Not only do your emotions from similar past wounds combine with your most recent hurt, your body has chemical reactions which make releasing the past difficult. Your emotions trigger parts of your brain and the body’s stress response increasing the difficulty.
This lesson is to show you that your emotional pain has a physical cause and difficulty releasing it isn’t a weakness of character.
When you discover you’ve been betrayed, rejected, or your loved one is gone, your brain and body react immediately.
Your body’s response to loss and betrayal is ancient. You need people to survive both physically and emotionally.
Your body developed physical responses to help you stay alive. Many of these make it difficult to release painful feelings.
In this lesson, you’ve discovered some of the physical changes which occur during extreme emotional pain. These are changes you had no control over. Your body responded immediately to your emotional reaction to what happened.
The difficulty you’ve been having in releasing the past and moving forward is not your fault. You’ll learn strategies to overcome what’s happened in a later lesson.
In the next lesson, you’ll explore what happens mentally when you’ve been deeply wounded. This includes how your thinking processes have been affected.
Before moving to the next lesson, spend a few minutes reflecting on how the emotional pain you’ve experienced affected you. Prepare for releasing the pain, by saying aloud the statements given. This prepares your subconscious mind.
For each question, think back to before you were hurt. Evaluate how much the following emotions have changed on a scale of 1 to 5.
1 – Not at all
2 – About 25% more
3 – About 50% more
4 – About 75% more
5 – 100% or more than before the hurt
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