Understanding Emotional Shock and Finding Relief

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In all cases, a rush of chemicals flood the body and you are partially disabled. The variation is wide and is experienced and managed in many ways. The biggest error humans make is in attempting to change the situation or circumstance in order to gain the relief that is desperately sought. Sometimes changing the situation seems impossible further heightening the perceived threat. Depending on the strength of the emotions, in unusual situations people will in a moment of overwhelming emotion attempt to take someone's life for that emotional relief. There is a deep conflict in emotions, the way we want to experience it and the way we are experiencing it. When we are feeling these 'negative' emotions it is because there is a question or a series of questions needing to be answered. Every parent for instance can remember a time when they didn't know where their child was and a great fear arose. There were thoughts of never finding them again. As soon as the question to their whereabouts is made relief douses the flames of fear, then there is a great feeling of relief. Another example might be when you go out only to find your car is missing and after a few seconds you remember you left it in front of your neighbor's house, something you never do. Yet for that moment, a rush of chemicals flooded your body in response to whatever beliefs and assumptions were most reactivated, a sense of panic took over. Remember the body's multi-sensory capacity is reading the environment and 400 billion pieces of data are being interpreted per second causing the brain to produce 100,000 chemicals per second and sending them to the cells of the body. This is done at an incredible speed. When you round the bend and see the tiger staring you in the face, you feel the adrenalin rush now! And you can never really know how a person will react to great trauma because of it. Some people who have learned to suppress their feelings appear to be quite hardened, yet if those energies are uncapped it might reveal to you an entirely different person. The primary context necessary to understand is the principle that energy, realized as feelings and emotions, precedes all realities real or otherwise. When you look at the situation from this principle and re-tell the story, create a better feeling interpretation, chemicals to the cells of the body are altered and a sense of relief begins to be felt. A significant number of emotions are based on the belief that the unknown is reason for being fearful. If you can locate the question that wants an answer and then you can gain awareness to the answer, you will alter your perception and your experience. What is it I don't now know, the knowing of which would allow me to release these emotions? Sometimes there is a grip so tightly applied to certain negative emotions that our hanging on to it seems like the only thing that can be done to avoid what their fear is about. Generally speaking few have practiced the noticing of where the emotions are in the body. Try this if you'd like as a demonstration. I'll tell you to do something and when I do, stop reading for about fifteen seconds. Then skip to and read the last paragraph of this article. Okay, see if you can relax all of your body muscles from the shoulders up? Now let's look at emotions and what will allow us to release the grip. If you pay attention closely when your emotional state is buzzing high you will notice that you are having thoughts. If the emotional shock is too intense it may be difficult to even follow them as it will be difficult to focus. If your aim is to reduce the intensity and grip the emotion has on you, make a quick list of whatever thoughts you are having. This may be in the form of phases, or sentences and key words. Now I said earlier, energy which shows up as feelings and emotions give rise to the thoughts you are having. Once you have those thoughts it sends additional signals to the brain which release more chemicals causing you to think more of the same thoughts and feelings. So what happens when you deliberately reach for better feeling thoughts about the situation and circumstances at hand? You send new information to the brain manufacturing new chemicals, which are sent to the cells of your body and you begin to feel a degree of relief. By continuing to reach for better feeling interpretations about the present reality you attract new possibilities. Once you sense a bit of relief you can locate the feeling in your body and release it by simply intending it to pass out of your body through perhaps an imaginary door in your chest. You can actually feel yourself releasing your grip on the emotion. It does not mean you do not care about the situation; it just puts you in a place where you can react appropriately and of course in your best interest. Often times you will see events and circumstances alter before your eyes. What looked to be a certain resulting negative outcome turns out rather well. Develop a strong knowing that energy precedes everything, all those interpretations we deem good or bad, just or unjust, right or wrong, they are all influenced by the present feelings. You can take the juice out of the emotions by reaching for better feelings interpretations, and a better story. Even though it may seem strange Allow yourself to take a few deep breaths and begin by saying things as simple as - 'everything is going to be ok', 'things will work out', 'all things pass', 'things have always worked out for me'. This practice is aligned with the law of attraction which states what you give your attention to you attract. These starting statements or variations you might have will be interpreted by the brain in a more positive and hopeful manner slowly giving you some breathing room, not much maybe, but enough to continue to upgrade the level of interpretation and a lessening of the emotional grip. At the same time breath in and out and on the outflow feel and imagine the release of knotted energy flowing out of you. Keep letting it go. This does not mean it will all be gone but it will reduce its grip on you. It is possible to completely release all the emotion, especially when you have become trusting and skilled in your focus. In the beginning you will have a tendency to retreat to your dominant emotions until your emotional being remembers rightly that it is governed by your higher aware self. You may even find that certain issues begin to clear up just in the process of life. Now relax some more, let your jaw drop and relax it some more. Did you find that you actually were still holding it without really being aware of it? We do the same thing with emotions we are unconsciously holding onto, in fact that we are gripping tightly to. Now return to where you left off.