Break Free from Emotional Prison

Oh, empaths and relationships. It can get messy, can’t it? The pandemic had brought me closer to people I live with in really beautiful ways and it has also shed light on the rifts and conflicts between myself and others as well.

Within four walls, myself and many of you may be with family members and partners and we’re faced with their energies and their worlds. Those might clash with ours from time to time. Prior to quarantine, if I had an issue with ( anyone really ), but mostly my partner or parents, I had plenty of other distractions to keep me from working through the conflict. In pandemic life, I just had time and four walls. I’ve got an exercise for you in this post to help you during moments when it feels like someone’s peed in your cheerios.

#thestruggle = When conflict emerged between me and my relationships, I had a tendency to get caught up in the emotions of it all. Mines. Theirs. The cats’ - lol. It’s a loop that sounded like, “well, if they just did, this, this and that, we wouldn’t be in this mess”

What I didn’t realize then and know now, is that when I did that I gave power away to that person and the situation. When I said things like “if they just did this,” or “if they could just learn this and understand that,” “if they had more Eckhart tolle in their life,” lol, then I put the solution outside of myself while steeping and simmering in high negative emotions.

That was just inefficient if you ask me, simply because I realized, I didn’t have to let their inaction, their inability to understand, their lack thereof of whatever take over my mind and my energy and hold me in a high emotion hostage block.

I rose above that noise and I’ll show you how you can too in those moments of conflict. We’re calling in the angels and all the mystics for this one of course 😉

Busting out of Emotional Prison

What you’ll need:

1.    Journal and Pen

2.    White Candle

The Process

1.    Identify who the conflict is with and write their name down

2..    When you’re facing the conflict and bringing their name to mind your brain may start down a winding path of everything that person is doing wrong, just be mindful of that ( don’t be mean to yourself when you catch yourself doing it, it’s very human to get caught up in emotions and that’s what this practice is supporting you with )

3.    Light the candle and write: “Dear angels/spirit team/God, I know you are an ally in my life and you are designing my life for my greater good.”

4.    Now step back from the journal and place your hands around your candle.

5.    Ask your spirit team (outloud or in your mind’s eye) “What is this conflict and this person meant to teach me in this life? I am unable to change or control them, but you placed this in my path, so what can I do and how can I use this to benefit my spiritual journey and growth?”

6.    Write the answer you get, or even draw it if you feel that’s the right thing to do

This exercise is designed for you to reach a hand outside of your human and emotional experience to the power beyond this realm and have that power support you in stepping out of the chaos conflict may oftentimes arise in you. It’s helped my emotional sanity tremendously.

The angels and our spirit team do not throw things at us for kicks and giggles, they are our allies in this life’s journey. We created this life, the good and the bad and when we get caught up in the human experience they are there to bring us back to ourselves.

See, this life gets to be all about you even if the conflict involves someone else. They don’t get to keep you in an emotional prison, you are free to let yourself out with the help of some faith and fairy dust.