Repressed feelings are not Gobbledygook

I used to hear people talk about repressed feelings and I remember thinking that was pop psychology. I thought it was all nonsense and people just feeling sorry for themselves or making excuses. I was wrong.

On the other hand, those people were just making excuses and feeling sorry for themselves. They may or may not have had repressed feelings but they s\certainlyt weren’t doing anything constructive about it.

Over the past week and a half, I have been working on my life review, using the sweeping breath. This is amazing. And I have made some amazing findings. I discovered some feelings that I had been repressing - mostly out of convenience, partly because I did not know what to do with them. And there were loads of them.

It took me hours and hours of work with them. Today I think I overcame the first hill. I could feel the feelings just suddenly vanish in the space of a few breaths after all that work. I

There was a scene in the movie “Spirited Away” where a river god comes to the bathhouse and the main character Chihiro pulls a plug out of the side of the god, and all sorts of garbage comes spewing out. Then the god is liberated from that garbage. That is the feeling I had today. It was very liberating. In addition to the liberation, I got a boost of energy. Even now, late at night, I still feel a very good level of energy.