Suppressing Emotions

People are feeling lots of emotion right now. There’s a lot of stuff coming up, and if we try and suppress those emotions - the fear, the anxiety - they're going to come back with a vengeance, so suppressing emotions is not a good thing.  

Emotions are meant to be felt. However, we're not meant to dwell on them.  

We don't need to get caught up in what the emotions mean.  

‘What if I've got anxiety - what do I need to be anxious about?’  

‘What's the threat?’ 

What we need to do is allow the emotion to come up. We need to feel it in our body, and then we need to let it go and move on. It is a really tough thing to do but, with practise, it gets easier.  

Do not suppress your emotions. Let them come up. Let them release. Don't get caught up in them. Once they have passed through you, let them go and move on.  

Find ways to help process the emotions. There are a lot. So, for me, it's meditation, it's journaling, it's talking to friends, it's surrounding myself with people that I trust who are not bought into this in the same way.  

Work out what helps you to process and let go of these emotions. You're going to need this practise moving forward. The quicker we can just process them, and let them go, the quicker we can continue to move along in the right way.  

Hope that's helpful.