HOW WE REPRESS EMOTIONS
When we have an experience that we find painful or difficult, and are either unable to cope with the pain, or just afraid of it, we often dismiss this emotion and either get busy, exercise more, drink or eat a bit more, or just pretend it has not happened. When we do this we do not feel the emotion and this results in what is called repressed, suppressed or buried emotions. These feelings stay in our muscles, ligaments, stomach, midriff and energy field. These emotions remain buried within us until we bring that emotion up and feel the emotion, thus releasing it. Emotions that are buried on the long-term are the emotions that normally cause physical illness.
The following are a few examples of the methods people use to avoid feeling their emotions:
Ignoring your feelings
Pretending something hasn’t happened
Overeating
Eating foods loaded with sugar and fat
Excessive drinking of alcohol
Excessive use of recreational drugs
Using prescription drugs such as tranquilizers or Prozac
Exercising compulsively
Any type of compulsive behaviour
Excessive sex with or without a partner
Always keeping busy so you can’t feel
Constant intellectualising and analyzing
Excessive reading or TV
Working excessively
Keeping conversations superficial
Burying angry emotions under the mask of peace and love
SYMPTOMS OF REPRESSED EMOTIONS
It takes a lot of energy to keep emotions repressed and buried. If you keep emotions buried for a long period of time, you lower your overall vibrations, and lower vibrations lead to illness and an accelerated ageing process. Buried emotions create fatigue and depression. The following re some major symptoms of buried and repressed emotions:
Fatigue
Depression without an apparent cause
Speaking of issues/interests rather tan person matters and feelings
Pretending something doesn’t matter when inside it does matter
Rarely talking about your feelings
Blowing up over minor incidents
Walking around with a knot in your stomach or tightness in your throat
Feeling your anger not at the time something happens but a few days later
In relationships, focusing discussions on children/money rather than talking about yourselves
Difficulty talking about yourself
Troubled personal relationships with family, friends, acquaintances
A lack of ambition or motivation
Lethargic – who cares attitude
Difficulty accepting yourself and others
Laughing on the outside whilst crying on the inside