Releasing the Emotion Trapped in Fat Cells to Release Your Fat Insights Mar 06
Medical theory says that fat cells stay in your body forever, inflating or deflating according to your eating habits. That can be a very depressing thought, if you consider that no matter how much you diet, the fat cells are just sitting there waiting to blow up again the moment you fall off the diet wagon. Fortunately, self-mastery has a different perspective.
You can get rid of the looming threat of inflatable fat cells with simple tools for releasing the physical purpose of the fat cells. That can eliminate the yo-yo diet effect.
From a medical perspective, your entire body can experience emotion because various cells have receptors for the chemical products of emotion. You probably know something about the chemistry of emotions, because you know endorphins are the feel-good chemical. Your cells have receptors for the chemicals of all types of emotion, all over your body. Emotion is something you feel physically.
Except that you aren’t always comfortable with the emotion you feel – no surprise there. Simple emotions like suppressing being annoyed with bad driving, or holding your tongue when you have an impolite urge to say something rude, are often uncomfortable because we don’t like the feel of negative emotions. Since you aren’t always comfortable with your emotion, and we live in a culture that’s all about suppressing emotion, you’ve developed a variety of coping skills. There’s a price for being polite, if you don’t know how to purge the suppressed emotion. One of the most pervasive coping skills is the simple method of stuffing the uncomfortable emotion into the body, by storing it in cells. And guess one of the favorite places you like to store it? Right – fat cells.
Your fat cells are like a bank deposit of old emotion. If you stop and ponder this for a moment, you’re probably going to wonder if I’m actually saying that holding your tongue to be polite, typical frustration at the annoying behavior of other people, and other everyday aggravations are being held in your fat cells – literally making you fat. That would be true.
You’re probably thinking ‘That can’t be right. My fat cells are about the donut I had with my coffee.’ First, I have a lot to say about the fact that your suppressed frustration being the reason you had a donut with your coffee, but that is a topic for another column. Second, the chemistry of the suppressed frustration will affect the way your body processes nutrients, and is the real reason that donut will go straight to your hips or belly. Third, and that’s today’s topic, you need the donut, and the fat, to store your suppressed frustration, so it’s all inter-connected.
The good news is that fixing this can be simple. There are simple tools for releasing pent-up emotion stored in your fat cells, which can allow you to release the fat and the fat cells from your body.
One part of the process is to release the stored emotion. This has a couple of elements.
First, there’s the nice factor. Most people prefer to be nice, including me. It’s important to distinguish the existence of a physical reaction from the ability to be nice. Remember, emotions are physical, and they are a physical reaction just like sweat. The key is to distinguish emotion from behavior. Whatever you may be feeling, you still have to decide how to behave. If someone cuts you off in traffic, you probably won’t shoot them. In order to feel safe releasing suppressed emotion, understand that you will still have the ability to decide how you behave. I suspect there have been times in your life when you didn’t act on your anger, or annoyance or you wouldn’t have held your tongue in the first place. You can decide how to behave.
Second, there’s the volcano fear. Many people are worried that if they take the lid off all that old suppressed emotion it will explode like a volcano, causing devastation. Therefore, you can let it out in a controlled fashion. I have done this work with many people, and no one has exploded yet. Nor have they shot anyone. Not even when there are serious traumas within all that suppressed emotion. You can start with the small stuff, and see how it goes. You are in control of this, and can decide if it works for you.
Third, there’s the relief. Carrying all that emotion in your body is a huge burden, both literally in fat and emotionally in heaviness. Negative emotions like frustration, annoyance, anger and pain are heavy because they are a lower frequency. They weigh you down in many ways. As you release old emotions, you’ll find yourself able to be more cheerful, to be more positive. This may be a process, because you’ve been suppressing stuff for years so you may take a while to clear it all, but as you progress you’re going to feel better and better.
Fourth, you have to actually decide to let the emotion release from your body. Now, given that it’s in fat, you’re probably thinking you’d happily blast it out with dynamite. You stored it for a reason. In previous articles, I have talked about obsolete emotion, and those articles are on my website and in past issues of Tone. (See Giving Up Wisdom.) For now, simply think about the fact that you don’t need this particular one any more because you’ve learned from your experience. We hold on to old emotion to help protect ourselves from being hurt again – well, you know what happened, and you have learned, you don’t need to store the emotion to remember. It’s safe to release it because you can still remember the experience without holding onto the emotion.
Onto the actual release. Here’s a starting point. Keep in mind that there are many ways to do this, and this is just a simple example. Sit quietly and let yourself breathe slow and deep until you feel yourself settle and calm. Imagine that you can take one single fat cell from your body and hold it in your left hand. Using the pointer finger of your right hand, imagine you can touch that fat cell, and let yourself feel the emotion stored inside it. Depending on your sensitivity, you may get an image of an event, or a feeling. If you are very uncomfortable with the stored emotion, you may feel that discomfort, or a wave of tiredness, or suddenly be distracted from what you were doing. That’s okay, bring your focus back to the exercise. Now, in order to release this emotion, you have to decide it’s okay to let it go. Think about the fact that whatever you have stored, you can remember the event and its lessons without holding onto the emotion itself. Imagine you can blow it away, and imagine blowing light gently on the cell to disperse it. Practice until you are comfortable blowing away the obsolete emotion and the cell that stored it.
Obviously there are ways to release emotion in bulk. Also, many practitioners have various powerful methods for releasing emotions, if you’d like a jump-start. You have the power to release fat and fat cells by releasing the emotion trapped inside them. Go for it!
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