Vida J Phoenix MA LPC

Elevating Emotions

Negative thoughts make you sick, because negative thoughts release certain familiar survival hormones like adrenaline and cortisol, which can further reinforce old emotional patterns of lack, need, victimhood, guilt, etc. You stay trapped in those old neural networks, thought patterns, or programs. You stay trapped in the predictable past. It is dense energy stored in the body; it feels heavy. If in constant survival mode - run, fight, hide - and the associated chemicals, you continually feel negative, you can’t help but draw more to you of the same. We look for love, or that perfect circumstance, outside of us, to fill us, but that is backwards. Take the energy away from those old repetitive habits of mind. Free up that energy, practice feeling elevated emotions instead, go into the unknown, versus the familiar past, by staying in the present. You will naturally magnetize, or draw, that elevated energy to you from others, and from life.

Refuse to react in the same old way. Transmute that dense energy - an altered state, back to its natural free state and higher frequency. Love is your natural state, it is just covered over by fear and permutations of fear. Fear separates you from love. You don’t have to force yourself to love you, or feel love, it is a natural occurrence. Practice feeling good, this will move you in the direction of zest for life, and total self-acceptance. Your body naturally heals in this state too because you are not bombarded by stress chemicals or survival hormones. Walk through the fire of negative emotions when they arise, burn through them by meeting them with higher emotional feeling states. Overcome the negative emotion, overcome the old perception of self. It’s okay to have a reaction to something unpleasant for a moment, but when old programs intrude, be conscious of what is happening, and self-regulate.

Practice generating elevated emotional states. It may feel awkward at first. A meditation might go like this: close your eyes and block out the environment, get in the present moment state of empty space, focus on that unknown space - not on old thoughts, suppress the analytical mind, rest there, relax deeper, then begin to imagine how you would prefer to feel, get into that feeling, and expand it. Practice this such that when you go about your day, and you face an old stuck emotion, you can remember those good feelings from your practice meditation and insert that energy instead.

You will have initial reactions to unpleasant occurrences in life, beyond a few minutes of that, the old program wants to kick in. Do battle with that program, not whatever the circumstance is. Get sucked into the same old neural networks, drain your energy, and disempower yourself, or raise your energy and make new synaptic connections. It is a choice you can make.

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