we have time later when we go home we can play the scenario over in our head and let the sadness come out there.
There are certain body feelings that can be signs that we are repressing an emotion. If we are feeling anxious then we can be repressing fear and other emotions. Anxiety is not an emotion but a resistance to feeling the emotion. The anxiety is acting like a lid on a pressure cooker keeping the emotions from surfacing. We can ask ourselves what emotion am I repressing and then ask something like, am I repressing fear, and just say I am feeling fear. When we hit on the right emotion then the fear can begin to loosen and the anxiety will go away and the feeling of fear will be predominant. When we fully feel the fear then fear will eventually dissipate and often it can happen very quickly.
Irritation is another sign that we may be repressing anger. Again the irritation is like a lid on the emotion. If we just acknowledge we are feeling angry then it can begin to release. When we start doing this it can take some time to feel the emotions because we may have spent years repressing them.
When we fully experience the emotion we then can begin to feel peace. In the beginning there may be many repressed emotions that need to released. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to repress our emotions and when we release the repressed emotions we can have a lot more energy and improve our health because we are releasing the blockages.
Something I have found helpful in my own healing as well is to allow myself to fully embrace the emotion at a 10/10 scale for 6 min. You see, we can hold on to and experience emotion at a 8 or 9/10 for a very long time and not release it properly. Research has shown that we can last less than 6 min when we experience emotion at a 10/10, it then leaves our body and we are free of it.
When we view physical pain as a loving response to awaken us to a deeper emotional wound we have carried for far too long, we experience it much differently, more gently. Pain is our non-conscious mind saying that we are now ready to release a wound.
You may choose to focus on the discomfort, connect with the emotion and trace it back to a time we experienced this emotion before. We often learn when we trace the emotion back, that the issue or wound has repeated itself as a theme in our life. The same wound will appear in our lives until it is healed, often more harshly than the last. The theme often occurred originally in childhood, I have found as a facilitator of Energy Medicine and Shamanism.
This is the reason I have found Shamanism to be especially effective in aiding people to heal themselves because it heals all wounds at the source, the beginning.
What I have also learned is that there are really only 3 wounds from which all hurt originates; neglect, abandonment, and rejection.
Not long ago, I experienced deep liver pain while detoxing. From my training, I was aware that liver pain is associated with an excess of anger in our energy body, I decided it was time to let go of this so my energy could better serve me in my life. Memories from the distant past were coming up, along with emotions. A profound healing session ensued, leaving me stunned at how much anger I had held on to due to childhood trauma. I can not describe the peace I felt following this, a peace I had not ever recalled feeling. For so many years I had repressed these heavy emotions, thinking that “nice people” do not get angry. Once released, the issue with pain in my liver also disappeared.
Part of this process for me was to forgive the people who were responsible for the trauma that I had experienced, and to forgive myself. I let go of the dream of what could have been, and gave thanks for the lessons that came of it. How would I have known of the grace and divinity within me if I had not lived this?
I freed myself of this wound, and all involved as well. I sent blessings and thanks to all who were involved, who witnessed it, and all who were affected indirectly by it over the years by my wounded behaviour. In the process, I set myself free. I let go.
This is the manner I healed an inoperable pituitary tumor which was life threatening, low thyroid, spasms in my bladder, uterus, stomach and intestines which were so severe that I was full of deep bleeding ulcerations, the pain was indescribably… add to that, grand mal seizures, heart palpitations, neuropathy, depression and suicidal thoughts, the list goes on. Modern medicine had no explanation or cure for all that ailed me. In desperation, I searched for alternative healing. When I began to address the emotional trauma of severe molestation and abuse the physical symptoms healed too. I will not accept pity, I am not a victim. I am now well; body, mind and spirit. 🙂 I share this with you in the hopes that even one person may find comfort from suffering. Please feel free to share my experience.
I hope you find this information helpful on your journey to wellness.
I send you blessings for all that nurtures your soul and aids you to live to your full potential, if you choose to accept.
Namaste
Sahara
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