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Emotions don’t go away easily, it stays for long and this can affect a lot.

• Self-love will be decreased.
• You will become aggressive and desperate
• You will feel lazy all the time
• Some day you will heal on the other day it will come as the black cloud
• This can change the relationship with your loved ones
• It can change the way of thinking
• Your physical health will become bad.

If you are feeling the same or going through the same, this article may turn out good for you, as we are going to discuss every small part about emotional baggage, where it comes from, and how you can deal with it.

What has trapped emotion?

Crying means releasing the negative energy that you carry within you. You must have seen people from your yoga or meditation class that while practicing it they burst out into tears, that is because of the activation of some specific nerves that helps us to release the negative energy.

It all happens at the subconscious level.

When the painful memories return, it triggers you to burst out. It all happens at the subconscious level.

According to Mark Olson, Ph.D., LMT, the owner, and director of the Pacific Center for Awareness & Bodywork, activating certain areas of the body may trigger these memories.

Bradley Nelson wrote In his book “The Emotion Code,” “Each trapped emotion resides in a specific location in the body, vibrating at its particular frequency.”

How do emotions get trapped?

A lot of researches claimed that emotional problems leave a strong effect on the body, mind, and behavior.

Nelson claimed that when we start to feel emotions then something happens. Those are

• We develop an emotional vibration.
• We feel the emotion and any thoughts or physical sensations associated with it. This is where the mind and body’s interconnectedness comes into play.
• We move on from the emotion by processing it.

The continuous taking of emotions generates pre-conscious autonomic nervous system responses.

Your feelings are related to the nervous system.

Trapped emotions mean someone who is feeling negative things, wants to release them badly.

Olson says. “In psychology, we think of the true self as the part of us that we are born with that is naturally open, curious, and trusting, while the false self emerges as a set of adaptive strategies to deal with pain and loss.”

Emotional baggage has a different part

• resentment
• poor decision-making
• self-sabotage
• overreaction
• increased stress and anxiety
• depression
• fatigue

Vincent says, “It’s just like a giant roadblock on the freeway, It is hard for energy to flow naturally through.”

Trapped emotions and past trauma

At some point in life, we all face some trauma that kills us from inside. We recognize it sometimes we don’t.

In a study of
2015 almost 69,000 adults across six continents, over 70 percent of respondents reported exposure to a traumatic event, while 30.5 percent were exposed to four or more.

Our life experiences are the root cause of trauma.

• A nasty breakup
• Cheating in relationship
• Family problem
• Job problems
• Financial and social security issues
• Physical illness
• Friendship
• Casteism
• Racism
• Any kind of social oppression
• Discrimination
• Domestic violence
• Cyber violence

The trauma didn’t go away, it affects your mind in such a way that it stuck in some part of your brain and burst out when it can’t take too much.

Trauma always flashback, if you ignore this.

This trauma can leave a long-term effect on your body and mind, like a lot of people who get post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a condition that develops after a person undergoes terrifying or life-threatening events.

We release the hormone cortisol when we stress too much.

Where our body stores the trapped emotions

Have you ever felt a heavy tightness on your chest after an emotionally worst day? It is because of the things you are feeling. try to stretch your body a little bit at that time, you will feel much relaxed.

Mental health is also a part of our body, whatever we put in our body, it stores somewhere, just like that our emotions and feeling also store somewhere in our body.

Everything comes from the heart. We all must have heard about the word ‘ heart-felt’. Yes, this is the place where it stores.

According to various researches, the heart is the place where emotions take birth and whatever emotion we let put in our body also stays there.

However, more researches are needed to be done.

We can divide our feelings into few parts like

• Negative emotions such as stress, anger, shame, overthinking, judging, and suicide.
• Positive emotions such as happiness, joy, pride, and enjoyment.
• cognition, such as attention and perception
• homeostatic states, or balanced, regulated internal state
• illnesses and somatic states

We can feel different things at different times.

How to release emotions from the body

If you don’t let it go, it will harm you. Letting go of your negative emotions is very important. Some try to cry, scream, laugh, punch a pillow, do high-intensity workouts or try to dance it out.

Anything that works for you.

Here are some ways, you can try to release the emotional baggage that you carry

• acknowledging your feelings
• working through trauma
• trying shadow work
• making intentional movement
• practicing stillness
• dance
• stretching
• yoga
• shaking
• martial arts
• qi gong
• tai chi
• meditative walking
• belly breathing exercises

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