How to Cultivate Emotional Sovereignty Emma Seppälä
The One You Feed
Navigating Emotional Turmoil and Unlocking Sovereignty Through Awareness
Emotions are often suppressed and not properly dealt with, leading to various issues like explosive outbursts or physical ailments. Emotions need to be felt and allowed to move through, as suppressing them only strengthens them in the brain. The story of struggling with emotional eating in college highlighted the cycle of binging and crying, which shifted after a meditation session. The insight gained during meditation to cry before binging led to breaking the addictive cycle. Understanding that emotions are energy in motion, akin to how children handle emotions by feeling them completely and letting them pass, is crucial. Acknowledging and feeling emotions is essential for healing and gaining sovereignty over them, even though people tend to avoid pain by engaging in escapes. Having the awareness and courage to be with difficult emotions allows for freedom from them, enabling true emotional sovereignty.
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