"I had a bad day at work yesterday, a case of lights being pretty dim!! There were numerous events which took place, hopefully most my boss doesn’t know about!
I decided it was a good opportunity for some releasing, so last night as I went to bed, I practiced some releasing over the days events. I could not put words to the feelings; however, because the feelings were "fresh" I didn't really have to at that stage (and when I now think about it, children are able to release but not put feelings into "words").
I felt it worked, today's a new day! If I hadn't done some releasing last night, I don't know if my reaction today would have been quite the same! I would have beaten myself up over it a bit more."
I wrote back as follows:
Congratulations on seeing the opportunity and doing some releasing after a "bad day". Wow, it takes courage and commitment to do that when your feelings have been giving you a hard time all day and the mistakes made on such a day usually trigger lots more reactions too!
These challenging times are the best opportunities to grow, and you saw that and took up the challenge. It's only when our "worst" feelings come to the surface that we can let them go. So it's fantastic that you did it - and that you "felt it work".
Releasing always does "work" at some level of course, but feeling it immediately is so nice isn't it. By the way, I think you would have beaten yourself up over it a lot more if you hadn't released don't you!
Next step - see if you can remember to release during the "bad day".
Happy releasing!
Another thing, I loved your insight about children not needing to name the feeling to release it! That's wonderful, so true and it never occurred to me! I'll spread the word about that one.
