In my experience, to increase your health and well-being, you can only start in the present moment and build from there.

For Baby Boomers, caregivers, and elders who are open to alternative approaches, (those who call themselves Cultural Creatives--More details here: http://budurl.com/CultCrtvs) I am discovering a clear path to helping people raise consciousness and be their own authority around health, healing, and well-being issues.

For more than three months, I have been practicing the Emotion Code, created by Dr. Bradley Nelson. Both my husband, Gil, who has Parkinson’s, and I have benefited. I am learning that we can only take the next right step by standing firmly rooted in the present moment.

As I coach and offer these gifts of learning in several processes of self-healing, I have to stand right in the present moment myself.

What is right here?

Recently, I reported that I had been releasing the old trapped, toxic emotions I’d experienced from a young age. Combined, Gil and I have many hundreds of trapped emotions!

These emotions had been trapped for most of my life -- since I was a very young child. During my growing up years, it was unsafe to express some of these things. That meant they were buried before I had a chance to get in trouble by expressing those feelings.

A few years ago, I processed deep unexpressed grief I had as a 4-year-old when we moved from one home and left my dog behind. I’ve also learned, for example, that my husband was an unwanted baby. His trapped emotions from the time of conception number more than 140.

What it means now: As I release these very old negative feelings I buried from particular ages or stages of growing up, I often get very tired after a session of releasing. I’ve learned, in working with Gil, that I can only release a few emotions at a time during a session with him so that he can deal with all the internal processing and not be completely wrung out for several days.

I’ve also discovered that allowing the negative feelings to come up and be released always feels good in the long term. And sometimes in the short term, I feel emotionally down because of the detox my system is going through.