Freedom From Emotional Bondage

I work with people all over the world and it seems that no matter where people are from, they almost always share with me some version of how they feel owned by their emotions or their emotional states. They talk about feeling out of control when they get triggered into an emotional reaction. And very often they talk about having zero understanding of how or pardon me, why the trigger even happened in the first place. And they talk about vacillating along what I call that sort of crazy endless loop between experiencing that out-of-control emotional reaction and then some version of feeling upset, ashamed, guilty, disappointed, whatever that feeling is for losing it, for being so out of control. And this is really not a super fun way to live. If you’re like me and you’re someone who also highly values freedom, then feeling victim to, or at the mercy of anything but especially our own emotions, our own emotional states or reactions, we’re unable to shift out of whatever emotional state seems to kind of has its grip on you can really feel like a prison sentence.

And I really love everything going on over here in the Superpower Universe and the academy, and I’ve been blessed to work with Tonya and deeply immerse myself in this whole body of work for a year or two now. And with regards to Tonya’s teachings on managing emotional triggers, I strongly resonate with it. It is powerful work and it’s kind of like being handed the keys of freedom from emotional bondage, which is what I’m so excited to dive into today. When Tonya talks about moving emotional energy, how to observe emotions instead of identifying with them, which is often something we have quite a tricky attachment to, when she talks about how to get off that crazy train of trying to think our way out of an emotional trigger, spoiler alert, that is never going to happen.

What she’s really doing is empowering people with exactly what we need to stand and to face our emotional body and do what we’re all required to do along the way, which is to develop personal sovereignty over the emotional response and to free ourselves, not abdicate that responsibility to anyone or anything else, but to empower ourselves, to free ourselves from any traps of emotional bondage that we all likely find ourselves enmeshed in, in one way or another at some time or another. And it’s a process, right? It’s a journey because emotional energies usually don’t just automatically stop controlling and impacting us overnight. It happens gradually, right? And what does that process actually look like and how do we best support its unfolding? What are the key techniques that we can really lean into and put into everyday practice until eventually, we realize emotional freedom and all that remains is this kind of harmonious equanimity, this conscious and sensitive response to life in all its forms, in all the ways it flows through our daily lives?