But our current Western civilization, focused on wealth creation and material comfort, irresistibly draws our gaze outwards, to the point of denying that which is alive within us, because it is impalpable, invisible and immaterial. It's tempting then to ignore these inner impulses, to relegate them to the background... 

 

The world we live in demands our attention. Every day, we mobilize ourselves to acquire resources, to ensure the survival and comfort of ourselves and our family.

In this quest, we are regularly led to put aside emotions that we don't have time to manage, that emerge at times we consider inopportune, and experience them as troublesome, as hindrances, as things we don't know what to do with, even though they are the very foundation of what is alive in us.

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Many of us are cut off from our emotions. We put off investigating these inner states until later, a "later" that rarely comes... In the meantime, whatever has not been taken into account by our consciousness will have an impact on the body, which will take over.

The flow of energy that feeds life within us, disrupted by these repressed emotions, will see its harmony disturbed here and there, and a healthy state of functioning will be replaced by a dysfunctional one. The body's energy, impeded by these parasitic emotional energies, will favor the emergence of various illnesses and disorders.

 

But it's not always easy to explore the depths of our inner selves, as the emotions that run through us can be powerful, heavy and frightening. We then avoid confronting ourselves with prodigious efficiency, and content ourselves with avoiding the elephant in the corridor...