Day 7 Emotional Freedom: The Forbidden Feeling Tool On this 7th day of Authenticity, we expand our emotional capacities, as the basis of EBT is using emotions to switch circuits, which changes the electrical and chemical surges through our body and brain. EBT uses emotions as medicine. Most of us grew up with emotional suppression, as there were some feelings that were not acceptable. All feelings are good feelings when we have the tools to process them. It’s suppressing emotions that causes chronic diseases and mental health problems, not to mention early death and ruined lives. I grew up with the rule that “we don’t hate.” All that suppressing of these “bad feelings” made me hate more. I surrendered to letting myself hate, and the feeling became effervescent. By feeling the feeling intensely, I let the gas out of the bubbles of hate. A quiet calm came over me, then a wave of love. I was deathly afraid to feel love. I didn’t feel love as a child, and then to put the last nail in the coffin of love, my ex-husband stole my money. Then, when I divorced him, he reported me as a cheat to the IRS, and I was audited. It took me four years to get out of that mess. I promised myself I’d never love again.
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