Creative Ways to Transform Challenges:
Dealing With Feelings

Releasing Process: Transforming Negative Emotions to Experience the Positive Potential  Suzanna Solomon

INTRODUCTION

Fear. Guilt. Sadness. Anger. Poor self esteem. Arrogance. Pain. Apathy. Jealousy. Regret. Overwhelm. Helplessness. Loneliness. Dread. Unworthiness. Abandonment. Shock. Remorse. Confusion. Depression. Shame. Loss. Anxiety. Judgment. Impatience. Vindictiveness. Alienation. Betrayal. Disappointment. Hate.
 
So many negative emotions influence our thoughts, our behavior, our bodies and how we feel about ourselves—our self esteem. We seemed trapped in the perpetual cause and effect of these negative emotions. These can become especially heightened when we experience, adversity, crisis and trauma in our lives. We try therapy, exercise, diet, meditation, and avoidance to free ourselves from their control. Sometimes we experience change. Most of the time, nothing really happens.
 
I offer you this powerful way to release the negative emotions that keep you from expressing and receiving unlimited good. Using your cognitive and intuitive ability, you will learn how to connect with the empowerment of Creation, identify your negative emotions and detach them from your body, mind and feelings. Then you will learn how to release your negative emotions into the Ultimate Power of Creation. The last stage to continues the transformation on a molecular vibrational level.
 
EXPERIENCING THE RELEASE PROCESS
 
The patterns of your negative emotions are deeply ingrained in the cells and atoms of your body, in the darkness of your psyche, and in the programming of your thoughts and actions. Therefore a full emotional release must take place through your physical, mental, emotional and molecular levels of existence.
 
Before you can release an emotion you must first become aware of what you are feeling. It is easy to identify your feeling when a negative emotion explodes, obviously catching your attention. It is not so easy when you only feel a fleeting moment of discomfort. It is even more difficult when an emotion is so well hidden that it only shows itself as an underlying debilitating mood or physical sensation. At times you might not even be aware that you are angry or sad.
 
You do not have to be the victim of your negative emotions. I encourage you to use this process to open the door into your unconscious so that you can clearly identify and then release the negative emotions that are controlling you.
 
For the greatest success, do the process as soon as possible after you become aware of the negative influence of an emotion. Releasing it quickly can keep the emotion from taking control or adding fuel to an existing harmful pattern of behavior.
 
You can also release negative emotions that have built up over many years and events. The only difference is that you might have to release several related emotions before you get to the core one.
 
For example, for forty five years, I used to be very anxious whenever I heard the sound of ocean waves. I was also fearful of deep water, especially the ocean, even though I knew how to swim. I felt an overwhelming feeling of dread whenever I put my face in the water for too long, because I could not take in air then hold my breath and release the air under water.
 
In doing the Release Process, the memory of nearly drowning in the ocean as an infant was revealed to me for the first time. I re-experienced primal fear, helplessness and then rage for my mother's betrayal in not taking care of me in the water. When I brought the transforming power of Creation into the experience, I saw my mother's arms reaching out to me. Feeling her arms holding me safe once more, I no longer felt abandoned. Then, waves of healing forgiveness took us to the shore.
 
When I asked my mother if the incident had really happened, she broke down crying and asked me for forgiveness. She told me that it had happened during a time when she had been deeply depressed. On that sunny day at the beach she lost her will to live. In a daze she swam out into the ocean with me in her arms. As she sank into the soothing waters looking for death to release her from her pain she heard me choking and thrashing about above her. Her motherly instinct to protect me became greater then her wanting to die and she found the strength to save us both.
 
Because there were so many related emotions, I used the Release Process to transform each of them, one at a time. My feelings of helplessness, an aversion to being cold, and low self esteem issues resulting in a sense of unworthiness were changed for the better. Now, I experience that no matter what, I am eternal, because my under-lying core fear of my basic survival no longer exists.
 
Fortunately, my mother and I became much closer because her feelings of quilt and my unconscious negative feelings had been resolved. Moreover, I finally could enjoy the soothing sound of ocean waves and swimming in deep water with my face in the water.
 
Keep in mind, I have been doing this Releasing Process for many years and cannot guarantee that you will experience the same kind of success when you first do it. I do know you will feel a difference and with practice you can feel even more positive changes. [More examples follow the process]
 
HOW TO USE THE RELEASING PROCESS MOST EFFECTIVELY
 
When you are first learning this process, give yourself at least forty five minutes of uninterrupted time to re-read all the information and to experience all the stages. As you learn how to do the process you might need only ten to thirty minutes to feel the release.
 
To begin the Releasing Process, find a comfortable place to sit or lie down. Then remembering to use your breath to expand your awareness, go through the stages. If your mind wanders away to other things or goes unconscious, just bring your attention back to your intention. After you are done, I recommend that you write about and/or draw your experience.
 
I encourage you to repeat the Releasing Process three times (You can do this at different times or on different days), because often, negative emotions do not want to give up their control. It is important to use the same symbols for your negative emotions that you used initially, for they will strengthen your inner experience.
 
After a month or so, if you do not notice any emotional or physical change, perhaps you were not quite ready to totally release the negative emotion. Be persistent and repeat this process, three more times. In addition, check to see if there are any other negative emotions, thoughts, body symptoms and actions that are related to the original negative emotion you wanted to release. Release these as well.
 
THE RELEASING PROCESS: STAGE ONE
 
CONNECTING WITH THE EMPOWERMENT OF CREATION
 
Experience being in an expanded state of awareness so that you can feel the enlightening love and wisdom of Creation.

1. While comfortably sitting, or lying down close your eyes.
   A. Inhaling and exhaling through your mouth, take six, slow deepening breaths.
   B. Feel the relaxation, the calming, the silence, more and more with each breath you take.
   C. Option: Use your own method, to take yourself into an expanded state of consciousness.
    
   
2. Welcome Creation into your awareness.
   A. See the light of Creation all around you, in you and through you.
   B. Sense uplifting love filling you up.
   C. Hear the hum of Divine vibrations.
   D. Feel the oneness of the universal heart beat.
    
   
3. Option: Call forth to your Divine Counselors, who are your Angels, Ascended Master Teachers, Spirit Guides, and your own Divine Self.
   A. In your mind's eye, see them near you, around you.
   B. In your body's awareness, feel their unique vibrations.
   C. In your thinking, know that they unconditionally love you.
    
   
4. Speak and feel your gratitude for the empowerment of Divine love, wisdom and guidance.

1. Name the emotion that you want to release.
   A. For example, it might be guilt, blame, helplessness, anger, inadequacy, apathy, sadness, shame, or fear.
    
   
2. Placing your attention inside your body, call forth to the negative emotion into your body awareness.
   A. Notice where you can feel it, as an unusual sensation such as tightness or an agitation, inside your body. (If you cannot feel a body sensation, it is all right, just continue.)
   B. Notice your emotional responses to what you have named.
   C. Pay attention to your thoughts about the defined negative emotion.
    
   
3. When you have an existing physical discomfort, ask that the under-lying emotion be identified.

1. When you feel ready to let go of the negative emotion.
   A. Call forth Creation and your Divine Counselors into your awareness.
   B. Sense Divine empowerment all around you.
   C. Humbly and gratefully, welcome Divine love and wisdom.
    
   
2. For instance, boldly, make claim aloud, "[Fear of dying, anger at my partner, sadness about my friend moving away, whatever you are feeling], reveal yourself to me in a symbolic physical way outside and separate from me."
   A. Allow whatever you see in your mind's eye or what you imagine it to be.
   B. If nothing is revealed, be persistent until the symbolic physical form of your fear is shown as a vision or a thought.
    
   
3. Again call forth Divine empowerment into your awareness.
   A. When you experience that you are not alone, humbly, gratefully ask to be inspired to release the physical form of your fear.

1. Fully sense your Divine empowerment all around you, for you, through you.
    
   
2. Aloud say, "With determination and good will, I let go of my need to do it myself. I release my [fear, anger, sadness, other feeling...] into the transforminglight, love and wisdom of Creation and my Divine Counselors.
    
   
3. Within your mind's eye, and in a sensory way too, place the symbolic form of your fear into the transforming light of Divine love and wisdom. A. While you are doing this, repeat aloud, "I release my [fear, anger, other feeling]." two more times.
    
   
4. Notice what you see, sense, and think, as the fear is surely transformed by Creation and your Divine Counselors.
    
   
5. Aloud say, "Gratefully, humbly, let rightful good be done, in Divine timing, in Divine way.
    
   
6. Write and draw about your experience.

1. You can do this stage right after the initial release or it can be done at another time.
    
   
2. Remembering to use your breath to expand your awareness, take notice of how your body feels.
    
   
3. Call forth to Creation and your Divine Counselors into your awareness.
    
   
4. Think, imagine, visualize, and sense the light and the essential energy of Creation and/or your Divine Counselors all around you.
   A. Option: Perceive your Divine Counselors putting their hands on your body or inside your body where you have held the negative emotion that you are releasing.
    
   
5. Breathing deeply, claiming rightful good, allow yourself to feel the subtle sensations of Divine energy moving inside and around your body.
   A. The process will be over when you no longer feel any vibrational movement and/or an emotional release.
   B. Feel your gratitude, while you verbally give thanks.

Suzanna Solomon is a spiritual teacher and artist, who facilitates a personal experience with one's Divine Self, Angels, Master Teachers and Spirit Guides. For the past eighteen years she has traveled throughout United States to conduct workshops and private sessions (in person and by phone) that support people in reaching their highest potential through Divine Empowerment. She also teaches how to heal the negative and heighten the positive from one's present and past lifetimes, how to unite one's inner male and female, and how to create a personal altar for spiritual and emotional growth. She is the author of a book with an accompanying meditative tape titled Divine Empowerment, Angels, Spirit Guides and Ascended Master Teachers. Suzanna has been interviewed on radio and television and has been written about in numerous newspapers and spiritual newsletters such as Angels Can Fly. Terry Taylor wrote about her in the Messengers of Light and Answers from the Angels. For more information, contact Suzanna Solomon at: suzannasolomon@yahoo.com.

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