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Dealing with Emotional Tension: Discover Clarity for Tackling the Big Problems and Making the Big Changes, by Ann Todhunter Brode

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The mandatory time out and social distancing of the past few months have given us an opportunity to look deep and evaluate what's working and what's not. Unresolved emotions are floating to the surface. Unresolved issues are demanding attention and calling for change. As a result, the need for both personal and communal healing has become loud and clear. But, before we're able to address the issues, we need to process the emotions.

With one thing piling on another and no end in sight, most of us are dealing with low-grade emotional overload. The side effects are easy to spot. Your chest is tight. Your hands are sweaty. You wake up tired and carry a bit of angst in your belly all day long. The slightest thing gets you irritated. Your vision is fuzzy and your mind is buzzy. Regardless of intentions, fielding a bunch of fear, grief, and anger affects your ability to handle a challenging situation. As neuroscientist Candace Pert explains in her book, Molecules of Emotion, triggered emotions block neural pathways, undermining clarity and compassion. Perhaps the first step in healing our community is healing ourselves.

We're all in the same fix. With questions about social unrest, climate change, political morality, financial security, and what the future holds, the stakes are high. Just tune in to your body right now and, chances are, you'll find an undercurrent of doubt, despair, and uncertainty. In this state, you really can't think clearly, listen compassionately or make good decisions. Although it feels imperative to sort things out, your perspective is impaired. In order to bring an open mind and open heart to the table, you'll need to address what's happening in your emotional body.

Although the emotions surfacing right now may feel calibrated to this novel situation, they probably have a taproot deep in your psyche. This isn't the first time in your life that you've felt unhappy about what's happening and uncertain about what's happening next. Chances are, then and now, you've ended up trying to manage your negative feelings with negative behaviors. In the long run, this doesn't work. As somatic healers know: when feelings come up and don't move on, they get tucked away and become the body's tension patterns. Based on this understanding, anywhere there's habitual tension, numbness, or agitation (forehead, jaw, stomach, chest, neck, and so forth), there'll be an emotional component.

Stored emotions play it forward. As you go through life, a random comment, piece of music, or certain smell can stir up old feelings. A movie, news item, or unexpected sound can bring up old traumas. Confronted with a worldwide pandemic and isolating protocols, it makes sense that your body would anchor down and go on high alert. Instead of trying to ignore what you're feeling, this is an opportunity to pay attention and do some emotional healing. If you feel comfortable, just ask the following questions with an open mind and listen to the answers with an open heart.

• "Where do I feel it?"
• "What does it feel like?"
• "What does it sound like?"
• "What does it look like?"

Staying focused on the physicality helps you identify the emotion without judgment or interpretation. Adding expression helps the emotional energy move out of your body, releasing in pure form. As Rachel Naomi Remen, MD says, "The only bad emotion is a stuck emotion.” Like weather coming and going, the natural state of all emotional energy is fluid and moving. Emotion= E+motion.

Dealing with E-motional Tension

1. Find a private time and place to sit quietly. Tune in to your body and get honest with what's going on. Where do you feel tension? Is your jaw clamped shut or tongue pushing against your teeth? Are your stomach, shoulder or calf muscles tight? If so, there's probably an emotional connection.
2. Without trying to construct a story or analyze the situation, notice how the tension pulls your body into a certain expression. What feeling does its shape imply? Your response will be very personal. For instance, a tight stomach might be linked to anxiety, anger, fear, or …? Just go with your first impression; don't try to over-think this.
3. On the next three exhales, make a sound that represents the tension. If the tone seems sad, mad, scared, maybe it is. Don't hold on or try to interpret it. Just let it go.
4. Now, use your hands to brush away the energetic residue; wiggle a bit to disengage any leftover tension. Don't worry about sending negative energy out into the world. Once released, there's no toxicity—it's just energy.
5. Pause. Take a moment to feel the peaceful opening where there was turmoil. Align your body-mind-spirit to be in this moment with clarity and compassion.

Following the outline above is one way to get your emotions moving and moving on out. Some other ways to deal with E-motional tension are going out for a brisk walk/ run, exercising strenuously, dancing with abandon, and working in the garden building up a sweat. And, as your body moves, breathe out the negative emotions and breathe in the positives.

Taking the time to heal your emotional body unblocks your neural circuitry. The results are tangible. Even if you're not triggered by something specific right now, just be aware of what's happening in your body when you listen to the morning news. If you end up feeling agitated, tense, or on hold, take some time to do some body-based emotional healing and evaluate the results. Once the E-motion got moving, were you more relaxed? Could you breathe more freely? Was it easier to stay in present time and be positive? Did clearing the energy lead to perspective, compassion, insight? Breaking up the blockage can be the breakthrough that helps you see the forest and the trees.

Maintaining emotional clarity in these turbulent times is an ongoing process. If your feelings get triggered along the way, get them moving and moving on out. Then, you can show up for what's happening with an open mind and open heart. Hearing what's being said, responding with compassion, and having spiritual perspective is especially important in times of upheaval and change. So, whenever you read something, watch something, or hear something that makes your body uncomfortable, it's asking you to do some emotional healing. And, when you walk away from a tough conversation, feeling anything other than interest or empathy, it's an opportunity to do some more.

Take the first step. Your commitment to healing makes it possible to show up and stand up for necessary changes. Whether about racial equality or environmental justice or reordering the dynamic of a personal relationship, the Covid-19 time-out has put us at a crossroads. As messy and uncomfortable as it may feel, remember: when feelings surface, a wound is ready to heal. Seen as a therapeutic process, clearing the fear, impatience, anger, despair, sadness, shame, and helplessness is a powerful way to embrace change. If we all take responsibility for our own healing, we can show up to tackle the big problems and make the big changes.

Please note: If you don't feel comfortable doing this alone, ask someone competent to help. If it's not the right time, put it off. Perhaps, diving in to the emotional stew is not for you. Adding the intention of clearing emotional energy to your regular practice of meditation, biofeedback, yoga, tai chi, or simple breathing exercises can achieve the same goal.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2020. All rights reserved.

My question is about a "lucid dream" experience I had about two years ago. I went on a little trip to San Diego with my boyfriend. We were staying at a friend's house, and I used to have problems sleeping in the same bed with other people, so I decided to get up in the middle of the night and sleep in another room. (As I write this I am getting a lump in my throat - breathe!) I knocked out and yet arrived at a state in which I was still waiting for sleep to come. My back was to the door, and I could feel this heat coming from the hallway, or maybe it was electricity. Then I was able to see a ball of fire energy come in. I was in a state of nervous anticipation the second before this ball entered my body, and when it did, it entered through my solar plexus. The next thing I knew, I was partially paralyzed, crawling in the hallway reaching out for help. I woke up very frightened! I can remember this so clearly, along with other dreams I have had where people I know and trust are performing electric energy healing on me. What is this for? I am a Capricorn born 01/05/82. Was this "dream" positive? Was it designed to rearrange my energy or was something trying to use or manipulate me? Thank you!

- Katherine

Dreamchaser:

Katherine, this experience must have been very scary for you, but I can assure you it was not negative.

Your question brings up so many points, I hope I have enough room to cover them all! The first is that all energy from other living beings (including those on the Otherside, as they are still living, just not in human form) enters our bodies through our solar plexus region. This is the space where your ribs meet. That is why we often say we have "butterflies" in our stomach when we are around some people. We can feel their energy in our solar plexus region. So this ball of energy was from a living entity of some kind, or it would NOT have entered your solar plexus; it would have come in through the top of your head or just simply surrounded you instead.

As I often explain here, when we sleep, our souls go to where they most need to go to heal from today and prepare for tomorrow. As a result, there is MUCH soul work going on while we are sleeping. You just happened to witness the actual work being done. Usually we wake up and feel refreshed and renewed and ready for the day, but are unaware of the healing work that has taken place while we slept that made us feel that way upon awakening. These people you say you trust that are doing energy work on you are absolutely helping you! They are helping you ascend to new spiritual heights.

As we live here on Earth, we naturally evolve. Our evolution is not like climbing a ladder, it is more like going up a spiral staircase. That is why the ancients (especially the ancient Celts) used spirals as spiritual symbols.

We learn the same basic lessons over and over, but we move to a higher level each time. For example, we learn first grade math, second grade math, etc., ever moving up and on. So when we learn lessons and evolve spiritually, everything inside of us needs to be tweaked and put on the same level.

Imagine a car. Now imagine that three of the four tires are inflated properly, but the fourth tire is very low on air. Will the car run properly, or will it be off balance?

It is basically the same with your soul. Just because your mind learns a lesson and is ready to evolve to the next level does not mean that every other aspect of you is ready as well. What you saw in your astral travels were entities adjusting ALL your parts to prepare for smooth ascension to the next level. No one was harming you in any way. It is quite the opposite actually - they were helping you.

I wish you deep sleep!

*****

Astrea:

Many people who lived past lives in Atlantis have had similar dreams in this Incarnation. People describe this experience in different ways, but often they include a ball of Light or a ball of Fire entering their bodies through the chest or solar plexus, moments of forgetfulness, and waking up in a different location from where they fell asleep. At the time they return to consciousness, they usually feel they have some trouble breathing. Often this experience has been associated with some illness that the person had that has miraculously disappeared or been cured, so there is healing taking place.

It has long been a belief of many people that the residents of Atlantis were way ahead of where modern science now stands in the Healing Arts. They were even said to be able to fly without assistance. Healing is a kind of "Flying." This type of experience is a good thing.

It might mean that a healing GIFT is being returned to the recipient of the Fire Ball Dream. You seem to be on a SPIRITUAL journey, so perhaps this gift was restored to you now for you to use for the rest of your life. You had this gift in many other Incarnations, but perhaps you weren't ready to use it in the right way until the time of your Lucid Dream in this one.

Either way, the Gift is yours now, and it's up to you to discover what it means, what effect it has on your life and what you're meant to do with it. If you find yourself disengaging from people who are a drain to you, it's because you can't afford to waste your energy on TAKERS any more. You're about to begin serving a Higher Purpose, and this can be a disconcerting lifestyle change for you!

Spend at least thirty minutes, twice a day, concentrating on that Ball of Light that is now residing within you, and it's meaning to YOU. Don't be afraid to open yourself up to the experience; it won't hurt you. This is a Life Force your Spirit is trying to integrate into your mind/body/Spirit, so let it into your Harmony.

Within a few months, the purpose of the Gift will be revealed to you through this meditation, and you'll be ready to use it to help yourself and others. It isn't the easiest responsibility to maintain the sort of HEALING EDGE that you'll have now, but you'll have to explore it so that you can understand it. Once you get used to this being a part of you, you won't remember who you were before you knew it was there. It will open your life to people and adventures that you never even dreamed were possible.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.