Awaken Your Inner Fire by HeatherAsh Amara

Author:HeatherAsh Amara
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781938289651
Publisher: Hierophant Publishing

All of us have experienced painful and even traumatic events in our lives: the death of a loved one, a major breakup or divorce, violence, illness, financial upheavals, etc. I'd like you to take a few moments to bring any events that have affected your life to your conscious attention, as we will now look back on them from the perspective of what unresolved feelings you might be holding on to around these circumstances and how they affect your inner fire. Many of my students' have an initial gut reaction to say that they “have fully dealt with these emotions,” but on closer examination that's not always the case. It's my experience that even those past experiences that we have dealt with again and again can still arise from time to time, so knowing how to become more astute at spotting them and learning how to let those emotions flow through us appropriately are vitally important, even when it's an issue we feel we have already overcome.

What are some of your own traumatic life experiences? How did you feel at the time? Do you have any heavy emotional baggage you are carrying with you as a result of these past experiences? Do you ever notice them getting triggered by unrelated events in your present life? Also consider this, as you move through the world and experience events that provoke unwanted emotions inside you (things like sadness, fear, or shame), do you have a tendency to repress these emotions in an attempt to not feel them?

Take a few minutes to write out the answers to these questions and really feel the emotions, reviewing what these instances bring up inside you. It's important to identify and write out words for the feelings, as this will help you to better release them. For instance, I feel “bad” is a good start, but it is also very general. Dig deeper and see what other feelings are there: guilt, shame, remorse, fear, betrayal, powerlessness, abused, attacked, sadness, and grief are all examples of words that can help you identify and express a feeling accurately, which is a big step toward releasing it. We will look further at ways to release these identified feelings in the exercises at the end of this lesson.

Many of us may not be able to pinpoint the origin of certain feelings as easily as the examples I have listed here, and that's okay. You don't need to know exactly what caused these feelings to accumulate in order to clear them. Being conscious of and releasing feelings as they arise in the present moment are what will, over time, lead to the unblocking of old, stagnant, or frozen emotions. Taking these emotions out of your proverbial backpack will free up your inner fire, and you will find yourself experiencing more joy in your life as a result.

The important point here is that as you start to embrace your emotions rather than stuff them down or ignore them, you keep your inner fire vibrant and free.

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