Enlightening theory of Emotion and Thought Suppression:
Suppression of emotions is a conscious denial of feelings (repression is an unconscious denial). Those who are constantly suppressing their emotions ignore their feelings and choose not to deal with them. Suppression is an unhealthy response to your emotions and thoughts.
The study and theory of thought suppression has grown into a significant area of scientific inquiry. What has compelled the interest of the scientific community is the realization that “suppression is not simply an ineffective tactic of mental control; it is counterproductive, helping assure the very mental state one had hoped to avoid” (Wenzlaff & Wegner, 2000)
Source: Auckland Therapy
Advantages of our innate response for emotional suppression can often serve as a useful, even essential purpose. When suffering a severe traumatic injury the body automatically passes into the physiological state of shock, blocking all feeling and sensation and numbing consciousness, so that the injured person can better begin recovery.
When we suppress an emotion, the energy of that emotion does not go away. Instead, it subsides — it sinks deeper.
Rather than resolve the emotional energy through some form of response, we choose (however unconsciously) to hold it inside. Though the immediacy of the feeling may pass, the energy does not. We hold it deep inside and, typically, it stays inside.
Modern physics tells us that mass becomes energy as energy becomes mass. Though emotional energy forms the most subtle stuff, it is stuff nonetheless. If you hold enough of this stuff inside you, then you become energetically “stuffed up,” which carries the same implications as a stuffed nose, stuffed colon, stuffed arteries, or even owning too much stuff.
Source: www.innerself.com
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