We often use phrases like, “Oh, she’s such a pain in the neck” or “My ex-boyfriend makes me sick in the stomach” or “My co-worker gives me a headache”! Well, they aren’t just phrases.
They have a connection to how negative emotions are stored in our body! Interesting, isn’t it? Do you want to leave your emotional “baggage” behind?
It’s hard, yes?
That’s why most of us carry our emotional baggage with us from year to year, allowing it to weigh us down and keep us mired in old memories, thoughts, emotions, and beliefs.
The brain dwells on the negative.
We don’t focus on positive memories and emotions. That means we bring fewer positive memories and emotions into our life and carry an ever larger and heavier suitcase of negativity with us.
You might change where you live, your relationships, jobs, health and fitness, or amount of wealth, but you don’t change.
You are still focused on your old experiences and emotions.
As a result, you brought along the old emotional baggage, opened the suitcase, unpacked, and surrounded yourself with all those thoughts and feelings as before. To create change, you start by not carrying around all that old emotional baggage.
Negative feelings connected to a certain circumstance can manifest as pain.
A lot of you must have gone through painful and difficult things in your lives.
These experiences tend to stay in your mind for a very long time.
This is referred to as emotional baggage, and it means that you are still struggling with unresolved emotions and holding onto pain, sadness, regret, and rage.
This “Baggage” doesn’t go away.
It can affect the way you think, how you react to stress, and your relationship with others, your physical and mental well-being.The Time Is NOW, For ALL Our Sakes.
Releasing Symbolically.
Every week, I symbolically release what I don’t want to bring into the new week. Some only do this every New Year! I make a list, which might include things like:
• anger (at [name] and in general)
• Resentment toward [name or situation]
• lack consciousness
• my fear of [something]
• all the memories and thought related to the incidents covered in the news from the past year
• Back pain
• Thyroid issues
• Etc.
Then I perform a Fire Ceremony with a stick or piece of paper and release that to the fire. (See my other Blog on this).
I intentionally and energetically release these things I don’t want any longer.
I pray, bless and do this ceremony with a power greater than myself to leave them in the past.
The symbolic and energetic release is powerful, and I know setting that intention is a powerful act.
That’s what the Fire Ceremony represents. The intention is to leave these things in the past. And I know Source (God, Spirit or Creator) responds to that intention.
However, after mentally focusing on the items on that list for weeks, months, or years, and doing so with a lot of emotion, it often takes more than one intentional action to see or feel a difference.
Do Something Different.
For that reason, you often need to actively, consciously, intentionally commit to releasing the old baggage regularly. You must consistently do something different.
Specifically, you must stop focusing on the past and feeding the emotions that correspond with those events and experiences.
That’s the challenging part of leaving your emotional baggage at the curb. You’ve trained your brain to think about past events and experiences.
Those thoughts trigger emotions in your body.
To change that, you must retrain your mind to focus on the positive aspects of your past, the present moment, and the future you desire.
Each time you move your thoughts from the past to the present—or even the future, you demonstrate your commitment to intentionally leave your baggage behind.
If you do this often enough, the old memories and emotions become less pronounced and prevalent in your experience.
Eventually, you won’t think about the incident or feel the emotion unless you choose to do so.
This process is about choice.
You choose where to focus your attention and decide what thoughts to think.
And that makes it possible to choose what you feel. When you do this, you begin eliminating past events or emotions from that suitcase you’ve been carrying around. You might even drop them in the rubbish bin.
Ways to Empty Your Emotional Baggage
As I said, it can feel challenging to drop emotional baggage.
That’s why so many people take their suitcases filled with memories and emotions with them…no matter where they go.
They get used to lugging those heavy bags through life.
Keeping those events and emotions close at hand feels safe and comfortable.
Letting them go, like getting rid of a faded and loved pair of jeans, feels like a loss.
Even if those jeans no longer fit, it’s hard to get rid of them.
They are uncomfortable to wear, but you try to fit into them anyway because you’ve been wearing them for years.
But you don’t have to fit into those uncomfortable past events and emotions any longer.
You don’t have to keep the mementos of painful events around as reminders any longer.
There are ways to empty your emotional baggage, so the load gets lighter and the bags smaller.
You might, for instance, try one of the following strategies:
1. Hire a therapist. Today the best form of therapy is Shamanic Energy Medicine.
It requires working with a trained professional to understand and release your past.
2. Find a support group. Depending upon the baggage you are carrying, you might find a support group run by therapist works well for lightening the load.
These groups tend to revolve around one issue, like anger or grief. You could also try a “women’s or men’s group.”
3. Hypnotherapy. Go to a trained Clinical Hypnotherapist.
Hypnosis is a fabulous way to reprogram your subconscious mind, which can help you let go of and change old memories or associated emotional triggers and reactions. 4. Releasing Emotional Baggage
We often use phrases like, “Oh, she’s such a pain in the neck” or “My ex-boyfriend makes me sick in the stomach” or “My co-worker gives me a headache”! Well, they aren’t just phrases. They have a connection to how negative emotions are stored in our body! Interesting, isn’t it?
Do you want to leave your emotional “baggage” behind?
It’s hard, yes?
That’s why most of us carry our emotional baggage with us from year to year, allowing it to weigh us down and keep us mired in old memories, thoughts, emotions, and beliefs.
The brain dwells on the negative. We don’t focus on positive memories and emotions.
That means we bring fewer positive memories and emotions into our life and carry an ever larger and heavier suitcase of negativity with us.
You might change where you live, your relationships, jobs, health and fitness, or amount of wealth, but you don’t change.
You are still focused on your old experiences and emotions. As a result, you brought along the old emotional baggage, opened the suitcase, unpacked, and surrounded yourself with all those thoughts and feelings as before.
To create change, you start by not carrying around all that old emotional baggage.
Negative feelings connected to a certain circumstance can manifest as pain. A lot of you must have gone through painful and difficult things in your lives. These experiences tend to stay in your mind for a very long time. This is referred to as emotional baggage, and it means that you are still struggling with unresolved emotions and holding onto pain, sadness, regret, and rage.
This “Baggage” doesn’t go away. It can affect the way you think, how you react to stress, and your relationship with others, your physical and mental well-being.
The Time Is NOW, For ALL Our Sakes.
Releasing Symbolically
Every year on New Year’s Eve, I symbolically release what I don’t want to bring into the new year. I make a list, which might include things like:
• Anger (at [name] and in general)
• Resentment toward [name or situation]
• Lack consciousness
• My fear of [something]
• All the memories and thought related to the incidents covered in the news from the past year
• Back pain
• Thyroid issues
• Etc.
Then I perform a Fire Ceremony with a stick or piece of paper and release that to the fire.
I intentionally and energetically release these things I don’t want any longer. I pray to a power greater than myself to leave them in the past.
The symbolic and energetic release is powerful, and I know setting that intention is a powerful act. That’s what the Fire Ceremony represents.
The intention is to leave these things in the past. And I know Source (God, Spirit or Creator) responds to that intention.
However, after mentally focusing on the items on that list for weeks, months, or years, and doing so with a lot of emotion, it often takes more than one intentional action to see or feel a difference.
Do Something Different
For that reason, you often need to actively, consciously, intentionally commit to releasing the old baggage regularly. You must consistently do something different. Specifically, you must stop focusing on the past and feeding the emotions that correspond with those events and experiences.
That’s the challenging part of leaving your emotional baggage at the curb. You’ve trained your brain to think about past events and experiences. Those thoughts trigger emotions in your body. To change that, you must retrain your mind to focus on the positive aspects of your past, the present moment, or the future you desire.
Each time you move your thoughts from the past to the present—or even the future, you demonstrate your commitment to intentionally leave your baggage behind. If you do this often enough, the old memories and emotions become less pronounced and prevalent in your experience. Eventually, you won’t think about the incident or feel the emotion unless you choose to do so.
This process is about choice. You choose where to focus your attention and decide what thoughts to think. And that makes it possible to choose what you feel.
When you do this, you begin eliminating past events or emotions from that suitcase you’ve been carrying around. You might even drop them in the rubbish bin.
5 Ways to Empty Your Emotional Baggage
As I said, it can feel challenging to drop emotional baggage. That’s why so many people take their suitcases filled with memories and emotions with them…no matter where they go. They get used to lugging those heavy bags through life.
Keeping those events and emotions close at hand feels safe and comfortable. Letting them go, like getting rid of a faded and loved pair of jeans, feels like a loss. Even if those jeans no longer fit, it’s hard to get rid of them. They are uncomfortable to wear, but you try to fit into them anyway because you’ve been wearing them for years.
But you don’t have to fit into those uncomfortable past events and emotions any longer. You don’t have to keep the mementos of painful events around as reminders any longer.
There are ways to empty your emotional baggage, so the load gets lighter and the bags smaller. You might, for instance, try one of the following strategies:
1. Hire a therapist. Today the best form of therapy is Energy Medicine. It requires working with a trained professional to understand and release your past.
2. Find a support group. Depending upon the baggage you are carrying, you might find a support group run by therapist works well for lightening the load. These groups tend to revolve around one issue, like anger or grief. You could also try a “women’s or men’s group.”
3. Try hypnosis. Go to a trained Clinical Hypnotherapist. Hypnosis is a fabulous way to reprogram your subconscious mind, which can help you let go of and change old memories or associated emotional triggers and reactions.
4. Visualize yourself living without emotional baggage.
Visualization does a great job of reprogramming the mind as well.
Imagine what you and your life will be like when you no longer have the emotional baggage. 5. Act as if you are a person with no emotional baggage. Be that person who has already emptied out the suitcase and thrown away its contents. If you had no emotional baggage, how would you behave? How would you act? Do that now.
6. Perform a Fire Ceremony. This works for rapid transformation. It has been used to rid negativity and enhance our lives for hundreds of years. Imagine that you pack up your negative thoughts, experiences, and emotions and put them in black garbage bags. See yourself putting them by the curb and driving away unencumbered by any of that in your future.
Of course, you can keep those large suitcases that you used to carry your past forward with you.
Now that they are empty, fill them with all the positive memories and emotions of your life.
A bag like that will never feel heavy and is well worth carrying into the future.
It is time.
Time to rid yourself of any and all negative emotional baggage.
Need help with this?
Contact me for more information.
In Munay,
Jamie