Dave Kashen explains how suppressing emotions like anger creates physical constriction in the body. He describes healing work as a way to open yourself to truth, using a sun-and-clouds metaphor for clearing mental patterns that keep you stuck.
I think there's ways that our patterns, not just psychological, but even like, I think we, for example, if, if you don't allow— pick an emotion— anger, um, and you learn early on to not be angry, anger is bad or not safe, it actually takes a ton of physical energy and constriction to not feel, right? Like, you can't just not feel something. Like, the— like, you actually have to— it's like energy that's trying to come up. You actually have to brace and constrict your body to not feel it. And so over time, those constrictions live in your body, right? Just like if you were just, you know, um, and so I think I think there's healing work to do so that your body can be a more open instrument to sense truth. Mm-hmm. Like, and similarly, I think there's ways that our mind patterns can be really loud or really, you know, persistent, that if you sort of heal some of those patterns, it's just, it's like, it's It's like easier to see the sun when there's no clouds. It's still there when there's clouds, so it's useful to know it's there, but it's kind of nice to clear away the clouds just so it's like, oh yeah, there's the sun. It's like
