Emotional Storage - A Pain In The Neck?!

Energy healers and therapists state that when we chronically repress emotions, we create toxicity in our body, mind, and heart. This unprocessed emotional energy is stored in our organs, muscles, and tissues.

Any emotion that we don’t fully explore and process can get trapped in the body. Anger, blame, fear, anxiety are all uncomfortable emotions that we try to avoid feeling if we can. If these emotions get stored and ignored for too long, they can actually manifest as physical pain or worse.

The body stores negative emotions in a number of different places. From our hips to our backs to our jaws to our eyes. A negative emotion will stick around until we allow ourselves to feel it.

Sometimes, however, we may not even know it’s there. Our pain is so buried or so chronic that we don’t even know that we’re carrying it around like a weight.

My friend was in a yoga class once and the woman next to her burst into tears.They had been holding deep hip and pelvic stretches for several minutes. The position wasn’t easy, as it required a lot of flexibility. But everyone in class was doing their best to ease into and hold the pose.This woman’s breakdown started as a slow release. It wouldn’t have been noticeable if my friend hadn’t been right next to her in the quiet room. A few tears escaped, then a sniffle. Then her body heaved with sobs as she folded her torso over her extended leg. My friend didn’t know what to do but she looked up at the course instructor who had a look that said “this happens all the time”.

Most energy healers know that emotions are stored in the body. It’s important to remember that our emotions are energy in action and they carry an actual energetic weight. That weight has to be stored somewhere. This is why we feel certain emotions in certain places.

Tightness in our shoulders, a pain in the neck. It is believed that the hips in particular are a place where sadness is stored — especially unexpressed sadness.

Your Back Side: Most of our powerful emotions such as anger and fear are stored in our backs. This pulls your body out of balance.

Headaches: You are ignoring your intuition — your gut feelings, or you are ignoring your own needs.

Pain in the back of the head and neck:You believe you have made mistakes and haven’t forgiven yourself. You are judging yourself too harshly.

Neck and upper shoulders: Inflexibility — not willing or afraid to look at other possibilities. Since your neck is the most narrow point in your body (sitting between your brain and your heart), energy can easily become restricted here.

Lumbar (lower) vertebrae & tailbone: The consequences of your childhood show up in this area of your body, as do issues that make you feel threatened or insecure.

Knees and feet: The energy of negative emotions is carried here. Because the vibration of negative emotions is lower, heavier and more dense, causing these feelings to drop to the lowest points of our body.

If you hold on to the energy of your emotions for too long, it can build up. It packs itself in more and more forcing your body to carry the weight. This energy is often painful and negative and it will interfere with your ability to get to or stay in a positive state. Energy, even the energy of your emotions, is meant to pass THROUGH your body. Avoidance doesn’t work because the energy of those emotions stay whether you want it to or not.

If you don’t allow your emotions to move through you, they will simply get stored in your body, negatively affecting your energy and your body’s health.

Intent! Intending to release negative emotions can be a big part in their actual release. Saying an affirmation of intent is always helpful whenever you are done “feeling” your emotion and are ready to let it go. Simply say “I intend to release this ________from my body now” Say it several times a day when you are having an intense moment. This will help send a signal to your body that it is safe to let it go.

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