Releasing Supressed Emotions

[fromthatshow]

I was wondering if anyone has any tips on releasing supressed emotions.
I have been supressing my emotions for years now and I can feel it as a dark cloud in my head. It's given me 24 hours a day panic. I've been meditating on feeling them but all I can feel is the cloud, not the emotions in them.
I feel like if I can move through these, I would be completely free. But I am panicky to the point where my parents don't know what to do with me, and are offering all kinds of medication. I don't want to end up in a mental hospital.
Anyway,
Any suggestions?

[asentinel]

and good diet and healthy sleeping pattern with help. There are very good forms of massage and therapy for example, deep tissue release, sometimes called structural integration, or rolfing (after the person who designed one method), or bowen therapy. Get a very good homeopath. Chinese herbs may also help you to purge and detox. The toxic thoughts and feelings are probably creating a match in your body or eating habits.

Even a relaxation massage on a regular basis is a good way to start realeasing without needing to speak about the things you may not be able or have the words to express.

Another great tool is a journal or diary, write in the morning before you have spoken to anyone, after you have processed all the thought of the previous day.

Find someone you can talk to. You must feel safe and able to trust them.

good luck. :p

[empyblessing]

Fasting works well at cleansing the emotional trauma that has been stored within the cells.

Here is some information on fasting and how to go about doing it properly. http://www.freedomyou.com/level%202/Fasting%20Page%20Guide.htm

[fromthatshow]

Thank you both!
The big thing is that I need to cry. I can't cry and I really really need too. It's kept me up all night the past two nights and my body won't let me sleep until I cry. Any sad videos or anything you think might help?

[lemonique]

Hi fromthatshow, For me, it's OK if you cry....go ahead, it really is OK to cry.

Love
Lemonique

[asentinel]

It might be just the right time for a big bawl, have one, maybe play some music which touches you, or do some art or something creative which you can really put your feelings into.

Try to think about it before you go to sleep and make a pact with yourself to reveal something about the blocks in your dreams. State your intention clearly.

Go for a walk and do some deep breathing exercises. Maybe look at some old photographs to try to prompt something to come to you about why and when you started to suppress and hold everything in.

Have a good friend on standby to be able to receive a call any time night or day.

I will send you some heartfelt feelings. You are safe to let it out now. OK??:o:p

[fromthatshow]

It might be just the right time for a big bawl, have one, maybe play some music which touches you, or do some art or something creative which you can really put your feelings into.

Try to think about it before you go to sleep and make a pact with yourself to reveal something about the blocks in your dreams. State your intention clearly.

Go for a walk and do some deep breathing exercises. Maybe look at some old photographs to try to prompt something to come to you about why and when you started to suppress and hold everything in.

Have a good friend on standby to be able to receive a call any time night or day.

I will send you some heartfelt feelings. You are safe to let it out now. OK??:o:p

Thank you very much asential. I have tried all these things and it's still bottled up. I can't sleep at all. I'm hoping that eventually my body will get so tired that it will have to cry to fall asleep.

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[supertzar]

Here is a release visualization I do that I created based on Stewart and Janet Swerdlow's work:

Lie down and get comfortable, close your eyes and breathe deeply for several minutes.

In your mind's eye, create a giant violet-colored hand coming down from the sky. Let the hand "peel" everything undesirable from your body, like it is pulling a shadow from your body. Actually see the darkness leaving your body and mind. Let the giant violet hand take the shadow up into the universe to be recycled. Watch it as it goes up, up and out of sight.

Breathe in, filling your body with desirable energy. Learn chakra spinning to balance your body energetically.

[fromthatshow]

What are people's opinions here on medication. I really don't want to take it but I've been having 24/7 panic and I'm not really sure what else to do?

[supertzar]

Have you used herbal medicine? You might try some different things to buy time while you work on releasing whatever it is that is causing your panic.

[empyblessing]

I read somewhere that crying is a form of detox, as we cry we release the chemicals of emotions in our tears. If you feel like you need to cry then you definitely do, but find the source of these emotions.

As for panic, I'd definitely recommend meditation. I suffered from severe panic attacks for years. They occurred nearly all day every day. They were awful. Eventually, I discovered the means to control it. Warning, there are many sources claiming to be able to help you with anxiety and panic. None of them are drugs. Drugs will only make it worse.

Meditation, fasting, exercise. Also, remove any stimulants from your diet. Sugars, caffeine, alcohol (depressant but it will contribute). But know that the outward forms will only lighten the symptoms but they are a good place to start. If the inward seat of the problems change the outer problems will as well. As above so below. Become your own psychologist/psychoanalysis. Get to the root of who you are and why you are feeling this way. Seek your true nature.

[lemonique]

Hi, me again :)

I checked out the Homeopathic Remedies, Natrum Muriaticum ie, Nat Mur looks like it could be helpful, as one of the things it can help with is ' being sad yet unable to weep' .

This can be bought at certain Pharmacies/Chemists, and Health Shops, at a reasonable price.

But do have a Google search on Homeopathics for yourself, I have used these things myself for various ailments and they work really well.

Cheers
Lemonique

[lookfar]

Hi, me again :)

I checked out the Homeopathic Remedies, Natrum Muriaticum ie, Nat Mur looks like it could be helpful, as one of the things it can help with is ' being sad yet unable to weep' .

This can be bought at certain Pharmacies/Chemists, and Health Shops, at a reasonable price.

But do have a Google search on Homeopathics for yourself, I have used these things myself for various ailments and they work really well.

Cheers
Lemonique

Hi Lem :)

I totally agree with you on the homeopathic remedies. I was forunate enough a few years ago to see an excellent homeopath & was treated holistically for various things & it was all working excellently. As I was seeing him initially for asthma, my medical insurance company then decided that it was 'ongoing treatment' & wouldn't foot the bill for the consultation fees & I can't afford to go back now which I'm quite sad about :(

Homeopaths are quite expensive in the UK & not at all easy to get on the NHS, which totally sucks imo. He would also treat with herbal medicines if homeopathic ones weren't up for the job. These were all quite affordable & worked very well.

So fromthatshow, I would highly recommend trying this route too, it's definitely worth a go imo & possibly some counselling as well maybe if other things don't work for you?:)

Anyway, I wish you all the best & hope you overcome this soon & are happy & at peace again :)

[octopusrex]

I was wondering if anyone has any tips on releasing supressed emotions.
I have been supressing my emotions for years now and I can feel it as a dark cloud in my head. It's given me 24 hours a day panic. I've been meditating on feeling them but all I can feel is the cloud, not the emotions in them.
I feel like if I can move through these, I would be completely free. But I am panicky to the point where my parents don't know what to do with me, and are offering all kinds of medication. I don't want to end up in a mental hospital.
Anyway,
Any suggestions?

Lots of weed.

[pilgrim]

Lots of weed.
I think that smoking weed will supress emotions even more. Same goes for tobacco.

[fromthatshow]

Thanks everyone. I will check out nat mur.
And meditation is important I think. I think the only thing I can really do is be alone with it and deal with it. Nothing else is really going to solve it for me.

[quest]

Crying is one of the most wonderful release mechanisms for our emotions that we have available to us, such an efficient and natural healing tool; and, er, on tap!

Pilgrim was spot on about the suppressive aspects of any kind of smoking and it doesn't take one's problems away, it merely postpones them for a bit.

Meditation certainly helps; but, I think doing something dynamic can assist in pushing us through emotional problems quicker. Being alone certainly helps, but only some of the time. It's often more useful to bounce ideas off friends (as long as they're non judgemental!); suppressed emotions / irrational thoughts can then be brought up and out into the open, seen for what they are and released.

Even talking about the emotional stuff out aloud to ourselves works wonders! it's amazing 'cos, again, it's a way of getting the crap out and seeing things for what they are and not staying stuck in a cycle of what our mind and emotions invent.

Shamanic 'sweat lodges' are another useful release, albeit a bit gruelling!

[fromthatshow]

I have been sitting alone with it for a while. I know that I need to cry but I won't allow myself. I've been doing meditations on allowing. What I've gotten out if it is that I have become less anxious, but more numb. At least I'm aware that I'm numb, maybe now some feelings will just come up naturally.

[asentinel]

I have been sitting alone with it for a while. I know that I need to cry but I won't allow myself. I've been doing meditations on allowing. What I've gotten out if it is that I have become less anxious, but more numb. At least I'm aware that I'm numb, maybe now some feelings will just come up naturally.

in your life, or several things. Try one thing at a time. Start with small things. I had a cry yesterday, and thought of you, did you feel it? What opens us up is something unexpected. Sometimes it is the shock of something we have no control over, and it momentarily takes away our sense of security, so take a risk or two, not talking about anything dangerous. Just move your weight out of its comfort zone thingy? Speak to someone you would not normally have a conversation with. Go to a bookstore and see what jumps off the shelf at you. Go to somewhere you would not normally go to shop. Be amongst different people. I hope these ideas may help you. Sometimes I pretend to be a tourist in my own town. Just grab a back pack and set out on an adventure.????

You have many people here wishing you well!

x

[boots]

Want to cry!

Think about the children that are suffering in the world today in Africa watch some vids where you actually see them dying though starvation and the sorrow that there mothers have dont just see it. really feel it.

or how about this!!!

In Iraq, the solider that blew a mothers head off while her 5 year old child held her hand as she dropped to the ground dead.
Imagine it was you and it was someone that you loved and looked up to.

I know it's hard to do (I have the same prob myself) but for me I crack when i see an innocent animal dying after being hit by a car and you watch the life just go.

OMG I'm going to cry now thinking about this.

Crack man, it takes courage to cry. Real courage.

take your thoughts away from your head and focus them into your heart

I don't care what anyone thinks, the heart is a brain/mind. and it thinks.

[asentinel]

Crack man, it takes courage to cry. Real courage.

take your thoughts away from your head and focus them into your heart

I don't care what anyone thinks, the heart is a brain/mind. and it thinks.

I don't think anyone is disagreeing with you about the importance of the heart. I wonder if you have empathy for this person? If you thought about it would be so confrontational.

There are probaby many out there who are stuck and not matter what shock tactic you wish to employ, it will just freeze them up more.

The problem is probably overwhelm. More of the same will not break open the shell.

:p

[boots]

Hi asentinel,
I do have empathy for fromthatshow,as I do know how it feels
as I said here I know it's hard to do (I have the same prob myself) and I hope it didn't come across in anyway like that fromthatshow and if it did. I apologize:o.


I think your suggestion to.
Try one thing at a time. Start with small things.Is right but if what fromthatshow is saying he want's to cry but suppressing he emotions for so long is like a dam about to burst and he knows that and with meditation as a method for controlling the mind he might be in the position to break that block and with the amount of ideas that this forum presents and us giving him help he or she will overcome this.:)

[222oningt]

http://emofree.com/

I found this yesterday, looks interesting and fits in with what David Icke says about energy etc.

[mido]

You need to cry, that is evident. It's a good release, and from it a new dawn often arises even if it takes 2-3 times.

You might cry to this: Go to www.dimomusic.com and click on the 'Emergence' presentation. You may need to download it first.

Peace.

[boots]

http://emofree.com/

I found this yesterday, looks interesting and fits in with what David Icke says about energy etc.


It's an excellent form of therapy for releasing suppressed emotions 222oningt give it a go.

From what I have studied the mind stores it's memory in the cells and energy pathways throughout the body.

Emo taps on these special energy spots for the body to release these memories in a gentle and effective way.

Great for overcoming fears.

[asentinel]

Hi asentinel,
I do have empathy for fromthatshow,as I do know how it feels
as I said here and I hope it didn't come across in anyway like that fromthatshow and if it did. I apologize:o.


I think your suggestion to.
Is right but if what fromthatshow is saying he want's to cry but suppressing he emotions for so long is like a dam about to burst and he knows that and with meditation as a method for controlling the mind he might be in the position to break that block and with the amount of ideas that this forum presents and us giving him help he or she will overcome this.:)

When someone has created a block, it is usually because they have felt overwhelmed and are trying to protect themselves. So the way back to open up may have to be very subtle, and no one's pain is more important or more justified than any other's. It just is.

Meditation can be too confronting in the beginning and so maybe just a simple form of relaxation is needed to allow the mind to stop it's defence to knowing the reason.

Deep tissue massage by a trusted practitioner can bypass the blocks and speak directly to the cells. Everyone's good intentions here to offer help is also a very good start.

Thanks for clarity. Sending good thoughts.

[alan ford]

Boxing bag and exercise helps a lot....and meditating

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[shankara]

EFT, meditation, exercise, maybe an energy healing session. Also, I read this book: http://www.theemotioncode.com/ and used the techniques, it took me several weeks to release all of the emotions. I liked it a lot and I really think it helped me; my life and psyche are so much better (though it did take a few months to really notice the difference). I think you can find it on Amazon.

[fromthatshow]

I thought it was my heart chakra but it was my throat chakra. My lips are quivering with something to say but I don't know what it is. My parents put me on all this medication, and last night, I felt like I was being dragged away in my sleep :eek:

[krakhead]

I have read about Reichian Massage Therapy, meant to be specifically designed to release blocked emotional states. Can't access any of the sites I know discuss it further thanks to a work firewall! Will let you know more when I'm home :)

[asentinel]

Just thought you might connect emotionally with that better than humans?

It is worth a try? How are you doing up to now? :)

[fromthatshow]

It's been two and a half weeks and I haven't slept. If I manage to get in 1 or two hours I wake up from a nightmare like I am being consumed by something and have to wriggle out of it.
I am 99% sure it is a throat chakra blockage from something I suppressed because everytime I start to relax my lips quiver, i feel like I'm going to throw up. My mouth moves for words to come out but nothing does. I'm fucked out of ideas and might end up in a hospital. :(

[asentinel]

It's been two and a half weeks and I haven't slept. If I manage to get in 1 or two hours I wake up from a nightmare like I am being consumed by something and have to wriggle out of it.
I am 99% sure it is a throat chakra blockage from something I suppressed because everytime I start to relax my lips quiver, i feel like I'm going to throw up. My mouth moves for words to come out but nothing does. I'm fucked out of ideas and might end up in a hospital. :(

Something huge is coming up for you I think and I just want you to have lots of support, but the right kind of support! You don't want anyone pumping you full of drugs because it is too confronting for THEM...

You need gentle and supportive people. Hope you can find someone.

I have been to a point where all they could get out of me was "Don't Speak, don't speak" as a script! So someone has gone to great lengths to shut you up, but you can recover it in your own time. You can pm me if you feel comfortable with that. Love.

[megafish33]

http://emofree.com/

I found this yesterday, looks interesting and fits in with what David Icke says about energy etc.

This works. Don't know why but it does...

[boots]

It's been two and a half weeks and I haven't slept. If I manage to get in 1 or two hours I wake up from a nightmare like I am being consumed by something and have to wriggle out of it.
I am 99% sure it is a throat chakra blockage from something I suppressed because everytime I start to relax my lips quiver, i feel like I'm going to throw up. My mouth moves for words to come out but nothing does. I'm fucked out of ideas and might end up in a hospital. :(

Hi fromthatshow,
If it's been two and halve weeks since you have good sleep I'm not surprised that you are "wired" It becomes self perpetuating and you can't sleep because you are over tired and very emotional.

If you don't want to take big Pharma's, and I'm not suggesting you shouldn't, DRUGS. Try herbs like Valerian better still check out the local herbalist or online.
The Nightmares are part of you not getting enough deep sleep and the subconscious bringing to the surface all this stuff :eek:

Meditation is a good start and EFT as well as herbs but i feel that sleep should be your first priority,imo.

You need to see someone you can trust.

Hang in there:).

[supertzar]

I am telling you to learn how to spin your chakras at least.

[fromthatshow]

I have been on all kinds of drugs because my parents are kind of saying take them or else get out of our hair. But I think I'm just going to move out. I think that might have been the answer anyway. Stop relying on everyone else and start relying on myself :).