Emotions are heavy

‘ I feel a weight in my chest” or ” I feel a weight in my heart” or ” I feel a weight in my stomach” or ” I feel a weight in my head” or ‘ I feel a weight on my shoulders” when I think of what happened. We don’t need much to feel this kind of weight, just thinking about a bad memory brings it on. We know it is not several pounds of physical weight that just landed on us, nonetheless it feels heavy, a burden.
Each emotion related to a specific event has it own weight too. ” Yes, I felt hurt, but it is small. But boy, was I angry!!!” someone will say as she relates a painful event. As a practitioner I feel the weight also. Not too long ago, I was doing a session with a client and a big emotion came up. As it was being released, I was in awe. I thought and I think I said it too ” This was a really, really big one. Wow!’
How do you feel? I ask. ‘ It’s gone!, a zero.”
Well, that makes me smile.