How to process emotions.
Bernistadt Tomlinson here for a short little talk about how to process your emotions as they come up.
The best thing that you can do for yourself is to simply sit and acknowledge what you're feeling.
Name it.
Name that emotion and understand why it's coming through in the situation.
Why is it here?
Why do I feel this way?
What is this telling me?
Is this bringing something up from my past?
And allow those answers to just kind of come up and rise.
Allow yourself to feel it.
The emotion that you're feeling brings tears.
Allow those tears to fall.
Tears are a form of release and a form of healing.
If anger is what's coming up and frustration,
Hit a pillow.
Scream into a pillow.
Anger is best processed by some sort of physical activity.
When you allow yourself to acknowledge these feelings,
You own them.
And by owning them,
You're able to process and allow them to pass through your body normally.
So once you've gone through that step of acknowledging,
Naming,
And understanding why it's coming up and what it might be bringing up for you and the reason for it,
With your hand on your heart,
Offer all the grace and kindness to your body for what it's doing,
For processing this emotion.
And then send infinite love and gratitude to this heart space for what you're feeling,
For acknowledging.
And this is how you help process these emotions and to let them process normally and naturally and they pass.
When we feel like we can't handle what's happening or we can't deal with this right now,
That's when we can trap the stuff that comes up.
If we try to push it away or compartmentalize it and lock that door,
We're trapping that negative energy,
Those emotions in our body.
And all those negative emotions and that negative energy then becomes part of your operating program,
Becomes part of your thoughts and your feelings and your perceptions,
Your actions and the way you respond.
And the only way you can get rid of it once it's trapped in your body is by acknowledging you have it and letting it go,
Releasing.
So it's vital to process your emotions as they come up.
And that,
My friend,
Is how you take part of your healing and how you take part in moving forward to becoming an emotionally healthy version of you.
Namaste.
