connecting to your emotions

Mindfulness of the Emotional Body Activity

There is a partnership that exists between our weight on our physical body and the weight we carry in our emotional body.  The emotional body is a subtle energy field that surrounds your physical body.  It is also directly connected to our energy centers or chakras, as well as the other energetic bodies in our field such as our aura and our energy channels.  The emotional body carries the emotion and/or baggage that we have carried in this lifetime and potentially other lifetimes as well.  

Practice to examine the emotional body

Sit in a chair or on a meditation cushion.  Ensure you are in a quiet space without distraction. Take a few minutes to breathe deeply, eyes closed, and place yourself in a meditative state.  Once you have quieted your mind; imagine that you are made of glass.  Visualize your body as though it were crystal.  The idea here is that you are able to see through yourself as though it were a clear glass.  Once you have that image in your mind; imagine that you are able to see your emotions on and in this crystal image.  A couple of examples could be that there is a great deal of red paint on your heart, indicating that you have anger in your heart center.  You could also see cracks in your glass around your throat, indicating that you have had communication issues.  These are just a couple examples of the thousands of visualizations you can have on your body of glass.  Take time to look at your body of glass and to take note of what you see.  You may not understand what it all means at first but as information unfolds you will discover more about your emotional body and where your emotions may be sitting in your physical body.

Our emotions are a trigger when it comes to when and what we eat.  Most of us have diets that are stress based.  When we are stressed, frustrated, hormonal etc.; we find ourselves eating sugary foods or drinking alcohol.  Self-inquiry and meditation can help you gain awareness of these triggers and begin tracking how you are emotionally eating and also getting to the deeper issues.

Homework:

Meditate on your body of glass and to begin to understand the emotions that you carry in your physical body.  Utilize the following self-inquiry questions throughout the week to begin to identify your emotional contributors to your weight.

What emotions were I experiencing over this week that caused me to eat?

What did I choose to eat due to this emotion?

What part of my body 'lights up' when I am eating this food?­­­­

What emotion do I feel once I ate the food?

Where does this emotion come from?

How is this emotion serving me right now?

How was this process for you?