Stephanie Lyra Lin

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Embracing Negative Emotions

In today’s guest post the lovely Anjara offers one of the most lucid and wise teachings about our emotions I’ve ever read. She shows how having a range of emotions is a natural part of our experience on Earth, and indeed an integral part of our spiritual evolution.

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Anjara guest post

The Spiritual Revolution of Accepting Your Spiritual Evolution

Within the spiritual community there is an “allergy” to low vibration emotions. Oh, feeling angry, being upset, dissapointed… so unevolved, right?

When something happens that makes us feel anger or any other low vibrational emotion we become the target of spiritual criticism. We put pressure on ourselves to stop feeling negative emotions because if we do, and if we express it, our ego and the egos of the people who surround us will react to how far we are from enlightenment.

Within the spiritual community there is a strong rejection towards negative emotions because of the belief that, the higher our vibration is, the less negative emotions we have.

So we can see how there is a “race for enlightment” that is based on neglecting our human nature and denying that we all feel negative emotions.

We are human beings with a strong emotional body that includes a extended range of emotions. When we start our spiritual path we are re-connecting with our real divine nature which is love, kindness, joy and compassion; so, the more connected we are with our divinity, the more we experience this high vibrational state of joy, love and kindness. But it does not mean that we don´t experience negative emotions, we are still human and we still possess our complex and rich emotional body.

When our soul chooses the Earth as our next planet we are perfectly aware that we are going to live in a world of duality that will allow us to have an experience from the positive and from the negative side.

This provide us with the opportunity to awaken the awareness that we are able to choose which side we want, to experience our free will and the power to transform our lives.

Avoiding negative emotions is just pretending that we are not human beings and denying that our soul has come here to have a human life, therefore avoiding the experiences our soul has chosen.

Accepting and exploring negative emotions is actually an essential step to evolving spiritually, because:

Allowing yourself to feel low vibrational emotions can help you to practice honoring your needs, to tune in with your desires and your highest good, and to show you the path of authentic happiness.

Allowing yourself to feel pain, grief, rage or any other low vibrational emotion can help you to identify the hidden self-sabotaging dynamics that are active at a subconscious level and . . . your karma!

All of our experiences are the result of our choices, from this present lifetime and from past lifetimes. Our emotions are just showing us the nature of our choices.

Low vibrational emotions are also a calling to make an exercise of self love and:

Honor how you feel.
Heal your wounds first.
Focus on what really makes you happy.
Practice self-forgiveness and self acceptance.

What really shows you how evolved you are is not the complete absence of negative emotions, but the way you manage and relate to them. By allowing yourself to feel you allow yourself to heal, and this is the way you enlighten your life.

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Anjara grew up in Spain in a family that was repeating karmic patterns of abuse and lack. Being a highly sensitive child, she followed the need to spend time in nature, which helped her to survive the abuse. She developed a strong connection with the forest which led to a career as environmental educator, but she was not happy or fulfilled. Her lack of joy and weak health prompted a deep spiritual journey that led to the study of the Akashic Records, energy healing, and Feng Shui. After her healing journey she connected with the power of desire and transformed her life. Anjara is a Psychic and Life Transformation Mentor. She helps conscious women to own their power and transform their lives through soul level healing and the connection with the truth of their being and their real desires.

You can find Anjara at groundingwisdom.com

 

Comments

  1. As spiritual beings having a human experience, it’s important to remember that the human experience is what this life is all about. We didn’t venture forth to expand into a portion of our greatness, but rather we ventured forth to expand into the entirety of our greatness. It is so important to feel everything you are authentically feeling and honor those feelings so shifting them without bypassing (and creating some shifty energetic byproducts) can happen. Great topic!

  2. Thank you so much for bringing up these great points. I also believe that we must embrace all of ourselves, including negative emotions that we experience. This is a great reminder for me because people do tend to dismiss negative emotions, or brush them away as if they can’t be honored and expressed. One of my mentors would always say, “what we resist, persists.” In order to move on, we must acknowledge ALL of where we are now 🙂

    • Yesss. It’s beautiful how more and more of us are understanding this. Feeling our pain paradoxically makes like a whole lot less painful, hehe. Thanks for sharing!

  3. Oh I LOVE this reminder to really EMBRACE our human experience, including emotions that may not feel so nice or be what we think we *should* be feeling. It’s ALL part of what we signed up for, and emotions especially are our very accurate guidance system to follow our heart and our purpose. By ignoring negative emotions, we are actually missing messages from our soul about who we are and what is true for us! Thank you for this lovely reminder to honor ALL my emotions, Anjara! 🙂

    • Exactly, Jesse! Our emotions are playing such a vital role in our journey as humans. We’ve been conditioned to sort of demonize some emotions as bad, when in fact they’re supporting us, as you say, to line up with our heart and soul! Thank you!

  4. I definitely recognize the lower my “negative emotion”, then once I move thru it, I am so, so, so, so, so much more highly evolved, freed, and open to more truth of my heart’s desires. It can be rough to go thru these emotions at times, but I see them as an indicator that I need to shift, move, or run away…to reach higher awareness of the path I’m forging for myself and others.

    • That is such an awesome way to understand our emotions, Melody. And it feels really good! It takes away that shame we sometimes feel when we go through rough periods (“What’s wrong with me??”). Thank you!

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