Have you ever felt like you haven’t been able to express or communicate your emotions? Have you had difficulties understanding why you feel the way you do? If so, you might be experiencing emotional blockage. Being emotionally blocked means having an unhealthy relationship with your emotions. It’s a defense mechanism that our brain puts up to prevent us from feeling emotions normally. Some signs that you’re experiencing emotional blockage include avoiding people or social situations, having an increase in anxiety or stress levels the day before events, having a lack of motivation that lasts for a long time and affects different areas of our lives, and feeling negative emotions with greater intensity than before.
Avoiding People or Social Situations
If you are avoiding situations because you are scared of how to act or what to say, it might be linked back to emotional blockage. A large part of emotional blockage is about avoidance and avoiding pain, so if you find yourself avoiding people or social events that make you anxious, it may be a sign you’re experiencing emotional blockage.
Lack of Motivation
Emotional blockages can sink motivation quickly. Apathy is a lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern about something. It is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation, or passion. If you find yourself feeling this way, it’s important to do something about it. In order to increase motivation, set yourself one specific, achievable goal and think about what you need to do in your life to make that goal happen. Break your goal into small, easy tasks and set regular reminders to complete each step and use family and friends as support.
Feeling Negative Emotions
Just because you might be suppressing negative emotions does not mean their emotions disappear. You may be feeling negative emotions with greater intensity than before. Such emotions might include feelings like envy, jealousy, criticism, etc. Just like a physical wound may fester and become infected if left untreated, the accumulation of unaddressed emotions can lead to stress, anxiety, and depression. If you find that you are repressing your emotions and may have symptoms of emotional blockage, it is possible to cope with them.
Coping with Emotional Blockage
Coping with emotional blockage can be challenging, but it is manageable. Some ways to cope with emotional blockage include:
Learning the triggers to your emotions
Acknowledging your emotions
Understanding what your emotions are communicating
Practicing- learning how to sit with and understand your emotions will take time. It won’t happen overnight.
Seeking support can also help you cope with emotional blockage. EmRes, or Emotional Resolution, sessions can help you to resolve one or several emotional patterns. It uses viscero-somatic quieting techniques to connect you to the origin of a difficult emotion through your physical sensations and modulates the unwanted emotional response permanently. The process is uniquely efficient for resolving conditions such as depression, fears, anxiety, PTSD and anger. To learn more about EmRes with Cedric Bertelli, click HERE.