Repressed Emotions Are Imprinted On Our Bodies

Do we know exactly what goes on in our mind? Do we know ourselves? Do we know how to control what happens within us so that it does not negatively affect those around us? Do we actually know what we feel in each moment? Knowing the repressed emotions is the most powerful weapon for understanding our behaviors.

Thanks to neuroscience , from the end of the 20th century onwards, we started to understand and discover the neural circuits, and also the functioning of the brain with respect to emotions. Our way of feeling gained the deserved importance, emotions were no longer mere automatic reactions, but began to have relevance in the scientific field, when studying human behavior.

At that time, the idea began to gain strength that it was necessary to start teaching society to be able to identify , understand and control emotions to prevent them from becoming repressed emotions that guide our behavior.

This is why knowledge of our repressed emotions is so important today, as it involves knowing ourselves and offering us the opportunity to identify what is going on inside us to act in favor of what we feel.

Understanding repressed emotions is knowing our identity

Knowing what happens to us is knowing ourselves. Repressed emotions are those that we don’t want to hear, or those that we take for granted; however, they are the ones that gain more strength and end up leading our behaviors and thoughts.

Knowing our emotions gives us the opportunity to know why we act one way or another. Each person perceives situations according to their feelings, which is why each one acts in a different way. Our experiences lead us to see the world in a special and unique way. Each situation generates a different emotion in us, which is why knowing ourselves leads to understanding how we act.

When we repress emotions such as anger , when we allow ourselves to be influenced by fear, when we do not allow ourselves to feel sad, when revenge gets stronger, or when pain is what speaks, we are giving space to an independent functioning of uncontrolled and undirected emotions . Thus, they will speak for themselves through our actions.

Research conducted by Stanford University on emotions revealed that individuals with a tendency to repress their feelings react with a much greater physiological activation when faced with certain situations than others, for example, when they show anxiety or anger.

For this reason, it is also normal that individuals who do not express their feelings, or find it more difficult to do so, have more psychosomatic problems such as muscle tension, headaches, skin reactions or more complicated illnesses. Their emotions shift and they find their channeling pathway through less functional methods.

The memory of our body and our mind

Sometimes we face situations and we react in a way that surprises us. This happens through the memory of our experiences, which we integrate, sometimes consciously, and sometimes unconsciously. When we repress emotions we don’t put a filter on, and allow them to enter our memory without realizing it.

Our job here is to know what is happening and what we are feeling at each moment. If we don’t know how to identify our emotions, we won’t be able to control and direct them. So the first step will be to pay attention to the emotions and give them a voice when they want to manifest. If we don’t take this step, we will be repressing ourselves and letting them work on their own and autonomously.

When we understand what is happening, we can materialize and understand why it happens that way. The moment we listen, we are in a position to understand and control our behavior so that we can act in a global and understandable way. In fact, it is only when we give voice to repressed emotions that we take the step of knowing our true identity.