If we trace negative feelings back to their origin, we end back at the mad, bad, sad, or scared feelings that showed up when humans first sinned.

The ongoing presence of these negatively charged emotions contribute to ongoing stress, stunt the healthy body-brain connection, and negatively affect our bodies, particularly our immune systems.

We feel before we think. Before we were old enough to use our thoughts to connect words to form sentences about our needs, we had emotions, feelings, and a felt sense.

This may help explain why some people turn to food when flooded with emotions.

We are inclined to do our feelings before we think about them. Our experience of pain is tightly intertwined with an emotion.

In fact, research shows it's possible for a baby to experience pain in utero, which means people can experience pain long before they have the words to explain what they are feeling.

I like to refer to mad, bad, sad, and scared as the four war horses of our emotions. They are trained to keep us alive and safe.

They hear the battle cry, our amygdala, then swiftly show up to sweep us off our feet. They scoop us up, throw us on their backs, galloping toward our hideout, or charging the front lines so we can confront any threat head on.

The four horses never show up to take us on a leisurely horseback ride down by the stream when we are in pain unless we've trained them to do so.

Hey Revelation Wellness Friends, you just heard a sneak peek of Alisa reading from her new book, The Body Revelation, which is available for pre-order right now.

And when you order, you get access to the full audio read by Alisa before the book releases on June 13th.

And you know what that means? You can press play on hope and begin to metabolize pain, ban a shame, and connect to God with your whole self.

I'm Aaron, one of the team members here at Revelation Wellness, and if you loved what you just heard, then you will love the Body Revelation season right here on the Revelation Wellness Podcast.

Each week on Monday and Thursday, Alisa is taking you through the stages of metabolizing pain found in the Body Revelation.

And today's teaching will walk you deeper into Stage 3 to learn what it means to express your pain.

Before you press play, be sure to swipe up on the show notes for the link to pre-order the Body Revelation and go get your audio today.

Now, let's get ready to dive in.

Hello friends, and welcome back to another Thursday Hangout Teaching Time with me. I'm Alisa.

If it's our first time meeting, thanks for being here. You're jumping into a six-part teaching.

We've been talking about metabolizing pain on Mondays. We do the Reving the Word, so we encourage you.

Just go for a walk, move your body, put on some shoes, walk in shoes, hiking shoes, biking shoes, I don't know, just go for a walk, move your body, and listen to that Monday episode.

It's more of a really an expressive way to kind of get to some deeper thoughts that you might have or concerns or feelings regarding your story.

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