Saturday, May 7, 2011

Ultimate Emotional Resourcefulness

How to Quickly Let Go of Anger, Frustration, Worry and Guilt

Emotional reactions can leave damaging scars on our relationships both at work and at home and they slowly erode our health. They detract us from having more joy, happiness and a greater sense of peacefulness in our lives. Essentially we don’t experience the full bliss and magic that life has to offer. Life and work feel harder than they need to.

Having an emotional reaction could be getting angry and frustrated or feeling guilty and shameful. Anxiety, worry, stress and depression are all the result of emotional reactions as well.

What causes an emotional reaction? You’ll probably say it’s your husband, your wife, your kids or your boss! However these people are not the root cause of your emotional reactions; they are simply in your life to push your buttons. They are here to show you what needs to be healed and what you could resolve to have an easier and more joyful life.

Your emotional reactions are usually the product of events which occurred in early childhood. Traumatic events occurring later in life are also a factor. In either case they come from our incapacity to deal with overwhelming emotional experience. When we are small our capacity to process the energy of emotional overwhelm is limited. Later in life intense or extended periods of emotional overwhelm leave us with more emotional energy than we are able to process.

This backlog gets stored away in our body at an energetic, cellular level; waiting for a time when we can be more resourceful and capable of dealing with incomplete emotional experiences. We commonly refer to this as emotional baggage. The good news is we don’t need to keep it.

While traditional talk therapy provides a way to process emotional overwhelm it can take a long time. Cognitive behavioural therapy and emotional intelligence practices are also very useful for controlling or managing emotional reactions. Unfortunately, when you are fully caught in the grips of an emotional reaction logical thinking significantly declines, or disappears completely.

Using rationale approaches to process and manage emotional reactions can diffuse the energetic backlog to a point, but rarely embrace the option of feeling through and completing the emotional experience. Attempting to address a feeling based, energetic irrational pattern is not entirely effective. On the other hand, Emotional Hot Button Removal techniques allow us to quickly and efficiently feel into the energy fuelling emotional reaction. By feeling through the energy completely, it vaporises and disappears from your body for good.

With the energy gone you can be calmer, more centered and deal with challenging situations easily. No longer victim to emotional reactions, you have them less often and become less volatile when you do.

Here's what it's like for my colleague Jacque Small.
"Now that I’m using these techniques, I also have greater access to my gut feelings which I now allow to guide me in life rather than spending hours and hours trying to figure out what to do. I also have great access to positive feelings of joy and happiness because I am making better choices for myself.

I learned that the volatile emotional reactions I use to have are optional. In a year I accomplished what I had not accomplished in the previous six years of personal development work."

Wishing you much ease and joy,

Lynne Brisdon, PCC
http://www.livinginvision.com/

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” Buddha