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Welcome to the higher realizations of spiritual awakening when undergoing the continued exploration of the watery depths of the Dark Night of the Soul! | Welcome to the higher realizations of spiritual awakening when undergoing the continued exploration of the watery depths of the Dark Night of the Soul! | ||
==Emotional Healing== | |||
When uncovering some of these [[Unpleasant Truths]], it is common to feel anger, depression and grief rising. A helpful description is the Kübler-Ross model, which includes anger in the five stages of grief, which is necessary on the path of expressing authentic emotions that lead to emotional and spiritual healing. | When uncovering some of these [[Unpleasant Truths]], it is common to feel anger, depression and grief rising. A helpful description is the Kübler-Ross model, which includes anger in the five stages of grief, which is necessary on the path of expressing authentic emotions that lead to emotional and spiritual healing. | ||
Feeling anger and grief can be a necessary stage of the | Feeling anger and grief can be a necessary stage of the [[Emotional Healing]] process, because it triggers self realization into acknowledging that something negative, traumatic or painful has happened to us. It is better to recognize it as its happening than allow pent up anger to be expressed in uncontrolled outbursts or black depression. Be willing to feel and witness anger and grief to help redirect and release it. The more you truly feel it, understanding why you feel this way and recognizing its movement through personal observation, the more it will begin to dissipate through greater acceptance and awareness that supports emotional healing. | ||
An important component of | An important component of [[Emotional Healing]] is validation that the event and the experience has happened, and that you have the divine right to feel the emotions that you are feeling. | ||
It may be that you will need to make life changes to adjust accordingly to be truer to yourself. In this stage it is important to validate your feelings and to honor your experience in the storyline when you felt pain. However, at some point you’ll need to see it is a storyline and that you will want to be freed from the emotional attachments to any storyline as these stories limit our consciousness expansion and experiences of joy and peace. Anger ridden and grief stricken stories can barrel through our minds like an out-of-control train careening down the tracks. To find freedom from pent up anger and grief, we must recognize the story and see that repeating it over and over again does not serve us to emotionally grow and move forward in more peace. Yes, what happened did happen to us, even if people around us ignored it. But we have to make the choice on how much longer we allow the burden of negative emotions to hang on to our thoughts and feelings, like a ball and chain that keeps us captives to the painful past. | It may be that you will need to make life changes to adjust accordingly to be truer to yourself. In this stage it is important to validate your feelings and to honor your experience in the storyline when you felt pain. However, at some point you’ll need to see it is a storyline and that you will want to be freed from the emotional attachments to any storyline as these stories limit our consciousness expansion and experiences of joy and peace. Anger ridden and grief stricken stories can barrel through our minds like an out-of-control train careening down the tracks. To find freedom from pent up anger and grief, we must recognize the story and see that repeating it over and over again does not serve us to emotionally grow and move forward in more peace. Yes, what happened did happen to us, even if people around us ignored it. But we have to make the choice on how much longer we allow the burden of negative emotions to hang on to our thoughts and feelings, like a ball and chain that keeps us captives to the painful past. | ||
==Emotional Processing Exercise== | |||
Here are some strategies to help soften the storyline: | Here are some strategies to help soften the storyline: | ||
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*Call for spiritual support, prayers and help to move through the painful situation with grace, and the highest expression possible for all parties. | *Call for spiritual support, prayers and help to move through the painful situation with grace, and the highest expression possible for all parties. | ||
All of us can relate to these difficult experiences and painful feelings at some point in our life, and this is especially prevalent during the Dark Night of the Soul process, the phase when we really start uncovering some of life’s gory hidden details. Sometimes we can be shocked at what we can see and remember. <ref>[http://www.energeticsynthesis.com/resource-tools/blog-timeline-shift/3197-because-they-can | All of us can relate to these difficult experiences and painful feelings at some point in our life, and this is especially prevalent during the [[Dark Night of the Soul]] process, the phase when we really start uncovering some of life’s gory hidden details. Sometimes we can be shocked at what we can see and remember. <ref>[http://www.energeticsynthesis.com/resource-tools/blog-timeline-shift/3197-because-they-can Because They Can Blog]</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||