Removing Emotional Baggage
Before we begin to remove emotional baggage we must first define what emotional baggage is. Emotional baggage can be defined as ‘Painful memories, mistrust and hurt carried around from past sexual or emotional rejection’.
It is an image of ‘a big sack or suitcase that you carry around with you at all times… with every disappointment, trauma, and wrong that you’ve ever experienced….This image, the metaphor of emotional baggage, has penetrated our culture’.
What emotional baggage are you carrying? Well it is now time to unpack and only keep the things in you bag that will serve you and help you become a better person personally and professionally.
It is time go to throw that suitcase away and release the emotional baggage that may be holding you back. We all have had pain for some it is physical, some mental, and for some both. The events of our life that we couldn’t control can no longer be allowed to control us. What ever the painful memory is it is time to find a way to let it go for when you let it go and release your emotional baggage you can move forward. Many times we hold onto to things emotionally and we find ourselves in a rut because we have associated all these negative emotions with the situation. It is time to become an action taker and do something to remove the emotional baggage. It can be as easy as adopting a new song to help you get over the situation and remove the emotional baggage.
It is time go to throw that suitcase away and release the emotional baggage that may be holding you back. We all have had pain for some it is physical, some mental, and for some both. The events of our life that we couldn’t control can no longer be allowed to control us. What ever the painful memory is it is time to find a way to let it go for when you let it go and release your emotional baggage you can move forward. Many times we hold onto to things emotionally and we find ourselves in a rut because we have associated all these negative emotions with the situation. It is time to become an action taker and do something to remove the emotional baggage. It can be as easy as adopting a new song to help you get over the situation and remove the emotional baggage.
Strategies for Removing Emotional Baggage
There are many ways to remove emotional baggage and it takes work, howeve ronce you peel away the emotional baggage and difuse the emotional charges you will begin to feel better and you will start to attract those that you seek to attract.
1: Make yourself the most important person and affirrm that you deserve the best. This can be done by affirmations.
2: Let go of the people that no longer serve you. This is very difficult as many of us feel an obligation to so called friends. By removing this emotional baggage and no longer seeking that person’s approval you will become stronger and confident.
3: Write down all the negative events and thoughts you associate with them and then crumple up the papper and place it in a bowl and burn it so as to remove the emotional baggage.
4: Write Letters of Forgiveness to those that you believed wronged you.
5: Begin a gratitude journal.
6: Look for things that bring you joy and begin to write about them.
7: Invest in yourself through workshops and training or on things that will bring happiness to you.
8: Surround yourself with people who are encouraging and supportive
9: Turn to spiritual teachings.
10: Commit to yourself to treat yourself with love.