Can We Lose Our Ability to Connect with Emotions?
The ability to connect with emotions is never lost.
“I'm just not an emotional type of person. It's just not my nature."
Sometimes the clients I coach in healing compulsive eating say this when we discuss the necessity to uncover and feel through the emotions they’re trying to suppress with food.
I am here to tell you: no matter who you are, you are, deep down, an emotional type of person!
Everyone on the planet has equal and full ability to connect with emotions.
It is not only an ability but it is also the natural way we have always been meant to operate in our souls.
Because in your family you were taught things about emotions based on how your emotions were treated by your parents, and what they believed about being emotional, you were more or less shut down to this natural process.
Some people become more shut down than others overall, and this can explain why some people appear to have an easier “ability” to connect with emotion or it appears some people are more emotional “by nature”.
Also, we can be more shut down with certain emotions than other emotions.
For example, society is more validating for women to cry than to feel anger, and is more validating for men to get angry than to cry.
But the ability to connect with suppressed emotions is never lost and is not a matter of capability, personality or nature.
Instead we can work through the childhood experiences that created an emotional shutdown in us, and look at what our judgments, beliefs and fears are about feeling.
Even if you've never thrown anything in anger ever in your life, or never screamed out loud, or haven't cried since you were a child, you can still open up to your emotions.
The ability to connect with our emotions is never lost, it is only forgotten and blocked.
Connecting with all of your feelings will heal your food addictions!
For the best information I’ve ever come across to teach how to feel emotions, please check out the Divine Truth YouTube channels.
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