Have you ever wondered why we experience emotions, or thought about the greater purpose behind them? I used to ponder this all the time, in fact, I became quite obsessed with understanding my emotions from an early age. I was someone who felt things TO THE MAX and often asked myself why I seemed to experience everything so freaking intensely, while other people seemed to just … not so much. Now that I have a broader understanding of the whole picture, through the lens of Source-science (something they teach at Guided Light Healing—more on that later), I’m aware that I came into this life with incredibly unstable, wild, and intense emotions for a reason: to completely and unequivocally master them.
Yes, I was frequently called moody and intense as a child and young adult, with an ability to change the energy of a room depending on the emotion I was feeling. I used to get so down on myself about this—”why can’t I just be normal“—but it was really all the motivation I needed to one day figure out mind-blowing emotional hacks, somatic tools, and energetic practices that allow one to go from an emotional 10/10 to a zero in mere minutes. You see, when we humans get above a 21% (out of 100) emotional trigger we lose access to the critical thinking portion of our brains. Without the proper tools to de-escalate ourselves, we act irrationally, say things we regret, and lose complete access to our intuition.
This is kind of a big deal because most humans today are walking around with a baseline emotional trigger of over 60%. The baseline, “regulated” state that most people think they’re coming down to as they work with their breath to get calm (if they’re even doing that) is actually still well within the confines of something called “survival mode.” We are most of us operating in survival mode (some iteration of fight-flight-freeze-fawn) every day. Yes, even the yogi’s and spiritual people. Yes, even the somatic practitioners and embodiment coaches—I know this because I was one of them!
What I’ve learned is this: somatic and embodiment work are literally the first step towards emotions mastery. I have spent nearly a lifetime practicing yoga, several years practicing breathwork and meditation, and a few years studying somatics and healing emotionally through my body, and I still sucked (relatively speaking) at controlling my emotions in a triggered state. Now, this is not to scare you or even offer a comparison of your timeline to mine. This is only to introduce the concept of Recurring Life Lessons.
Recurring Life Lessons (RLL) are the lessons that our Higher Selves choose for us to work on over the course of a lifetime. One of my RLL is to master my emotions, more specifically, to get a handle on my triggered mind-body so fast that I can almost instantly see the perfection in everything at all times. Seeing the perfection in all things at all times is such a high-frequency state to be in, it’s considered “ascended master” status; think Jesus Christ or Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Most of us will not be able to permanently embody that state in this lifetime, myself included, which is why RLL play themselves out over many lifetimes.
I’m saying this because once I got good at experiencing my emotions somatically, releasing them, and receiving the intuitive clarity that the release brings, I entered a new phase of growth. I opened myself enough to start being able to really get into my subconscious and start rewiring old, archaic limiting beliefs. I began reprogramming memories, activating my super-brain, and all of this other incredible stuff that healing and higher consciousness bring.
So, why are emotions the greatest gift? Because each time we get triggered or experience an intense grief-death we are provided an opportunity to grow. Not only grow, but create. We are creators by nature. Our emotions show us exactly where we need to love ourselves more (this gets into the Universal Law of Reflections, which needs a whole article on its own!) like a literal map showing us precisely where and how we can come back into wholeness.
So first, we have somatic work, which allows us to be able to welcome discomfort and pain without avoiding, compensating, and/or dissociating. We learn how to release fear—the tight, constrictive energy of fear that coils itself into our muscles, tissues, and brain chemistry—out of our bodies in order to expand the love, light, and joy that we are. Then, we pair somatics with emotions mastery tools based on pure neuroscience and information gleaned from Source-scientifically precise intuition, and life becomes this fun game of “How much can I create in the name of Love?” and “How many beings can I help?” Every moment now holds a treasure trove of information, data that is there to clearly lead us towards our inevitable enlightenment.
Do I still get tripped up and triggered? Absolutely. Do I say things I don’t mean and act immature sometimes? Without a doubt. These failures are by design. Our lives are full of imperfection while simultaneously being perfectly designed. We are here to fail, grow, learn, and master, and repeat. So the next time we get triggered or “fail” emotionally, how can we at once welcome and validate our feelings, while also expand our perspective out into “this is a gift, I am learning something here”? These are the things we practice at Ocean Embodied. It is my life’s mission to help you move into the control room of your life, exit victimhood, and see how every single thing about you is PERFECT and perfectly designed to help you accomplish any of your heart-aligned goals.
