Unpack Your Emotional Backpack
Everyone carries the emotional backpack that holds the weight of certain life experiences. The content includes memories and experiences of various sizes that have not been erased and are reflected in the eyes.
If you do not learn to empty your emotional backpack of all the toxic and negative experiences, the more weight you need to support the more time that passes. It has major consequences for your mood and your relationships.
Carrying your emotional backpack without taking the contents out from time to time will result in emotional wounds that will be difficult to heal.
The weight of your emotional backpack
In today’s society, we tend to overload ourselves, not only at work but also in an emotional sense. Every experience we go through gives us a scar somehow. The important thing is that this scar pushes us to grow instead of linking us to the past with its emotional weight.
Moving forward with emotional wounds that keep opening up and hurting is different than moving forward with wounds that have healed and taught you something.
Feeling guilty, betrayed, abandoned, criticized, empty or frustrated can weigh you down and keep you from enjoying yourself. Experiences that notice you and transform you are part of your story. So how can you shed that weight off if it comes at a formative time in your life?
Look through your emotional backpack and reflect on what you have inside, both what you have put in there and what other people have thrown in. Take your time. Even if you can not see it, it is there with you every day. Acknowledge that most of your emotional reactions have to do with the weight you carry. To remedy yourself, you must learn to distinguish between what is useful and what is not. Allowing your backpack to overflow is an obstacle to any kind of progress you want to achieve.
Unpack your emotional backpack to move on
Do not let your backpack get overloaded to a point where you can barely move and life in general weighs you down. Do not lose the will to move forward or leave your gift in the hands of the past. Do not be obsessed with forgetting. To forget, no friend is intentional.
No matter how uncomfortable and complicated it may be, you need to take out what you are carrying inside so that you can learn to grow with it instead of being bound by it. The first step involves recognizing what weighs you down and accepting it.
You may even be inundated with feelings of identity and connection that prevent you from starting to lose weight in your emotional backpack. The dizziness that you feel is fear masked by routine. You have become so used to those wounds that if they were not there, you would feel like you were no one. And an emptiness would begin to develop. But believe me, it’s just the fear of insecurity, of the unknown, of letting go.
Move forward, easier than ever before
Learn to get rid of everything that pulls you down and drains your energy. Accept your mistakes. Identify and and know your feelings. Let your dreams spread their wings. Discover your strengths. Appreciate yourself and first and foremost, learn that growing means accepting and learning from the things that happen to you, rather than fighting against them. Remember, letting go of something is not always just saying goodbye. It is to be grateful for what you have learned and to move forward.
Relaxing the weight in your emotional backpack that paralyzes you is a big step toward allowing new emotions and experiences to come in. Some of them help you grow. Others you will have to heal again, but that is life. Empty the backpack for your own well-being.
Pictures of Lucy Campbell
