The majority of the pain we experience is due to trapped emotions. These can accumulate from a range of life experiences (for example: a divorce, a bad break up, being abused as a child, and / or from our difficulties with our work / school life etc.). Trapped emotions, traumas, anxieties and unprocessed life experiences that we hold in our nervous system can become the source of our greatest ailments! These energies stay with us, disrupt our lives, and can be the root of our very own self-sabotage. We can unknowingly displace or project these emotions onto other people and / or express our unacceptable feelings and thoughts through our actions / habits (e.g., by abusing drugs and alcohol, becoming sexually promiscuous, or by abusing others etc.).
Though adversity, stress, and pain in life are inevitable, you can help control your body’s response to it! One of our greatest strengths lies in our ability to admit to our mistakes. When we acknowledge our shortcomings and accept them, we can begin to evolve past them (eventually turning our weaknesses into our strengths)! We can learn to mold our response tendencies by creating a growth mindset (the belief that our intelligence is not fixed and can be developed over time). Ultimately, our mindset facilitates the way we learn, our achievements, and our performance interpretations. Our thoughts about ourselves and our ability to process our adversities and shortcomings through a positive lens directly influences the quality of our health and our potential to make positive lifestyle changes! With this in mind, let’s make the intentions to move from the selfish states that are driven by the hormones of stress to the selfless states of wanting to contribute to and make a difference in this world through transforming ourselves! This is a great way to strengthen our spiritual integrity and to cope with our greatest stressors!
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Written by Student Doctor: Navpreet Singh Badesha ©03/06/2016 All Rights Reserved.
Inspired by: Aunna Pourang, MD and the E-motion movement via Sonia Choquette, Joe Dispenza, Nassim Haramein & Neale Donald Walsch.
