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The Law of Conservation of Emotion | Psychology Today Canada

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Just like understanding psychics and gravity helps you drive a car, this overlooked law of nature can help you understand and harness emotion for growth, connection, and resilience.

"The body expresses what the mind represses." Introduction The genesis of this post came from talking to Adam Dilla, M.S., about his emotions. We discussed that he had to suppress emotion during his traumatic childhood to survive; expressing feelings would only make the abuse and neglect he endured even worse. But just because he had to suppress them for survival, they never went away; they merely manifested as mental, psychological, and physical health issues until he dealt with them effectively later on in therapy. So, we concluded that emotion, especially strong, negative emotional…

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