Emotional
Release
Dear Human,
If you desire to orient around emotional releases please read a little orientation I have shared below. If you wish to book a session send an email to hello@nitishakaushik.com
Orient to Emotional Release
"Emotional release does not mean release of emotions. Emotional release means release of resistance to feeling of emotion. And further release of tight grip on stories that don’t feel true to our nature"
Emotional release here does not directly mean release of emotions out of your body like releasing water out of a cup. Emotional release means release of resistance to the natural flow of emotion.
I use the word resistance in its neutral or literal form, not as a judgement. Resistance is normal mechanism of life and most times necessary when it was developed. We honor life here. Resistance can be released when it is no longer needed.
An even better way of describing the process of what happens in an emotional release is meeting emotions. Like a little Hola. Okay I see you, I will let you in and maybe even let you shape me the way you want to.
Emotions are not isolated pockets of energy that can be released out.
Emotions are an expression of our own energy or life force.
Just as the physical body is a gross expression of our life force, emotions are a more subtle expression of our life force energy.
Emotions have an anatomy and physiology just like our physical body does.
They have a texture to them, an intelligence that defines its natural flow, its purpose.
There is some general commonality amongst us.
Just like each one of us has a heart, lungs, liver, kidneys so on.
Like that each one of us has a potential in our field of anger, sadness, guilt, shame, grief and so on.
The texture however manifests slightly different for everyone. Just like texture of our physical body is different.
Just like our liver knows what function to carry out in body so does our anger.
Just like our lungs know what to do so does grief.
Just like our blood knows where to flow, our breath knows where to land, the oxygen, potassium, sodium molecules in our cells know which cells to leave and which to enter, the lymph knows where to flow.
Our emotions also know how and where to flow. They shape us.
How we relate to our emotions, how we allow them to move through us decides how they shape us.
We already come in this word feeling, crying, screaming, roaring, and expressing our emotions. We come with a default setting of allowing the sensations we feel to be expressed.
How those emotions shape us depends on the structure our environment gives to these emotions.
For example, when the expression of anger is met with a structure of scolding and dismissal, that combination may shape one into someone who learns to hide their true feelings.
When anger is met with a welcoming structure such as a safe space and body movements to feel that anger, then it might shape one into someone who knows who they are and feel anchored in their sense of self.
Another example, let’s say grief comes up and it is met with the structure of distraction in the form of immersing in work to avoid grief. That may shape one into someone who is waiting to be seen. Not wrong, not right. This is just a witnessing of the how we are molded based on the structures me our energy is welcomed into.
When we change structure, we can change the way they shape us. Emotions are not positive or negative. They are like hands that come forth to mold us, give us edges, shape us. They are like brushes that comes to paint the canvas that is us.
What happens in an emotional release session? You are met with a structure that welcomes your emotions to now flow in and complete their natural cycle.
So that your emotions can shape you, paint you into being naturally you. So that they can remold you from that kettle into the vase that feels more natural to you.
Flow of the session
Flow of a session is dynamic and depends on your human need in that moment. We will create a space where your bodymind can reveal what needs to be addressed, or desires witnessing. We then ally with the life force that has made you up.
What do I mean by that?
We ally with your sensations, your thoughts, your emotions, your physical body, and everything that is an expression of your life force.
Why do I say ally? Is that all a session is? Are we going to do nothing else?
I believe life knows what it is doing. My job, our job, is just to befriend life, say yes to life, meet life and its various textures/forms (emotions, organs, muscles, thoughts etc) and support its passage in this human world. I have found that when we ally with life, life becomes lighter and whole. When we control life, its like when we try to control a friend. No life likes to be controlled. My job is to listen to life, its textures, its wisdom and provide a structure for it to navigate this physical reality, this human world. Life has all answers, solutions you’ll need. I support you in accessing that within the session and provide you with tools that over time and practice enable you to build a connection to the wisdom of life.
You are maybe coming to the session for relief, for certainty, for answers, for solutions, for guidance. The unique life that moves through you, can provide it all much better than I can ever attempt to. I cannot even pretend that I have answers for you.
In simple terms what can I expect if it is my first time? How do you ally with life and emotions?
By creating an environment where your bodymind feels safe to come online and say hi.
By listening to what it presents to us. By welcoming it.
By playing with sensations and getting in touch with them. Earlier I wrote the session is dynamic. Because let’s say you are someone who is not in touch with their sensations, then we can spend more time here.
By listening to thoughts, to emotions, to sensations and by providing a structure for them to move and shape you, and leave a message, an answer, a guidance if they want to.
Imagine you have a network connection but no physical phone to receive calls. Or you have a phone but connection is cut off. That is like life sensing you a call in the form of emotions but no structure to receive the call. Or you have structure but disconnected with emotions. We create space for both.
I entered emotional release as a healing space, but now for me it has evolved to be a living breathing space. Not something I come to for healing. It something I use in my daily life to make living a space that allows life to flow in its natural form, so that healing is not something that has to be accessed outside of living.
