5 keys to not letting your emotions and addictions take you out

I have been guided for weeks to write about this topic and I am finally sitting down to do so.

We all have this thing we call the subconscious mind.  Every human being has it and we teach some specific things about it in the Empower Thyself training.

As we move through our daily experiences, we build up a subconscious mind. We thereby begin to have addictions.  These often come to awareness during our teenage years.

Addictions are plain and simple on a metaphysical level, and yet they are one of the hardest things to deal with emotionally.

Addictions come about because of a backlog of un-felt, un-processed emotions.  Emotions come from the soul and while they can be filtered by the negative ego, they are always attempting to communicate the truth to us.

Emotions can be painful.  Painful emotions show us where, through our will alone, we are creating disconnection from our God-self, our Source.

When we indulge the negative ego filter instead of the emotion itself, we create addictions.  The ego filters the emotions based on memories of past experiences and their accompanying projections of the future.  

These memories and projections are generally distortions of truth.  We are usually way better off than our ego tells us we are.  

Even if we are in real danger, the ego still filters the emotions and can influence our perception to take a damaging course of action for ourselves and others if we do not have the discernment to see what is really going on.

Listening to the filter of the negative ego leads us to believe we are separate from Source, and with this belief, we turn somewhere other than Source to meet our perceived needs.  This means alcohol, cigarettes, sex, drugs, being "better" or "worse" than others, "knowing" more than others, isolation, over-social behavior to ignore our inner life, and much subtler addictions to power and control dynamics.

The truth is right there for us if we are willing to face our emotions.  Emotions have been telling the truth the whole time!  They never stopped talking, we just stopped listening.

At a root level, we stopped listening to our real emotions because we felt fear.  

Fear of our own power, fear of pain, fear of goodness, or fear of negativity...any number of infinite faces and masks of fear.  

At first we might not get down to fear.  First it might first look like any negative emotion -- anger, sadness, jealousy, anxiety, etc.  Eventually we will face the fear directly.  

Keep doing this five-step emotional process (see below) and ask for help if you need it along the way.

Following are 5 emotional keys to PREVENT your emotions from taking you off your path, stealing your light, and feeding your addictions.  If you DON'T deal with your emotions, they WILL feed your addictions.  The worst is when you're not aware this is even happening.

1. The first key is to stop reacting, breathe, and create a safe inner space (I use body relaxation and visualizing light flowing through me) where you give yourself permission to FEEL.  Do NOT judge what you feel!  Just feel.
   
2. The second key is to allow whatever you're feeling to arise within you, stay connected to the light, and watch it all unfold in your body/mind/vision/feelings.  Just stick with it for as long as you need.
   
3. The third key is to ask what is causing you to feel this way.  No, it's not somebody else.  It is your perceptions of what is happening in a situation (or more likely, what happened in the past).  
   
4. The fourth key is to use whatever tools you have -- as simple as visualization of light, to direct light and healing into that situation (again, most often a past situation that has simply been triggered within you recently as a healing opportunity).  Witness the stored, subconscious emotions come up, turn into feelings in your body (this transformation into feeling means they are coming into present time, so you can let them go), and dissolve into the light.  Breathe and feel this, staying present in your body.  Do not reach for your addiction during this process.  If your mind goes there, bring the mind back to simply feeling the subconscious emotions that CAUSE the addiction.
5. The fifth key is to repeat this, whenever you feel fear, until the fear dissolves.

Much love and support,

Jordan Bain