What are Negative Emotions

A negative emotion is any emotion that feels bad. Examples are anger, sadness, fear, guilt, hurt, rage, humiliation, etc.

Please understand that negative emotions are not bad emotions. Every emotion is valid and has a time and a place where it is appropriate and useful.

Hanging on to negative emotions from the past, however, is never useful.

Most people have not learned the skill to process their negative emotions properly so they end up with large amounts of emotional baggage. The amount of their emotional baggage tends to increase with age and is a major contributor to the ageing process.

When we are faced with large volumes of unpleasant emotions our nervous system can become overwhelmed and shuts down as a safety measure. This protects us from having a heart attack, a nervous breakdown or some other debilitating experience. Unfortunately this tends to result in emotional pain being stored in our nervous system.

This stored emotional pain gets triggered periodically, often at the most inconvenient times. The reason this suppressed pain resurfaces in our consciousness is because it needs to be healed. Unfortunately our soul’s urge to heal is often ignored and we bury the stored pain even deeper in our unconscious.

Out of sight, out of (conscious) mind. Most people mistakenly believe that they can safely ignore these suppressed emotions. Little do they realize just what a high price they pay on a daily basis by avoiding the processing of these suppressed emotions.

Most of our choices are habitual, or unconscious. Another way to say this is that you aren’t even aware of most of the choices you make. Our unconscious mind is our powerful autopilot and it is responsible for executing habitual behavior.

All of our choices, whether conscious or unconscious are driven by the desire to avoid pain and attract pleasure. – Klaus Ruhl

Suppressed emotions and self sabotage

By storing unresolved, inappropriate pain associations in our unconscious we are sowing the seed of powerful and lasting self sabotage. The further we drive this unresolved pain into our unconscious the harder it becomes to resolve in the future.

For example, your relationship turns sour and ends up in a less than pleasant breakup. Some of the associated emotional pain is suppressed and is pushed into your subconscious.

You may not be aware of it, or at best you are partially aware, but from this point forward you have an emotional resistance to getting into another relationship. Your unconscious is simply trying to protect you from experiencing another painful breakup in the future.

Unfortunately this protective mechanism now shows up as self sabotaging behavior whenever you explore a new relationship.

While the suppressed emotions are helping to protect you from having another painful relationship breakup they are also taking away the potential for having an amazing, loving and fulfilling relationship in the future. A very high price to pay!

So what’s a girl or guy to do?

To resolve this issue the stored emotional pain or emotional charge needs to be released. This is traditionally achieved through meditative techniques. Unfortunately, meditation, while effective, can be rather slow, especially for beginners.

Fortunately we now have access to some amazing therapies that can disarm these suppressed emotional time bombs quickly, easily and rather pleasantly.

One of the best techniques in this area is Timeline Therapy, which is essentially an advanced hypnotherapy technique. Timeline Therapy leverages the enormous power of your unconscious mind to resolve the backlog of unresolved emotional pain stored in your nervous system. This removes the inappropriate pain associations stored in your nervous system. As a result the self sabotaging behavior stops and you are free to pursue the love of your life.

Oh, and the best part is your mind actually extracts powerful new insights as it processes the backlog of emotional pain. This preserves the protective aspect that caused the emotional pain to be retained in the first place. So now you have access to powerful lessons from the past without the debilitation trauma in your nervous system and zero self sabotage. Life is good! Life is transformed!