Daily Mystic Messages - The Floodgates
We experience a lot of emotions throughout any given day.
Throughout our lifetimes, we have these emotional experiences, many of them are highly charged- particularly if you've had some kind of trauma in your life. It then sets up this pattern wherein the emotions don't typically get addressed. I don't necessarily want to say processed, but addressed in a clear and straightforward way.
Over time, these emotions tend to get tucked away and they get tucked away in our body, they get tucked away in our energy, and they act as a kind of landmine in there. Like boobytraps.
That's the definition of a trigger. Someone says something and all of a sudden we just have this reaction to it and it can be kind of scary when we see ourselves reacting in a way that is maybe angry or just really hurt, or just really hits something inside of us.
That brings up a ton of unexpected emotions and that's a scary place to be. And that is something that we really want to consider, the fear of the unknown, of this internal world.
You know yourself better than anybody and there are all these unknown areas of us and they get tucked away in these dark places and then buried with other stuff and you think about maybe diving into that.
And it's like we don't really know, or allow ourselves to actually feel what's going on.
Some of the thoughts that come up around that will be, “Hey, if I open up to my feelings, it's like opening Pandora's box, who knows what's going to happen”.
Or, “If I let myself really feel my sadness I'll just cry forever”.
Or, “If I open up to my anger I could just tear my life apart or tear somebody apart”.
It can be so intense in reality when we give ourselves an opportunity to just be with our emotions. When we deal with what's going on inside with patience and some objectivity, we can actually be more attuned to what is going on there.
What are the emotions protecting, what's really happening inside?
I guarantee you're not going to cry forever and that if you give yourself the space to deal with some of the anger, that you will be able to address it in a much more productive way, a way that's not so destructive which is often what happens with anger.
A couple of things will happen when you slow down enough to just allow yourself this space.
One is that you actually get to feel how that is in your energy, how it is in your body where that's been tucked away. It gives us a chance to just be with that and surprisingly, it tends to start to release really quickly.
Secondly, it gives us a chance to address it within ourselves, certainly just to be able to express it to ourselves, but also if we're having that around other people or with other people, then we can communicate our emotions much more clearly rather than just reacting. And we can invite conversation around it which is always more connective rather than reacting, which is the opposite of that, which is creating a disconnection.
So our mantra for today is "Slow is the new fast."
Give yourself a chance to actually notice what's going on inside of you. And we'll take it from there. Have an awesome day.