How to Fast Track to Emotional Well-Being

Written by Asha Carolyn Young, Instructor and Practitioner of Healing Arts

Asha Carolyn Young is an instructor and practitioner of intuitive energy healing, emotional processing, Quantum-Touch®, and painting therapy. She is known for workshops, radio broadcasts with News for the Soul, and her three art-related books.

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There it is again. Every time you think of him, her, them, or that, your stomach twists, your jaw tightens, or your forehead pounds. The same physical discomfort shouts out every time you think of the topic. These uncomfortable feelings may have been around for a long time, and you’ve learned to brush them aside and carry on. But there’s no need to keep suffering. With Emotional-Physical Processing, relief is often just minutes away.

What is emotional-physical processing?

If you research the subject, you’ll find many methods of “emotional processing,” each offering therapeutic approaches for calming emotions and each coming from slightly different angles. The modality I’m sharing here differs from these, and I call it “Emotional-Physical Processing.”

It is a simple, quick method of self-healing in which a person fully focuses their consciousness on an area of bodily discomfort associated with stressful thoughts. A round of this clearing takes anywhere from a few minutes to about 15.

The late psychiatrist and spiritualist David R. Hawkins describes essentially the same approach in his book Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender. Hawkins had been a practicing psychotherapist for over 40 years, yet he compared psychotherapy to this approach as being like horse and buggy to traveling by spaceship.

His comparison underscores how quickly and thoroughly the surrendering process can quell and clear emotions and their physical counterparts, areas of discomfort in the body.

Hawkins used the surrendering method on himself and others as part of addressing serious physical illnesses unresponsive to treatment. (He also advocated forgiveness for healing stubborn illnesses.)

Practitioners of The Wonder Method have founded their own emotional processing approach, which makes teachable Hawkins’s approach as described in his book.

How does emotional-physical processing bring relief?

This simple process works by bringing relief to your cells, atoms, and quantum-level particles in your body. Trauma created by your own habitual upset thinking about a topic gives rise to disturbances and creates discomfort for these minute parts of you.

By intentionally and fully feeling the sensations in your body with focus and steadiness, you can calm these body particles, all of which have consciousness, to the point where all discomfort dissipates and fades away entirely and permanently.

You’ve heard the phrase “cell memory.” Emotional-Physical Processing is a way to acknowledge the caged, traumatic memory in your body, leading to freedom from discomfort and transformation toward greater well-being. And it only takes minutes.

How is “letting go” part of emotional-physical processing?

Letting go is the essence of Emotional-Physical Processing because you agree to be with and stay with your sensations in particular areas of your body until all discomfort fades away.

You engage in letting go as you accept and acknowledge the area of discomfort and agree to just be with it. The area of discomfort will also let go, ultimately surrendering itself and fading away.

We all tend to shove uncomfortable thoughts aside, suppressing them in endless clever ways. All this eventually leads to backed-up emotions. Those unhappy emotions, perhaps layers of them denied release for decades or even lifetimes, find ways to express themselves in our bodies, creating discomfort and eventually illness.

The discomfort, or uncomfortable sensations, arise when you have thoughts about a specific topic. The stomach ache you feel every time a certain person confronts you, the heart palpitations you feel before giving public speeches, the way your hand quivers when you contemplate quitting cigarettes, all these physical sensations connect to specific thoughts.

Can I do emotional-physical processing by myself?

You can definitely do this processing by yourself. However, you might want to work with a coach like myself to guide you through the steps the first time. Most people can easily process their own emotions once they’re shown how.

The technique is safe, gentle, and natural, an innate human ability akin to meditation. You only need some courage and commitment to stay with uncomfortable bodily sensations, feeling them in-depth until they dissipate, leaving you feeling peaceful.

Tips for doing emotional-physical processing on your own

If you’re trying this on your own, plan to process for only about ten minutes at a time. If you haven’t felt relief, stop and give yourself a dose of self-love for your effort. You can return to processing that topic at a later time.

Every effort given to this processing adds toward your relief, so no time is wasted if you must stop before fully clearing away all discomfort. This is a gentle technique, and you want to keep it appealing and inviting for yourself so you will want to return to it when you need to clear uncomfortable emotions. No need to force outcomes. Especially if a traumatic topic has been with you for decades, give it a couple or a few rounds of processing over the course of a few days.

When first trying out this technique, choose a topic that isn’t your biggest or scariest issue. Practising with less intense issues will help you learn to relate to your body’s sensations and how to stay with uncomfortable sensations in a steady, friendly, loving way.

Because topics can have references to other topics, it’s best not to practise Emotional-Physical Processing when you’re about to sleep. While this processing is gentle, new, thought-provoking issues can occasionally come up.

Steps for emotional-physical processing

The following steps can be done in a couple of minutes or up to about 15 minutes.

1. Find your trigger topic

Emotional-Physical Processing requires you to deeply feel any uncomfortable sensations that arise in association with a disturbing topic.

So, you first need to identify the bothersome, irritating, or painful thought or trigger topic. Ask yourself, “What’s upsetting me lately?” If you have several issues, write them down. You will probably find that just momentarily thinking about these topics brings up discomfort somewhere in your body. Remember to choose a topic of lesser intensity to start with for practice.

Bring that thought up into your mind and gnaw on it for a few seconds.

2. Feel your bodily sensations

Next, let go of the thought and drop down into your body with your consciousness and search for an area of discomfort in your body. For example, you might feel pressure in your solar plexus.

If there is more than one area emitting discomfort, go to the most uncomfortable place first. Feel the sensations there as fully as possible. Continue feeling and staying with the sensations.

Notice precisely what the sensations feel like. Tingling? Wave-like? Burning? Palpitating? Heating up? Aching?

Periodically remind yourself that it is safe to feel since these are only sensations.

Exactly where are the sensations? Are they in a central area or widening? Intensifying or softening? Has the discomfort moved to another area of your body? For example, you might first feel aching in your central abdomen, then notice the aching moves to your chest or throat.

If the discomfort moves, take your consciousness and awareness to the new area and begin feeling sensations there. Emotional discomfort rises up for people in many places, stomach, solar plexus, chest, heart, neck, or chin, to name a few.

Stay with the sensations as long as they emit discomfort of any sort. Understand that fully feeling the sensations is what will soon liberate you from the discomfort.

Allow any emotions to come up, such as sadness or grief. Notice and acknowledge those feelings and any insights you receive, then return to feeling the sensations in your body.

3. Communicate with your body

While you’re feeling sensations in an area of your body, you might want to reassure the cells, atoms, and quantum-level particles with messages like, “I feel you. I’m with you. I’m not going anywhere. I’m right here. I hear you.”

Sometimes you will receive a message from your body. Take note of it. Messages can relate to what your body wants and needs for greater health, vitality, and joy. You might receive a clue about how to live your life more happily. Listen for possible messages and continue feeling the sensations as fully as possible.

Cells, atoms, and quantum-level particles in our bodies are similar to children eager for our attention. As we focus fully on them in a friendly way, feeling their discomfort and reassuring them that we are here, we discover they settle down. They soften, then are gone, leaving us with deep peacefulness, often quite profound.

Topics sometimes have branches, and new issues can come up during Emotional-Physical Processing. For example, you might do a round of processing related to your brother and discover you have unresolved issues with your mother. No worries. You can process emotions related to her at a later time.

4. Give love to yourself

As you sit with the sensations, they will eventually soften and fade away, bringing peace to you. Whether you’ve felt this peace or not, after about ten or fifteen minutes, stop the processing and give yourself a big dose of love.

After all, you have had the courage to delve into uncomfortable feelings and stay with them, even if painful. If it’s difficult for you to give yourself love, imagine yourself as a child and give love to your child self.

Love is our most powerful healing vibration, and invoking it packs in even more healing energy to this process.

On a new path

When you reach the peaceful state of Emotional-Physical Processing, be assured you have stepped onto a brighter life path. Changes are permanent, according to most people who have used the method. Whenever you think of “that topic,” you will simply feel neutral, maybe even cheerful.

Without the old physical discomfort, you’ll think of that topic in fresh, new ways, easily forgiving any situations and people involved, including yourself. You may find yourself thinking about many things in invigorating ways. Some people report unexpected auxiliary healing after Emotional-Physical Processing, such as no longer experiencing motion sickness or fear of heights.

Rewards of emotional-physical processing

Simply by deeply feeling the stuck, uncomfortable sensations in your body and staying with them until they dissipate, you can liberate yourself bodily, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally in an array of ways, most of them unintended and all of them beneficial.

In my experiences of guiding many people through the simple but profound steps of Emotional-Physical Processing, results have often been wondrous. Consistently, people report relief from uncomfortable, distressed, even torturous feelings they’ve endured, sometimes for decades. Most report never again having the same discomfort in their bodies in association with the original trigger topic. A sense of detachment often replaces the original angst. Clear, new outlooks replace formerly distressed thinking.

If you’re new to Emotional-Physical Processing, I welcome you to try a session with me coaching you.

Once you’re familiar with this simple, life-changing process, you can use it for a few minutes daily or whenever you need it. There’s no need to be stuck in grief, anger, fear, or sadness when you can let go with a round of Emotional-Physical Processing.

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Asha Carolyn Young, Instructor and Practitioner of Healing Arts

Asha Carolyn Young is an instructor and practitioner of intuitive energy healing, emotional processing, Quantum-Touch®, and painting therapy. Her mission is to empower people with healing techniques to enhance their wellbeing. She offers healing sessions for people and pets, and teaches online workshops. A painter with her own unique abstract style, and author of three art-related books, Asha believes creative expression promotes health and happiness.