Suggestions to Deal with Negative Emotions

Dealing With Feelings
Releasing Process: Transforming Negative Emotions to Experience.  Suzanna Solomon
INTRODUCTION
Fear. Guilt. Sadness. Anger. Poor self esteem. Arrogance. Pain. Apathy. Jealousy. Regret. Overwhelm. Helplessness. Loneliness. Dread. Unworthiness. Abandonment. Shock. Remorse. Confusion. Depression. Shame. Loss. Anxiety. Judgment. Impatience. Vindictiveness. Alienation. Betrayal. Disappointment. Hate.

So many negative emotions influence our thoughts, our behavior, our bodies and how we feel about ourselves—our self esteem. We seemed trapped in the perpetual cause and effect of these negative emotions. These can become especially heightened when we experience, adversity, crisis and trauma in our lives. We try therapy, exercise, diet, meditation, and avoidance to free ourselves from their control. Sometimes we experience change. Most of the time, nothing really happens.



EXPERIENCING THE RELEASE PROCESS

The patterns of your negative emotions are deeply ingrained in the cells and atoms of your body, in the darkness of your psyche, and in the programming of your thoughts and actions. Therefore a full emotional release must take place through your physical, mental, emotional and molecular levels of existence.

Before you can release an emotion you must first become aware of what you are feeling. It is easy to identify your feeling when a negative emotion explodes, obviously catching your attention. It is not so easy when you only feel a fleeting moment of discomfort. It is even more difficult when an emotion is so well hidden that it only shows itself as an underlying debilitating mood or physical sensation. At times you might not even be aware that you are angry or sad.

You do not have to be the victim of your negative emotions..

You can also release negative emotions that have built up over many years and events. The only difference is that you might have to release several related emotions before you get to the core one.

For example, for forty five years, I used to be very anxious whenever I heard the sound of ocean waves. I was also fearful of deep water, especially the ocean, even though I knew how to swim. I felt an overwhelming feeling of dread whenever I put my face in the water for too long, because I could not take in air then hold my breath and release the air under water.

In doing the Release Process, the memory of nearly drowning in the ocean as an infant was revealed to me for the first time. I re-experienced primal fear, helplessness and then rage for my mother's betrayal in not taking care of me in the water.

Because there were so many related emotions, I used the Release Process to transform each of them, one at a time. My feelings of helplessness, an aversion to being cold, and low self esteem issues resulting in a sense of unworthiness were changed for the better. Now, I experience that no matter what, I am eternal, because my under-lying core fear of my basic survival no longer exists.

Fortunately, my mother and I became much closer because her feelings of quilt and my unconscious negative feelings had been resolved. Moreover, I finally could enjoy the soothing sound of ocean waves and swimming in deep water with my face in the water.

Keep in mind, I have been doing this Releasing Process for many years and cannot guarantee that you will experience the same kind of success when you first do it. I do know you will feel a difference and with practice you can feel even more positive changes. [More examples follow the process]

HOW TO USE THE RELEASING PROCESS MOST EFFECTIVELY

When you are first learning this process, give yourself at least forty five minutes of uninterrupted time to re-read all the information and to experience all the stages. As you learn how to do the process you might need only ten to thirty minutes to feel the release.

To begin the Releasing Process, find a comfortable place to sit or lie down. Then remembering to use your breath to expand your awareness, go through the stages. If your mind wanders away to other things or goes unconscious, just bring your attention back to your intention. After you are done, I recommend that you write about and/or draw your experience.

I encourage you to repeat the Releasing Process three times (You can do this at different times or on different days), because often, negative emotions do not want to give up their control. It is important to use the same symbols for your negative emotions that you used initially, for they will strengthen your inner experience.

After a month or so, if you do not notice any emotional or physical change, perhaps you were not quite ready to totally release the negative emotion. Be persistent and repeat this process, three more times. In addition, check to see if there are any other negative emotions, thoughts, body symptoms and actions that are related to the original negative emotion you wanted to release. Release these as well.

THE RELEASING PROCESS: STAGE ONE

CONNECTING WITH THE EMPOWERMENT OF CREATION

Experience being in an expanded state of awareness so that you can feel the enlightening love and wisdom of Creation.

1. While comfortably sitting, or lying down close your eyes.
   A. Inhaling and exhaling through your mouth, take six, slow deepening breaths.
   B. Feel the relaxation, the calming, the silence, more and more with each breath you take.
   C. Option: Use your own method, to take yourself into an expanded state of consciousness.
    
2. Welcome Creation into your awareness.
   A. See the light of Creation all around you, in you and through you.
   B. Sense uplifting love filling you up.
   C. Hear the hum of Divine vibrations.
   D. Feel the oneness of the universal heart beat.
    
3. Option: Call forth to your Divine Counselors, who are your Angels, Ascended Master Teachers, Spirit Guides, and your own Divine Self.
   A. In your mind's eye, see them near you, around you.
   B. In your body's awareness, feel their unique vibrations.
   C. In your thinking, know that they unconditionally love you.
    
4. Speak and feel your gratitude for the empowerment of Divine love, wisdom and guidance.

STAGE TWO

IDENTIFYING YOUR NEGATIVE EMOTIONS

Learn how to clearly identify your controlling negative emotions within your body, thoughts and feelings.

1. Name the emotion that you want to release.
   A. For example, it might be guilt, blame, helplessness, anger, inadequacy, apathy, sadness, shame, or fear.
    
2. Placing your attention inside your body, call forth to the negative emotion into your body awareness.
   A. Notice where you can feel it, as an unusual sensation such as tightness or an agitation, inside your body. (If you cannot feel a body sensation, it is all right, just continue.)
   B. Notice your emotional responses to what you have named.
   C. Pay attention to your thoughts about the defined negative emotion.
    
3. When you have an existing physical discomfort, ask that the under-lying emotion be identified.

STAGE THREE
 
DETACHING YOUR NEGATIVE EMOTIONS FROM YOUR BODY, MIND AND FEELINGS

Discover how to separate your negative emotion from your body, by demanding that it reveal itself to you in a symbolic form out in front of you.

1. When you feel ready to let go of the negative emotion.
   A. Call forth Creation and your Divine Counselors into your awareness.
   B. Sense Divine empowerment all around you.
   C. Humbly and gratefully, welcome Divine love and wisdom.
    
2. For instance, boldly, make claim aloud, "[Fear of dying, anger at my partner, sadness about my friend moving away, whatever you are feeling], reveal yourself to me in a symbolic physical way outside and separate from me."
   A. Allow whatever you see in your mind's eye or what you imagine it to be.
   B. If nothing is revealed, be persistent until the symbolic physical form of your fear is shown as a vision or a thought.
    
3. Again call forth Divine empowerment into your awareness.
   A. When you experience that you are not alone, humbly, gratefully ask to be inspired to release the physical form of your fear.

STAGE FOUR

RELEASING YOUR NEGATIVE EMOTIONS INTO THE ULTIMATE POWER OF DIVINE CREATION

Learn how to place the symbolic form of your emotion into the transforming light of Creation and into the hands of your Divine Counselors. Then witness how it is transformed.

1. Fully sense your Divine empowerment all around you, for you, through you.
    
2. Aloud say, "With determination and good will, I let go of my need to do it myself. I release my [fear, anger, sadness, other feeling...] into the transforminglight, love and wisdom of Creation and my Divine Counselors.
    
3. Within your mind's eye, and in a sensory way too, place the symbolic form of your fear into the transforming light of Divine love and wisdom. A. While you are doing this, repeat aloud, "I release my [fear, anger, other feeling]." two more times.
    
4. Notice what you see, sense, and think, as the fear is surely transformed by Creation and your Divine Counselors.
    
5. Aloud say, "Gratefully, humbly, let rightful good be done, in Divine timing, in Divine way.
    
6. Write and draw about your experience.

STAGE FIVE (OPTIONAL)

CONTINUING THE TRANSFORMATION ON A MOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL LEVEL

Claiming and allowing the sensory experience of Creation and your Divine Counselor's powerful energy enhancing your negative emotional release.

1. You can do this stage right after the initial release or it can be done at another time.
    
2. Remembering to use your breath to expand your awareness, take notice of how your body feels.
    
3. Call forth to Creation and your Divine Counselors into your awareness.
    
4. Think, imagine, visualize, and sense the light and the essential energy of Creation and/or your Divine Counselors all around you.
   A. Option: Perceive your Divine Counselors putting their hands on your body or inside your body where you have held the negative emotion that you are releasing.
    
5. Breathing deeply, claiming rightful good, allow yourself to feel the subtle sensations of Divine energy moving inside and around your body.
   A. The process will be over when you no longer feel any vibrational movement and/or an emotional release.
   B. Feel your gratitude, while you verbally give thanks.

INSPIRATION FROM OTHER'S EXPERIENCES
 
With the permission of some of my clients, I share with you their experiences in using the Releasing Process and their results.

Sam... His depression was shown to him as a consuming black hole. When he claimed the miracle of Divine Empowerment, the black hole changed into a spiraling tunnel of radiant pink light. He walked through the transcending tunnel into the Holy state of Grace to experience his powerful self, freed from his deadening depression.

Larry... His guilt was about not being with his father when he died. He saw his guilt symbolized by his father weeping in terror as the angel of death approached. Speaking to his father, he asked for forgiveness and asked the Divine Counselors to help his father as he could not. Larry watched the angels and loved ones who were with his father when he passed over to the other side. Feeling relief, his guilt was suddenly gone. He finally knew then that there was nothing to forgive because he realized that his father had not been alone when he passed over.

Jean... She observed her aversion to sex, as a seed sinking in a stormy sea. Inspired by her angels, with courage she swam out into the consuming waters of her emotions and re-claimed the seed of sexuality, by planting it in her heart, where it was safe forever more. No longer overwhelmed by her sexual feelings, she began to enjoy her sexuality.

Peter... His arrogance was shown to him as a balloon getting bigger and bigger while balanced on the top of a pin head. When the balloon was released into the light of Divine Empowerment it burst into showering rose petals and healed his feelings of being inadequate.

John... His feeling of helplessness was shown to him as a man without arms and legs. When he claimed divine empowerment, he witnessed strong new arms and legs growing from his helpless self. He was able then to more powerfully deal with his life.

Sally... Her feelings of low self esteem and unworthiness were represented to her by a broken mirror. Placing the mirror in the light of Divine truth, the lines that had cracked the image of herself disappeared. She experienced that she was the truth of her magnificent self who knew without a doubt that she was worthy.

Nancy... She witnessed her chronic back ache as a crumbling house. When she released the collapsing structure of her identity into the nurturing light of the Divine, her body, the home of her existence was restored once more. With confidence Nancy stood tall with renewed strength. Within five days her back ache was gone.

With faith and trust in the miraculous powers of Creation, as you patiently and persistently use this Releasing Process, you can become free of your controlling negative emotions. When your negative emotions are transformed into positive ones, you can meet all the challenges in your life in a new and miraculous way. At last you can experience the positive potential in yourself, in others and in all of life.

©1999-2002 Suzanna Solomon.

 

Suzanna Solomon is a spiritual teacher living in Seattle, Washington, who facilitates a personal experience with one's Divine Self, Angels, Master Teachers and Spirit Guides. For the past eighteen years she has traveled throughout United States to conduct workshops and private sessions (in person and by phone) that support people in reaching their highest potential through Divine Empowerment. She also teaches how to heal the negative and heighten the positive from one's present and past lifetimes, how to unite one's inner male and female, and how to create a personal altar for spiritual and emotional growth. She is the author of a book with an accompanying meditative tape titled Divine Empowerment, Angels, Spirit Guides and Ascended Master Teachers. Suzanna has been interviewed on radio and television and has been written about in numerous newspapers and spiritual newsletters such as Angels Can Fly. Terry Taylor wrote about her in the Messengers of Light and Answers from the Angels.
For more information, contact Suzanna Solomon at: 10324 13th Ave. NW, Seattle, WA 98177. Phone number: 206-782-9696. You can also e-mail her at Suzannasolomon@aol.com.