EMOTIONAL SUPPRESSION
- Paul Gotel
- Sep 13
- 2 min read
OUR EMOTIONS ARE REACTIONS TO PAST SUPPRESSIONS
We all have understandable emotional reactions to things that happen in our life , whether it be personal or in the world.
Yet what most of us don’t realize is that these reactions are previously suppressed emotions to things that happened in our past .
All of us have Situations that occurred in our childhood that triggered a reaction but a lot of the time that emotion was swallowed because it was met with a negative reaction.
Emotion , is energy in motion and is designed to be simply expressed like a baby would , but once we meet toddler age , we are trained to hold this back and all this suppressed emotion is stored in our unconscious.
As human children we were hard wired to gain approval for our survival since we rely on our parents or caregivers to ensure we are feed and protected, so we develop our will power to suppress our natural expression.
Later as adults we have become so good at this we build up a lake of energy dammed behind our self control , yet this is pressure is simply awaiting to be triggered when anything resembles our childhood experience.
So although as an adult we no longer need to react this way our stored emotional lake is set off by anything that has a slight resemblance to the past experience.
The confusion comes when we righteously defend our emotions seeing this as justified and real without realizing their true origins in our past , and so we are continuously a victim to exterior circumstances stimulating our past triggers.
Instead of this never ending cycle of disruption our true work is to look inside and let go of these past experiences , for releasing ourselves from our past patterns will lead to true freedom.
As we develop the witness consciousness and practice equanimity , we recognize our triggers are our treasures. , for they point towards the next aspect of our psyche that needs to be released in order for us to truly find peace .
When triggered today look to see what past experience is at the root of this and start the work to let go of it !
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