Emotions are not designed to be suppressed, they are powerful forces that our bodies use as fuel for action, healing and relationships. It is when our emotions get stuck or when we suppress them that they become a problem.

In Chinese medicine philosophy, each emotion is seen as designed to help with a particular movement or action in the body.

The emotion of worry, for example, is designed to help us think and problem solve, it is only when we fall into confusion that often results in anxiety.

The emotion of anger is actually designed to be fuel to move forward in our lives, however, when anger becomes imbalanced or suppressed, that is when we get to the explosive stage that many people are familiar with and afraid of.

Grief is often about letting go of things. It serves the energy of releasing what we no longer need but if we don't allow it to move, then we fall into an abyss. Unchecked the abyss becomes a spiralling void of depression.

The next time you find yourself wanting to label an emotion as good or bad, negative or whatever word it is you wish to name it.  When you feel the desire to push the emotion down so that you don't need to deal with it remind yourself, each emotion has its own intelligent purpose.

Allow the energy of the emotion to move, as it is intended to do, and observe what happens.

When we allow healthy movement and expression of our emotions, our bodies don’t have to find places to hold onto them or store them in our tissues, which is what causes pain and discomfort in certain areas of the body and illness and repetitive ill health that just seems to come from no-where. Actually, it comes from suppressed emotion that is the genetic pattern of ancestral trauma being carried in the genome of the DNA.

To gain a deeper understanding of the genetic pattern of ancestral trauma being carried in the genome of the DNA, learn Transforming DNA Memories.