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Bon Journal
Emotional detoxification
The latest Positive Health
magazine carried an article about this subject. It said that we don't
allow ourselves to be loved and suppress a lot of unresolved emotions
inside.
When we detox our bodies, it releases the emotions and the energies.
Every weekend, I have a ritual of making fresh carrot juice. It consists
of peeling the carrots and then pressing them through a juicer. Usually
I would add apples. Sometimes I'd add pears and oranges. The result is
a glass or two of ultra fresh juice.
Another detox exercise is making salad. My favourite is spinach and
rocket salad.
But these are physical detoxification. How do I detox myself emotionally?
How do I rid myself of the burdens of the past? How do I know what is
hidden inside? How do I get rid of the dead weight?
Talking about it isn't necessarily the right thing to do, the article
says. It may make itself worse because talking gives the illusion that
you are doing something about it. Talking tends to keep us in our heads
rather than in the emotion.
Emotional suppression leads to illness. What's also interesting is that
guilt causes us to punish ourselves in ways we don't always notice. For
example, self-sabotage - somehow we never quite achieve the rewarding
job by missing deadlines, allowing others to use up our time and energy,
using others' needs as excuses not to get our own needs met. Or being
accident prone, late, untidy, and sick. How familiar that is - to deny
ourselves what we truly deserve: self-love.
And how many of us lay buried and exhausted - never realising our true
potential - who we really are?
6 July 2001
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