You’re really frustrated. Angry. There is so much happening in your life and you have so many emotions floating around you can’t think straight. You’re tired. You’re moody. Ok, even irritable. Friends are complaining. Your spouse is complaining. Your kids hide when they see you. So you withdraw and say very little. Then colleagues ask, "What’s wrong?" You just want everyone to leave you alone!

The thing is you have so much emotional energy you really don’t know what’s wrong! You don’t know what you feel! But you do know that soon, you just might explode!

Why does this happen? Incidents take place. Change occurs. Multiple things could be happening in your life all at once but often you are too busy to notice how you feel about it; you just do whatever needs to be done. You stay in action. At the end of the day, you are drained. You don’t necessarily acknowledge what you’ve been through or how you feel about things in your life. You either pass out or your mind is so busy racing that you get stuck in thinking mode and can’t find the shut off valve!

When you experience an emotion, you don’t always acknowledge it. You "stuff it" so to speak. And the emotion gets tucked away. It has to go somewhere so you store the emotion in your body’s attic or closet until such time when it becomes overfilled. Eventually, the emotional energy needs to be released.

How do you spell relief? Some people enjoy Reiki or other energetic healing techniques. These are wonderful and helpful techniques for eliminating the energy left behind from emotions when they are not cleared from your body.

Therapy helps too, but I have found that oftentimes, simply acknowledging the emotions is enough to release their energetic hold and clear them away. You can do this by yourself or with another person, however, there are some ground rules.

Emotional cleansing is NOT about problem solving or determining solutions. It is simply about acknowledging the pain you are holding onto and releasing the emotional energy stored in your body.

If you do this by yourself, you may wish to write it out on paper. Make a list of everything you are angry, fearful, frustrated or upset about. What is going on that is triggering your pain? Just list these things. And keep listing until you have exhausted your list.

If you have another person assisting you, their job is to simply ask you, "what else?" They will keep you from getting sidetracked.

No one asked for your opinion Do not judge. Do not question. Do not try to fix. Do not rationalize. Do not try to minimize your feelings or the event. If you are angry, then be angry! And just acknowledge that you are angry, upset, fearful, sad, whatever.

Resist the temptation to go on and on about a particular event. Just note the event or situation that is triggering the anger or other emotion. • I am angry that the kids won’t clean their rooms. • I am angry about what Betty said to me at work yesterday. • I am angry that they put up with her poor behavior and we all have to suffer because of it. • I am angry that my mom isn’t around to talk to anymore. • I am upset about Mary getting fired at work. • I am scared about losing my job too. • I am angry that I have to drive out to that store again to return that item – it’s so far away.

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