Balancing the Emotional Body
Educate yourself series Pt10
The Emotional Body
Recognising the new evidence in science and acknowledging the energy nature of all things lead us to define the human being in a different way. Looking from this new perspective the human being has four major aspect that we need to consider in terms of complete health and well being.
Physical Body
Emotional Body (heart or soul)
Mental Body (mind)
Spiritual Body (spirit)
The Emotional Body is an aspect of you is less obvious (than your physical body) and can't be perceived with your 5 senses. To have a healthy Emotional Body is crucial to live a balanced life.
If your 'heart' is sick or in pain, you feel low, you suffer and your quality of Life will be significantly lower. This means that you cannot enjoy your Life to the fullest. You cannot experience the full happiness you deserve.
In the following there are some guiding principles to consider to achieve and maintain perfect emotional health, a smple path to a well balanced heart.
Emotion – Energy in Motion
Based on the new scientific discoveries we understand that everything that exists is energy vibrating at a different level, a different frequency.
From this perspective emotions are energy and we differentiate between different emotions according to how they feel, in other words on what frequency they are vibrating at. Emotions can't be seen but we all agree that we can feel them and experience them this means that we perceive their energy ('read their frquency') beyond our 5 senses.
"Your body cannot tell the difference between an actual experience that triggers an emotional response, and an imagined experience — such as when worrying about something negative that might occur but has not actually happened. In both cases you experience the emotions for real."
Are you feeling 'high' or 'low'?
Each emotion has a unique vibration.These vibrations can be measured (usually in Hz-herz and MHz-megaherz) and placed on a scale according to their vibrations.
The Emotional scale
According to scientific measurements we can see that the general rule is that literally the higher your emotional state is (the higher is the frequency of the emotion you are experiencing) the better you feel.
What does this mean in terms of our health and wellbeing?
A balanced Heart, a free flow of giving and receiving Love, overwhelming Joy and Happiness is really what we are all looking for.
“All you need is Love”
These measurements mean that when we feel love we vibrate at a higher frequency and when we feel negative emotions we vibrate at a lower frequency.
When we hold on to anger or resentment for example, every time we feel that emotion we literally bring ourselves down onto a lower feeling to a lower vibration.
This result of this process is tuning into a feeling we do not prefer.
The Heart and The Emotional Body
We experience our feelings with our Heart as our 'feeling center' and we all agree that a heartache or a joyful heart is a very powerful and real experience.
In fact our Heart generates an electromagnetic field extending throughout and beyond our physical body.
Naturally the Emotional Body is deeply interconnected with our Physical Body and we have a physical sensation (chemistry change) in our body every time we feel an emotion.
Excitement - “Butterflies in the stomach”
Did you know?
"The heart also radiates powerful electromagnetic energy. It permeates every cell of the body including those of the brain. The electromagnetic signal from the heart is so powerful that it radiates beyond your skin, all around you, the 360-degree sphere, and as far as ten feet into the space around you. Nothing else in the body has such strong electromagnetic force."
You are always in a 'Feeling' mode
– experiencing an emotion
You are always feeling an emotion. Literally all the time.
Just as your body is breathing without you being aware of it, you are always in an emotional state a vibrational frequency – depending on how are you feeling.
Let's stop for moment, take a deep breath and see how are you feeling in this moment now? What emotion are you experiencing right now? Allow yourself to feel.
How are you Feeling now?
As we are living and breathing, we are always in an emotional state as well. Sometimes it is challenging a bit to feel the present emotions, in many cases we prefer to supress, numb down and push away uncomfortable feelings, we prefer not to feel. However by practicing asking yourself this simple question:
"How do I feel right now?"
This question will help you to reconnect to the emotional aspect of your Multidimensional self.
Another good news is that the choice is yours to decide which emotional state you prefer. As you are the creator of your health and your reality you have the power to change and improve your emotional state. And you can start right here and now.
Balancing the Emotional Body
How to find Love?
From a healing perspective there is, in a balanced and healthy Emotional Body has a free flow of energy, emotions flowing without resistance. It is also represented by a balanced heart that is in a state of equilibrium and detachment.
When the Emotional Body is balanced and healthy we experience a free flow of love, joy, peace and abundance in our everyday life.
Stuck, supressed emotions as energy blockages
Every time we 'hold on' to an emotion may it be pleasant or unpleasant, we create a blockage in the energy flow of our Emotional Body.
When we fixate on a strong emotion such as anger, we got literally stuck on that lower emotional, vibrational level.
This causes an imbalance (Blocking the energy flow) in the Emotional Body and in our entire being.
Negative emotions are non-physical vibrational realities that are absorbed by our body. They are just as real as the physical food eaten by our mouth.
The 'Feeling Good' factor
A powerful stuck emotion like anger can manifest ultimately as a physical dis-ease like ulcer for example.
Ultimately we all want to feel good and now we recognise that feeling good is better for our health also!
Research shows, that sustained positive emotions are associated with a noticeably coherent, smooth and balanced heart-rhythm pattern.
Did you know?
"The ancient Solfeggio notes discovered in the 990's (special, 6 tone frequency scale) once considered to open up a channel of communication with the Divine. The frequency of 639 Hz enhances compassion and love and helps to balance the heart."
According to a study 78% of human population score below 200 (400 herz) on the emotinal scale.
We have to remeber that we have the power to raise our emotional vibrations and feel better and we are making a choice every present moment regarding what emotional state we are in.
How to let go of stuck emotions?
There are many ways available to release unwanted emotions, let go of old hurts and pains and create a more balanced emotional state where you feel better and experience more love in your life.
Rebalancing the Emotional Body - How to feel good?
This 7 easy steps can be your starting point if you want to change how you feel and put your Heart's desire into action today.
7 keys to a Happy Heart
Keeping in mind that on the emotional level the imbalance is a stuck emotion (that we hold onto) our goal is to release the stuck emotion and restore balance in the Emotional Body (Heart) again.
Different variations of the following model is applied in many traditions with great success to let go of 'emotional baggage' and experience a deeper sense of freedom and love.
Without going to go into great detail now, but we would like to give you an idea to inspire you to start taking back the power over your heart and ychoose your state of Feeling now.
The following model can be viewed as an emotional detoxification process aimed to let go stuck, supressed emotions, restore the balance in the Emotional Body and open the heart to experience more Love in your Life.
1. Acceptance
The first step is acceptance of your reality. Acknowledging how do you feel in this moment now?
"How do I feel right now?" What is the strongest emotion present in my experience right now?"
By acknowledging your state of feeling you move out from resistance (supressing the emotion) to allowance (feeling the emotion) so this is the first step to liberate, let go of an undesired emotion.
Detachment
It is important that when you identify an emotion in your experience simply observe it and acknowledge it without judging it or yourself in any ways for feeling it.
Simply say for example: I feel anger and it is ok to feel it.
Knowing that acknowledging of your feeling state is is essential to change it, you are happy to take the next step.
2. Willingness (Inquiry)
To further detach from the negative emotion (e.g. anger) place yourself in a state of curiosity and willingness to inquire where the emotion is coming from and why are you experiencing it.
Simply ask yourself the following questions:
Why I am feeling this way? Where is this feeling coming from?
The inquiry process
This inquiry process will help you to connect deeper to your emotional self, being honest with yourself about how you are feeling. The inquiry process will also bring your focus inward because it is directed towards the source rather than the object (the emotion).
Did you know?
"A specific practice of Self-inquiry, called Atma-vichara in Sanskrit, is the most important meditation practice in the Vedantic (most ancient form of knowledge) tradition.
It is the main practice of the yoga of knowledge (Jnana Yoga), which itself is traditionally regarded as the highest of the yogas because it takes us most directly to liberation."
3. Openness (understanding)
When you open your mind and heart you realise that every challenge contains a gift. In this dualistic reality everything comes in opposites. Good-bad, black-white, heat-cold etc.
This means that everything can be looked at from 2 sides:
“The glass half full or the glass half empty”
This is important because it reminds you that you have the power to change your perspective and look at your experience from a different point of view.
“Always look at the bright side of Life”
To keep yourself moving into a more positive emotional experienece, continue your inquiry by asking simple questions such as:
What can I learn from this experience? What is the gift in it? What can I do to feel better now?
To find the gift, the learning in your current situation, you need to be open to find it and willing to use your learning for your benefit. When you do this you will immediately shift your emotional state from a negative vibration into a positive one. How will you know this? You will instantly feel better!
4. Gratitude
This step is simply the consequence of the previous step.
You will simply feel grateful for the experience because you are now focusing on the gifts instead of the challenges in your situation.
You will be grateful because you feel better and you realise that you have the power to change your feeling state.
You will feel grateful for the reminder that you are a powerful creator of your reality in every present moment now.
"What are you grateful for?"
Gratitude is an immensely powerful force that we can use to expand our happiness, create loving relationships, and even improve our health.
Did you know?
"Many scientific studies, including research by renowned psychologists Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough, have found that people who consciously focus on gratitude experience greater emotional wellbeing and physical health than those who don’t. Those who cultivated a grateful outlook experienced greater levels of joy and happiness."
Gratitude is understanding that every emotion surfaces to teach you something or tell you something. Your job is to be clear enough to recognize the emotion for the messenger that it is.
To cultivate a state of gratitude on a daily bases, it is useful to keep a gratitude diary and record what you are grateful for.
5. Forgiveness
Again when you see and feel things from a different perspective you realize that your 'holding onto' causes your suffering and feeling bad, you can easily let go and forgive to others who have 'hurt' you but most importantly you can forgive to yourself.
The power of Forgivness
Forgiveness is a paradigm-shifting solution for transforming stuck emotions. It liberates you from the trap of endless cycles telling the same story so that you can experience more joy and connection. The power of forgiveness gives you back the control of your life, and you will be able to step out from the victim mode.
Did you know?
"Research suggests that Forgivness helps you to feel better in the here and now too. "Forgiving people are less angry, more hopeful, less anxious, less stressed, and more confident.
They even learn to like themselves better. Studies find that if people are able to make a move toward forgiving, there's a substantial improvement in their emotional health.
Robert Enright, Ph.D., author of Forgiveness Is a Choice and a pioneer on the topic."
The practice of forgiveness has been shown to reduce anger, hurt depression and stress and leads to greater feelings of hope, peace, and compassion. In other words it increases the vibration of your emotional state meaning that it will make you feel better in the now. Practicing forgiveness also influences our attitude which opens the heart to kindness, beauty, and love.
6. Surrender (letting go)
As you let go from an emotional state, a stuck emotion that you were attached to you allow yourself to move on, to move naturally towards a more balanced state of feeling. Simply you will feel better. Letting go will bring you a greater sense of freedom and frees up your energy to make positive actions.
The power of Letting Go
As you open your heart more, you move into a recieving mode, in other words allowing yourself to let new things in and come to you. This step helps you to move from resistance and holding onto to letting go and allowing the emotions (energy flow) to return into balance. And all this just feels great!
"Letting go is the inner action that removes the fear, upset, and tunnel vision. The moment you let go, you restore your ability to see clearly. You become creative and able to discover solutions that you could never have seen before."
“When a door closes another door always opens”
The path to health and happiness is often not a path of adding to or gaining something, but of removal or letting go. This is a critical principle of healing that is rarely discussed but nonetheless important to happiness and health.
7. Love (compassion)
This is your emotional signal to let you know that you have successfully moved on, let go and restored your emotional balance. Feeling love towards all aspects of yourself and then extending this love toward others.
You are looking from a higher perspective of understanding, not judging, not attached anymore. It is an essential step to achieve inner peace and balance.
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. -Dalai Lama”
Compassion can be looked at as a quality of the heart and also a skill to be cultivated and developed.
Sometimes we lose touch with our compassionate aspect, especially when we experience resistance, denial and paralysis - we close and create blockage in the heart energy.
In that moment when you feel compassion you open your heart to yourself and others, you recognize the immense healing power of compassion, reconnect with love and bring balance to your heart and your emotional body.
From a vibrational perspective compassion is the of the ultimate expression of your highest self, your highest state of being.
Food for thought
How does this information changes the way you see yourself and the world?
Do you feel that you are emotionally balanced or imbalanced?
Where are you on the emotional-vibrational scale?
Are there any stuck emotions that you are holding onto?
Are you experiencing a free flow of love and ease in your everyday life?
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