Sacral | Cardinal | Agrimony
I Express My Feelings.
Have you been feeling like you are holding it all in or hiding how you really feel? Cardinal appears to help you express your feelings in a balanced and healthy way. Do you often keep your mouth shut and your opinions to yourself, use sarcasm to communicate or need a couple of drinks to be able to show your true cardinal colors? Letting your authentic feelings flow without over-suppression or angry explosion is key. Holding onto a secret keeps the pain and agony of the original wound alive. Shedding light upon a dark place makes the shadows not as scary and getting something off your chest helps you process and integrate it so you can move forward in your life.
Cardinal’s clear and strong voice emphasizes the importance of honoring your personal sound and unique expression. A healthy emotional ecosystem requires balance of the outer and inner worlds. Too much hiding of your truth leads to blocked inner channels, loneliness, and a fear of being crazy.
Maybe you feel if you share what’s on your mind you may hurt someone you love or lose their trust? Cardinal helps you to authentically show up and keep a clean slate so secrets and fibs don’t rule your reality. Honesty is the best policy in most cases, and what at first feels hard to talk about usually brings a deepening in relationships and much needed releasing of suppressed emotions. Suppression leads to possession. Does someone act as if they possess you? Cardinal reminds you to stand in your power, face your fears, express your feelings and believe in the importance of your word.
Bach Flower Essence: Agrimony
Key Words: speaking up, expression, secrets, your word, suppression, sarcasm, possession, true colors, sexual identity, peripheral nervous system, gluteal muscles, anus, gluttony
Action Steps:
Get something off your chest! Clear the air! Find a friend or counselor to speak your unspeakable thought, feeling or past experience.
Were you made to feel shame around sexuality? Contemplate any impressions or events your 4 year-old self went through regarding sexuality.
Start a daily practice of journaling your thoughts and feelings regularly. Write down what you are holding fear around.
Are you secretly gluttonous? Do you hide an overindulgence of alcohol, food, shopping, pornography, etc? Getting it out of the shadows by confiding in a friend or a counselor can start the process of healing.
How comfortable are you in your body and with your body? Journal and identify what triggers body shame for you.
Do you find you always need/desire alcohol or substances to be yourself? Consider finding a holistic talk therapist, hypnotherapist or another modality to explore suppressed feelings.
Fabricating, exaggerating, fibbing or lying is a habit that always leads to shame. Others can feel when we hold feelings about them of judgement or aren’t being honest. Clear the air and meditate on the root cause.
Contemplate if you have a parent or partner that didn’t/doesn’t allow expression of your feelings.
Do you sometimes binge or over-indulge? Notice what feelings are the catalyst for this behavior.
Do you feel shame around a secret you are holding? Find a safe person to tell or write it out on paper and burn it to release it. Hand it over to God to help you heal it.
Meditate on what your 4 year-old may have wanted but didn’t get.
Sarcasm is truth cloaked in humor. Notice if you use sarcasm to speak your truth to avoid direct expression.
Does someone act like they own or possess you? Practice expressing your feelings to find your personal power.
Are you suppressing feelings? This can lead to hiding things and going behind people’s backs, or angry outbursts from built up tension. Find a way to express!
