How to Release Emotional Baggage and live Free

Emotional baggage is any negative, unprocessed emotion from past or present experiences, that have resulted to bad experiences. These can lead to unresolved life issues due to neglected relationships, career failures and huge financial loss. Experiences like these make you involve in indulgent behavior that will unmask the underlying issues. For instance if an experience is causing you anger, fear or sadness, it is important you take a break to asses these emotions. Continuous emotional baggage can become a burden, and these may begin to weigh you down, sometimes you start feeling worthless or low self-esteem. In such a case it is important you let go of the comparison you make you make with yourself and others. Other feelings may be, feeling of isolation and inadequacy, however, these are possibly self-created illusion that are holding you down. Consciously work toward recognizing these signs and let thing go so you can live free.

Types of Emotional Baggage

Failure: Failure does not mean you can never win, whenever we fail in any thing we are doing, sometime we start to feel or think that we are not “good enough” or we are unlucky. Obviously, both are self-limiting narratives that we feed ourselves. Success can never be guaranteed and our failures don’t have to be the ultimate objective about our life, the reality we need is the power to take back, rather than blaming ourselves or our stars. If we learn our lesson from our failures and try again, we can make significant progress in our lives.
Guilt: Guilt is one hell of a silent killer. For instance, when we have unresolved issues with our loved ones and we feel we are losing out in the fight, in the process, the feeling of guilt begin to eat you up from the inside. Regret sometimes has detrimental effects on our self-image, unresolved guilt can destroy the prospect of living a happy life. Although guilt may indicate that the person acknowledged their mistakes and want to make amend to resolve any pending issues.
Resentment: Everyone at one point in time have face unfair or unfavorable circumstances for no fault of theirs, it is natural to develop a feeling of resentment or anger. Anger can be directed in your life ranging from your parent, spouse and friend. If we allow resentment to grow and continue to influence our behaviors, we will start to project our unresolved emotion to other that don’t deserve our bad treatments.
Fear: Fear is an unpleasant emotion that make you frightened or worried about something dangerous, painful or bad things that is happening or that might happen in the future. Maybe because you’ve experienced a scary scene like flooding or going through a pandemic in the past and you start to become afraid that the same thing will happen again. Getting rid of fears often means facing your fears as a lion faces its prey.
Regret: It is very easy to get stuck in the web of regret, when you keep imagining what life would be like if all you did was right. The truth is that we can’t tell what the future would be and what it holds for us, but it is important that we stop putting ourselves under pressure because what of we didn’t do right in the past. Letting go of regret makes you more cheerful and you get a feeling of freedom.
Self-criticism: Sometimes when we grow with over-bearing relative or friends that keep dishing out a valley of criticism and derogatory comments with little or no encouragement or positive words, we tend to lose our confidence in our potential, we become the harshest self-critic of ourselves and remain so till we grow up. Our relatives or friends wrongly assume that negative comment would inspire us, but they don’t know the harm it has caused in the way we thinking or our behavior. We must resist this cycle from our life to avoid it effects on our behavior or our next generation.