The following quote was taken from a discussion on emotions from a well-known website:

“Emotions are not thought about. Emotions are experienced. Emotions are felt. Emotions are sensed. Emotions are integrated into our consciousness through feeling the sensations in our body.”

I would also like to add to this list a *key* piece…emotions are *expressed through the body via bodily movement, sound or tears*. It is the allowing of our triggered emotions to *make sound* that causes the vibration that evolves the emotions from their current state. When the emotions are expressed, they vibrate, and when they vibrate, they evolve, and as they evolve, they *release the buried treasure of understanding* so the light of our spirit may shine on them and understand what the root cause of the emotion is (often different than the surface trigger that stirred the emotion to life). This is a synergistic experience of mind and emotions where, once expression has occurred, healing happens.

Many of us have become willing to notice, acknowledge and feel fear in our bodies, seeking to find root cause, but have not fully found evolution in the fear responses they normally have to the same stimuli over and over. This is because this last key piece is not being allowed or is not known about as the key piece.

There are root judgments not only about what is feared but about daring to actually express the fear in pure wordless sound (shrieks, keens, yelps, barks, crying out…these are some examples) or tears or bodily shaking, quaking, chattering, kriya jerking, or however. A root judgment we all share is “If I dare allow this fear/terror to express through my body, I will go crazy/never survive it/create more of it/become dysfunctional”. This fear and judgment of our own emotion of fear (”there is nothing to fear but fear itself” is a piece of bullshit that needs to be dismantled) is barely even noticed anymore unless one gets close to considering releasing/expressing it in the sound and movement it would naturally like to make. And of course we need to find safe space in which to express…that is a given.

Judgments of our fear and judgments of what is feared can be formally and verbally released, out loud. This is very effective in removing the “denial stopper corks” from our bottled up energy in the form of fear (which by the way can, over time and deeds once safe expression becomes the norm, evolve into trust and love once expressed and *fully* understood for its cause, thus ending the whole tempest in a teapot issue of “fear versus love” once and for all). “I release the judgment that if I give into my fear, it will never end. I release the judgment that if I express my fear in sound I will become crazy, I release the judgment that expressing fear through my body is just plain wrong.” These are some examples of widely held consensus beliefs about fear that can be released verbally out loud in formal statements just as I have described. The out-loud release undoes the black magic spells in our minds that we have woven with our judgments of fear that we have stated in the past. There are many more.

I have discovered that we can’t just accept and notice our fear or any emotion with our minds/awareness or feeling bodies. I have discovered we must take the additional step to express any triggered emotion to truly evolve them to the point where they can teach us all we need to know about how to heal, survive and live well, and change their outpictured reality on the mass scale.

That big reality out there is a scary picture that feels overwhelming if we really feel it…and we can each do something about it to change it. (most of us hold judgments that we can’t have any effect on the large scale picture out there). We can feel and EXPRESS what we feel about it all. It *can, does, and will help* the more of us who can dare to bring these emotions back inside ourselves through full acceptance of our emotional natures, which can be done by allowing ourselves to express emotions whenever triggered, starting now. It is the nature of emotions to express…and we were never taught that growing up, most of us. We were taught the opposite in many overt and subtle ways…to hold them in. And so, we have this large outpicturing of this state of denial before us on the world stage.