There’s science coming out and research coming out now that says, when you talk about your pain, you release the energy the pain had, that was within you. So, what do people do? Again, they stuff down their pain and then they wonder why they get ill, but it’s because all of that emotional energy was stuffed down into the unconscious. And what you really want to do is tool number two, “ING” number two, after journaling is talking. Find a trusted advisor, find a great friend in difficult times, you get to understand who your greatest friends truly are. When I’ve gone through difficult times, some of the people I thought were my greatest friends, not intentionally, but they were busy in their own lives, when I most needed me. And so find that friend who you can talk to and really open yourself up and take down that social mask, because talking allows you to release that emotional pain and move through that emotional pain.So you do not repress that emotional pain and you know what, it’s not only illness that repression and suppression causes. You block your creativity, you block your humanity, you contract your heart, you close your mind when you take all of that pain and you pretend it’s not there, because guess what? It is there. And one of the reasons there are so much anger out on the streets. One of the reasons there’s so much toxicity in the workplace, is because of people who repress the pain and they think it’s not there, because they don’t feel it, because they’ve escaped escape from it. But it’s in their subconscious.
