Robbins Hopkins

Day 2: Listening Deeper

Healing Yourself · Day 2 of 3

Today we are exploring the ways your negative emotion is affecting you and those around you.

Open Sacred Space

Open Sacred Space by speaking the following aloud.

I open this Sacred Healing and Wisdom Circle with my eternal energy. I call to work with me in partnership from all traditions the Angels, the Ascended Master, the Cosmic Light Being of the Universe, the Devas and Nature Intelligences, the Divine Healing Entities of Highest Light and the Doctors of the Future.

Instructions for Making Your Lists

You will be creating three lists. The first list will be to list all the people and situations where you have experienced the emotion you identified yesterday as repeating in your life. The second task will be to list the costs to you or others of having this emotional response to situations or people. The third list will be to list all the benefits you see to repeatedly having your identified emotional response to people or situations. Here are some examples of what those lists might look like.

Example

The emotion I experience repeatedly is betrayal.

1. List situations or people where this emotion was present.

  1. When I was set up to take the blame for the locker prank in junior high school
  2. When I planned to have a prom party at my house then Linda decided to have one the same night and that ruined mine
  3. I was betrayed when George left me for Pamela
  4. When my mother repeatedly chose dad over me
  5. When my brothers always left me behind after saying I could join them
  6. When my husband dumped me after I had gotten them all together
  7. I was betrayed when my second husband had an affair…

2. List the costs to you or others of having this emotional response to specific situations or people.

  • Feeling angry at how I was being treated
  • I felt punished and mistreated by those I had loved and trusted
  • I felt of no importance
  • I was full of rage and wanted to hurt someone
  • I felt so discarded and worthless when George left me for Pamela
  • My brothers never even got a chance to have a relationship with me because they were so dismissive with me when we were young
  • I learned not to trust others very readily

3. List the positives or benefits of having this emotional response to situations or people.

  • I tried to figure out how to protect myself from being betrayed again
  • I knew how it felt to be betrayed and I did not treat others this way
  • I learned how to check people out before I trusted them which was a good thing
  • I got a real life lesson in what careless people do to others
  • I could see betrayal energy a mile away in others

What would your life have been like if there was no betrayal energy in it? All these situations would not have shown up as they did because you would not have been working on healing from betrayal trauma energy. We get all the chances we need to heal from major emotional feelings. We are here to heal from things that cause us imbalance. You can be free of the emotional energy that causes you strife and imbalance. You have to want to be free however from having this emotional response to life’s situations in order to be able to let this emotional trauma response go. You have the free will to keep experiencing this emotion and all its consequences or work towards clearing this trauma energy from your field and create new responses to life free from carrying betrayal energy.

Create List 1

The emotion I experience repeatedly is

List situations or people where you have experienced the emotion you are focusing on. Aim for 10 people or situations where you have experienced your chosen emotion, if possible.

Create List 2

List the costs to you or others of having this emotional response to specific situations or people. This means listing all the reasons responding in this way is detrimental, unhelpful, or costly to you or others.

Create List 3

List all the benefits of having this emotional response to situations or people. What does having this emotional response give you that you get satisfaction from?

Closing Notes

There are always reasons we choose to respond emotionally to a situation or to a person with a specific emotional response. We have a range of dozens of possible reactions. Those that repeat in our life over and over again are indications of where we are carrying that emotional trauma energy in our life. We might have had early childhood hurts where we responded with anger and this unhealed anger can repeat and repeat until we make the choice to stop responding with anger.

We usually need spiritual help to completely heal from such emotional responses but the work begins with us wanting to be free of spontaneous, repeating negative emotions. To move forward with your repeating emotional response to life, join us tomorrow for day three where you can release that emotional trauma energy from your life.