I have spent the past several years on a journey of healing. In recent years I have gone deeper into inner healing and energy healing. This journey has revealed to me why God is so emphatic on the importance of forgiveness. I have learned how holding on to old hurts and past trauma has held me back. More importantly, I have gone through energy healing to help me release all that has held me back and I have gotten trained in providing this service to others. It is powerful work and today I am sharing some of what I have learned with you.
The heart is a very special part of our soul, our energy body. It is the energetic center of our being and what connects us to our soul, God, and our physical bodies. Whether we realize it or not, every negative experience we have that we don’t process and forgive or release, ends up stored in some part of our body. This can lead to a range of illnesses and health issues. Emotions are energy and energy doesn’t die; it just changes form. By storing these emotions in our bodies, even if we aren’t consciously aware of it all the time, we are putting up an energetic wall and we inadvertently prevent ourselves from love, joy, peace, and abundance.
Like anyone else, I have had my share of pain. I’ve experienced things that were traumatic for me and left deep imprints in my body. I’ve spent most of my life carrying the remnants of past trauma and hurts, such as anger, resentment, bitterness, anxiety, fear, unworthiness, and so much more. These negative emotions manifested into chronic anxiety, depression, self-destructive behaviors, migraines, insomnia, and high blood pressure. I never understood all these things were resulting from me holding on to my past. I wasn’t even aware that’s what I was doing.
I had tried many different things over the years to heal. I’d forgiven those who had hurt me. I’d established a connection with God. I journaled regularly. But I didn’t know how to self-heal. I didn’t know how to release the energy of the past. I couldn’t see how I was still holding onto the past by keeping a wall up around my heart. I thought I was protecting myself. I didn’t know any better. Then I found my way to a coaching program where I learned how to heal myself. I learned about emotional triggers. I learned that what I thought was just my personality was actually trauma responses. I started to change and grow. I moved further into a spiritual awakening and found that there was still more work to do, but how? That is when I started working with an energy healer, who helped uncover energy blocks I couldn’t see myself.
In time and with training I learned how to uncover them and clear them and started providing this service to others. As I started to shift into the true me, the me that was buried underneath this compilation of trauma responses, and as I cleared more and more of these negative emotions from my body, I started to experience a new way of being. A way of being filled with gratitude, love, and peace. The lies I’d been living by all crumbled away and the truth was revealed.
God did not put us here to suffer. God does not put us through suffering. We do. We do it by holding on to our pasts. We do it by moving through our daily life seeing everything and responding to everything from the lens of our pain. We avoid dating because our hearts were broken one too many times. We develop a cynical world view because we have been hurt in friendships or experienced rejection. We fall into depression because we are angry about things that have happened to us or because we lose hope. What we can’t see is that it is all where we direct our focus. We can’t see that it happens because we won’t put down the cheating husband, the man who abandoned us, the friend that stabbed us in the back, the job we didn’t get, how unfair it feels that that person we love passed away.
We have a choice. We have free will. We can choose suffering by continuing to hold onto past hurts or we can choose peace by forgiving them. But we can’t have both. We cannot carry anger, resentment, bitterness, or fear and love, peace, joy, and grace. If we want love, peace, and joy, we have to release anger, resentment, and bitterness. We do this through forgiveness. It isn’t just as simple as deciding to forgive. While this is definitely a critical step, there is more to it. Part of it is feeling the emotions behind what we haven’t forgiven and clearing them, which we do through reflection and journaling. I go into this in depth in Seven Steps of Healing Emotional Triggers.
The other part is moving the energy out of our body. This also involves feeling, but in a different way. You have to connect to your body and feel where the emotions are stored; identify where your body is holding them. From there you can move it out of your body. This is where an energy healer can really be helpful, especially for some of the things that are stored deep and which you may not be aware of. As I mentioned this is a service I provide and you can connect with me at rachelle@faithfitnessjoy.com or via Facebook messenger at Rachelle Weiss if you are interested in a private session.
I provided a guided meditation and healing on my podcast episode by the same title as this post, so please go check that out if you would like to do the guided meditation. You will feel like weight has been lifted and feel more peace following the meditation.
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