If you're struggling with difficult emotions, beating, xiety, depression, OCD, or even just sadness or grief, then it's possible that some of these feelings are coming from past events in your life. And I invite you to look at healing these past events through emotional release techniques, which I'm going to cover in the next few exercises. I call this resolving emotional pain and emotional trauma to create emotional resilience. Resilience means the ability to withstand stress, be more optimistic, and feel healthy in your mind. Before we go into these exercises, it's really important for you to know that it is normal to feel anger, sadness, disappointment, grief, fear, jealousy. Your pain.

You know, a lot of people say you shouldn't feel this way. Or there's a lot of negative beliefs or thoughts that certain feelings are wrong to have. And I want you to let go of those beliefs and all judgments while you're doing these exercises. So that you can fully feel all the emotions that come up in your healing. And the more you can feel these emotions, and the more willing you are to stay with these emotions, feel them fully, and resolve them through the exercises, the more healing you get. You can do these exercises for big events in your life, as well as small events in your life.

And if you've had significant abuse, or violence, or are triggered easily into panic attacks and anxiety Then I suggest you work with a therapist, which will who will help you titrate or scale down the intensity of some of the emotions that might come up during these exercises. It will just make it safer and you'll heal much faster with some support. I'm available on Skype. And so as a therapist that you probably are used to, or you can also ask your naturopathic doctor or regular doctor to help you with some of these emotions. I want you to know that when you work on these events in your life, these memories that are painful, some emotional pain might come up and if the pain is too much, then I suggest you definitely work with a therapist. What type of emotions might you work on?

So emotional pain can be caused by different events in your life, physical events, as well as emotional events. physical events include accidents, some physical abuse, maybe you had a difficult time during the hospitalization or some surgery. And you have certain beliefs or thoughts about yourself after a physical event. And you can also work on emotional events such as divorce, financial loss, losing a loved one, wherever there's a lot of grief, physical or sexual abuse, mental abuse. Or even if you grew up in a home where a lot of people fighting and you saw a lot of violence, all these emotional events will create strong memories in you. feelings of fear, depression, disappointment, feeling not good enough.

And these feelings perpetuate in your mind in your subconscious and actually contribute to the way you live your life and how you feel about yourself about life and how you feel in the long run, whether you're happy or sad, or anxious or depressed most of the time. As you go into these exercises, a lot of the exercises will ask you to remember some of the difficult memories or painful events in your life so that you can heal any of the emotions that are connected with these experiences. When you go to these memories, and you remember them, you might think of them visually in your mind's eye with a visual picture. As you're doing these exercises, and you're remembering these events, I also want you to connect with any emotions and feelings associated with these memories. any physical sensations you might be having in your body If you don't feel these physical sensations immediately, wait a while as you're staying with these memories, and then look for any sensations that might be occurring in your body while you're remembering these events.

I also want you to take note of any negative or positive thoughts about yourself or the other person, any desires you may have. And don't judge them. Yeah, just become curious. observe them like you're watching a movie, and also become aware of any smells, tastes or sounds. When you connect to the different sensations, like smells, feelings, taste, touch, etc, while accessing a difficult experience or painful memory in your life. Connecting to these physical sensations will also help you access different emotions that are connected to the event.

And this will give you the opportunity to heal different layers of emotions. Healing the different layers of emotions will bring you closer to resolving the experience fully, so that you let go of any entanglements and become fully resilient. As you're working on these emotions, I want you to try and stay connected to the emotions as they emerge. This will help you process them more completely, giving you more long term relief. different emotions may come up while you're working on a memory. Allow yourself to witness these emotions with gentle curiosity and acceptance without judging them.

While you're doing these exercises, and you're processing all these different emotions that are coming up, I want you to have a positive intention, a positive intention of healing yourself. So you can see I'm witnessing this emotion, this difficult pain, with the intention of finding relief with the intention of forgiving somebody with the intention of letting go or forgiving myself. And as these emotions are coming up, notice, what beliefs Do you have, what limiting beliefs were you thinking I'm not good enough or I cannot fend for myself or I cannot let this person go. observe these beliefs without judging them. And don't force yourself to think differently. The exercise I'm giving you will help a natural transformation of these beliefs, thoughts and feelings towards a healthier state.

Certain things that you can forgive yourself for while you're doing these exercises. Are forgiving yourself for feeling unwell. forgiving yourself for feeling unsafe forgiving yourself for feeling traumatized, fearful or disappointed. And you can also forgive yourself for expecting something different from the situation or expecting something from someone who disappointed you. See, expectations can set up a space for disappointment. And we end up blaming the other person.

And when we take ownership of our own expectation and forgiving ourselves for expecting something, we let go of that dynamic that created the disappointment. Why are you doing these exercises if the feelings are too strong, you can make them softer by imagining yourself watching your story on a TV screen. And you're standing away from the TV screen at a comfortable distance and your memory is going on in the TV screen. Or you can even imagine yourself watching yourself watching the TV so you're removed from The experience by two layers or, yeah two places in your mind and give yourself the liberty to slow down or pause the movie. Make it black and white instead of color, possibly to reduce the intensity or even stop the movie if you feel like taking a break. Remember to do this in a comfortable place.

Make sure you're not driving or operating any machinery. be in a place where you feel safe, comfortable and calm. And as minimal distractions. If you have a lot of strong feelings that might come up, you can ask a relative or a friend or somebody you comfortable with, to be close by, in case you need the support. So sit back and relax. Enjoy the rest of the exercises and then We know if you have any questions.

Thank you.