7 Steps Guide on ‘EMOTIONAL CATHARSIS’
We live to feel certain emotions like love, happiness, satisfaction, peace, bliss, etc. in our lives. Emotions and feelings form the base of our lives.
We often show enthusiasm for positive emotions but never address negative emotions like sadness, hurt, jealousy, remorse, etc. Ignorance of such sentiments creates massive blockages which we carry throughout our lives. They restrict us from living our life to its fullest. Timely redressal of negative emotions and thinking patterns is essential before they become our mental or energy blocks. So, the act of emotional catharsis is significant for living a holistic and balanced life.
Katharsis is a Greek word meaning “purification,” or “cleansing.” Emotional catharsis is the process of releasing strong negative emotions such as anger, sadness or guilt through crying, pillow screaming, art, music or journalizing.
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THE STEPWISE GUIDE ON EMOTIONAL CATHARSIS
Identify the nature and type of emotion
Identify what exactly you are feeling. Try to specify it as precisely as you can (like sadness, frustration, jealousy, fear, anger, confusion, emptiness, etc.). For identifying your emotion, you have to observe your body and its sensations. One should be at peace to understand what one is feeling at the moment.
Identify the source of emotion
Identify the cause of your emotion by analyzing whether the feeling is yours or is the result of someone else’s thoughts, emotions or judgments. If yours, accept it wholeheartedly and take full responsibility for your current state and continue with the steps mentioned below. But if the feeling/emotion is emanating from others (as Empaths & Hypersensitive people absorb feelings from others), block the same through –
> Grounding
> Shielding
> Creating boundaries
Witness the feeling
Take a few deep breaths and then look for the part of your body which is being affected by that feeling. Witness the physical sensations of your body like shivering, tightness or some pain or discomfort. Examine the body parts feeling those difficult sensations. Example- tightness in your stomach, pain in your chest, choking in your throat, severe headache. For a few moments just be like this. Just feel your emotions with these sensations. Accept them entirely instead of walking away from them or ignoring them.
Express the feeling privately
Express your feeling clearly and precisely starting from the circumstances that invoke it in a private journal. Also, journalize any past trauma or pain bodies that amplifies it. This way you will track your previous pain bodies and trigger points, and in future, you will be able to prevent situations that support this negative emotion.
Release the feeling
Release the feeling from your body by performing some ritual like walking, rapid breathing, swimming, singing, bathing, dancing, exercising, etc. As the more, you hold negativity the more miserable your life becomes. So, it’s always better to create some space in your life by releasing heavy emotions and give room to new experiences and opportunities.
Share the feeling
Sharing your feeling with a close friend and your family member do wonders. Psychologists believe that people who are outspoken or who share their emotions with others are less prone to stress, depression, heart attacks, etc. So, share your problems and sufferings with your dear ones. Sharing will strengthen your relationship with them and will certainly improve your mental health as well.
Rejuvenate and pamper yourself
It’s time to reward yourself for releasing those energy blockages and heavy emotions from your life. Re-energize your body, mind, and soul by doing simple things that pamper you like eating ice cream, indulging in a massage, sleeping, drinking plenty of water, etc. Perform activities that make you happy and rejuvenate your body, mind, and soul on some level.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. -Sigmund Freud
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