Through the Heart

Why have we been so intent on trying to heal trauma and emotional wounds using our minds?

Journaling, talking, sharing our stories, explaining how we feel, pulling it all apart through dialogue and trying to piece it back together differently so it doesn’t hurt anymore.

But it doesn’t really work effectively, does it?

It's cathartic, and important to gain the awareness of why you're showing up in the way that you are. But that's all it gives you.

Which is why these types of therapies are ongoing, long term, and a superficial momentary solution, skimming the surface but leaving the root cause deeply embedded so we continue to be triggered with our unresolved trauma.

And the reason it takes so long to try and heal this way, is that our emotions live in our physical body, not in our minds.

Did you know that the heart is actually more intelligent than the brain, and that the heart sends more messages to the brain than the brain sends to the heart?

True.

And the electromagnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times greater than that of the brain. Our feeling state (emotions) governs our subconscious mind, not the other way around. So if we are telling ourselves consciously that we are worthy, loved and deserving, yet our emotional body feels shame and abandonment, then our heart and brain are not aligned and we are never going to find ourselves truly feeling worthy and loved, cancelling out any chance at manifesting these feelings and experiences in to our lives.

To truly align our emotional body with our conscious and subconscious minds, we need to nurture and heal our emotional body first and foremost. This clears limiting beliefs from our subconscious mind and recalibrates and rebalances our heart and soul connection.

How do you do this?

You need to feel.

You cannot cognitively process emotions, it simply doesn’t work that way. It’s impossible. I mean, sure, sharing your trauma and emotions with someone can feel liberating, because after all, a problem shared is a problem halved. But it only serves to create an awareness of your emotional pain, giving you an understanding of what you are feeling and perhaps why. It doesn’t shift, release or heal your emotions.

You see, your mind does not control your emotional body. You can’t ‘think’ your way out of feeling something, which is why positive affirmations and other mindset shifting processes only contribute to emotional bypassing rather than emotional healing.

So how do you heal your emotional wounds and trauma?

You feel them. Yes, I keep saying this, stay with me.

Admittedly, most people don’t want to feel, and rightly so. These emotions are big, heavy, uncomfortable, confronting, painful. That’s the whole reason we suppress them and try to avoid feeling them right?

Our physical body and subconscious mind work together tirelessly to keep us safe from having to feel this pain. We create stories and beliefs, we respond and react in ways to deflect and bypass feeling these deep emotions. And this does serve to keep us safe in the beginning, at the time of experiencing our trauma, when we don’t feel safe or supported to process the emotions. But it’s not sustainable. It actually becomes exhausting. And then there comes a time when it no longer serves us. When the coping mechanisms, responses, beliefs and stories begin to stifle us, holding us back, suffocating us, blocking us from expanding, growing and experiencing a life of joyful relationships and abundant opportunities.

It takes more energy to hold and suppress the emotional pain than it does to actually feel, process and release it. That’s a fact.

Once you journey within and allow yourself to feel your emotional wounds, to embody them and process them, you realise the intensity and weight that those emotions have been burdening your physical body with. Emotions are energy in motion. They are meant to be felt, processed and released, NOT stored. When we hold on to them, they begin to create dis-ease in our body, attracting illness, disharmony, pain and ailments.

So in order to heal from emotional wounds and trauma, you have to go within, dismantle the protective shield you have barricaded around your heart, and journey to the dark spaces that hold your pain. You need to allow yourself to witness this, to rise and meet your wounded self head on, with compassion, with forgiveness.

And you need to feel it. You need to feel it all, with your whole body, without analysing, without judging, simply immersing yourself in the emotion without fear. Because the thing is, you cannot get stuck in emotions. It’s impossible, because emotions flow, they move, shift, release. You can physically feel them shifting around your body during a healing session with me. Clients are blown away by this. And it’s a great reminder of the weight that those emotions have been burdening your body with. Once you begin to feel and process the emotions, they begin to subside, to fade, to release. And it’s the most glorious and liberating feeling you can ever imagine.

There is so much clarity, space, light and expansion after you heal an emotional wound. It brings peace, joy, higher perception and expanded awareness.

But you must first trust yourself, give yourself permission to feel and find the courage to journey within. Because no one can do this for you. No one. Only you know the pain you carry in your heart, and only you can journey within to release it.

Remember that you are divinely supported and healing your heart is what your soul has been waiting for.

You can do this. Trust.

xx

If you’re ready to be supported and guided within to begin or deepen your healing journey, then I'm here for you, to clear, heal and expand your consciousness.

You can connect with me here.