Emotional energy and how to release it

Emotions can be viewed as a form of energy that moves from person to person:
Someone gets angry at you - you then get angry at another person - the other person gets angry at a forth person - the emotional energy moves on and on from one person to the next...

Theoretically, the cycle can continue forever, but it usually won't because there are a lot of people who doesn't know how to express their emotions, and the cycle will end with them. These persons have probably been taught by their parents that it is inappropriate to show emotions and so they get stuck with all the worlds’ emotions inside of them.

Once the Emotional energy has been inside of you for a while, your subconscious will try to guide you into people or situations, where you will be able to release that energy.

For example: if there is sadness in you, you will be drawn to people, who will make you sad, and you will be able to release the energy stuck inside of you.

If there is anger in you, you will be drawn into people, who will make you angry.

If your emotional body is completely stuck, you will be drawn to people, who have absolutely no control over their emotions.

That was what has happened to me: As a child I completely blocked my emotions so as to survive the emotional fits of my father. I just didn't want to feel anything so as not to get hurt again.

When I grew up, I ended up living with a woman, who had absolutely no emotional control.

In a sense we were perfect for each other: the only person who can live with an over emotional person (my ex) is a person who suppresses all his emotions (me).

We lived together until I learned how to express my feelings and she learned how to control hers. Once we learned all that we could from each other, our relationship ended.

After that I began taking singing lessons and I learned how to express my emotions out with singing. My singing teacher has also taught me how to remove the emotional block I had inside of me. Luckily for me, she came from a long line of healers and her third eye was open, so she could tell me where the blockage was and how to remove it.

After I released most of the emotions, I had stuck inside of me, and removed the emotional blockage, I had discovered that releasing emotions is a forever going process: If I didn't release my emotions for a week, after a few days without release I started to get depressed. That is why I believe that depression is the result of not releasing your emotions for a long time. After you don't release your emotions for a while you become unhappy. After few more weeks you get depressed. Once you release all the stuck emotions - the depression disappears.

I learned the hard way that if I want to stay emotionally healthy I have to release the emotions out just as soon as possible. If I don't release these emotions - I don't feel well and after a while depression will sneak in.

The energy structure of the human body

The Human body has an Etheric double, which is made out of layers of energy. Every Chakra in the body has it’s own layer with the base chakra being the outer layer and the High Self the most inner layer (well, actually the inner most level is the inner God consciousness).

Here is a picture that shows the different layers of the etheric body (If you move the mouse over the picture, it will chande and you'd be able to see where each Chakra is located on the physical body):

Energy layers of the Etheric body
The outer layer is the BASE CHAKRA LAYER.
This layer deals with survival issues, such as fear of death and physical needs, such as food, sleep, etc.

The second layer is the SACRAL CHAKRA LAYER.
This layer deals with emotional and sexual issues such as self worth, self love and self confidence. This is the layer where a lot of the suppressed emotional energy will be found.

The third layer is the SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA LAYER.
This layer deals with self empowerment, self control and self will. In this layer you will also find a lot of repressed emotional energy. This layer acts as a gateway between the heart layer and the lower layers. Most of the emotional blockages are found in this layer/chakra. Once you activate the heart chakra this layer will start to empty itself, from emotional energy, through the heart and throat chakras.

The forth layer is the HEART CHAKRA LAYER.
This layer deals with how you relate to other people and to yourself. It is also the center of all the physical layers/chakras. This is probably the most important chakra to activate once you begin your journey of self discovery. An excellent meditation for opening up and strengthening the heart center is the Meditation on Twin Hearts - technique by Pranic Healing Master Choa Kok Sui. I highly recommend doing this meditation every day, for a few years.

The fifth layer is the THROAT CHAKRA LAYER.
This layer deals with communication, both inner and outer. Communication of every kind of information: emotional, spiritual and mental. When you cry - you actually release emotional energy from your lower chakras by activating your throat chakra and by making high pitch sounds with your voice. The back of the neck is the area where communication commences with the higher realms. Remember how it feels when the hair in the back of your neck activates? That feeling is actually the back of the throat chakra activating… :) The throat chakra balances the Solar plexus Chakra.

The sixth layer is the THIRD EYE CHAKRA LAYER.
This layer deals with intuition and high mental and emotional knowledge. This layer connects you to your subconscious, and after you have made peace with your subconscious it will connect you to your super conscious as well. Part of this layer is the pineal gland that works as a two way mirror connecting you to the inner/micro-cosmos and outer/macro-cosmos. This chakra balances the Sacral chakra.

The seventh layer is the CROWN CHAKRA LAYER.
This layer will connect you with your soul and through that to God. Through this layer you can receive all the love-energy that you want, making you live in endless abundance. This chakra balances the root chakra.

If you keep on going inwards after the seventh layer you will find yourself in THE INNER/MICRO COSMOS.
The whole of creation is inside of us. That is why it is important to love yourself truly because everything is inside of you, and when you love yourself you love everything/everyone else. Every time some wise man talks about going through some spiritual learning process – that learning process is an inner process. There is nothing to find outside of you. The whole of creation is inside of you. Make peace with the humanity that is inside of you, Make peace with Mother Earth that is inside of you. Make peace with the Creator that is inside of you. Once your inner image of Humanity, Mother Earth and the Creator is peaceful and loving, the inner image will project out of you and your outer reality will become the same as your inner reality. That is why I urge all of you to start loving yourself and to create an inner image where Humanity, Mother Earth and the Creator are perfect, beautiful and harmonious.

The Ninth layer is YOUR INNER STAR, YOUR SOUL.
Once inside your micro cosmos you will see a star. That star is you. You can not go towards the star – you have to wait and ask the star to come to you. Once the star has come to you, go inside it. Inside it you will find yourself. Imagine yourself and your angel self inside your star, and then imagine how your inner self and inner angel hug and become one. After that you will be guided by your High Self and live your life according to your highest potential!

Examining yourself

The problem with releasing emotions is that once you have suppressed an emotion inside of you, and then forgot all about it; it is very hard to release that emotional energy without first remembering what the emotion was.

Old suppressed emotional energy will cause you pain. So if you have a place in your body that always seems to hurt, always makes you ill – you probably have suppressed emotional energy in that area.

How to examine yourself:

Find yourself a nice meditative position, breath slowly and relax.
Concentrate on your third eye and grow, in your imagination, an energy worm out of your third eye. Imagine that the energy worm has a circle at the end of it. The circle symbolizes emotional energy. So you have actually made an antenna that will receive emotional energy signals.
Now move this emotional antenna to the place in your body that has bothered you. Imagine the circular head of the antenna going inside the outer layer.
Now concentrate and try to sense what you can feel in that spot: Do you feel pain? If not then the emotional energy is not stuck in that layer.
Go deeper to the next layer. Concentrate again and sense what you can feel: do you feel pain?
Keep on going like that until you reach a layer that does gives you pain. That is the layer where the emotional energy is stuck in.
Once you are in the right layer – put the circle of the antenna straight into the pain. It will be hard, because you have avoiding this pain for many years, and your ego will probably try to stop you from going into the pain. Stay strong and go into the pain. Try to feel what emotion is it that is stuck inside of you. Let your intuition guide you – this is not really a mental process, but an emotional one.
Ask your soul/Angels/God to help you identify the emotion. See what images come to your mind. If it’s in the right side of your body it is probably connected to your father. If it is in the left side of your body it is probably connected to your mother.
Try going through all the emotions that you know and see if any one of them connects to the stuck emotion. Here is a list of Emotions for you to try.

Once you have identified the emotion you can release it.

How to release your emotions

The first way is by deep breathing:

Sit or lay down in a comfortable position.
Breathe slowly in and out and relax.
Start breathing all the way down to your stomach. In every in breath fill your stomach with air and in every out breath empty it.
Now start breathing past your stomach, all the way to your root chakra. If, like many other people, you have an emotional blockage, breathing past the stomach will hurt. This is a good sign, it means the emotions you have repressed all those years, are finally being released out of you.
Once you managed to breathe comfortably past your stomach area, start breathing all the way down to your knees. If your legs start hurting, breathe into the pain. Emotions concerning our parents are stored in the legs: the right leg contains emotions towards your Father, and the left leg emotions towards your Mother.
After that, start breathing all the way down to your feet.
While breathing remember that you are not your emotions – you are a being full of light and love and the emotions being released are not you and will never be you. They are just energy.
The emotions will be released faster if you make sounds, such as: ”Aiiiiiiiiiiiii”, ”Aaaaaaaaa” or ”Ooooooooo” while breathing out.
Now keep on breathing until your stomach area fills completely empty and a smile stretches across your face... :)

The second way is by singing:

Stand in a comfortable position.
Breathe slowly in and out and relax
Start breathing all the way down to your stomach. In every in breath fill your stomach with air and in every out breath empty it.
Now start breathing past your stomach, all the way to your root chakra.
Once you managed to breathe comfortably past your stomach area, start breathing all the way down to your knees. After that, start breathing all the way down to your feet.
You are now ready to start singing.
Pick your favorite song and sing it from your stomach area. Singing from the throat will not help release your emotions, because the emotions are not stored in your throat area. If you are sad, pick a sad song. If you are angry, pick an angry song (Heavy metal, punk).
Start singing with all your heart. Really go into it and give it everything you got.
Once you feel good again, go and give somebody a hug… :)

The third way is by shouting:

Go somewhere secluded or soundproofed so that you can shout without disturbing anyone. I recommend going to your favorite place in nature.
Stand in a relaxed pose.
Concentrate on your stomach and the emotion you want to release (hate, anger).
Breath into the emotion in your stomach and shout: ”AAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhh!”
Breath into your stomach again and shout again with all your might: ”AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!”
Keep on going until you fill empty inside.
Look around you. You will notice that the birds have kept on singing while you were shouting… :)
Pick a happy tune, and whistle to yourself on your way home.

In cases of emotional trauma I recommend using the EFT method of releasing emotional energy.

How to stay emotionally balanced

As I mentioned in the beginning: Emotions are energy – so there is no point in getting too stressed over them… :)
After you have managed to release all the emotional energy that has bothered you, you can stay balanced by staying focused in your heart chakra. Don’t run away from your emotions any more: let them come and go as they wish, and stay inside your heart chakra. If you let your emotional energy to flow as it wants too, it will not bother you anymore: the higher chakras will automatically balance your lower chakras.

You can also start the balancing process yourself: Everytime you feel one of your lower chakras is giving you trouble, concentrate on and activate its corresponding/balancing higher chakra and all the chakras in between, so that the emotional energy could balance itself out.

If for example the second chakra area is giving you trouble, then you should activate the second chakras' balancing higher chakra: the third eye chakra. also activate all the chakras between them: solar plexus, heart and throat chakras.

If the solar plexus chakra is giving you trouble then you should activate its' balancing higher chakra: the throat chakra and the chakra between them: the heart chakra.

If the base chakra is giving you trouble then you should activate all the other chakras to balance it out.

Sometimes a depressing thought keeps on repeating itself, on and on, in your brain. You can make it stop by inventing a beautiful thought and then concentrating on it until the depressing thought is gone.

The Jewish Menorah shows how our chakra system works:

Every candle holder represents a chakra in the body, where the heart chakra is in the middle. Through the heart chakra all the chakras are balanced and if you go deep into your heart chakra you will find your base, your core. Once you have reached your core, all the things that happen above you, in the chakras, will not bother you any more.

I hope the methods I mentioned will help you achieve emotional balance. If you need any help in releasing your emotions, please don’t hesitate in contacting me – I will gladly help you.

Love and Light, Arje Sakari Silander

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	The outer layer is the BASE CHAKRA LAYER. This layer deals with survival issues, such as fear of death and physical needs, such as food, sleep, etc.
	The second layer is the SACRAL CHAKRA LAYER. This layer deals with emotional and sexual issues such as self worth, self love and self confidence. This is the layer where a lot of the suppressed emotional energy will be found.
	The third layer is the SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA LAYER. This layer deals with self empowerment, self control and self will. In this layer you will also find a lot of repressed emotional energy. This layer acts as a gateway between the heart layer and the lower layers. Most of the emotional blockages are found in this layer/chakra. Once you activate the heart chakra this layer will start to empty itself, from emotional energy, through the heart and throat chakras.
	The forth layer is the HEART CHAKRA LAYER. This layer deals with how you relate to other people and to yourself. It is also the center of all the physical layers/chakras. This is probably the most important chakra to activate once you begin your journey of self discovery. An excellent meditation for opening up and strengthening the heart center is the Meditation on Twin Hearts - technique by Pranic Healing Master Choa Kok Sui. I highly recommend doing this meditation every day, for a few years.
	The fifth layer is the THROAT CHAKRA LAYER. This layer deals with communication, both inner and outer. Communication of every kind of information: emotional, spiritual and mental. When you cry - you actually release emotional energy from your lower chakras by activating your throat chakra and by making high pitch sounds with your voice. The back of the neck is the area where communication commences with the higher realms. Remember how it feels when the hair in the back of your neck activates? That feeling is actually the back of the throat chakra activating… :) The throat chakra balances the Solar plexus Chakra.
	The sixth layer is the THIRD EYE CHAKRA LAYER. This layer deals with intuition and high mental and emotional knowledge. This layer connects you to your subconscious, and after you have made peace with your subconscious it will connect you to your super conscious as well. Part of this layer is the pineal gland that works as a two way mirror connecting you to the inner/micro-cosmos and outer/macro-cosmos. This chakra balances the Sacral chakra.
	The seventh layer is the CROWN CHAKRA LAYER. This layer will connect you with your soul and through that to God. Through this layer you can receive all the love-energy that you want, making you live in endless abundance. This chakra balances the root chakra.
	If you keep on going inwards after the seventh layer you will find yourself in THE INNER/MICRO COSMOS. The whole of creation is inside of us. That is why it is important to love yourself truly because everything is inside of you, and when you love yourself you love everything/everyone else. Every time some wise man talks about going through some spiritual learning process – that learning process is an inner process. There is nothing to find outside of you. The whole of creation is inside of you. Make peace with the humanity that is inside of you, Make peace with Mother Earth that is inside of you. Make peace with the Creator that is inside of you. Once your inner image of Humanity, Mother Earth and the Creator is peaceful and loving, the inner image will project out of you and your outer reality will become the same as your inner reality. That is why I urge all of you to start loving yourself and to create an inner image where Humanity, Mother Earth and the Creator are perfect, beautiful and harmonious.
	The Ninth layer is YOUR INNER STAR, YOUR SOUL. Once inside your micro cosmos you will see a star. That star is you. You can not go towards the star – you have to wait and ask the star to come to you. Once the star has come to you, go inside it. Inside it you will find yourself. Imagine yourself and your angel self inside your star, and then imagine how your inner self and inner angel hug and become one. After that you will be guided by your High Self and live your life according to your highest potential!