Symptoms of Suppressed Emotional Pain can stem from
- Sadness
Sadness is a natural emotion associated with losing a loved one or big disappointments in life. However, if it doesn’t fade with time, it might point to a treatable condition, depression, that can impact your whole body.
- Anxiety and Fear
Anxiety and fear both also release adrenaline, which generally results in jumpiness, a tendency to startle easily, the inability to relax (the “flight” response), or a feeling of being immobilized or stuck (the “freeze” response). Long-term stress and anxiety flood the bloodstream with high doses of cortisol, the stress hormone. When we are in this state for long periods, it causes havoc in our body system, produces poor health, and causes illness and disease.
- Shame and Guilt
Shame and guilt often result in a feeling of “butterflies” or weight in the stomach. Common among people with addictions, shame leads to and is worsened by the need for secrecy.
Individuals may also have problems like abuse, addiction, or mental illness. But no one talks about those problems. Unfortunately, this leads to children and adults who repress their emotions and deny their own needs.
Repressed and Suppressed emotions can also lead to behavior such as,
- Denying feelings
- Ignoring feelings
- Avoiding communication
- Avoiding touch
- Distrust
Suppressed Emotional Pain-Manifest Health and Behavior Problems Over Time
Suppressed or repressed emotions are feelings you unconsciously avoid. These are different from feelings you actively push aside because they overwhelm you. Over time health problems can manifest from repressed emotions.
Repressed Emotions
We have the tendency not to want to face painful or uncomfortable feelings. We unconsciously push painful feelings, thoughts, or memories out of our conscious awareness. Repressed emotions can be a way to protect your mind from unfortunate situations. Usually, they stem from childhood trauma, as with a child who has suffered physical, mental, or sexual abuse from a parent or caregiver. The child may have repressed the memories of abuse and their emotions. The child can be unaware or partly unaware of the abuse. However, the abuse still affects them through behavior issues, such as relationship problems as adults, and they may submit to self-harm.
We adapt to negative coping behaviors and continue to have patterns of suppressing, denying, and pushing down negative emotions throughout life, increasing our risk of mental, emotional, and physical distress in our bodies. In addition, unhealthy patterns in our thoughts and emotions increase our lack of ability to mentally and emotionally cope and recover from crises that arise in life.
Signs of Negative Stuck Emotions, Conscious or Subconscious
Our overall emotional and mental health is directly linked to our physical health. Suppressed anger, childhood trauma, and any emotional pain cause a higher risk for things like:
- Depression
- High blood pressure
- Heart disease
- Digestive problems
- Infections
- Low energy
- Chronic Pain
- Immunity suppression
- Autoimmune disease
- Diabetes, and many more…
My Suppressed Emotional Pain and Trauma
I had grown up in an abusive childhood home. There were eight of us children. My father was an extreme alcoholic and would physically, mentally, and emotionally abuse my mother and us children when the feeling struck him in a drunken state. We even experienced our Christmas tree and gifts have been thrown out the front door on Christmas Eve when he came home from the bar in a rage. Growing up, I witnessed my older siblings become self-destructive with suicide attempts, another sibling cutting himself from his deep seeded emotional pain and trauma, and I also suffered sexual abuse at the age of 7.
As a result, I was putting myself in relationships that seemed to be the norm for me. Abused physically, mentally, and emotionally by my husband for years. Further adding to my suppressed emotional pain. I was the third child from the last in our big family; we lost a brother who died at 34 from liver failure from alcohol.
Another older brother practiced self-harm in any form he saw fit. He also drank heavily and started cutting himself when he was 14. Harming himself by cutting for the physical pain took away his emotional pain. He more or less did any drug to suppress his emotional pain. Being placed in mental health facilities over and over again did not do anything for him to heal. They just filled him with more drugs. He continued his same behavior as soon as he was released and died at the age of 43.
I found my oldest sister in her bed in an overdose state in her bed when I was 6. Fortunately, she was saved and spent 30 days in a mental facility for help due to the abuse she encountered. Unfortunately, she went on to cut her wrist and three other attempts of suicide throughout adulthood. Thank Source, for she did find strength and some emotional healing and is 68 years old now. Therefore, I can genuinely state I had enormous suppressed emotional pain in my subconscious mind and manifested illness and disease in my body.
Releasing Emotional Pain and Trauma Can Heal Illness & Disease in the Body
Healing emotional pain and trauma heals physical and mental illness and disease. Chronic back pain is crippling. I suffered chronic spine pain and MS for 23 years.
Therefore, I began having horrible long-term MS medication side effects. I suffered degenerative bones caused by medications for MS. Suffering from chronic pain and ingesting heavy pain prescription drugs for 17 years never took my pain away enough to live my life. As a result, the pain worsened; stress and anxiety were out of control. The pain made my anxiety worse, and anxiety and fear made my pain & MS worse. I had no life sitting and sleeping in a recliner chair for 10+ years. Everything I tried did not work to relieve my suffering; while the many medications added horrible side effects, others caused more damage to my body.
Emotional Pain-Always Feeling Completly Alone
Therefore, I constantly felt alone, as if no one truly understood the suffering I was experiencing. I felt the doctors at the pain clinic, or other medical professionals could not realize the depth of my distress. Yes, they wanted and tried to help, but what they had for me was not working. I was missing out on everything I once loved and used to enjoy.
My negative thought patterns affected my physical pain, and my physical pain affected my thoughts and emotions. I lived in a vicious cycle of emotional and physical pain with negative thought patterns on a loop in my mind day and night. I needed to look elsewhere for relief.
Meditation Helped Me Start My Healing Process From MS and Chronic Pain
I started my meditation practice because of its effect on lowering stress and anxiety. When we suffer from stress and anxiety in excess over long periods, our brain floods our bloodstream with high doses of Stress Hormones, Cortical, and adrenaline; as a result, cellular damage in the body starts. Meditation, if learned correctly, can enhance your life in all areas. Learning to relax, breathe, and become mindful of negative thought patterns with a growing awareness of how painful emotions feel in our bodies.
So I began mindfulness meditation first, and my pain improved over a short period. Then, the practice of gentle Yoga and Qigong added extra benefits to my physical, mental, emotional, and energy body, enhancing my well-being. That was the start of something extraordinary.
Parts Work and Shadow Work
I also learned parts work and shadow work, which helped me go within, find and face the root cause of my illness. These methods are not an easy process, nor will I say it’s not painful. But, we accept where we are at the moment, go within, and face all the past emotional pain and trauma we have suppressed, denied, and disowned. Some people may need a certified therapist who works with shadow and parts work. But I was blessed to be able to do it on my own.
Shadow Work Healing-We Must Accept What Has Happened In Our Lives-Accept, Let Go, Heal, and Move Forward
Therefore, the key to healing I had to face the subconscious emotional pain and trauma that happened to me—removing resistance to my recovery from my body’s negative stuck emotional pain.
Holding on to past childhood pain and trauma from physical, mental, and emotional abuse. I was also suffering from repeating life patterns in personal relationships. In addition, I had deep emotional fear, unworthiness, self-doubt, shame, and so much more. It was not easy.
Practicing meditation daily, it became easier to quiet my racing mind. I learned to go within and face my past emotional pain and trauma, let go of anger, shame, guilt, unworthiness, and feelings of worthlessness, and forgive others and myself. We learn to take control of our minds and emotions instead of them controlling us. From this place, we can find the root cause of our illness or disease.
There is always a subconscious positive intention behind any illness and disease we encounter. Therefore, I felt insulted and angered when I heard that I had created an illness and disease in my body. Who would ever make this suffering in their own body consciously? NO ONE! My illness and disease manifested from my suppressed emotional pain trapped in my subconscious mind and the very cells of my body. Therefore, I have carried suppressed emotional pain and trauma for many years. As a result, I was causing illness and disease in my body. I learned to be still, listen, fully feel, and acknowledge my emotional pain and how it affected all areas of my life.
We Live In a Law of Attraction Vibrational Universe
Quantum Physics is the most studied and validated science on earth. We create our own reality through our stream of consciousness; whether we believe it or not, it is the TRUTH. We must understand that everything in this universe holds its own vibrational energy signatures. The emotion of fear has a different vibration than the emotion of love. The law of mirroring in the vibrational universe we live.
Our thoughts are things, our thoughts affect how our body feels, and our body affects our thoughts and emotions. Thoughts and emotions are energic vibrations we send out to the universe and are mirrored back to us in perfect concert for positive or negative, wanted or unwanted. Our bodies, thoughts, and emotions are always consistent with how we feel physically.
Living In a Worrisome, Fear Base, Emotional Pain State Of Vibration
In today’s world, we focus on worrying about yesterday, tomorrow, next week, and beyond and living our life from a place of emotional pain, trauma, stress, and fear.
Our thoughts and emotions hold vibrational energy, Our emotions are energy, and each emotion vibrates at its own frequency signature. Like a radio, each station setting on the dial has its own frequency. Likewise, our bodies are energy, all vibrating on their own frequency; each organ in the body has its own consciousness and vibrational frequency.
As a result, if we are stuck in emotional pain and negative thought patterns, these are the vibrations we admit to the universe from our being. Therefore, we receive more of the same suffering, mentally, emotionally, and physically.
Meditation
Though there are many types and practices of meditation, we will refer to the Himalayan Yoga Meditation.
Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity—training for a healthy mindset. Meditation enhances our awareness. We are achieving emotional calmness and mental clarity.
There are six popular types of meditation practice:
- Mindfulness meditation.
- Spiritual meditation.
- Focused meditation.
- Movement meditation.
- Mantra meditation.
- Transcendental meditation (TM)
12 Science-Based Benefits of Meditation
- Reducing stress is one of the most common reasons people try meditation. But, as a result, they come to realize the many other positive benefits that show up in our life.
- Controls Anxiety, Stress, and Panic. Opening up space of a quiet mind for solutions to flow in.
- Promotes Emotional Health.
- Strengthens The Immune System
- Reduces Pain
- Enhances Self–Awareness.
- Lengthens Attention Span.
- May Reduce Age-Related Memory Loss.
- Generate Kindness.
- Help Fight Addictions.
- Lower Blood-Pressure
- Improves Sleep
- The clarity to make difficult decisions.
Yoga-Means Union, Body-Mind, Emotion, and Life Energy Balance: meditation for chronic pain and MS
The Himalayan Mountains have been the home of sages for millennia. Himalayan mediators learn to sit in the correct posture and relax fully. Practice proper breathing techniques, and combine breath awareness with a mantra. Tradition teaches specific methods of training the human mind.
The Himalayan Tradition of Yoga combines the wisdom of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Therefore, there is a long history of Yoga masters who have passed down their teachings to purify the whole being. Yoga means Union, a Balanced Union between the Body, Mind, & Emotions. As a result, meditation is one of the Himalayan Yoga practices that will help you find the stillness within.
Tap Into the Stillness Within–
When you learn to tap into the stillness within you, you relate to life’s challenges and change. Learn to cope with grace, not reaction, and take full responsibility for our actions to the issues in life. With every challenge, there is a solution, no matter how grim it may seem. Likewise, there is a lesson to learn from every loss and hurt.
Do we dare to choose to look within ourselves? Sometimes this can be a scary place to look. We repeatedly become aware of the negative patterns we live in our lives. Looking within ourselves to find these patterns takes bravery and the intention to become aware, accept, feel our pain, forgive, let go, and heal. What are the “things” or “life patterns” that keep showing up in your life?
Ask yourself some questions.
Example:
- Are you afraid to try to get better for fear certain things will make you worse? Please don’t feel alone, for I was carrying this fear also.
- Do you have Blocks that keep you from advancing at work or even applying for a better position?
- Does negative self-talk contribute to your way out of your expansion in life?
- Do you Self-sabotage yourself without realizing it because of fear? Self-sabotage is our subconscious mind trying to protect us, but it cannot because it always refers back to past emotional pain perspectives for solutions. Therefore, holding us in a long-held state of fight, flight, or freeze mode.
- Always seem to end up with the same personality type in relationships that did not work the first time, the second, or the third.
I have answered all the above questions with a big YES.
We all have reoccurring patterns of some sort in our lives. Most don’t even realize this is happening. What most people think and say when shit falls apart “I can’t believe this is happening again.” We blame our physical, mental, and emotional suffering on the negative situations in our lives, and we blame others. We complain to anyone who listens about our mental, emotional, and physical upheaval problems. The truth is we neglect our own contribution to our life conditions. We are unaware of the negative thought patterns, our painful suppressed emotions embedded in our subconscious mind and trapped in the very cells of our body, causing illness and disease.
What’s Keeping us Stuck?
We seem to find comfort and familiarity, even in toxic relationships. Individuals subconsciously believe they are not worthy of a loving relationship. We stay in the jobs we hate because of the “what if’s” fears when making fundamental life changes. Any change that puts us out of our comfort zone can be downright brutal to even think about at times. So we avoid situations even when they are suitable for us.
Example: “Someone who is attracted to the so-called bad-boy type,” even though the relationship always ends in chaos. As a result, one day, she could meet a guy out of her comfort zone—someone more down-to-earth. Not afraid to show emotion & seems to be a responsible, have-it-together type of person.
We make up excuses not to date this guy. Self-talk is “this guy is boring” or “he is too good to be real” this self-talk may be the statements we tell ourselves. Why? This person is the opposite of what we are used to. We may suffer suppressed emotional pain in our subconscious and lack self-love and self-worth. Therefore, we may have just missed out on the best relationship in our life.
Can You Find Your Subconscious Blocks?
Does this ever happen to you? Male or female? We can find the subconscious blocks holding us back from a better life and see where we are responsible for our reoccurring patterns without judgment. Without judgment, means don’t judge yourself or anyone else in the past. Find your crucial part in it all. Working on ourselves, we become aware of self-sabotage patterns in all areas of our lives. Looking within ourselves and others without judgment and feeling our emotional pain, we become aware of where and when we pick up the emotional baggage we carry. We can release, heal, move forward, and create the life we desire. Full of happiness, health, and overall well-being in our life.
Learn to meditate, look within, become aware of emotional subconscious life blocks, feel them fully, and let them go. We find the stillness and calm within. We learn how to process our negative thoughts and emotions healthily when life throws us curve balls—learning to deal with our negative thought patterns and emotions when they arise. Reduce your stress, anxiety, and physical and emotional suffering. Learning to meditate correctly is a step in the right direction.
Meditation Daily & Yoga Energy Work has Changed My Life
Meditation & Yoga helped me physically, mentally, and emotionally change my life. Now I practice Meditation, Qigong, or Yoga every day. My MS symptoms have become nil after 23 years. My anxiety and emotions are no longer bouncing all over the place. I sleep in a bed and not a chair, and I sleep well. I control how issues and situations affect me emotionally with healthy methods instead of pushing them down deep inside—letting go of what no longer serves me and changing the reoccurring patterns in my life.
Meditation for All Ages
Anyone can learn to meditate and become balanced in their mind, body, and emotions. From young children to adults, we all should have learned how to meditate during school in the United States, as in other cultures. Coping skills enhance greatly from a young child. Children learn to cope with problems and high emotional states at a young age. They are learning self-awareness and becoming healthier adults for it. Here I am just one testament to these practices’ work. Millions of individuals have enhanced their lives with meditation.
Would you like more information on meditation or how to get started? Then, you can ease chronic stress and anxiety and start healing your body. This Meditation course includes ten meditation techniques to find the best fit for you. Everyone is different; therefore, The Master Your Mind Meditation course has everything you need to start. Learn to take control of your negative thought patterns and painful emotions for a happier, healthier life! Instead of them controlling you and your life!
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