why we run from our emotions and how to stop
- Salma Summers
- Nov 12, 2019
- 3 min read
today's blog post is based on a comment i received from Dayle.
the idea of stop running from yourself as a blog comes to mind for some reason would love to read your perspective on humans literally running from their emotions...and why people when anxious walk up and down pacing very fast it's like they want to leave the emotions and body behind -- Dayle
Dayle brings up an interesting concept here, running from our emotions. yesterday i wrote about the importance of our feelings and how we need them in order to spark inspiration and divine guidance within us.
emotion (energy in motion) moves through our body and it can cause a lot of discomfort if we don’t know what is happening.
and this is exactly why we run.
we run because we don’t want to feel. we have been conditioned to believe that it is less painful to run from our emotions than to face them and feel them.
this couldn’t be further from the truth.
when we are running from our emotions we are choosing to repress them instead of releasing them. eventually, we become numb. and from this state, we can’t feel anything.
most people in the world are in this state now. they are numb. they have gotten so used to shutting off their feelings that they can no longer feel.
and this means they are stuck in a perpetual state of longing for something. these people (everyone who has been conditioned with the lack mindset and isn’t doing anything about it) are in a constant state of escape.
they are stuck in that constant feeling of inadequacy that leads to always wanting more and more.
more experiences, more clothes, more likes, more praise, more status, more money, more (fill in the blank). it is never-ending.
also, they can never be alone.
they fill their time with work, tv, drama, drugs, and anything else that is used to escape.
sound familiar? we have all been here.
we have to ask ourselves…
what caused this in humanity?
why are we so hell-bent on escaping our bodies and our feelings?
what are we afraid of?
well somewhere in the emotional dark ages that we have been living in, we decided that emotions were too scary to venture into.
this is why when we were children we heard phrases like “suck it up” and “big girls/boys don’t cry.”
so it is no wonder that we are terrified of feeling our emotions.
but the more we ignore them, the greater levels of discomfort we cause ourselves.
eventually, this is what leads to disease.
emotions will always find a way to leave your body. energy doesn’t like to be stagnant. either you allow it to move or it will find another way to move through you (even if that means death).
have you ever watched someone pacing really quickly back and forth?
of course, you have, you may have even been the one doing it.
this is actually a way to move energy. although most people are doing it unconsciously, the reason it calms you down after a while is that you are moving the emotions that are asking to be moved.
crying is another way to move energy out of our bodies.
everything around emotions that we have been conditioned against, is actually what we need to do.
crying, for example, is so healthy. yet, it was (and for the most part still is) considered a sign of weakness.
as we start to recognize and accept our energetic bodies more and more, crying will become something that is encouraged.
we are moving into a new age where feelings and emotions will become the centering forces for our well being.
we have been ignorant of the ways in which we have caused our own suffering by ignoring feelings and suppressing emotions.
emotion is only energy wanting to move in our bodies. we have to create a space and time to allow it.
exercising is a great way to get energy moving in our bodies. next time you feel angry, go for a run and you will see how much that shifts your emotional state afterward.
if you don’t want to exercise, breathing is another way to move energy. you can sit down and breathe slowly and deeply and continue to do so until the discomfort leaves your body and you are back in your neutral state.
but the most important step in all of this is your willingness to do something other than suppressing your emotions.
there will be times when it will feel really uncomfortable but the human experience is essentially about feeling.
we can’t try to escape that which we are.
our bodies were created to feel and we are constantly engaging with energy that triggers different feelings within us.
the only way to enjoy the human experience is to understand it and to understand it we must stop running from it.
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