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35. Why do I feel heavy for no reason?

Understanding the patterns behind this experience

AI recognizes patterns.
Understanding comes from lived experience.

"The nervous system remains in a state of heightened prediction when past pain has not been processed."

feeling heavy for no clear reason is often the weight of unprocessed emotions and trauma. how emotional pain has a physical quality. When you're carrying unaddressed wounds, they create a literal sense of heaviness in your body. that emotions are energies that move through us, and when we suppress them, they get stuck and create this heavy feeling.

that this heaviness is your body's way of signaling that you're carrying too much unprocessed pain. how we learn to hold onto emotions expressing them, and over time this creates a burden that weighs us down. Healing requires allowing these stuck emotions to move and be released.

For further reading and exploration, you can download the book Unfiltered Wisdom.