Pain and Emotion

Have you ever observed yourself having a pain in some part of your body when you go through some kind of emotion. For eg: people visit the loo more often when they are having an exam. stomach upset when you are tensed or stressed . The co-relation between the body and the emotion is very obvious here. yeah right ! what do I do is the question now ?
As they say every pain ache and ailment is psychosomatic which means there is an emotional aspect to it. Address the emotional aspect and the pain gets addressed by itself most of the time.
Now you may say I am talking nonsense ? No, there is this technique called thought , feel therapy which does exactly this. In the US there is a huge market for this. It is acupressure for emotions. Very interesting and I am experimenting with it now.

Some times its so hard to identify the feeling itself. What is that I am going through ? Although only you know what is that emotion unfortunately we as part of growing up lost touch with our own feelings. We deny or suppress our feelings to an extent that it manifests itself into some other form of pain. We are not taught to identify or even relate to it. Its a taboo in our society. When a child cries we first ask the child to stop crying or we label the child as a cry baby , for all the child is doing is just expressing his emotion he is going through. We say a person who can mange his emotions is more balanced. Is that right ? So are we all balanced or imbalanced or immature. I am not sure about that. I have observed that we take a back seat when we see someone going through a bad emotion. We get uncomfortable with that feeling.

We don't know what to do with these feelings of mine . I can't make it go away, its there . Then as smart intelligent people we try to distract or rationalize our feeling by telling myself that oh Ok I am dumb why should I feel so, maybe he didn't intend to hurt me. but if you see the damage is done what about that? who is taking care of that ? Is that helping you to have a normal relationship with that person? Doesn't that feeling pop up saying that person made you feel that ? how can you forgive ? All these even after you have rationalized !!

What happens because of all this is we are no more ourselves ? We don't express or many a times we start avoiding such situations or people. I loose touch with my SOUL. The true love , compassion gets masked. I become uncomfortable being with some people for I cannot be ME. Am I right? If you see a child you see how happy he is wherever he is. His SOUL is pure and not yet masked by prejudices, emotions , judgements as of now. But don't worry we will train him to be like us soon. How sad !