How Repressed Emotions Can Make You Sick

One of the hardest things about struggling with our health is figuring out exactly what is going on.

Even if you don’t feel very intuitive or psychic, there are very plain, simple ways to decode your body’s symptoms and identify not only which repressed emotions are hidden in your body and where, but also the thought patterns or limiting beliefs connected with that.

With that knowledge, you’ll be able to not only heal any trauma that may be behind your pain or illness, but you can also receive valuable clues on your path of self-development to help you learn some of those mysterious and difficult life lessons.

I’ll explain it this time with a personal example from my own life to clarify how that works, in the hopes of saving you years of confusion and frustration.

HOW I HEALED

This post continues our series on physical healing from a spiritual and energetic perspective. Today I want to present to you a real-life example of exactly how our repressed emotions contribute to our physical symptoms - just to clear up any confusion and also to explain from my own, very human, lived experience what it feels like when a repressed emotion creates a physical pain or illness. I think it’s inherently valuable to help you understand how energies manifest in the body and how welcoming and processing our emotions can help our bodies heal.

I’m hoping my story will not only inspire you to combine your emotional, spiritual, and physical healing, but also to start decoding your body’s symptoms as the direct subconscious messages they truly are. Those messages are not just alerting you to emotions you need to address, but are also giving you clues on your way to solving some of those deeper life challenges that, on the surface, appear to have nothing to do with the physical body. Just consider this another clue on the path of your hero’s journey to health, wisdom, and expansion.

I was a people-pleaser for most of my life. And that was because as an empath, I was always feeling what other people were feeling and I made it my priority in life to do whatever I could to make them feel better or at least avoid hurting their feelings, including avoiding all conflict whatsoever, even when it meant severely neglecting my own needs. I think a lot of you reading can relate.

One day many years ago now, I went on a date with a man who ended up treating me very disrespectfully; it made me extremely angry and to top it all off, I was left with a bill of over 300$ at the end of the day. To avoid conflict, I said nothing to him, and left to go to another social engagement, which meant that I didn’t have a chance to process any of my anger before getting into some conversations with other people.

One friend of mine asked how the date went, and although my anger came rushing up into my chest just thinking about it, I didn’t want to start venting then and there, so I stifled all my anger and said “Oh, it went fine.” The very instant when I said that, I felt all the hot, boiling anger in my chest get pushed down into my lower belly. I literally felt it move.

So, after that, I didn’t feel much of the anger and put it out of my mind. Just a few hours later, however, I developed a terribly painful bladder infection. All of my home remedies that normally worked great didn’t work in this case, so I went to the doctor for antibiotics, which also didn’t work. The doctor wouldn’t listen to my pleas for more, because the computer had decided that the first dose was enough, so I was on my own.

And while I was good enough at using my psychic perception to figure out that the cause of my illness was anger, I hadn’t yet learned how to release the stored emotions from my body so I went about my life for the next 4 years with a chronic infection that caused me daily pain.

Fast-forward those 4 years later, still in daily pain, and I was still self-sacrificing to avoid hurting people’s feelings. By then I had an extreme narcissist in my life who was basically sucking my energy dry. I certainly was resentful, but wasn’t quite acknowledging my anger at that point.

How did that reflect in my health? Well, I happened to get bitten by a tick, and then developed a fever. Now, you’ll note the parallel parasitic energies in both the tick bite and the narcissist in my life.

So, right as the fever was starting, I felt a sudden wave of anger wash over me. I felt angry just at the world, with no apparent reason. I stayed home, spoke to no one, and just let the waves of anger roll through me, feeling it all. It was so strong, I really didn’t have another choice. I felt it fully, let it burn through me, and… after a while… it just seemed to fade away on its own.

The very next day I was an energetic match to a simple treatment that took care of both illnesses. A friend took me to an understanding doctor who actually listened to me and gave me the appropriate dose. My symptoms never returned again. And I learned a life lesson: I was much more careful about who I gave my energy to and when it was time to take care of myself.

LESSONS LEARNED

Note to self: Our body’s messages are not only alerting us to trapped emotions, they are also giving us crucial clues to learning our most important life lessons. Try not to wait as long as I did. If I can save you years of struggle and discomfort, then it was all worth it.

There are no coincidences in life. My anger clearly prevented me from being a match to treatments that worked. Once the anger was released by feeling it fully, my energy field was completely different and the situation around me improved almost immediately.

Understanding where a trauma comes from is one thing. Letting the emotion move through you to actually heal is a completely different step and it’s one even spiritual people and energy healers forget.

For more on that, please see my episode on emotional integration HERE.

And then, remember to look for parallels and metaphorical meaning in your symptoms as well.

For example:

If your eyes have a problem, consider whether there’s some part of life you don’t want to see.

If it’s your pancreas or blood sugar, maybe you’re missing the sweetness of life.

If it’s your lower back, perhaps you don’t feel supported in life.

If it’s your knees, perhaps you have resistance to moving forward in life.

If it’s memory loss, you could subconsciously want to be more in the present moment.

And you can do this for any body part.

The subconscious speaks in images and metaphors that sometimes need to be deciphered. Just like dreams, your body’s language might take some interpretation.

Take the time to decipher your body’s symptoms, and then of course do the emotional processing to release the trapped emotions by feeling them fully. I’ve made a guided meditation specifically for that, which I will also link HERE.

Remember, you are the captain of your ship and that’s why you can help your body heal. But instead of steering your ship against the current of life to heal instantly and force reality to obey you and get rid of any and all uncomfortable messages from your body and from the life around you, you can choose to steer your ship with the current of life, not only taking control of your reality but syncing up with the universe at large by listening to and decoding the messages the universe is sending you through your body’s symptoms and through the events in your daily life.

Because, in the end, the only one here is you. And by ignoring the signs from your body and from life, you may not be fully expanding into the true infinite consciousness that is your real self. I know because I’ve been there, and I want to save you time and suffering.

You are the hero of this epic saga. Accept this humble offering reminding you that the clues to your success are all around you. And that the entire universe is conspiring to ultimately bring you to where your soul wants to go.

Be brave. Be the light that you are.

Namaste, my friend.

P.S.: If you’d like to try my free course on opening to your body’s wisdom, you can sign up HERE to access it for free.