Transforming 'Negative' Emotion - A True Story

By Kimberley Jones

While rushing along the local High Street recently I became aware of how much energy I was expending getting mildly irritated by lots of little things.

Irritated might be too strong a word but I was certainly resisting & judging some things that were happening. For example there were people strolling out in front of me causing me to practically leap-frog over
them, young men beeping their horn & revving their car engine right beside me, I found chewing gum on the pavement & then on my shoe!

You get the picture.

So, I decided to try something....

With clear intention I focussed on relaxing, breathing deeply & letting myself feel the full extent of my irritations while at the same time using my mind to focus & bless everything that was going on. I wanted to see how easily I could transform my experience of the High Street.

As I breathed deeply, relaxing my body where possible as I walked, I starting running the following thoughts through my mind:

"Bless me for being irritated"
"Bless the boys & their honking horn"
"Bless the chewing gum on my shoe & my annoyance with it"
"Bless me & my judgements"
"Bless me & my resistances"
"Bless all my feelings"

I was letting myself feel it all without resistance or judgement; I was not believing the feelings but unconditionally accepting them, stepping back to allow them & observe them.

I continued with this for several yards, at first I felt like I was lying to myself but then I realised I could genuinely & fully feel & release my feelings while at the same time adjust my response to them using focussed intention. I could change how I felt by not becoming a victim to how I felt. I was taking my power back.

NOTE: Emotions are just the energy (& chemical effect) of thoughts moving around in your body, old thoughts that have become buried (or not so buried) beliefs, triggered by something similar in the present moment. If you give them more energy you are just perpetuating the past.

I wasn't attempting to sugar coat my real feelings I might add, that is something different. I fully felt & accepted my irritation & even blessed myself for having it. Basically I was accepting myself warts & all & adding love & light to the situation. It wasn't easy at first. I relaxed into what I was feeling & then told myself it was OK to be feeling everything.

After about 100 yards the tension I had been feeling in my jaw, shoulders & stomach relaxed & I felt a surge of tingling energy rush through me from the top down. I felt a 'whoosh' of love & joy in my body as a physical sensation.

In relaxing fully into everything I was feeling, the energy could move, transforming into a direct experience of love in my body.

I believe I simply ended up feeling the love & light that was there all along (it is within all of us). I couldn't sense it before because my 'negative' emotions & reactions to those emotions were obscuring that love & light.

I had a choice in that moment. I could allow my mind to jump on the band wagon of the emotions that had been triggered & add energy to those emotions, believing them & projecting them outwards, therefore making them stronger & last longer, OR I could lovingly allow myself the feelings, step back & observe them without judgement, breathe & bless everything I was feeling with the intention of getting creatively involved in my own experience. It was my choice.

A QUICK RE-CAP....

Feelings are healings in progress.

Notice them.

Where are they happening in your body?

How do they feel? (Hot, cold, still, moving, tight, big, small, scratchy etc)

Breathe deeply.

Relax & allow all feelings to be there.

Observe them with love.

It is just energy (old information) on the move - don't get into the story.

Bless everything inside you & out.

Know that you are safe to feel strong feelings.

Know that they will pass.

If you are feeling anything but love & acceptance of what IS in this moment then all that is happening is resistance or a cloud (of emotional energy) has temporarily obscured the bright light of who you really are. It is these clouds that make us feel ungrounded & make it hard to really see clearly & be in the present moment.

Relax, feel & breathe - allow your breath to rinse through the emotions, & as with the power & grace of the invisible wind hrough the trees your clouds will move.

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Blessings,

Kimberley Jones

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