You know what drives me nuts? People who say you should be positive all the time. If you do that it can be detrimental to your health at some point.
It is super important that you acknowledge all of your feelings and not resist them, even if people claim being positive all the time will help you with the Law of Attraction concept.
We have a tendency to label some feelings “good” and some “bad.” But in essence that is just a judgment on an emotion or sensation.
By judging yourself for how you are feeling, you actually make it tougher to move through the emotion.
You have a tendency to avoid feeling uncomfortable. You resist it. But then it persists because of this.
Then you are likely to stuff down your emotions with food, TV, or some other body-numbing activity. Even being constantly busy is a way of avoiding your body and your emotions.
So instead of labeling the emotion or resisting it, notice how you feel.
Consider yourself a science experiment. Be an observer and pay attention.
Where in your body do you feel the sensation? What does it feel like?
Don’t try and persuade your emotion to change. Just sit in the sensation. What do you feel? Is there a sense of expansion or contraction? Is there a tightness or tingling or numbness?
Give yourself as much space as you need to feel whatever you are feeling.
Once you fully acknowledge how you are feeling, then your body will move through the emotion.
Have you tried fully sitting with your emotions? Are you doing this daily? Or are you stuffing down your emotions and applying a LOA Band-Aid?
P.S. Depending upon how deep the feeling goes, you may need to vent alone or with a friend. You may need to write lots of pages in a journal. Or find another safe outlook for releasing your emotions. You have the power to express yourself in a healthy way. Be you. All of you.
Dorothy says
I appreciate this point of view as I hadn’t thought of it this way. Thanks for opening my eyes to this idea.
Rachel Boucher says
Don’t get me wrong, counteracting thoughts with positive affirmations can help. But there are feelings buried underneath thoughts that often go unaddressed.