For treatments like Marma therapy or Liver or Heart Vasti, emotional release can happen during the treatment or even over next few days after the treatment.

After the release is complete, many report feeling peaceful, happy, more centered or having much better control over that emotion. They can live without experiencing that negative emotion or can respond better than reacting if such emotion is ever experienced due to any external situation.

It is the actual release experience that needs to be managed carefully.

The release is generally experienced more as an involuntary feeling /s arising than due to some external trigger. But external triggers may cause release too. If the emotions are experienced due to some external trigger like an argument or quarrel, then focus on your safety first and remove yourself from that situation as quickly, practical and as safe to do so. Once you have removed yourself from that situation and you are safe, you can use the steps below to manage the release.

The nature of release varies from person to person as the suppressed or long-held emotions are being let-go by the body and the mind. Some may experience more explicit phenomenon like tears, sadness, emptiness or bursts of the vary emotion for which the treatment was performed. Some may feel bit of rush, overjoyed, hypersensitive. Some may not experience any of these emotions at all and benefit from silent, effortless release. So please do not expect or look for such emotions or any release phenomenon, just be aware of the possibility of such occurrence, so you can manage the release effectively if it occurs more explicitly.

How to manage emotional release?

1. Please let someone around you know about the treatment you have taken and of such possibilities of release.

2. Inform them to remind you 'about managing the release' if and when such emotions / feelings are being experienced by you, reflected in your behaviors or actions.

3. If you experience release, do not blame, judge or criticize yourself or anyone OR do not be concerned about what others may think about you.

4. If the release is without any external trigger, to manage the (feelings/moods experienced during the) release, please use the 'de-identification' techniques explained during the consult.

   • To de-identify, start taking long, deep, slow breaths. After 6-8 breaths, the mind starts to feel calmer as the heart rate slows down.

   • While breathing, remind yourself that 'You are not your emotions. All emotions are transitory and you are only an observer of these transient emotions passing through the mind.''

   • Do not react or respond to these emotions. Just observe them as these are going through your mind. The emotions can be at times stronger and then getting weaker, like waves.

   • Keep on breathing calmly for 2-3 minutes or more. Think/affirm with each exhale - “the XXXXXX emotion is going out of my mind and body with each exhale”. With each inhale, affirm “I am taking in more peace, more control.”

   • Keep on breathing slowly and affirming this till you feel that the waves have subsided and you have now created enough gap between you and the remnant weakened emotion.

5. Using this technique, most of the emotions lose their power over us and we gain control. You can then choose your response to the emotion, which can be in form of

   • Thanking your mind for its ability to control the emotion or Congratulating yourself for not falling in their trap

   • Replacing negative emotion with a counter-balancing positive emotion e.g. anger with calmness, fear with courage, jealousy with love

   • Do some creative activity like painting, gardening or some physical activity like going for a walk

   • Or choose an appropriate empowering response, one advancing you towards your health goals.

6. If you still continue to experience the release which you are not able to control, please call us 041 000 2345, even it is after hours. If the phone is busy or unanswered, please leave a detailed message and we will return your call asap to discuss the further management.

7. In the unlikely and rare event of you experiencing any distress or feel the need for urgent psychological help, please call Lifeline 13 11 14 or your GP or, 000 if the matter is critical.