Emotional Release work helps us undo the learned habit of holding on and preventing ourselves from experiencing our feelings as they occur. Ian Watson, a British homeopath and healing practioner has made it his current work to share what he has learned about emotional release. He explains that we learn how to hold back feelings growing up, when certain feelings are deemed socially and culturally unacceptable (for example anger for girls, tears and fear for boys). From doing that consciously, we become so good at it that it becomes an automatic response as soon as a strong emotion arises in the body. It's like driving, the body just does it automatiacally -- we clench our muscles and then we stop ourselves from experiencing the feeling and we get to keep it!
There is usually a specific place between the throat and the pubis where we store various emotions. We keep the emotions because we were told not to express them; soon we do not allow ourselves to even experience them. The good news is that all that the body NEEDS to do with these emotions in order to let them go is to actually experience them fully, that's all. As Ian puts it with a sly little smile: "What you don't want to experience, you get to keep, it's as simple as that!" The body [wisdom/ecology] knows it needs to feel the feeling fully in order to 'heal' from the emotion.
Ian also points out in response to questions of what do you do if 'certain people make you feel this way or that': "Nobody can GIVE you a feeling that wasn't already there. Our willingness to do the work of emotional release is crucial to our health and wellbeing and is what Ian calls "The Birth of Self-Responsibility". He also points out that expressing a feeling is different from experiencing a feeling and afterwards letting it go or releasing it. It is not necessary to express a feeling in order to feel it fully, allowing it thus to be transmuted and left to go. In fact, we often express our feeling to those that had nothing to do with it, the spouse, the kids, or the cat!!(First release it, then see if you also need to express it.) A clue to knowing that the feeling being expressed has nothing to do wiht the present circumstances but with our past history is the degree of intensity packed into it: "When it's Hysterical it's probably Historical"!
There is usually a specific place between the throat and the pubis where we store various emotions. We keep the emotions because we were told not to express them; soon we do not allow ourselves to even experience them. The good news is that all that the body NEEDS to do with these emotions in order to let them go is to actually experience them fully, that's all. As Ian puts it with a sly little smile: "What you don't want to experience, you get to keep, it's as simple as that!" The body [wisdom/ecology] knows it needs to feel the feeling fully in order to 'heal' from the emotion.
Ian also points out in response to questions of what do you do if 'certain people make you feel this way or that': "Nobody can GIVE you a feeling that wasn't already there. Our willingness to do the work of emotional release is crucial to our health and wellbeing and is what Ian calls "The Birth of Self-Responsibility". He also points out that expressing a feeling is different from experiencing a feeling and afterwards letting it go or releasing it. It is not necessary to express a feeling in order to feel it fully, allowing it thus to be transmuted and left to go. In fact, we often express our feeling to those that had nothing to do with it, the spouse, the kids, or the cat!!(First release it, then see if you also need to express it.) A clue to knowing that the feeling being expressed has nothing to do wiht the present circumstances but with our past history is the degree of intensity packed into it: "When it's Hysterical it's probably Historical"!
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