My child has explosive emotions.
He entered this world screaming… and didn’t stop for years.
He’s hypersensitive.
One “wrong move” and he’s slamming the door in my face, or self-inflicting pain, or moving into a depression.
I’m also hypersensitive.
In my early 20s I was wrongly diagnosed bipolar.
Because I battled with manic highs and crippling lows.
This “bipolar” was my bodies response to suppressing my emotions for 20 years.
At some point, all the trapped energy exploded.
I learned that I cannot stop the emotions,
but I can PLAY with them.
That’s right… PLAY
Seeing our emotions as “energy in motion” is a choice.
When you PLAY with the feelings it takes away the depression.
HOW DO WE PLAY WITH OUR FEELINGS?
1. Create a container so you can move into the feelings deeply
2.
* You can turn on emotion provoking music and move around the room
* you can express your feeling with color, and draw or paint them.
* you can take deep breaths then make sounds and sing the feelings
* You can scream into a pillow ~ a safe place ~ until the feelings are out.
THEN LAUGH AT IT ALL!
The hardest part about emotions,
Is that we learn in early childhood to be afraid of them.
When we could be moving deeper into them.
Then, give them an outlet to release.
There are actually huge consequences to not releasing our emotional energy.
And that’s sickness. Even Death. ☠️
It’s brave to live differently….
When we live in a society that “stuffs.”
But, we are the change. 🌈
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