Following up a bit on yesterday’s post, there are definite qualities to how emotions feel in the body, feelings that elicit behaviors, or need to be addressed. With happiness there is often a feeling of flushness, you may become more extraverted, and the volume of your voice may rise. Fear can bring on shivers and stiffness; there is the sense the body shrinks, and your posture may mimic this sensation. Someone with a heavy heart often places the weight of his upper body and on the spine just below the heart as if the heart itself were using the spine as a crutch.
Obviously these are generalities, but I think they are familiar enough that most people would recognize them. I am reminded of theatrical actors who use very pronounced physical actions to convey emotional states visibly, like a worried man rubbing his hands together, or someone who has eaten too much and is rubbing his belly.
But what is significant about this? well, a lot more than I could describe succinctly, but I will point to one important factor. First, your emotional states have physiological corollaries that include both complex chemical reactions, and structure and posture. Second, unresolved emotions and subliminal programs (stored charge) can leave lasting chemical and structural conditions, that given enough time require some form of medical intervention. Third, the deliberate, continued manipulation(for lack of a better word) of structure, or posture, or behaviors, or emotions can stimulate your body to release the stored emotional charge with positive health benefits.
To make a point we can imagine emotions as various types of tensions in the nerves that build up a charge, this charge being an energy potential. Depending on how we actualize this charge, meaning how we expend/utilize this potential, we have either resolved the tension, reduced it, converted it in to another form, perhaps moved it, or maybe deeply internalized it, among other possibilities.
Considering the charge, the way I’m looking at it is literally in electrical terms. The human body operates generally as an electron donor, but imagine an emotion like severe anger. Might this arise in the body as a potent electron stealer? That is, as something highly acidic? and say that this anger is something that can’t be openly expressed or resolved. The body may have a specific method for managing a particular charge like that. As an analogy, Fluoride is highly toxic to the body, and it can’t detoxify it quickly so it stores it in bone until it can get to it little by little.
Hopefully this makes sense because I don’t believe this is a trivial point, and it is something I want to explore going forward. Obviously there are some intelligent researchers who have laid the foundations. One who comes to mind is Wilhelm Reich, or Dietrich Klinghardt, also the founders of Recall Healing, but I know there are many others as well.
If anyone does read this, let me know if what I’m talking about makes sense to you. Let me know what your perspectives about emotions and the body are.
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