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What Is Emotional Baggage?

Emotional baggage is unresolved issues, usually relating to interpersonal relationships, that one has not been able to advance past. The image of "baggage" is based on the notion that an individual carries these past emotional issues around through different stages in one's life, much as someone traveling carries physical baggage.

Emotional baggage often causes instability in one's emotional states and an inability to find comfort and satisfaction in relationships, romantic or otherwise. Past disappointments, hurts or traumatic experiences, even those that occurred many years before, can lead to discomfort and insecurity as they are carried around unresolved.

Emotional baggage has a negative effect on our behavior and attitudes. It bombards our minds with thoughts that cause anxiety and fear. It stops us from being our true self and fulfilling out lifes purpose.

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YOUR LIFE.

"You can check your emotional baggage at the curb and aspire to be the gentle warrior, or you can carry it on and continue to be the wounded soul."

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Your true Self.

Imagine with me for a moment that you are standing on a bridge. It’s dark and cold with a storm raging… In the distance on the other side of the bridge you notice a glimpse of light that shines so bright it almost blinds you. You can feel its warmth and have a strong desire to move closer to it but something is blocking you. This blocking force is so strong but your curiosity is stronger making you want to move towards this light because it’s makes you feel calm and at peace…

You begin to feel frustrated because no matter how hard you try to move towards this light something is holding you back. Just as you are about to give up a bolt of lightning exposes this invisible force that has been holding you back. You rise to your feet eyes open wide as you see a bunch of suitcases piled up in front of you.

Written on each suitcase is a description of the emotional bagggage you have been carrying around from your past. As you begin to scan all the suitcases you become overwhelmed wanting to run away but something deep within you is telling you to let go, to finally let go of all the emotional baggage you have been holding onto. You make a decision to let go and as you do this each suitcase opens and all of your baggage falls to the ground. As the suitcases fall the light becomes bigger and bigger and you feel more and more at peace…As the last few suitcases open and fall to the ground you suddenly realize “So this is who I am”

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Quotes.

"There's a luggage limit to every passenger on a flight. The same rules apply to your life. You must eliminate some baggage before you can fly."

-Rosalind Johnson

"Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place your attention on what you wish to experience."

-Michael Beckwith

"I accept that no one else has ever been to blame for either my joy or my suffering. The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings is my own emotional response to the events of my life."

-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Everyone's got emotional baggage; the question is, what are you doing to unpack that trunk and put it away, so your lovers, friends and relatives don't have to keep tripping over it?"

-Shari Schreiber

"The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future."

-Sue Augustine

Prescriptions For Healing

Become aware of your old emotional baggage.

Process your pain.

Surrender to a higher power.

Surround yourself with positive energy.

Accept yourself and others.

Let go of trying to be in control.

Love yourself unconditionally.

Evelyn Melgey RN, MS, CLC

“Evelyn Melgey is a Certified Life Coach and a nurse. Her gentle nurturing and tough wisdom is beautifully blended in her persona as a life coach. I loved hearing and applying Evelyn's ideas to my everyday life. Evelyn gives direction and fires you up with her passionate attitude. Overall she's an excellent guide and speaker. You'll love working with her and making rapid progress toward your goals."

-Deborah DeNicola, Dream Image Guide and Writing Mentor, USA

“Evelyn and I met after my father's death. She helped me to cope with relationships I had lost and formed. I have tried to see other therapists bothbefore and after Evelyn, and they could not relate to me the way Evelyn did. Although she is around the age of my mother, I can talk to her like a teenage girl and never feel like she is judging what I say or how I act. Her ability to connect with people despite age difference has allowed her to have a similar relationship with my brother.She taught me many useful methods to relax and deal with life's stress. She is very wise, but is always looking to learn something, especially from her patients. She tries to teach and be taught and forms friendships with her patients, which is very uncommon, but comforting. Anyone who knows Evelyn would agree that she is a genuinely wonderful woman and very gifted and successful in her career.”

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