Are Hidden Emotions Making You Sick?
How Unprocessed Feelings Can Create Physical Symptoms – And What To Do About It
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“On a scale from one to ten, what would you rate your primary physical ailment – ten being the most excruciating discomfort?”
My client let out an exasperated sigh.
“I can’t do that,” he replied with a slight tone of annoyance. “It’s all over the place. Besides, my doctor is working with me on my physical issues.”
In every energy healing session, I begin with a set of questions that includes an inquiry about physical health. You may wonder the same thing my client did:
What does that have to do with energy work and emotional healing?
More than you might think.
The Hidden Link Between Emotions and Physical Symptoms
“Okay, in three words, how would you describe your emotional state? What would you rate it?” I continued.
The tone of his voice changed.
“Emotionally? Well, I guess I’ve been kinda all over the place on that too; up and down,” he said, suddenly making the connection between his emotional state and his physical pain.
Like this client, there is almost always a thread of commonality between physical symptoms and emotional strain. I have never had a client with a chronic physical ailment tell me they were happy as a lark before the illness appeared.
Why?
Because according to the Einsteinian belief model, everything is energy – including emotions. When emotional pressure is stuffed inside the body and goes ignored, it doesn’t disappear. It builds. Over time, that unprocessed emotional energy manifests as stress in your energetic body, then as functional imbalance, and eventually as actual physical symptoms.
In other words:
Hidden emotions may be making you sick long before you ever get a diagnosis.
How Energetic Imbalance Becomes Illness
Renowned naturopathic doctor Dr. Dickson Thom teaches that all illness begins as an energetic imbalance that usually goes unnoticed by the individual. This imbalance interferes with our natural energetical equilibrium and eventually manifests as a functional problem in the body.
If the functional problem and the underlying energetic distortion go unaddressed, symptoms can eventually become lesions in the physical body – often very late in the disease process, even thirty, forty, or fifty years later.
This means:
Physical symptoms are often the last stage of a process that began long before.
Your body may be expressing an old, unprocessed emotional wound.
Treating only the physical body without addressing the emotional root slows healing.
In my book, The Way of Energy Alchemy, I talk about something I call the Cause–Reaction Feedback Loop. This loop happens when you try to change your physical experience – your health, your pain level, your lab results – but your inner energetics are looping in the opposite direction.
Illness can be a manifestation of looping, unacknowledged, emotionally-caustic energy.
When your inner energy keeps saying, “I’m not safe,” “I’m not enough,” or “I can’t trust,” your body listens.
To stop this feedback loop and support physical healing, we must address the emotional cause – not just the physical effect.
“We are dealing with fundamental problems of energy and matter, and the treatment of illness by energy is in principle conceivable.”
3 Most Common Causes of Energetical Toxicity
In my work with clients, I see five general causes of dis‑ease, but three show up over and over as the most common sources of energetical toxicity:
Trauma (0–18 years)
Childhood trauma – whether obvious or subtle – often becomes trapped as unprocessed emotional energy. This might include neglect, criticism, emotional enmeshment, abandonment, or any experience where your nervous system felt unsafe and had no way to fully process the event.Relationships
Most current relationships are replicas of our earliest interactions with primary feminine and masculine roles (usually our mother and father or whoever filled those roles). When we repeat the same patterns with partners, bosses, or friends, old emotional wounds are continually re-triggered and repressed, feeding the same energetical toxicity.Environment
Your environment includes everything you consume – and not just food. It includes online media, social feeds, news cycles, conversations, and physical surroundings. Most clicks occur on negative topics, which means your nervous system can be marinating in fear, anger, or comparison without you realizing it.
When these causes go unnamed and unacknowledged, emotional pressure builds. Over time, this can look like:
Chronic fatigue, headaches, or pain
Digestive issues or autoimmune flares
Anxiety, depression, or emotional numbness
Feeling “off,” stuck, or disconnected from yourself
Naming the cause is the first step in emotional and energetic healing.
3 Steps To Release Emotionally Toxic Energy:
Once the root cause of the imbalance is identified, we move to gently release that emotionally toxic energy from the body and field.
Here are 3 practical steps you can begin using right now:
1. Feel It to Heal It
Let yourself fully feel the emotion without judging it.
Instead of pushing it down or distracting yourself, gently notice:
“What am I actually feeling right now?” Sadness, anger, fear, shame, grief, resentment, confusion – whatever it is, bring compassionate awareness to it.
You are not the emotion. You are the one witnessing it.
By allowing the feeling to surface, you stop the inner war and create space for healing.
2. Breathe Into It
Next, locate where you feel the emotion most strongly in your body. Is it in your chest, throat, stomach, or head?
As you inhale, breathe into that area as if you are breathing directly into the emotion.
As you exhale, imagine directing the emotion out of your body with your out‑breath.
Continue this gentle breathwork until the intensity begins to soften.
Breath is one of the simplest and most powerful tools to move stuck energy through and out of the body.
3. Burn It
Then we give the emotion a voice.
Write down everything you want to say about the event or situation. Let yourself fully express:
How you feel about it now
How you felt when it first happened
Anything you never got to say
Don’t censor yourself. This is for you.
When your written expression feels complete, ceremoniously burn the paper in a safe way. This act gives your body and subconscious mind a clear message: I am releasing this now.
One of my clients, who was recovering from mold and heavy metals toxicity, once told me her husband bought her a Mexican chiminea so she could ritually burn all of her entries about her abusive mother. I thought that was a beautiful idea – a practical, sacred container for her emotional alchemy.
These three steps – feeling, breathing, and burning – support the body in letting go of hidden, emotionally‑caustic energy so that physical healing can unfold with less resistance.
“Make different decisions about disowned needs… instead of trying to eradicate a need or coping with not having it met, reorganize your life around it.”
Creating Real, Lasting Change In Your Health
Once you’ve identified the cause and released a layer of the emotional energy around it, the next step is to implement workable change.
Rather than denying a mental, emotional, spiritual, or physical need, you begin to:
Turn your attention toward it
Honor what your body and heart are asking for
Make decisions that support your nervous system, your boundaries, and your wellbeing
This is where real change in your health begins to anchor.
Change is not always comfortable. It can feel hard at first, especially when you are shifting long‑standing patterns in your body, relationships, and lifestyle. It is often said that it takes about 21 days to break down an old habit and form a new one.
That is one reason I offer my assistance to those who need extra support during a deep emotional healing journey. Having a guide can make the path less overwhelming and more grounded.
During the initial implementation of new lifestyle or energetic choices, I invite you to:
Embrace the discomfort as an opportunity for growth and expansion
See each small action as a vote for your optimal state of health and wellbeing
Remember that your body is listening to every choice you make
Daily, seemingly insignificant steps done consistently over time yield phenomenal results.* You may find it is far easier to set a new course once you have released the hidden, toxic emotional energy that was quietly holding you back.
Once you’ve identified the cause and successfully released the energy around it, implement workable change. Rather than denying a mental, emotional, spiritual, or physical need, turn your attention to it and make decisions that support it so that you create real change in your health.
“What is difficult in the beginning has value in the end.”
If you sense that hidden emotions or past trauma may be affecting your health and you’re ready for deeper support, I invite you to explore my 21‑DAY EMPOWERMENT INTENSIVE with NATASHA SOL. This immersive container focuses on life path, career, health, and relationships and is specifically designed to help you pull out of a negative feedback loop and reset your energy toward an optimal path of wellbeing. Over 21 transformational days, you’ll receive THREE 75‑minute IN‑PERSON, ZOOM, or PHONE sessions, plus ongoing email support as you integrate and embody real change in your everyday life.
Are you ready to break free from negative feedback loops and reset your energy for optimal health?