The emotional body is the third densest body after the physical and pranic body. It also occupies roughly the same space as the physical body, with its aura extending up to several meters around it.
Unresolved emotions are primarily stored in the corresponding chakras. Through the emotional aura, we emit the vibrations of our emotional body into our environment and attract corresponding people and experiences. Our emotions and our emotional body therefore also play a key role in the manifestation process, but more on that in the next chapter.
Emotions – Our Integrated Compass to Health and the Perspective of the Higher Self
Yes, they show us the way to the perspective of the Higher Self! We can use our emotions like a compass that leads us to the truth. If we feel a negative emotion, it means that something about the thought(s) we just had is not right – in other words, something about the perspective we have on this topic does not align with the perspective our Higher Self has about it.
If we then change our view, the emotion we subsequently generate also changes. This allows us to recognize without a doubt that we ourselves create our emotions with our minds (consciously or unconsciously). Every thought that does not correspond to the view of the Higher Self (the higher truth of creation) creates a more or less strong negative feeling in the emotional body, depending on how distorted the view is.
If you nourish untrue or negative thoughts over a longer period of time and therefore create corresponding emotions, imbalances can arise in the body's energy system. Also, if you do not fully express certain emotions (do not fully allow them to flow out of the body system again) or you have an intense experience that you cannot fully process (=trauma), emotional energies can become pent up in the body and subsequently cause problems.
An example of the energy/emotion 'anger': An elderly woman has been driving her car very slowly in front of you for some time, and there is no way to overtake her. You might think to yourself then, for example, 'What in God's name are you doing? Drive faster!'. This thought then creates/feeds the emotion of 'anger' within you.
By simply swallowing the emotion of anger that you have created and not expressing it, you create an imbalance in yourself because you are accumulating/holding this emotion in your body system. So if the anger energy has already been created, you should at least express it in a way that does not cause any further damage.
A healthier way to resolve this situation would be to take a higher perspective and/or look at it with compassion, such as thinking, 'This is an elderly woman who probably can't see so well anymore and whose reactions aren't as quick. It's just not that easy for elderly people to drive faster anymore.' or/and 'I can't change this situation right now anyway, so I'm going to make the best out of it and just enjoy driving slower for a while.' In this case, I am not generating anger energy within myself, and I have not ruined my mood, and all of this simply by looking at the situation differently.
However, if one repeatedly chooses the negative perspective, the (side)effects can ultimately manifest on the physical level – so they can truly be seen. For example, in the form of afflictions, illnesses, and accidents – yes, even accidents are not pure coincidence but also have a (karmic) cause. We originally create our reality through our perspectives – our minds!
Sutra 2.13.: "As long as karmic roots remain, they manifest as different living conditions, life expectancy, and types of experiences."
