Your emotional energy body is the part that affects and works with your emotions. I know that’s obvious, but we often forget that we are multi-faceted beings. It often happens that after we think we’ve dealt with all the emotions surrounding something, it will come back around to bite us again. The reason for this is that we might have forgotten about the piece of it that is stored in the emotional body.

Emotions can be complicated. We can love and hate the same thing at the same time. It doesn’t make sense to feel that way, but we do. Logic has nothing to do with emotions. We are more comfortable with processing feelings when it’s not painful. Unfortunately, the feelings that tend to come back to kick us are the ones that tend to cause us pain. It’s to our benefit to work with all aspects of ourselves to work through those emotions to avoid them coming up again in the future. Things that bring out the same response in us over and over are known as triggers.

When we have triggers, it can put us into an automatic mode where we act, speak, and think in a set pattern. It can be so predictable that others may notice and can either plan how to avoid the anticipated reaction or count on it if they want to manipulate us. Triggers can develop from traumas we’ve lived through or situations with strong emotions, usually negative. It’s the kind of thing that makes us actively avoid the circumstances that might create that situation in the future. It could also be a flashback moment when something similar happens that causes us to have a reaction. An example of this is PTSD.

Someone who has had a traumatic experience can relive that experience emotionally when exposed to something associated with the trauma. It is stored as a sensory memory, a sound, a scent, or seeing something that could cause the person to relive the trauma. People who have been abused in any form often have emotional issues resulting from it. The emotions are held in instead of being expressed in a positive way and may show themselves in various forms, such as depression, addiction, self-harm, and sometimes, suicide.

Even if the circumstances of someone’s life may not have been extreme, there still may be trauma stored in the emotional energy body. It’s unlikely that there isn’t anything stored. We all have faults, failings, and fears. The emotional body stores whatever we have pushed aside and not released through healthy expression. This is not something we have done to ourselves intentionally. It’s that no one ever taught us how to express them. Unfortunately, these bottled-up emotions that we have been carrying for years could be contributing to whatever prevents us from moving toward our dreams.

If someone knows they have a trigger and why it’s there, it might be something they aren’t willing to look at. This means they’re choosing to continue to carry that pain and are willing to allow it to influence their decisions. This is free will, and we are welcome to take any path and make any choices for the consequences we are willing to take. However, if we are willing to work on releasing whatever we’ve been carrying, the potential for greater things increases. If nothing else, it’s a burden we no longer have to carry.

If you are an energy healer, you can view your energy body as if it were another person you were working on remotely and use your preferred modality to find energy that doesn’t resonate with the highest vibration of your energy body and do what you can to remove it, unblock it, or release it. Meditation and using a pendulum are other ways to connect to the energy body to search for and release energy stored there that is not for your highest good.

Working with the emotional body is probably one of the most difficult to do as we don’t realize what we have stored there until we tap into it. With the release of that energy, old memories may surface. Tears, hurt, anger, and confusion may also happen. It may have you feeling like you want to close the box and never open it again. You could do that if you wanted. Sometimes, we aren’t ready to face things, but if you are, it could lead you to the greatest leap forward you’ve had in your life so far. Go slow. Take things at your own pace. It’s not a race, and no one is judging you. Be patient with the process and yourself. You deserve it. You are worthy of it. You are powerful. Embrace it.