dIGESTING EMOTIONS

Digesting stored emotions and becoming free.

Many of my conversations this week were about old buried emotions resurfacing, not always pleasant but perhaps the time is right to learn how to release, process and digest old emotions with more skill and ease.

I am studying and experimenting with a process of digesting these old emotions, I love the word digesting,  it’s practical and easy to imagine the process.

So take a typical Sunday emotion, Sundays are great days for emotions to come up as we are a little less hurried, a little less organised. Let’s go with a general feeling of unease, unsettled, or even a little insecure. There might be no obvious reason for this feeling and we may be tempted to brush it aside or even a bigger temptation to start thinking about it, to try and figure it out, and end up down a rabbit hole.

What if all this feeling needed was a little attention from you, a little energy so that it can move out of its stuck place and move onwards? You might say I am giving it attention,  but I mean is a particular type of attention.

Question: What do you mean by a particular type of attention?

Answer: You can give it your presence, your peace, your power

Question: What do you mean by presence exactly?

Answer: The part of you that is peaceful and powerful

 Question: How do I bring myself into my presence?

Answer: This presence is within you at all times but it is drowned out my so many things. The easiest analogy is that it is like a radio channel that you can tune into by taking some slower deeper breaths, and bring the focus inwards. It’s a slowing and a calming of your whole system. From this calmness there is real capacity to be with anything that arrives including old stored emotions.

We know all of this, and have likely done this many times, but there is a little part that we may have overlooked (speaking from my own experience). The part that results in you feeling lighter, freer, and more powerful in the face of future emotions that need digesting.

This special part of the process digests the emotion and moves it out of your system. The simplest way to describe it is coming into your calm, safe internal space. Continuing to calmly breathe is really helpful to encourage this sense of internal safety. From this safe place, there is capacity to be with whatever is happening right now, including any emotion that may arise. 

All an emotion needs to feel safe to show itself, safe to be felt.   

How many times in your life have you felt truly safe for all your emotions to arise? We tend to think of being with safe people who can truly hold space for us, but we don’t often think about if from the point of view of being safe within ourselves for our emotions to surface, to be seen, felt and digested.  

By bringing safety into our own system, aided by calm and slow breathing and being more in our bodies, we are in a place where we can actually feel more, as opposed to thinking more about our emotions.

 Feeling an emotion is not a long, drawn-out, painful exercise; consider it as a two-part process, part one is you, the safe container, calmly breathing and being aware. The second part is like an inner child that is feeling an emotion that needs your attention to help them through the emotion.

A practical and safe way to actually move and digest those emotions

17/02/26