How Do You Release an Emotion You Can’t Identify?

Working with an emotion you can’t give a name to is challenging.

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As I strive to walk my chosen paths in life, I find that there are times I must confront subconscious matters.

Many of these get tied to old, outdated beliefs and values. Some are tied to habits. All of these exist in the subconscious and can only, thus, be accessed consciously with effort.

Thoughts and feelings are tenets of the present. Hence, they can only be truly known and understood, here and now.

Why? Because old thoughts and feelings, once past, leave impressions that are not the same as they themselves are. Since you can only think and feel in the moment, via conscious awareness, memory is not true thought or feeling.

Likewise, since the future is always in motion, you can’t possibly know in the now how you will think or feel going forward. Too many factors both in and out of your control are going to impact thoughts and feelings to know them now.

Trauma and other mental health matters tied to the past are connected to emotions. That can, in turn, create a sensation or emotion now based on impressions of past thoughts and feelings.