Where does it hurt?

Where does it hurt? Where does your emotional pain live? We all know what to do if we cut our finger. We know the location of the wound, we see the blood, feel the pain and know where to apply relief. However, emotional wounds are very different.

We certainly feel the pain but where do we apply the relief? Where is the wound? It is very easy to dismiss a traumatic event that is invisible; there is no blood, no physical cut. We actually have many types of emotional pain like grief, heartbreak and guilt, but did you ever see a pound of grief, or observe heartbreak under a powerful microscope? 

So where are our emotions? I believe our emotional wounds are located within another invisible part of the human body, the mind. If you want to feel the pain of an emotionally traumatic event you must first call it to mind. A doctor will push on the abdomen to locate pain and diagnose physical illness. However, to find emotional illness we must search our computer-like mind to recall events which when pulled up to the conscious level of awareness, cause us to feel pain. Therefore, our emotional body must be located in the mind. Our emotional body is a collection of all of our emotional experiences stored in our mind. Some of these memories are unhealed wounds that when pressed upon or called to mind, they still hurt. However, our mind can ignore these memories to kill the pain. It’s one way that the emotional body takes care of itself. This is not as helpful as healing but of course, we are not very knowledgeable on how to heal our emotional bodies.

Emotional body theory proposes that our emotional trauma can be accessed and manually processed much like the information in a computer program. So, our emotional wounds consist of active information located in our minds. The severity and number of such events is what impacts our overall emotional health. Obviously, this all begs the question, “where is the mind?” Emotional Body theory proposes that the mind is an invisible field of energy and information that runs along energy pathways in the body. These are the same energy pathways that acupuncturists place needles into. The mind operates much like radio waves, it is energy with information embedded within, much like the energy and information in a computer. Calling to mind traumatic memories and then manually stimulating the mind at different treatment points resolves this active information. This occurs much like locating a splinter in the skin and working it out to promote healing.We now know where the “emotional splinter” is located and therefore where to apply treatment. So, as is often the case, once you locate the source, the remedy can be as simple as tapping on a clogged pipe or pressing a delete button. Emotional traumas are no different. Each corridor of the mind (or energy meridian) has a treatment point. Tapping on this treatment point is similar to pressing the delete button on a computer keyboard. This procedure heals the memory rather than deleting it. Just like a physical wound can heal, but the lesson learned from it continues, emotional healing by these means will be remembered, but healed. It may seem unlikely that healing is possible through these means, but what is the harm in trying?