07/05/2024
“Addictions suppress emotions so that we don’t feel” Louise Hay
This makes a lot of sense to me since I stopped smoking 5 weeks ago and since then had the epiphany moment of realising I had been suppressing grieving the death of my Granny. She was almost 100 when she died and I was absolutely devastated. Could not stop crying when I heard the news and quickly took up smoking as a way to cope. That same day.
Until I had gone through major healing in my emotional body due to healing in the other areas - I believe - I was unable to stop smoking no matter what conscious thoughts I told myself about it. “Granny would hate it if I was smiling cos she died so that doesn’t even make sense” I’d one of the major thoughts which would run through my mind.
“I don’t want to have a heart attack, I don’t want to have a stroke” was what went through my mind when I realised how much I was struggling to breathe while walking up a very familiar hill, on the Croft where my granny and I had walked so often when I was little. I literally decided there and then I wanted to live abd breathe freeely like I used to and could not longer keep hitting the self-destruct button on my life like I had been.
It is almost 5 weeks since I stopped smoking and I have felt such a sense of relief in my entire being, from literally just letting it go. Expired.
Environmental or emotional toxicity is well known to have effects on the lungs. I just had not made the link between stuffing my own emotions down and not dealing with them and how I was addicted (which means to the dictator) to smoking, just as a way to avoid grief.
In Chinese Medicine, Lungs hold and process loss, grief and sadness. To the degree our Lung qi (energy flow) remains clear and resourced, we are more able to process these emotions.
Grief and sadness directly affect the lungs. If we are unable to express these emotions or are being overwhelmed by them, it will weaken the lungs and compromise their main function: respiration.
The more grief you hold in your body, the more external toxicity will affect you. The more you release, the less affected you will become.
Take a deep breath and inhale good energy.
Release the breath and exhale all the toxicity from your body. Visualize the breath entering your lungs, clearing your head and then exhale and see the breath leaving your body through the bottoms of your feet.
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.
Homoeopathic Ignatia is a fantastic grief remedy working on an energetic basis.
Nat mur can be another great homoeopathic remedy when there are lots of tears flowing.
Try this technique to relieve grief…
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