Unease, Uneasy. That awful feeling deep in your gut that doesn’t feel right. It feels like the beginning of panic, taking the mind on an unwelcome journey. It’s an uncomfortable feeling, restlessness.
Disease. Dis-ease. If unease means ‘anxiety’ and ‘discontent’ then it’s little wonder that those constant emotions make you sick. Too much negative emotion will fire up adrenalin, deplete the body and lead to exhaustion. The sickness can be as much mental as physical. It’s the mental fatigue that troubles the soul, and that’s where the greatest impact will be had.
The cause of unease is never a mystery. The answer will be lying just below the surface, perhaps in the periphery. It might be tangible, or a feeling caused by a trigger today of an experience yesterday. Therefore not all sense of unease is is related to the present day, it could be triggered from a memory.
Memories can be wonderful, allowing special times to be enjoyed again. Sometimes it’s an image, a feeling, a song, a smell, taking you back to another lifetime, or so it seems. Conversely, a memory can be dark, chaotic or intense and the emotions can be challenging. The key is to embrace the memories for what they are, as they arise, no matter how uncomfortable. They’ve resurfaced for a reason and could be there as a lesson. Tune in.
Identify unease, make friends with it, understand it, move through it and learn from it. Then with love, let it go.