07/18/2023
I would like to devote the next coming weeks to emotions, their function, related organs natural sign. This week: Anxiety
Anxiety is there to protect us. This is one of the first point that psychotherapy will address by letting us know that we are human, coming from the caveman that we still carry within us. Anxiety makes us run away, freeze, or fight to protect ourselves. Anxiety isent something that us human necessary like to feel, but its something we must learn to tolerate and to go through to evolve on our emotional and spiritual journey.
On a spiritual level, Anxiety blocks our spiritual energy. Therefor this is why anxiety is the first building block of our emotional work/journey. We must learn about our defense mechanism and be able to look at our self for who we really are and how we operate. The goal of our emotional work is to embody our emotions and to be able to access and feel the heart and share the love and compassion. Along the way, we can get into our own spiritual work by helping other to get there from what we have learned/conquer.
Anxiety gives a lot of tensions and block the energy from the head to go down to the heart. When we operate that way, the base of the neck can hurt, and tensions on shoulders will rises on and off or permanently. So basically, we are ego driven, and mainly operate by logic. These tensions have a message for us or a lesson. I personally had to learn the lesson before they dissolved. Anxiety can also show up in the diaphragm as well (for the breath) and in the stomach (solar plexus) for will/power and the lower abdomen where our sense of safety reside. Coming from this direction, it is block from the bottom up to the heart. Any tensions that blocks our energy conduit to the heart has to be felt and embodied.
Anxiety is being represented by the wood and fire element as it represents all the blockage or tensions (burns feeling) that must be dissolve with oxygen (breath) and lift away.
Catch 21 is that we believe at first, or we have been thought by parents, society, teacher, to “protect” our heart. The more critical, rigid, stubborn, right/wrong, manipulative we are thought, the more of a barricade we have construct around us to “protect the heart”. A big ego was born…
The work is to go THROUGH and undo those barriers, and feel, and yes, it is uncomfortable, and yes you will cross people the wrong way, and yes there will be struggles and yes you will be on your way. A natural response to anxiety is to retrieve under a defense mechanism (perfectionism),to feel comfortable again. We must learn about “courage” and “strength” to function as we have been created.
