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So tonight I'm going to be talking about discharging the stress and tension and emotional

wounds that build up over the course of painful emotional events or difficult periods of time,

which certainly we live in right now.

There's a saying, if it's hysterical, it's historical.

If it's hysterical, it's historical means is stating that if a reaction is disproportionate to the situation,

if we have an immediate and overwhelming emotional response or impulse that we can't inhibit or at least pause before acting out on,

then it's almost invariably discharging energy from a previous

emotional event or a previous series of emotional events.

It's not actually about the current issue that is so much is driving the reaction.

Triggered reactions in any way, in other words, are fueled by the energy from previous dramas,

from previous wounding events, previous periods of prolonged chronic stress.

They can even and very often build up during childhoods where we didn't get the kind of reliable response that we sought when trying to connect with a caregiver.

So once again, in life we have traumas or wounding events, breakups, job losses, tensions with friendships.

We have chronic stress over periods of time or we may have had in

childhood patterns of insecure bonding with a parent or with other adults or with other siblings.

And then over time, these wounds build up

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