Embrace Your Emotions: The Key to Unlocking Emotional Mastery on Your Path to Wholeness
In this post, we're going to dive into how we can become more aware of, acknowledge, and allow emotions to flow.
This can assist in personal growth and contribute to a greater understanding of yourself while on your self-love journey.
We'll discuss:
One of the best ways to release emotional indicators.
7 Stages to bring more awareness to processing emotional indicators more easily.
How to notice when you are limiting your emotional indicators
Insightful journal prompts and action items to support you in uncovering emotional clarity
Discovering Your Emotional Outlet: Finding the Best Form of Release for Your Emotions
The best form of release for emotions is to experience it fully.
You must allow the emotion to flow. It must flow through you. To release the emotion, you allow it to do what it is meant to and move on.
If you try to stop unwanted feelings, they will remain stagnant in the body. The emotional response will somehow force itself through and be seen in your life. Whether physically or mentally. You have to accept it and feel it fully allow it to work through you, and it will naturally release once it has its opportunity to alert you and be seen.
The emotion will move on if it is allowed to do what it is intended to do, alerting you.
It cannot flow through you completely if you resist and try to push it down or out. It will get stuck and stay present until it reaches you. Until you acknowledge why it’s here and what it is trying to be shared with you.
Unlocking Emotional Awareness: Navigating the 7 Stages of Processing Emotional Indicators
Acknowledge that the emotion is present.
Allow it to be
Ask it why it’s here with you now if it is not apparent to you why the emotion is present.
Journal through it if needed. Talk to your emotions and yourself like you would a best friend. Ask what you need to move forward (kindly). Have a conversation with yourself instead of avoidance.
Thank it for showing you what you need to see at this time!
Don’t dwell on it
Allow it to flow on
Emotions don’t want to be held onto; they don’t want to be stuck in your body or mind.
Emotions = energy in motion. They want to flow. They are indicators! Not meant to be constant states of being.
Use the indicator to help as an alert system to your current state of being.
When you avoid and run from a negative emotion, it will chase you in some ways. The present emotion has a message that it is desperately trying to get to you, so it will be very persistent, often becoming more and more aggressive within you. Until you stop, acknowledge and address what the indicator is telling you.
Emotional Clarity: Recognizing Between Dwelling and Free-Flowing Feelings
If thoughts are involved, you could be dwelling.
The emotion is moving if it is raw and has no thoughts involved.
For example, think of watching a movie, and it triggers an emotion. Laughter, crying, anger, etc.
You really aren’t thinking about it; you are just feeling. The feelings that come just come and go. After the movie is finished, we typically don’t hold on to the feelings.
If you are thinking, you are in your mind dwelling, and that dwelling is feeding the emotions of the same kind. The thought took the lead, which generated more of that emotion.
At times, emotions and thoughts overlap. The goal is awareness. Be aware of when you are moving into dwelling so you can shift your perspective and feel and release freely.
However, If an emotion comes in raw, allow it to move and flow as needed.
This does not always equal acting out said emotion, depending on what it is, of course.
This may just need to be your internal acceptance of the emotion. Not the outward expression of the emotion.
If you are confused about why the emotion is here and what it needs to move on. Ask your needed questions and journal them out. Be open to the answer you will receive. It may not always be what you wanted to hear but it will be the truth you may need in the moment.
Empowering Practices: Journal Prompts and Action Steps for Emotional Clarity
Journaling Prompts:
What emotions are predominantly conveyed in your daily life?
Are you living in fear, anger, or anxiety? Are you living in trust, peace, or happiness??
How do you choose to live your day?
Why? What has caused this predominant emotional state?
There is no right or wrong. Do this consideration without judgment or comparison. Just be honest with yourself and bring awareness to what is.
What do you want your predominant emotional state to be if it is different from your current state?
What would you need to live that, in this moment?
Action Items:
Embrace the now!
With the understanding that now is all we have and longing for certain conditions that are unknown or have not come to fruition will only prolong what you can experience now at this moment!
Do not focus on your perceived external circumstances.
How can you lean into and feel how you want to at this moment, just as you are?
What actions can you incorporate right now?
1) Take a moment and make a choice on what it is you want your predominant emotions to be
2) Make a comment to feel, acknowledge, process, and release the emotional indicators that do come up that are not in line with the dominant feelings you want to live in.
They are all there for a reason.
3) Practice makes perfect! Give yourself grace! When you notice you are dwelling, release that which does not serve you and choose to embody that which you want to live in. The more awareness you bring, the easier it becomes to navigate.
This is a process. We are human! Emotional triggers will pop up all over the place!
They are supposed to. They are here for a reason.
Not every emotional alert will be linked to happiness and joy, nor should that be the expectation.
That is not realistic, but we also have a choice to embrace them all. acknowledge them all, allow them to do their job, and flow through us so we can move into a state of being that we want to be in.
In this post, we explored the best way to allow yourself to let your emotions flow, the 7 aspects of allowing your emotions to do what they are intended to do, and ways to determine if you are allowing them to do this.
I hope you've found some information to assist you in shifting your perspective on how processing our emotions can add to more overall peace in your life and a greater sense of embracing the present moment.
Every step you take will contribute to another piece of your puzzle. This is not an overnight transition. This is not a sprint. Be kind to yourself. It takes awareness and repetition. There is always more to discover.
Are you currently working through some stubborn emotions, thoughts, or feelings? Check out our selection of journals that can assist you with processing these indicators for yourself.
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Each offers unique perspectives and practical tips to enhance your understanding and practice. Take a moment to browse through our other articles and continue your journey towards Self- Love.
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