Emote Your Life

By Mia Curcuruto

Unexpressed emotions are stored in the muscula-ture of our bodies." This is not a new statement. Nor is it new to say that, "The way our bodies store feelings, affects the way we think, speak and act."

Traditional therapies address this relationship, with the question, "Why?" We dig deep into our psyche, into our past, and identify the feelings associated with these experiences. The basic premise is that if we reconcile our emotional past, becoming aware of how we react to our environment, we will be able to release the limiting behavior that we have created, and move on.

Some of us have experienced success from these traditional ways of coping with our lives. Others have been left with the realization that they are still unresolved in their life search for fulfillment.

Emotions cause powerful chemical reactions in our bodies. Dr. Bruce Lipton, (author of Biology of Belief & Professor of Fractal Biology), offers a radical new approach. He shows us that our internal environment, (cellular make-up), creates our external environment. The powerful chemical reaction of an emotion has the ability to change our cellular expression. We are composed of approximately fifty trillion cells, (give or take a trillion), each one of which receives and expresses what we feel.

Fifty trillion cells receiving the emotion of joy, and then expressing that joy. The antithesis... Fifty trillion cells receiving the emotion of fear, and then expressing that fear.

Gregg Braden (author of Lost Mode of Prayer) in his newest book, Divine Matrix, states that we embody energy that only responds to the language of emotion. He coined the phrase, "Divine Matrix." The Divine Matrix receives our emotion via resonation of all fifty trillion cells, and then creates what it is that we are feeling. This is unlike anything our traditional science has been able to prove.

Dr. Deepak Chopra, renowned endocrinologist, author and lecturer has fundamentally based his centers for health on this same principal.

For those of us who have seen the film, What the Bleep Do We Know, once again, we walk away with the understanding of what Dr. Lipton infers. We create our own reality by the powerful chemical reactions of our emotions, which in turn affect the cells, and then is expressed out to the external environment. Low and behold, we create what we feel.

Most recently, the independent documentary The Secret, gives us a name along with a law, The Law of Attraction, to explain how it all works. Esther and Jerry Hicks have dedicated an entire book to the "Law of Attraction."

We now surmise, thoughts create powerful emotions that resonate with the energy around us, helping to create that which we see as, what-is. It is safe to say, that for us to change what we see, we need to look at what-is, in a different way.

We all know people who have their feet rooted in reality; intelligent, seemingly positive people, yet always amidst some sort of emotional chaos. They speak of their lives with earnest conviction; "I am depressed because...I have no money because...My relationship is not working because..." There is always a litany of explanations for why things are the way they are.

Let us return to the not-so-new concept, "Unexpressed emotion is stored in our musculature, which in turn affects our way of thinking, and our conscious feeling."

Dr. Wilhelm Reich (Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst) coined the phrases, "Muscular Armoring" (emotions that are stuck in our muscles creating a barrier to true fulfillment), which leads to "Stasis" (emotional pooling), which then results in "Character Armoring" (the behavioral manifestations of Stasis.) He believed that for our bodies to be free to spontaneously feel we need to oxygenate and dismantle the armoring.

Dr. John Upledger (D.O. Cranial/Sacral therapy), expanded on the theme that the Central Nervous System, (Brain which turns into the spinal chord), governs our muscle and organ function. When the CNS, (which is encased in an aqueous fluid known as cerebrospinal fluid), is out of balance, the spinal fluid does not pulsate properly, thusly affecting the balance of muscle and organ function.

We need to understand that our life experiences have created strong coping mechanisms to conceal emotions, which for whatever reason, were not appropriate to express. Over the years, our muscles have constricted with intense powerful unexpressed feelings:

"I am not good enough..."

"I do not deserve..."

"It's my fault...,"

We have developed muscular armoring that has been the silent director of our lives. Therefore, the goal is to release the unexpressed emotions so our muscles may soften. As the muscles soften, our ability to feel subtle changes in our body becomes stronger. These subtle changes affect our way of thinking; hence our actions/habit patterns begin to change as well.

Conscious feeling is the ability to be cognizant of the way a given emotion affects our thinking that in turn paves the way in which we interact with the world we live in. When the body is in balance via the CNS, and the emotional stagnancy in our muscles has been dismantled, then we truly have conscious feeling and creation. We are able to find joy and fulfillment in life in ways we always dreamed of, but never before knew how to access. The creation of what we want begins to manifest, for the emotions that have been implicitly guiding our state of mind are no longer there. Old patterns of behavior will not benefit us anymore.

Cranial Therapy, the nonverbal modality utilizing Dr.Wilhem Reich's powerful breathing release, and Dr. John Upledger's balancing of the cerebral spinal fluid through gentle rhythmic cranial movement, offers an achievable resolution to fulfillment in our life.

Cranial Therapy is the process of balancing the CNS, by directly affecting the cerebrospinal fluid. Gentle rhythmic motion and guided breathing assists the motion of the Cerebrospinal Fluid, helping the patient achieve a deeply penetrating state of relaxation. In this relaxation, the patient is able to access emotions that have been suppressed in the storage of muscular armoring. Cranial Therapy provides a release of this emotional Stasis, which has constricted and contracted the body.

Over time, this gentle approach guides the body to balance, allowing the constriction to dissolve, giving way to the ability to complete consciousness of what you are feeling. Conscious feeling is the key to creating whatever it is that you want in your life.