Releasing Emotional Blocks to Increase Focus, Flow & Creativity

The main "stuck" emotions are:

• Fear

• Rejection 

• Shame/Guilt 

• Unworthy/Not enough 

When we are growing up -- typically before 8-12 years of age -- we are in a preverbal stage of development, meaning that we express more naturally through emotions than through words.  As we mature, our language skills improve and we tend to explain emotions instead of feeling them; amazingly, our innate emotional intelligence is still intact if we allow ourselves to feel (without purposely increasing amplitude with "negative" emotions).  

And since we are in a preverbal stage of development, we can sometimes harden emotions around certain topics, layering them and causing specific emotions and automatic thoughts -- or beliefs -- to become linked.  

For example:

• When you were 6 years old and fell off of your bike, the way your mother or father responded to you may affect how you respond to pain today... 

• Or when you were 2.5 years old and you felt hungry, whether crying got you what you wanted or not may affect how you respond to challenging situations today from an emotional standpoint...

• Or maybe you overheard your parents talking about how you weren't doing as well in school as your sibling, friends, or classmates and began to think that you weren't worthy, or as smart... 

• Or perhaps you were compared to your brother or sister growing up and thought 'less of', causing you to either vehemently rise against this or take on the belief for yourself...?

Can you see how certain moments during early childhood development can easily affect how you feel, respond, or what you believe about yourself today?  

Well, these same early-engrained emotions present as a set of specific responses in adulthood.  And, in just about every example, it boils down to one of these four stuck emotions:

• Fear

• Rejection

• Shame/Guilt

• Unworthy/Not Enough

So how do you release these stuck emotions?  Simple:

When you experience what you might perceive to be an unpleasant emotion, stop.  Pause.  Take a breath.  Exhale slowly.  And breathe in again slowly.  Allow this emotion.  Do not increase it or decrease it.  Simply allow it.  Observe this emotion until you see it as something that is not you, so much as something that is passing through you.  

Once you achieve this state, the emotion will begin to evaporate.  And you'll go through three layers or less as you unravel this emotion:

• Mad

• Sad

• Love

Mad can have many versions, as can sad and love (examples:  mad can be angry, rageful, resentful, jealous, etc.). However, there are three layers, and depending upon which emotional layer you start on, you have to unpeel until you get to love.  

Everything is rooted in love.  Perhaps you didn't feel loved at a certain moment in your life.  Pinpoint it if you can and offer grace.  Release yourself of this trauma.  

Perhaps you loved someone and it was not received... or it didn't go well.

Ultimately, it's typically one of these two.  

So allow yourself to observe your emotions.  Then, unlayer them.  When you achieve a state of love (or self-love) and can find peace while feeling what you've just gone through, search for an early childhood memory that may link to this feeling.  Give yourself love through the memory, like hugging the younger you.

And watch the miraculous change that will take place in you on the other side.

Many blessings,

Dr. Kareem

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