Aravind Padmaraju explains how unprocessed emotions from conflicts get stuck in your body and subconscious as emotional baggage. When something reminds you of a past wound, that old emotion fires up again, making you react way harder than the current situation warrants. The problem isn't the trigger itself but the unhealed wound underneath it.
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What exactly is emotional healing? For example, a person gone through— we both had an argument and it creates some kind of emotion, maybe a frustration or maybe a sadness, fear, sadness, maybe anger, or why this person is behaving with me this, because of him I'm going through so much. So all these are the emotions which is you are holding it. The more you hold, they are actually stuck in your subconscious and also your physical body. There is something inside you which you did not process it, you did not heal it. They're just coming and showing you a mirror. So we always try to attack them. The problem is not in them. No, she doesn't know anything. That's a clean slate. This all the things are emotional baggages. Even someone is saying something that hurt what you are feeling, it is already stored from so many months, years, and some people even the decades. Whenever someone creates the same kind of an experience, you're actually multiplying the old stored emotion. So that is why people get reacted. So you will be surprised. I'm just talking why that other person is getting reacted. Maybe you will also have incidents where you're normally talking, you're just making fun, but other person takes in a different way and he becomes upset, offensive. That is happening because he has something, he experienced this kind of earlier, and that's why when you are going and touching that particular emotional wound and he is getting reacted.
