E-motion: Where It Can Come From and Where It Actually Goes

Life already contains so many unknowns and can even be a little shaky sometimes, so when we start talking about even more things that can’t be seen, like energy and the energy of things, it might occur ungrounded and “out there” to some. What’s more, we humans are wonderful at being story tellers and finding ways to explain our experience of this world and life. Those of us who are evidence-based in our thinking may recognize that there is a tendency among humans to create realities that help us understand dthings, but also that help us feel better. So when we start talking about “all things being energy” or “energy work,” to some it might occur as though we are potentially making things up where they don’t exist. Keeping “two feet on the ground” so-to-speak can feel like a better, more realistic alternative.

I used to be only a “see it first to believe” person. I needed tangible evidence before I was willing to believe something as possibly true. That was over 20 years ago and it remains as important to me in my discernment as it ever was. However I had to also learn to suspend disbelief to allow myself to embrace my gifts and subsequently be trained in modalities that truly worked for me.

I have spent what is now in the multiple tens of thousands of hours observing the integration of emotions, energy and consciousness, within myself and in others in sessions. Energy has become an area of mastery for me, though my younger self would never have expected that was where I was headed.

Over time patterns consistently emerged in the work that were consistent enough to rely on as likely, or potential truths.

To be sure, as technology and machinery is developed to be used in scientific experiments, we can put these patterns to further testing. However, to be fair, until something is invented that filters our vision to see the energy moving among things (for those of us who can’t see energy naturally already), we must rely on consistent observational information, ideally that is gathered over long periods of time, with hopefully as little ego or emotional bias as possible.

So let’s talk about the practical applications of energy, beyond even using it as a practitioner for healing purposes.

Let’s talk emotions. Where do they come from? Well, they come from us to begin with. We are the source. (We’ll set aside any of the nuances where we can be absorbing energy from others for now.)

We can generate emotions from thoughts, but we can (if one wanted to) also just generate emotions from nothing. That is, if love or anger didn’t exist within us before, we can actually create it within, rather quickly. Not just from when a trigger occurs, but as generated newly, from nothing, as a choice.

But sometimes, as many of us have observed, there is no trigger, and we are not generating it, but an emotion starts to come from somewhere. Where is the experience itself coming from?

It is commonly believed that we store all of those emotions in the body. Sometimes that is true. Emotions can get stuck in the body when energy is not flowing through certain body parts, and then it is indeed, stored in the body. The movement of that emotion gets stopped and then it can just stay there. When a practitioner or healer who works on the body of another person, the stored energy or stored emotion within part of the body or an organ can get moved, and as such a healing could occur.

It is fair that in psychology we might believe there is always a trigger of some kind, however have you ever just had an emotion rise up through you? And if you’re sensitive enough to the energy and experience, you identify that it is actually coming from …below you?

When we do the kind of practice that works with the energy of emotion, the active practice is to in fact, allow the emotion in toward you, from outside your body. The emotion comes from your own field around you, and then into your body. When we are accessing emotions and consciousness that is not readily right there in our experience, yes, certainly sometimes we are drawing from emotion within us already, perhaps that has been stuck. But when we start to do work to proactively access our unprocessed emotions we more often find they are outside of us, and need to be invited in to then be worked with.

This gives us the practice of Integration.

However, there are guidelines to this practice and how to best take care of yourself, so being aware of the knowledge of this doesn’t mean one should force or pull something in toward themselves. In fact, force and pulling is the opposite of the mechanism of the work.

So again, where do these emotions and consciousness come from? Why are they in our field?

In very short form for now, we pushed those emotions out there.

Pushing our emotions (and consciousness) away from us can happen because those emotions could have been generated before we knew how to process them. Or perhaps we were actually taught to push them away, even if we weren’t clear on how we were doing that. If it was due to something traumatic, or perhaps even non-traumatic but our attention was 100% required for action or to handle something, we are realistically not usually able to process and integrate everything in the moment. Grief is also often a time when we simply are not able to process all the emotions arising in the moment, or even be aware of what is happening in our psyche that is causing emotion to be generated. This is again because there can be so much emotion in a time of grieving that we can only work with it all bit by bit as we go, or if we feel we have to be strong for some reason, again we push it away. There can be many reasons emotions end up in our field. One last very simple reason is because, it can take a lot of intention and attention to process every emotion as it’s being generated.

When we begin to understand emotions (and consciousness) as having energy and we become interesting in accessing more of our healing, we can enter into a healthy and intentional practice of allowance and integration. Allowance and integration as an intentional practice is highly energetic in nature, even if it’s not acknowledged as such. To allow an emotion to move through us is to allow the energy of that emotional experience to move through us.

For those who are still reticent of the idea of it being energy, it might be because the very nature of tapping into the energy of something can be vast and expansive. Completely understood. It also might be there is an overwhelm by the unknown of it all, and very validly, keeping things in a space of “known” does in fact keep the energy more contained. Containment of energy in a sense is actually a valuable part of the practice though! At least in so far as closing the work when it is done. Opening up our consciousness so that new important information can come in to us is good, but we don’t want to keep things open at all times in all moments everywhere. That sets us up for potential misalignment.

To help you simplify and ground the concept for now, anything to do with energy work, no matter what it is, including the integrative practices of working with emotions and consciousness, should be designed to be started and finished, or closed, with intentionality. Then there is anchoring and groundedness as we go about our lives, in a very practical way, with two feet still on the ground.

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