Suppression and Repression

Being physically and mentally rooted and focused, while not causing us to focus emotionally, helps us to do so. In fact, most of the time, the root cause of mental or physical imbalance is a lack of emotional balance.

Emotions are the hardest thing to separate from. We can look with some objectivity at our physical body, although not necessarily at the emotional response it produces, and we can also, especially with the help of others, examine our thoughts for things like rational and logical consistency. However, emotions are only, are rational. They have their own internal logic, based on unconscious assumptions that we do not always consciously recognize.

Emotional stability is something that people sometimes consider not as a feeling, but as a state of emotional emptiness. That's not stability at all. An emotionally stable person can feel great joy or deep sorrow, can laugh and cry, can be sympathetic to others and be clear about their feelings, can experience pleasure and pain and know the difference, can do all those things at the right time. Then she can let them go and return to the center.

When we are balanced, we have emotional flexibility, and we will not lose our base in eternity. This allows us to return to the normal state when the crisis or situation is overcome, and the normal state is a feeling of warmth and overflowing vitality. Children are like this, they go from tears to peace as soon as their source of pain or fear disappears. As we learn to measure our worth by external standards, money, goods, the approval of others, the expectations of parents, etc. We lose that feeling that all is well with us. We replace it with fear of future unfounded emotions.

Some of the things we do indicate that we are off-centre and emotionally uprooted.

We deny what we feel. Either we don't approve or we simply can't admit, perhaps because it would hurt too much, that we feel what we feel. An indication of this occurs when others ask us why we are angry, and we answer that we are not.

We project our feelings onto others, we think someone feels what we feel. Many times this is accompanied by a denial of what we feel. This is very noticeable when others do it.

We are euphoric one minute and completely depressed the next, as if we were an emotional rollercoaster.

We change our feelings quickly and often in response to the emotions of those around us. We don't know what to feel. We don't feel anything.

We get stuck in an emotion, especially if it is extreme. We experience extreme and persistent emotional states.

We believe that everyone is looking at us and judging us. That's sometimes associated with projection.

We believe that we can always read clearly the feelings of others. We may even think we know their feelings better than they do.

We feel responsible for the misfortunes of the world.

We are constantly concerned about the world situation.

We sacrifice life for the sake of others. We seek peace at any cost.

It is a long list, which could also include most of the symptoms of mental and physical uprooting. Many of these imbalances would not occur if we did not suppress or repress feelings so much.

Some people create retaining walls around their feelings, creating a kind of vacuum that they call self-control. It's actually a very dangerous state. The suppressed and unresolved emotion influences the appearance of not a few important diseases, and an infinite number of small affections. Fortunately, we are now beginning to pay attention to the psychosomatic factors of an illness, and admit that feelings can not only make us feel bad, but can also make us seriously ill. Aware of them, many of us are encouraged to look for ways to deal with emotion without drowning our feelings or trying to unload them on those around us.

When we are emotionally centered and settled, instead of repressing emotions, we resolve them. We recognize what we feel when we feel it, and we respond appropriately. Sometimes it is convenient to express it, while other times it is better to try to know and respect it without making it public.

When we are focused, we have a better idea of the long-term effect and results of our emotional responses on ourselves and others. Then we can decide more objectively what we want to do.

There is a big difference between suppressing emotions and acknowledging and accepting our feelings, without reacting blindly. When we suppress them, pretending they are not there, they remain in us, like the sweep under the carpet, where they continue to contaminate our emotional state. If, on the other hand, even though we are not proud, we recognize and accept that we have our feelings, then we will look for creative and constructive ways to release or express the emotion, so that we do not create even worse problems for ourselves and others. The essential thing is that we recognize our feelings, it is up to us to decide what to do with them.

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