Emotional Baggage

I received an email from one of the psychology organizations that I belong to regarding a course on how to help get rid of "Emotional Baggage." It got me to thinking about some emotional baggage I was carrying around several years ago and how I got rid of it.

Years ago, I was told I had to go to anger management if I wanted to keep my housing. Well since you put it that way, I guess I had no choice BUT to go. After a couple of sessions with the therapist, she says, I think you need Prozac and I want to refer you to a psychiatrist. HUH?? Where did that come from? On what basis do you have to recommend me to a shrink? There were no tests involved and the questions were vague at best for her to come to that conclusion. As I was thinking of my topic to blog about today, I saw on my time line that Deepak Chopra had tweeted about Michael Jackson's death. He said "the doctor's are the real pushers and cause for addiction." I thought.. WHOA. So I must be on track to discuss this. As I read more, he went on to say how doctors are so quick to prescribe something. Which brings me back to my point.

Emotional baggage does not always require drugs. Yes, I get that some people need to talk it out and perhaps get a better perspective on some things that happened in the past to move forward but still there are ways to do that without drugs. I told my therapist that I was good, and did not want the drugs. I continued my sessions with her for little while longer. However in retrospect, I was telling her the same things I was telling my girlfriends and wasn't getting anywhere with any of them. To me, talking about it and talking about it was just reliving the pain. She didn't give me any goals or things to move me forward. Just talking about the same things over again. I eventually worked through my issues on my own through holistic means. It was a lot harder for me on my own but an experience that I can write about. Through the use of herbs, prayer, meditation, essential oils, crystal healing and body work therapy such as Reiki, I was able to free myself of some limited beliefs, other people's assumptions that I had picked up a long the way and some other Gremlins that followed me through my life. I am not suggesting that holistic medicine is the cure all to end all, but it does help. You can use holistic medicine in conjunction with anything conventional that you are currently doing. Releasing emotional baggage is a process. It can take days, weeks, months or even years to get through some of the issues you have been carrying around for years. However, it can go a lot quicker using a holistic approach. For an issue that may have taken me years to get through using conventional methods, may have taken a year using ALL means available to me.

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