Feeling Your Emotions: 3 Powerful Benefits

Feeling your emotions is one of the bravest and most powerful things you can do for yourself. Most people are ok to feel their positive emotions. But what about the negative ones?

When you only allow yourself to feel the positive ones and push against all the other ones, you are essentially saying, “you are wrong, and I don’t want you to be a part of me.” So, you push against a part of you that wants to be acknowledged.

Your feelings aren’t good or bad, they are messengers. Have you ever heard the phrase, “don’t shoot the messenger?” This is the same thing. They are here for a reason and acknowledging them is the first step to understanding what message they are here to bring you.

Law of Attractions Misconception About Feeling Negative Emotions

A common misconception amongst the law of attraction teachings is that you only need to think positive thoughts and then you will receive your manifestations. How is that working for you? Likely it isn’t going as smoothly as you hoped.

There is SO much more to manifesting and living your best life than just thinking positively.

Shadow work is a huge part of the law of attraction and manifesting. This is where it’s helpful to work on clearing some of the limiting, negative emotions that you have.

This doesn’t happen by pretending that they aren’t there or pushing them away and only thinking happy thoughts. While those things work, there is a delicate balance between working with your negative emotions and your positive ones.

Feeling Your Emotions – Negative Emotions Vs Positive Ones

You might be asking what is a negative emotion and a positive one? Emotions can actually be measured by the frequency that they hold.

There are many charts online that give numbers to the emotions and show which are at the lowest frequency and which are at the highest frequency.

If you are more interested in learning about this check out my article, “How to Use the Abraham Hicks Emotional Guidance Scale.”

Emotions are messengers and you can know which are at a lower or higher frequency by how you feel. If you feel bad, you are experiencing a lower frequency. If you feel good, you are experiencing a higher frequency.

Emotions are great for helping you to see things that you might not otherwise see by delivering a feeling to you.

For example, you might be thinking about going to your friend’s house today and as soon as you think that thought, you get anxiety in your stomach. If you aren’t aware, you’d likely go, possibly with a knot in your stomach, and may not have the best experience because your frequency was telling you otherwise.

However, if you decide that maybe today isn’t the best day to go and the anxiety goes away, it is telling you that is the right decision for you at this time. It may not be anything to do with your friend, just that today isn’t a good day for you to go, for various reasons.

Negative emotions aren’t bad and positive ones aren’t good, they are simply different energy and deliver different messages. The negative ones let you know what you aren’t in alignment with, and the positive ones let you know what you are in alignment with.

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How Feeling Your Emotions Benefits You

1. Feeling Your Negative Emotions Releases Resistance

When you aren’t allowing yourself to feel your emotions, it creates resistance within your body. This emotion is trying to be felt and released and cannot be released if it isn’t acknowledged.

Think of your negative emotion as a little kid who wants attention. They will cry and throw tantrums just to get your attention. As soon as you give it to them and acknowledge their feelings, they stop. They only want to be heard and acknowledged.

This is the same as your emotions. They only want to be heard and acknowledged. Once they are, then they can move on and be released from your body.

Feeling releases resistance and via the law of attraction, you will have less resistance within your energy field. Therefore, you will attract more of what you want as you’ve released some of that resistance.

2. Feeling Your Emotions Allows You to Practice Detachment

If you can feel your emotions without being consumed by them, it helps you to practice detachment from them. Detachment allows you to see what they are trying to show you from a different perspective.

You know how if you are in the middle of something bad, it’s hard to see clearly? But an outsider who isn’t emotionally involved can see what is happening in a different way than the person in the middle of it.

This is what detachment does. It helps you to see clearly so that you can have a different, clear perspective.

Your emotions are messengers, and they are here to show you something. If you can look at them without judgment, you will be able to see what they are trying to show you and help you with.

3. Feeling Your Emotions Frees Up Space in Your Mind

If you have lots of negative emotions, then there’s no room for positive ones. By feeling and then releasing your negative emotions, it frees up space to allow more positive ones to enter.

You know how if you have something on your mind and until you say it or write it down it won’t go away? The same things happen with the thoughts and emotions in your mind. Until something is done with them, then they will stick around until they are acknowledged.

Invite Your Emotions In

Sit with your feelings and even invite them into your body as a way to help you to feel them and receive messages from them. They want to be seen and acknowledged.

Ask your emotions for information.

What are they here to tell you?

Where can you feel them in your body?

Have a conversation with them. Your feelings have a consciousness so talking to them isn’t as crazy as it sounds.

Release Your Emotions (After Feeling Them & Acknowledging Them)

After you feel your emotions, you don’t have to hold onto them any longer. You can now release them.

How you do that is up to you and there are many ways to release them such as:

• Crying
• Screaming into a pillow (or in your car)
• Journaling
• Physical movement
• Do something creative
• Talk to a friend, your spirit guides, angels, or higher self
• Meditating
• Breathwork

In Conclusion – Why Feeling Your Emotions Is Important

Your feelings aren’t wrong or bad. They are simply guidance.

Negative emotions aren’t meant to be stuffed down inside of you. They are meant to be felt and seen. The trick is not to live in them, but to acknowledge them, feel them and then release them.

Negative emotions are great messengers to alert you to something. Maybe they are alerting you that you have a limiting belief or maybe that a certain situation isn’t right for you. Either way, use your intuition to receive the specific meaning that is meant for you.

~Meghan