Feel, Process, Move On: Emotional Digestion Explained

Understanding emotional resilience can be complex, but a helpful metaphor is to compare it to the process of digestion.

Just as our bodies digest food and process it to extract nutrients, our minds need to process emotions to maintain emotional health.

Let’s explore how emotional resilience and digestion are connected and why effective emotional processing is essential for living a full, vibrant life.

The Digestive Process: A Model for Emotional Processing

In our daily lives, we consume food and drink, and our bodies break these down into nutrients and energy. This digestion process is continuous and essential for our physical health. Once our body has extracted what it needs, it expels what it doesn’t need, allowing us to move on and take in new nourishment.

Emotions as Daily Intake

Emotions are much like the food and drink we consume. Every day, we experience a range of emotions, from joy and excitement to anger and sadness.

These emotions are a natural part of our human experience, but they need to be processed on a continuous basis just like food.

What Happens When Emotions Get Stuck?

When we can’t process our emotions effectively, it’s like our digestive system getting clogged. Emotions build up, leading to a limited life, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, and even autoimmune issues.

Just as undigested food can cause physical distress, unprocessed emotions can cause emotional and physical harm.

Continuous Processing: The Key to Health

Digestion is a constant process. We take in food and water, our bodies digest them, and we expel what we don’t need. Similarly, we should continuously process our emotions.

When we process our emotions effectively, we take in our emotional experiences, process them, and then move on. When we are doing this, we live a full life. We don’t fear our emotions because they don’t hold us back.

Building Emotional Resilience

High emotional resilience means we can bounce back quickly from emotional experiences, while low emotional resilience means we hold onto emotions. The more emotionally resilient we are, the more effective we become at processing emotions. This allows us to keep growing and engaging with life.

Enhancing Your Emotional Toolkit with Ren Resources

Our course, "The Fundamentals," includes a bonus module called "The Operations of Emotions," which is the most effective content available on the wellness market today for having the tools to acknowledge and process your emotions. 

This module provides you with the “equation” and definition for the most common emotions we experience has humans, which is Step #1 to being able to process your emotions. It will help you build the confidence needed to live your life fully. 

With the proper tools in your toolkit, you can navigate your emotions, feel human, and pursue the life you want with resilience and readiness.