{"id":7523,"date":"2015-03-11T23:25:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T23:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2015-03-11T23:25:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T23:25:28","slug":"free-your-energy-with-4-steps-to-release-blocked-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/?p=7523","title":{"rendered":"Free Your Energy with 4 Steps to Release Blocked Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are your emotions blocking your Energy?<\/p>\n

Energy is not limited, it\u2019s an infinite resource which I wrote about \u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0 Yet often we feel as if our energy is limited.\u00a0 Life can feel hard or tiresome.<\/p>\n

If energy isn’t limited why does it sometimes feel that way?<\/p>\n

Feeling as if you have little energy is about your ability to be open and receptive.\u00a0 When energy isn’t allowed to flow through you…when your energy is blocked…it feels as if you have no energy.\u00a0 You often feel tired, physically out of sorts and with no zest for life.<\/p>\n

What blocks your energy?<\/h3>\n

Suppressed emotion.\"Emotions<\/a><\/p>\n

As children we\u2019re often shut down when we express emotions.\u00a0 \u201cDon\u2019t cry or I\u2019ll give you something to cry about.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cBig boys\/girls don\u2019t cry.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cDon\u2019t be sad, you\u2019ll make mommy\/daddy sad.\u201d \u201cThere, there don\u2019t cry.\u201d\u2026 and the list goes on.\u00a0 This isn’t limited to sadness, grief or anger.\u00a0 Often children who are in amazing states of joy<\/i> are told to \u201cbe quiet\u201d or \u201csimmer down\u201d.<\/p>\n

The bigger message behind our caregiver\u2019s inability to allow us our tears or laughter is the unspoken message: it\u2019s not okay to express what you feel\u2026you\u2019re feelings are wrong.<\/i>\u00a0 And too easily this is translated by a child as \u201cI am wrong\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n

This isn’t about blame; our caregivers were only repeating what they learned.\u00a0 This is about understanding the unconscious beliefs we hold about expressing emotions which leads to repressing them and blocking our energy.<\/p>\n

Repeated messages to contain our emotions leads us to eventually stop expressing them.<\/p>\n

We put a lid on our emotions and that\u2019s where the trouble begins.<\/h3>\n

Emotions are energy in motion.<\/p>\n

Emotion is a real, live energy that is expressed through the body.\u00a0 Imagine water flowing through a pipe then someone puts a cork in the middle of the pipe.\u00a0 The water cannot move through.\u00a0 More water comes in and meets the water blocked by the cork.\u00a0 Eventually, the pipe breaks (think explosive melt down) or the system shuts down and no more water can come through (depression, apathy, illness).<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s face it; we live in a society that wants to pretend everything is peachy keen.<\/h3>\n

Facebook is filled with pictures of your friends all having a wonderful life.\u00a0 It is the rare post that says \u201ctoday I feel like crap and want to lose myself in a bag of Cheetos and Say Yes to the Dress<\/i> reruns\u201d.\u00a0 No we don\u2019t say that because we have been taught being sad is not acceptable.\u00a0 Women with strong emotions are referred to as hysterical or imbalanced\u2026as if emotions are a bad thing.\u00a0 Sure, some people create more drama in their lives than is necessary but truth be told, there\u2019s a lot more repression going on than expression.<\/p>\n

When we suppress the energy of emotion it becomes stuck in our body.<\/h3>\n

Body workers have long understood that emotions, especially from traumas can live in areas of the body and during massage or energy work, the emotions can be released.\u00a0 There are other ways to release these stuck emotions too.\u00a0 Here are four simple steps to help you.<\/p>\n

Four Steps to Releasing Stuck Emotion<\/h2>\n

Step 1) Awareness<\/strong>:\u00a0 It begins with awareness.\u00a0 Being conscious of what emotions are in your body by being present.<\/p>\n

Step 2) Detach:<\/strong> The next step is to let go of any stories you have around those emotions.\u00a0 This isn’t about WHY you feel this way.<\/p>\n

Step 3) Consciously feel and release:<\/strong> Allow the emotions to be pure physical energy that you can release.\u00a0 Breathe into the physical feeling and through the breath allow it to be released.<\/p>\n

Step 4) Keep the pipe flowing freely:<\/strong>\u00a0 As you go forward, become aware of emotions as they arise and allow them to be expressed or at minimum felt so they can be released to keep your energy flowing.<\/p>\n

There is a saying that I find true.\u00a0 \u201cIn order to heal it, you need to feel it\u201d.<\/strong>\u00a0 And this doesn’t mean you have to go back and rehash traumas, but you do need to acknowledge the trapped emotion by feeling it.<\/p>\n

The process is much simpler than you might imagine with remarkable benefits.<\/p>\n

When your energy flows, you feel excited about life.<\/h3>\n

You enjoy robust physical health<\/h3>\n

More abundance flows into your life too.<\/h3>\n

Life is Good.<\/h3>\n

If you want to learn more about how to manage your emotions and your energy, join me for my Illumination Program<\/a>, 6 week teleclass that begins March 26th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Special pricing is available for a limited time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are your emotions blocking your Energy? Energy is not limited, it\u2019s an infinite resource which I wrote about \u00a0here.\u00a0 Yet often we feel as if our energy is limited.\u00a0 Life can feel hard or tiresome. If energy isn’t limited why does it sometimes feel that way? Feeling as if you have little energy is about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry","has-post-thumbnail","gs-1","gs-odd","gs-even","gs-featured-content-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}