Emotivity: emotional and spiritual meaning
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What emotivity is
Emotivity, or rather hyperemotivity, brings every emotion to the surface. The smallest thing overwhelms you. In that state you feel paralysed. Your sight blurs. You can even lose your balance. Insecurity, fear and anxiety are there. The mind is hyperactive. You tend to dramatise everything.
The reading below does not replace care for a heart that races, a throat that closes, or a stomach that ulcerates. Those are also medical questions. It listens to the sensitivity, and to the fear of the unknown underneath it.
The emotional meaning of emotivity
You tend to be less in action, to accomplish fewer tasks, to realise very few projects, because fear paralyses you. You become fragile, emotionally and physically. The reflex is to isolate yourself from the world in order to be protected.
The physical signs the source names are why this page is linked with several parts of the body. The heart speeds up. The throat tightens. Digestion is difficult, sometimes as far as stomach ulcers, with constipation, diarrhoea, and muscular stiffness. Blurred sight belongs with the eyes. Afraid of the unknown, you take up habits in order to lessen the anguish that unknown brings.
Where does the agitation come from? It may be an emotional trauma, repeated conflicts, or a usual climate of insecurity, affective or material.
Sensitivity is not treated as a defect to be removed. The healing direction is to consider emotivity as a mode of communication with other people, and to come back to your own essence. Meditation, relaxation, or any technique that calms you and brings you here and now, can help you contact your inner being again and rebalance the emotions. From there you rediscover your real needs and learn to trust yourself.
A gentler way to hold it
The aim is not to harden you. The emotional perspective invites you to use the sensitivity, and to calm the dramatising that stops you acting.
- Name one thing you dramatise. The mind's hyperactivity is part of the picture.
- Feel where it lands. Heart, throat, stomach and eyes are the places this reading points to. Pain there still deserves a doctor.
- See the isolation as protection. Fear of the unknown is why the habits form.
- Come back to this moment. Calm is how the source says you find your real needs.
- Let the sensitivity speak to someone. It is a way of communicating, not only a storm.
Questions to ask yourself
Take your time with these. There are no right answers; simply notice what comes up.
- What small thing overwhelms me, and do I dramatise it at once?
- Has fear paralysed me so that I start things and finish very little?
- Do I isolate myself from the world in order to feel safe?
- { "Where do I feel it in the body": "heart, throat, stomach, eyes?" }
- Did this agitation follow an emotional trauma, repeated conflict, or a climate of insecurity?
“I treat my sensitivity as a way of communicating. I come back to this moment, and I learn to trust myself.”
When to see a doctor
- A racing heart with chest pain, severe breathlessness or fainting. Call emergency services.
- Stomach pain, ulcers, or diarrhoea and constipation that keep alternating. Have the digestion checked.
- Feeling so overwhelmed that you cannot work, sleep or leave the house.
- A sensitivity that arrived after a trauma. You can be accompanied. You do not have to regulate it alone.
Related emotions
Linked body areas
The source links this feeling with these parts of the body. The conditions listed there are separate pages.
Sources and inspiration
- Jacques Martel, Le Grand Dictionnaire des Malaises et des Maladies.
This page is an original interpretation written by Body Hemi-Sync. It is inspired by these sources and does not reproduce them.