The Synergy of Emotions & The Body
Emotions matter.
We know they matter in the sense of how we feel, but very few of us contribute our emotions to our physical well being. Emotion is energy - moving energy, and it affects us physically more than most realize. The idea that the physical body and emotions are completely separate is asinine. Science, focusing primarily on the physical, perpetuates this belief of separation. Fortunately, science is catching up, but we don’t need to wait for it to tell us how to manage our emotions and move towards well being.
Take the most basic negative emotion: stress. Stress can cause anything from a light headache to severe migraines and even sickness that we traditionally don’t link to stress, such as the cold or flu. We've gone so far in focusing on physical symptoms that many people don't even know when they're stressed. Consistently being in a state of stress becomes the new norm and brings your frequency down. All negative emotions have lower vibrational frequencies, some worse than others - fear, guilt and regret being the strongest.
So what if your frequency is lower? Why does it matter?
That’s quite simple: a lower frequency will attract experiences of a lower frequency and stunt growth in all forms. Not only do you put yourself in a state to attract illness and unease but also more life experiences that’ll perpetuate that lower frequency - be it in relationships, work, your environment, etc. Your spiritual growth is stifled, your body’s ability to heal itself is hindered and you can get into a vicious cycle if you’re on autopilot.
Higher frequencies do the exact opposite. You heal faster, your body is more likely to be in a state of well being and ease, you attract positive circumstances, and create a wide open avenue for your own spiritual growth. All positive emotions emit higher frequencies - love, appreciation, gratitude, joy, humor, excitement, and even contentment. Mere acceptance of a perceived negative situation shifts the frequency away from negativity and towards positivity. Keep in mind though that you can’t cheat your way to changing your frequency. Faking excitement may help a little but beneath the fakeness is the true negative emotion.
Cells house the 'spirit'. It's not your individual soul but it is of the same essence as your soul - the essence of God, source, life, oneness. Without 'spirit', your cells would cease to exist. It's no different when the spirit leaves the body and we die. A couple things can happen when negative emotions are stored in the body. For one, the vibration of the 'spirit' aspect of the cell is held down. When held down long enough, it either begins to malfunction or the physical cell begins to alter. When cells can't perform and function optimally, it creates space for disease and pain - or sometimes even causes them. Second, when the 'spirit' is held down to a point that it can't survive at that frequency, it relinquishes the cell and the cell dies.
The placebo effect is often known to showcase the power of belief, but what is often missed is the emotion behind the belief. When someone believes they’ve taken something to relieve pain, they provide themselves with the space to feel relief and return to the things that bring joy. Even though the pill doesn’t give instantaneous relief, their focus and frequency moves away from suffering and points to relief. In reality, they’re not taking anything but a sugar pill but the positive effects are no different than the pharmaceutical pill, and in some cases even better. This is how higher frequencies can heal. Your cells thrive in higher frequencies and are poisoned in lower frequencies.
Emotions need to be processed.
When emotions aren’t processed and allowed to flow through, it gets lodged in the body. This can cause short-term minor disturbances such as migraines and joint aches, but long-term can be the culprit for larger diseases, such as cancer. Intense negative emotions add pressure to the body and mind. When intense and/or long enough, can cause mental or physical breakdowns. Let’s not forget the mental aspect of our health. A consistent and persistent state of negative outlook can cause depression, especially when stuck in a cyclical pattern of negative thinking.
Negative emotions are derived from the mind (the thinking) whereas pure positive emotions are derived from the heart. When you start making the shift away from living out of your mind to living more out of your heart, your life naturally projects a positive outlook and result. A sneaky way people do not realize they're in a state of negativity is when they work from the mind and cut off the valve of their spiritual flow. For example, if art brings you joy but you instead pursue science as a career because of the lucrative title and money, and don't add any artistic creativity in your free time, you suppress your soul's natural flow. Your soul’s flow is where your joy lies. This creates a cloud of dullness around you, and when you feel that dullness consistently, you keep your own vibrations down low.
A few of the common ways emotions affect your physical body are: shoulder/neck pain when a person feels a lot of pressure/burden, knee pain when there's a lot of burden and putting others before yourself, headaches from overthinking and stress that often lead to migraines, cancer from lodged grief, jaw pain from consistent anger, intense and fast levels of rising stress can cause pain in the eye region as well as the side of the head near the eyes, anxiety speeds the aging process, and stress can also cause digestive issues. And this by no means is an exhaustive list.
How can emotions be processed?
The first thing I want to make clear before jumping into the meat of this is that negative emotions aren’t wrong. You aren’t wrong for having them. We’re human! Stuff happens and we get upset, sad, angry, etc. There is no need to beat yourself up for feeling negative. That’s just meeting negativity with negativity! You also don’t want to force yourself into positivity. Forcing often leads to avoidance and suppression, which is the opposite of processing them. How you process them really depends on the situation.
For example, negative emotions that arise without any external trigger can be shifted by merely distracting yourself. Distractions should be positive, such as taking a walk, watching funny videos, baking and enjoying a treat, etc. You don’t want distractions that harm yourself or others, such as getting into an argument. Negative distractions merely spread negativity, it doesn’t help to shift into positivity.
When negative emotions are triggered by events in life, the key is to allow yourself to feel those negative emotions but without holding onto them. Feel it and let it flow through (you) without judgment. Honor your feelings, see if you can understand what it's saying about the situation, your own thinking and/or reflection of your own worth. Explore them, observe them and thank them for the insight they provide and let them go. You don’t need to sit still while doing this. There are numerous ways to exert negative emotions, such as journaling, exercising, drawing, painting, creating music, etc. Combining an activity in the processing of emotions can be an easy way to not only allow the energy to flow out but can also shift your own frequency by shifting part of your focus.
Doing your best to stay at a positive frequency does not have positive effects only on your body but can lift the frequency of others around you as well. It subsequently aids in their healing. This is helpful to remember when loved ones are ill or in stages of transitioning back to the non-physical. Have you ever noticed that some people have a contagious laughter or radiate positivity and make others around them feel good? It’s the same concept. Helping yourself helps others!
Remember that emotions are on a scale of frequency, meaning some vibrate far lower than others. Love is at the top of the scale, radiating the highest, whereas fear is the lowest. You don’t need to jump from fear to love, although it can be done if you really want to. All you need to do is try to reach for the next emotion above where you’re at. Anger is better than fear, sadness is better than anger, boredom is better than sadness, and so on. What you don’t want is to remain in those negative emotions, ignore or suppress them in attempting to move on. That negative energy will rear its head again and usually in an uglier way.
And sometimes, pivoting and processing emotions is too hard when you're spiraling out of control and in those situations, it's okay to break down. Allowing yourself to break down and cry, giving yourself permission to feel, will get you through it far faster than resistance. There is no shame in this, I’ve had countless breakdowns myself throughout life. There is always calmness after the storm.
A couple last things to note.
People often think that if they don't hold on to negative emotions that they're inadvertently saying that, for example, the mistreatment they experienced is acceptable. They also falsely believe that holding onto a negative emotion justifies the injustice or unfairness of the situation, and that somehow letting go of the negative emotions is letting go of the injustice. But those are simply not true. A good question to ask yourself is: what does holding onto negative emotions do for you? What are you gaining from it? What are you trying to achieve with it? A lot of people are on autopilot and think emotions happen to them. So then the question becomes: where is it coming from? Who is orchestrating what you feel and how much?
Lastly, a thing to note on fear and anxiety: it never gives you the control and security your mind tries to convince you of. Holding onto fear and anxiety is out of fear itself - fear of either losing control or not having the control (of people and situations outside of you) needed to feel secure. But you never had control to begin with.