You have stopped denying; you have stopped suppressing and repressing as much as you used to and now you have been feeling and releasing trapped emotional responses for a while.
Maybe if you had an obsession you stopped having that obsession and if you had a phobia you stopped having that phobia. But suddenly they are back. The whole thing appears to be back. You call this a relapse.
You feel stunned and helpless.
What you have known for a while though is there was still a sense of tension inside but you could not pinpoint exactly what it was. It was related to some kind of painful memory; to something that laid the foundation for the anxiety disorder to take root. Suddenly those feelings are coming through but not only are you getting just the old memories and the old feelings attached to them you are also having to deal with the apparent re-ignition of your obsession or your phobia or whatever else it is you have been suffering with and thought you had finally got rid of.
What to do now you are having a relapse? For starters stop thinking of it as a relapse. You just hit a gusher.
What Happens When You Reverse Emotional Blocking
During emotional blocking, which is what causes emotional illness, we build complex thinking networks in our neuroplastic brain designed to hold our trapped emotions and unwanted thoughts in place.
You can think of these networks as though they were cave entrances and tunnels. The trapped emotional responses they are designed to block keep trying to breach the defences of these blocking networks – the energy of the emotional response meets with more emotional energy determined to keep it in place.
When we reverse emotional blocking the emotional energy we force ourselves to release brings these networks fully to life temporarily raising horrific thoughts fully into conscious awareness. This can be so effective we may feel as if we have entered an alternate reality.
Normal, happier thinking is closed down during the release process.
Once the trapped emotional responses relating to a particular set of memories is released, however, these thinking ‘caves and tunnels’ in our brains go dark and dormant. They are no longer transporting or blocking energies. But they are still there. You can think using them but you do not get very emotional when you do.
Although you can discharge the energy that kept bringing them to your conscious attention It takes a very long time for these brain networks to collapse completely and sometimes they never do (but they will stop bothering you because they are no longer being energised). Until, that is, you hit another ‘mother lode’.
Your Unconscious Acts LIke an Automatic Drilling Machine
When you deliberately and repeatedly reverse the emotional blocking process you are reorienting the direction in which your Unconscious mind travels when it detects emotional pressure.
In blocking mode you trained it to automatically avoid your emotional responses – now unblocking it automatically digs down when you are not paying conscious attention. When it hits another layer of trapped emotional energy the energy comes up and for a while lights up all those old, unwanted thinking networks.
How to React to This
See it as a much needed gusher – see it as a release of trapped energy travelling along these old networks that will eventually evaporate just like it did before and realise that the newly discovered and de-energised brain networks will soon be joining the ranks of the other dark and dormant caves in your brain.
If you see it as a thinking problem you may start to try and block the thinking again – this only restarts the blocking process. See it as a welcome release of trapped energy and it becomes a victory.
Regards - Carl
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