Emotional Therapy is about hearing, expressing, and validating our feelings. Understanding that the head is for thinking and the body for feeling. Emotional Therapy is about feelings and how the head suppresses them, eventually the head cannot cope with our life’s unspoken feelings and something gives as our feelings erupt over the top causing us health problems and coping problems.

Understanding why we feel a certain way and where that feeling derives from helps the healing process. Naming the emotion is of vital importance in our childhood as if we know the feeling i.e. fear, excitement, we can learn to cope from an early age, and this will allow us to be more centred adults.

Emotional Therapy is a means of helping people who are in turmoil or crisis. Emotional and spiritually drained and unable to be the way they would like to be. Our emotions stop us or steer us in a way that we don’t want. Difficulties are caused by how we feel about ourselves, each other, and the world. When we are born, we have only two feelings, love and fear and as we grow, we learn from our parents how to deal with the feelings that arise and then we use the mind to deal with the feelings.

The way in which our emotions are developed as children flavours our view of ourselves and others. If our emotions are supressed and unrecognised, they become our pain and discomfort which can ultimately lead to our illnesses such as depression, eating disorders and psychological distress.

Research shows that emotional traumatising events in our lives affect our health and it is at such times that our bodies produce more white blood cells. Our mood affects the chemistry of the brain and the chemistry of the brain affects the mood we are in. In simplicity, this is well explained when you take into account that a baby is not born with depression. Sometimes drugs are taken to alter the chemistry in the brain which help to eliminate the symptoms. These drugs, however, don’t help the cause of the symptoms. Emotional Therapy helps the cause by way of healing the emotional wounds through a therapeutic process rather than a mind process using counselling techniques.

Emotional Therapy helps to promote healing the original wounds by working through feelings and re energising the spirit. Through Emotional Therapy the individual can begin to understand why something is not right by exploring the emotional route rather than the analytical route. Ultimately, the individual is seeking to achieve wholeness.

Emotional Therapy aims to develop a greater knowledge and strength so that we can cope with obstacles that are in the way, thus enriching our lives with more purpose.