Achieving Emotional Freedom through Deep Emotional Release
by James Hyman
Founder of Deep Emotional Release Bodywork™
In order for a person to achieve new insight and awareness, they must be guided into the core of themselves and helped to make an honest and unconditional connection with their unlimited potential. This is the state in which we existed and began to shut down in early childhood. When this unconditional state is re-experienced, the imprint that someone has been carrying changes, and they start naturally moving toward people and things that will help them create that empowered environment in their life.
Through the work of releasing blocked emotional energy held in the body, it is possible to regain a profound connection to who you are. This work must be done at all three levels simultaneously: physically, mentally, and spiritually. The physical body and the subconscious mind hold the patterns and the memories. When these are released, the spirit is able to make what I call “the Cosmic Connection.” This is when you get the Cosmic Joke - that you created everything in your life to get yourself to where you are right now, in that moment, so that you can laugh through the tears, break through, and reconnect with Self and Source.
Through the “process of socialization”, many of us have lost our natural creativity and love of adventure. This happens when we begin to go to school and they start preparing us for the nine to five. By training us to sit still and listen when we have a tremendous amount of energy in our body that wants to play and be creative, and forcing us to measure our intelligence by a narrow spectrum, we begin to repress our natural abilities for self-expression.
Expressing emotions is also negatively reinforced by our family, school and peers. This naturally makes it difficult later in life to express ourselves in a multitude of different situations, such as in relationships and in our careers. Depression is common, and before we know it, we are deadened to the juice of our lives. Sometimes it is one event in a child’s life that skews from that moment on the way he or she perceives, reacts and responds to the world.
By working with the memory of the particular event held in the body and the subconscious mind, it can effectively and quickly be identified and released. This is the original cause of the trauma or negative pattern that is keeping us blocked or stuck. Until it is released, it will continue to appear in every area of our life.
When the original cause is released, a domino effect takes place, and a whole range of similar experiences that mirrored the original cause are also spontaneously released. This sets you firmly on your path toward "emotional freedom". Emotional freedom is spiritual independence. It means that no matter where you are, your mind may be caught up in some form of worry or anxiety about something, yet even in that process, you're in a consistent state of practicing the awareness of Now. Life becomes a domain of magic in which to explore dimensions of perception, and a very good place to begin relationships with everything and everyone.
James Hyman is the founder of Deep Emotional Release Bodywork™. He travels nationwide as a lecturer and teacher. He lives and practices in Los Angeles, South Florida, New York City and Aspen, and may travel to your area to work with your Personal Growth or Yoga group or Reiki circle. You can reach him at (800) 700-6420 or online at: www.emotionalrelease.com