The holidays can be a time of joy and connection, but for many of us, they can also be a time of stress and emotional pain. From unresolved family issues, to feeling overwhelmed by the commercialized expectations of gift giving and celebrations, to the general chaos of the season, it can be difficult to find feelings of peace and contentment. Thankfully, with the help of The Emotion Code and Body Code, we can find a pathway to emotional detox and freedom. Through the practice of forgiveness and letting go of emotional baggage, we can find the healing that we need to enjoy the holidays and move forward feeling lighter and brighter.

Benefits of emotional detox through the holidays

There are many potential benefits of emotional detox and forgiveness work during the holidays. For example, as we release trapped emotions, we also release trapped energy that can create physical issues, such as aches and pains, as well as emotional and mental issues, such as anxiety, stress, and lowered immunity. Forgiveness is also a form of self-love that shows us that we are strong enough to let go of whatever is holding us back. As we release negative feelings and thoughts, we also free up energy for positive feelings and thoughts that allow us to fully enjoy the holidays. There are also a number of emotional benefits to consider, as well. Feeling lighter and freer from emotional baggage may allow you to focus more on gratitude during the holidays. You may also be able to tap into a sense of inner peace that will allow you to better enjoy connecting with friends and family. Finally, you may find that you are better able to cope with stressors, such as long lines and busy holiday schedules, which may allow you to fully engage with the holiday spirit.

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In life, there are times of struggle and difficulty. It’s during these moments when we need to find our inner peace and access our personal reservoir of happiness. Finding happiness doesn’t have to be difficult. We can all achieve a sense of peace, love, and contentment in any situation by learning how to find inner peace and happiness in any situation. Here are 10 ways you can find your inner peace and happiness at any time. This article is filled with great tips on how you can increase your level of happiness in any situation! You might not feel like it right now, but the good news is that there are plenty of opportunities for you to develop a happier, more peaceful outlook on life.

Meditate and breathe.
Meditation is a powerful self-development tool that can help you find inner peace and happiness in any situation. When you practice mindfulness meditation, you’re training yourself to become more aware of your thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations — and learn how to let go of what you don’t need. This makes it easier to find happiness in any situation. When you practice sitting down to meditate, you’re giving your mind and body the space it needs to find a sense of peace and stillness that’s often hard to achieve when you’re going about your day with the restlessness and stress of everyday life. Studies have found that meditation has a wide range of benefits, including helping people deal with anxiety, lower their blood pressure, and improve their overall health. And when you learn how to meditate, you can use it as a tool for finding inner peace and happiness in any situation. Breathing exercises can also help you find inner peace when you’re feeling stressed out. When you’re feeling anxious or stressed, your breath tends to become shallower. When this happens, you’re not getting enough oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in your blood drop, which can make you feel more anxious. When you slow down and deepen your breath, you help bring your blood back to a healthy level and calm your nerves. This can help you find inner peace in any situation.

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Thinking Into Results For Leaders

The ability to feel is often seen as a burden combined with a blessing.

It is not only one of the essential mediums that you use to navigate life and the world, it is the point where your greatest joys begin and your deepest sorrows take root.

Heartache and happiness exist on different ends of the same spectrum of feeling. How you react to what you feel is often your greatest source of dissatisfaction and stress.

More so, your past and present manifest themselves through your ability to feel. Your conditioning is not just something that is intellectual, it is also experienced through the sensations you feel in your body.

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Thank you for reading this little heart nugget of mine, I really appreciate it, and you.

This newsletter was created to share the things I am personally using to assist me on my own spiritual path.  I share them with you in hopes they will have the same profound effect on your life as they have on mine. May you find solace in them and may they be received with the loving support I hold for you always, in All Ways.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Holotropic Breathwork Sessions

Please join us for an evening of transformational breathwork to connect your mind, body, and spirit. These events consist of 3 parts:
1) intention setting
2) breathwork (80 min)
3) Reflection/ sharing in sacred circle
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From the moment we are born, we suffer from attachment. We are born into hunger and a yearning for a comforting touch. As infants, we cry when we feel discomfort, helpless and hoping someone will come to our rescue. As toddlers, we wail or have tantrums when things aren’t going our way, or we’re just too tired and overwhelmed to process what’s happening around us.

This basic instinct to claw toward our comfort zone informs our adult experiences as well. We feel anger, resentment, fear and grief when we experience loss, disappointment, or deprivation of the things we desire or feel we need.

When we are suffering, it seems counterintuitive to sit still and sink more deeply into those uncomfortable feelings, yet therein we find the crucible that contains the fire to transform our angst into acceptance and ultimate joy.

In recent years, we in modern society have experienced deprivation unlike any we had known before, and at a time when many of us had become used to everything we needed being on tap. We live in a world of instant gratification. Food can be prepared with the push of a button, entertainment and connection with others sit in the palm of our hands, and, until recently, travel and the acquirement of goods operated with relative ease and speed.

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As you’re scrolling through your social media, how often do you come across profiles full of quotes on staying positive? There can be the temptation to “keep our head above water and paddle like mad” rather than allowing ourselves to feel the full extent of our emotional range. Thinking that being positive is a better choice can give us the idea that it’s somehow a failing if we don’t eschew the uncomfortable emotions for staying in our “happy place”. Happiness and optimism have their place in our lives, but we lose a great deal of our self-awareness if we exercise too much control over our emotions, preferring one feeling over another.

I often think about my 10-day stay at a Vipassana retreat in 2014, where we were encouraged to feel everything with “equanimity”. That meant accepting ALL the feelings, including rage, grief, fear, boredom, and every little spinal ache and muscle pain from sitting for prolonged periods while practicing Adhiṭṭhāna (determined sitting). This involved not moving a muscle while I observed the intense emotions that such stillness was bound to bring to the surface.

When movement does not disperse the energy, all kinds of feelings and sensations arise. The point is to not attach to the pleasant feelings or fight against the unpleasant ones, with the understanding that all suffering occurs as a result of attachment and aversion. When you can feel all your feelings with equanimity, you are free from the addiction to any particular feeling and the adverse reactions to uncomfortable ones.

According to vipassana, one cannot be addicted to a substance or behaviour, but the feeling that it gives us. In other words, if we cannot accept uncomfortable feelings, we will do whatever it takes to generate and cling to the feelings we want to have.

This is why I see “positive thinking” as merely another way of attaching to a particular type of feeling and suppressing the ones we’ve been conditioned not to tolerate. Eventually, we have to pull up the rug and look at what we’ve hidden underneath it due to whatever conditioning we received from early childhood (example, the grief suppressed from being shamed for crying).

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