Dissolve Distress, Experience Elevated Emotions
By Renee Takacs
Distressing circumstances happen in life:
- We get blamed for something that’s not our fault.
- A family member or friend misunderstands our communication.
- We disagree with someone’s point of view.
- We feel lonely and sorry for ourselves.
Feeling is KEY to activating inner transformation! Just having a mental thought of an emotion like joyfulness won’t secure our desired change to experience the power of consciousness. We must be able to feel the emotion based upon an experience from our past when we connected with that energy.
We then keep rippling that energy through our body. Bringing feeling energies into the body as a sensation is necessary. By incorporating these elevated energies into the body, we activate the power of consciousness.
The Transformational Process
Here are the general steps I follow for myself, and for when I guide my clients on their transformational journey to activate the power of consciousness:
- First, acknowledge distressing thoughts, emotions, and behavior. You can’t change something unless you’re honest with yourself and acknowledge your uncomfortable situation and feelings. Awareness is the first step to change.
- Rather than project blame and judgement on external persons or circumstances, own your feelings and thoughts regarding the situation.
- Summon the courage to endure the temporary discomfort of internal scrutiny as you acknowledge and release egoic emotions (shame, despair, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger, pride), with the intention to shift and raise your consciousness.
- When you reach the consciousness level of neutrality in the process, the pattern of thinking and emotions doesn’t feel painful anymore. You’ll become willing to let go of what no longer serves you.
- You’ll move from your current experience of suffering, by definition meaning to undergo, into a gentle feeling of relief and acceptance. Life will bring to you what you need for your next level of development—a reward or a deprivation.
- When you transcend the emotional level of consciousness, you’ll reach the reason level of consciousness. You can better comprehend and understand what you’re experiencing. You can think new thoughts, have new feelings, and take new actions.
- Bridging into the spiritual level of consciousness, you can absorb the authentic-feeling energies of joyfulness, peacefulness, loving kindness, compassion, and possibly enlightenment.
In summary, when you embody your true-self feelings, the energy will ripple through your thoughts, words, and behavior initiating small changes. You’ll view life through a different lens and make different choices. A different reality is reflected back to you from the external world.
