How does chi gung free trapped emotions?

Large numbers of people in the West are extremely repressed emotionally, as they have spent a great deal of time and effort learning to control emotion. Emotions that have never been expressed stay in the energy body of a human being at the fringes of conscious awareness. As you open up the chi flow in your system, the chi can give emotional energy more power, just as it strengthens your physical energy.

Increased emotional energy enables you to feel your present emotions, as well as those you have suppressed for a long period of time. Emotions such as anger, fear, love, hate, sadness, or joy may arise for no apparent reason. Sometimes during practice, or perhaps a few hours after, such feelings, potentially more disconcerting in nature, may suddenly appear. It is important to understand that these sensations, which we call emotions, do not require acting out - just experience them internally and let them wash through you.

If a person feels angry and takes it out on someone else either physically or mentally, the anger many actually increase rather than be expended. However, if the dissolving techniques taught in Opening the Energy Gates chi gung are used on the emotional "body," that same anger can then be transformed into a healthy, usable form. The inner dissolving methods of Taoist meditation can also be used to free trapped emotions.

Behaviorally acting out negative emotional energy that was stuck to begin with may further entrench it. Again, understand that nothing has to be "done" with this energy. You can merely monitor it as it dissolves and is re-assimilated and turned into a healthy constructive force. On the energetic level, it is just as unhealthy to throw emotional energy around externally as it is to repress it.