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February 24 - June 23, 2022
If you are like most people, unacceptable things happen to you from time to time. You must decide in advance to slow down and take control over your emotions, or you will simply continue to react.
If you choose to focus your mind on a negative event from your past and reexperience those emotions, you can actually create a new trapped emotion about that event, even long after it has happened!
all your emotions have a purpose—they are a communication from your body, your heart, and your mind.
you can also reroute your emotional choices—so if you start feeling grief for a lost loved one, for example, use it as a reminder of your love for them, and choose to focus on positive memories instead.
Remember that we choose our emotions based on several factors: trapped emotions, old habits and ideas, and, of course, current circumstances. Much of the time, we jump to a response, or we create an emotion and start feeling it immediately. But in almost all of our experiences, this rapid-fire response is much too fast, and we can afford to slow down considerably.
Next time you feel irritated, sad, or lonely (or some other less-than-extreme emotion), take a deep breath, put everything else aside for a few minutes, and decide to dive into this rerouting exercise.
Thank your body and subconscious mind for communicating with you. Honor the emotion you are experiencing. Give yourself permission to let old habits fall away, and to choose a positive emotion instead.
If needed, create thoughts that align with the emotion you have chosen. For example, if you want to feel curiosity, you might say to yourself, “I wonder how I can better help him understand what I want.”
Feeling positive emotions about what you want will literally help you to create your dreams.
Focusing on the things that you don’t want and feeling negative will either create or perpetuate those same problems in your life.
Your subconscious mind can have a great effect on the outcomes that you are trying to achieve in your life. Trapped emotions work their negative influence on you in large part through the mechanism of your subconscious mind. You may be trying your best to think positive and see the glass as half full while your subconscious trapped emotions are betraying you by constantly radiating their own particular negative thought frequencies into the universe.
When you free yourself of negative trapped emotions, you will find it easier to choose the positive emotions that will help you to attract what you really want in your life.
Much of our suffering comes from our resistance to what has happened in the past, what is happening now, and what may happen in the future. We begin to resist when we dwell on unmet expectations. We can also be in resistance to divine will and what we know is right. This state of resistance is often referred to as pride.
Trapped emotions can encourage us to be in a state of resistance, but it is still ultimately our choice. This then leads to further choices—ones that often produce more trapped emotions—so it becomes a vicious cycle.
One of the most damaging problems with a prideful, resistant state is that it makes us unwilling to forgive others. Instead, we hold on to the real or imagined hurts we have suffered, and this leads us to feel more negative emotions, and sometimes even want revenge.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.—Buddha
We have the amazing opportunity every single day to receive divine inspiration and harness universal intelligence. But when we choose to be in resistance, we leave that beautiful power by the wayside and trudge through life on low battery power, stewing in low vibrational energies and feeling disconnected from everything good.
When we pit our own will against others or against our Creator or the universe, we block our ability to grow, and we cut ourselves off from the power that is available to us.
Our bodies react to resistance as you might expect—we become tense and inflamed. We can’t sleep. We have pain. What is really happening here is that our bodies are responding to the chaotic state that resistance has ...
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Contrast this with a state of acceptance. When we are in this state, energy is not chaotic but flows like peaceful water. Acceptance allows us to be open to others, to connect with them on a deep and meaningful level, to see their beauty and respond with compassion. Being in a state of acceptance does not make us more vulnerable to being hurt, but it allows us to respond more slowly, thoughtfully, and appropriately to whatever is happening now. And it can also act as a type of protection against negativity, too, primarily because we attract less negativity but also because it raises our
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Being accepting of the past allows us to forgive and let go. This is a choice. Trapped emotions may be making this step very difficult for you to complete, but you can release them and it should be much easier. Acceptance is about letting go completely of past unmet expectations. When you make the decision to shift into a state of acceptance and let go of resistance, you will find it much easier to let go of old emotions that have been hindering your progress and happiness.
If you find yourself experiencing emotions like stubbornness, shame, guilt, self-abuse, resentment, and pride, you may want to take a hard look at your beliefs about being in the wrong.
Think of how little children are able to freely explore the world around them with curiosity and amazement, learning as they go along. This is possible for them because they are not hung up on being right, and they’re not afraid of being wrong! When we accept that we have been wrong before, and that we will most certainly be wrong again, we free ourselves from this little prison of our own making. This is empowering because it not only enables us to explore new things but also gives us a greater sense of valuable self-awareness.
Part of being in a state of acceptance is constantly forgiving others their trespasses.
Acceptance is realizing that we have no control over anyone in this way; we can only decide how we want to feel now. Just because you choose to suffer by holding on to the past doesn’t mean they will suffer along with you. And desiring the suffering of another is a low vibrational state that hurts you anyway!
The ability to forgive others arises from our own ability to love.
Unconditional love helps us to focus outward, beyond our own self-centeredness. It helps us to be more interested and understanding of the needs of others. It leads us to give our time, service, and resources to help others in need. It helps us to become givers and grateful receivers rather than takers.
When our hearts are filled with love, we find joy in helping to create happiness for others. Our concern for the welfare of others becomes as great a concern as our own happiness. We therefore create our own happiness by making worthwhile contributions to others and to society.
When our hearts are full of love, we are much less likely to develop trapped emotions. We are more forgiving, patient, and kind.
When we live congruently with what we know to be right and true, we have integrity. Integrity is a virtue, an inner strength, an honesty with oneself. Integrity drives people to be their best selves.
Generally, the more integrity we have, the less likely it is that we will develop trapped emotions because the soul is not divided but is whole and without conflict within.
If the trials of your life seem overwhelming to you, remember that God has a purpose for you and that you are loved.
Our divine Creator is refining you. Our goal should be to align ourselves with this refining process, working step-by-step to raise our vibration and our level of consciousness, so that we will have become like our Creator in our ability to give unconditional love.
It is a sacred calling to help those who are suffering, not only because of themselves but also because the ripple effects from their healed and empowered life can spread out through time and space to eternity.
The lowest vibration of all the emotions.
