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Life in the past vs. now
- 4/21/15
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We have more time now to do something about
our emotional baggage
Life, nearly 100 years ago, was hard. Data from
1920 reveals that 44 hours were spent on preparing daily meals and cleaning up after them each
week. Most people struggled to make a living and to feed themselves. Survival was more a
consideration than the luxury of emotion. It has only been in the late twentieth century that a
standard of living enabled us to have the space to reflect on our emotions. Now, no longer
challenged with threats to our daily survival, we can instead explore less concrete
pursuits.
When we are concerned with survival we will
suppress emotions to get through what is. Since we are blessed to live in a culture which allows
emotion, we may be the generations who are blessed - or cursed, depending on how you look at it, to
release the trauma of millennia. Survival was more a consideration than the luxury of emotion. As
my grandmother used to say “we managed perfectly well without emotions in my day”. Now, no longer
challenged with threats to our daily survival, we can instead explore less concrete
pursuits.
Current developments in therapy are leaning towards a more integrated
body-mind approach which recognizes the importance of the nervous system and the body in holding
and releasing emotion.
Once we have released our emotional inherent baggage, we may then be
able to move into a less emotionally volatile and more energetically sensitive state of
being.
Wherever humanity goes next, we, in the current living generations,
have been given the luxury of the time, the space and the tools to release our inherited emotional
blocks. If we release these it may just allow us to improve our quality of life.
Source: http://www.facebook.com/TheEmotionalBody
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