What is Emotional Healing?

Emotions affect everyone: that’s one of the wonders of being human!  Imagine if we didn’t have emotions: we wouldn’t be able to feel joy in watching our children or experience awe and wonder in a sunset!  Emotions also help keep us safe by alerting us when we need to pay attention or make a change.  Emotions are not inherently good or bad, they just are.  The way they impact us and the way we are able to process and deal with them, though, makes all the difference!

Some people are more emotionally healthy and balanced than others, but everyone has emotions that their bodies have generated and they weren’t able to process.  We often think of these trapped emotions as only affecting our minds, but they can affect us on all levels: they can affect our spirits, our souls, our minds, and even our physical bodies.  “Psychosomatic complaints” is the term used to describe ailments that appear physical, but have a mental, emotional, or spiritual root cause to them.  At one end of the spectrum, an emotionally healthy person might need help to stop thinking about the negative experience they encountered a few days ago.  At the other end, think about a broken heart: that’s an emotional state you can actually die from.  

Most people carry some emotional baggage.  That term is common in western society, but what does that really mean?  Often, emotions we experience are processed and released without any conscious effort on our part.  But sometimes, those emotions are experienced without being processed, and they then become trapped.  It’s as if you’re carrying a physical weight with you at all times, because the emotions become a burden: a burden you’re not meant to carry!  This affects not only the mind, but also the physical body and the spiritual body.  

Emotions can become trapped when we experience something physically shocking.  For example, a car accident produces not just a physical impact on the body, but also produces many emotions that go with it.  Just as your physical body needs time and help to recover after an accident, your mind and soul might also need help processing and releasing the shock that came with the accident.  It’s also possible that until the mental and emotional processing is complete, the physical body will not be able to fully recover.  You might have heard someone say, “I’ve never been well since…”  These are physical complaints rooted in previous energy distortions.

Another example is when people have “a chip on their shoulder.”  You might know someone like that.  Some people seem to carry around resentment and bitterness in their souls, and that can manifest in physical problems.  That “chip” is actually a heavy burden, a weight and hindrance to that person.  No one likes carrying chips around, but often those people have tried using willpower and positive thinking to overcome the negativity, but without success.  Those negative emotions have roots that go deep into the soul and spirit, and they need help being pulled out.  Just like the root of a plant, every single bit needs to be extracted to prevent it from coming back.

Emotional healing is the process of finding and releasing these trapped emotions, limiting beliefs, and prior life experiences, whatever level they may be on and wherever they might be stored.  Our goal is to bring the whole person back into a state of balance and homeostasis, where you’re no longer under the burden of these weights, and free to live the life God has for you.