Breaking Emotional Barriers to Healing: A Spiritual Guide

Have you ever felt that something inside you holds back your growth? Or sense an inner blockage that stands between you and healing?

The path towards healing is rewarding and fulfilling. However, it poses many challenges and trials. 

Emotional barriers and healing blocks are inner energetic obstructions affecting our healing journey and making it more challenging.

In this sense, breaking emotional barriers and healing energetic blockages is crucial to achieving transformation. It’s essential to identify and clear these barriers to support deep spiritual healing.

If you are ready to achieve freedom and catharsis, accompany us on this journey. Today, we’ll explore the emotional barriers to healing from a spiritual and energetic approach. We’ll learn the powerful method of “Felt Sense” to clear and release them, and finally, feel truly free.

What Are Emotional Barriers in the Healing Process?

Emotional barriers, according to psychologists, are internal, often unconscious, psychological and emotional patterns that prevent a person from fully committing to change, even when they consciously want it.

From a spiritual perspective, emotional barriers to healing are energy blocks rooted in the subconscious. They are born from energetic misalignment, like negative emotions, limiting beliefs, and subconscious patterns.

As the name suggests, these patterns block the healing process, impeding our progress and growth. They interrupt the natural flow of energy, also called life force, prana, or chi. 

Common Emotional Barriers to Healing

Emotional barriers to healing come in different forms.

• Unhealability (believing healing isn’t possible)

• Resistance or refusal to feel

• Suppression of emotions

• Pessimism or apathy

• Mistrust of the process

• Self-loathing or shame

• Blame (of self or others)

These behaviors, negative emotions, or thinking patterns have a deeper origin, arising from our energetic body or even our souls. They derive from trauma, fear, or soul-level wounds. Identifying and addressing these barriers is key to achieving spiritual healing. 

How Emotional Barriers Manifest in the Body and Energy Field

Emotional barriers to healing have consequences at all levels. They cause physical symptoms such as tightness, fatigue, and pain, and emotional symptoms such as numbness, fear, or depression. 

They also generate negative effects at an energetic and spiritual level, making you feel scattered and disconnected from your soul, blocking your chakras, and so on. 

Addressing emotional barriers is a vital part of achieving inner transformation. If these are overlooked, we may be treating the symptoms and neglecting the deeper causes with little to no progress. 

A Spiritual Approach to Healing Emotional Barriers

Spiritual healing is a holistic approach to address emotional barriers and release them with energy therapy techniques and spiritual practices.

The Role of Divine Partnership in Healing

Spiritual healing sees the divine as a foundational part of healing; in other words, energy treatments operate under the principle that God is the true healer. 

Inviting a higher power—whether you call it God, Spirit, or the Universe—to the healing process is vital to unlock true transformation that restores you from the core. 

Prayer is the best way to incorporate this universal law into your healing journey. It does not have to be in an established way—what matters is that your prayer is heartfelt and resonates with your beliefs.

Prayer is not only a way to invite a higher power to the process—it is also a portal to channel positivity and universal medicine.

The Power of Presence

When we live in the present and fully engage with our senses, we are in a state of inner alignment and perfect balance, at least for a few seconds. Presence is a doorway to spiritual awareness, where we become a vessel to receive cosmic energies. 

Full awareness promotes the flow of energy, releasing energetic blockages, stagnation, and emotional barriers.

In this sense, tuning into our bodies is more than just a relaxation technique—it’s a path to consciousness, awakening, and healing.

We may be tempted to repress the feelings that cause emotional barriers, hide them, or battle them. But spiritual wisdom teaches us another path—one of surrendering, observing with loving awareness, compassion, and understanding, and finally, releasing what no longer serves us. 

Here is where the concept of “felt sense” comes into play: we should approach these emotions from a detached, objective perspective, focusing on bodily sensations, and allowing natural release.

Step-by-Step Guide: Releasing Emotional Barriers Through Felt Sense

Eugene Gendlin, a renowned psychologist and philosopher, proposes the concept of “felt sense.” He describes it as follows:

“A felt sense is not a mental experience but a physical one. Physical. A bodily awareness of a situation or person, or event”

Here is how to apply this concept to release emotional barriers.

Step 1 – Name the Barrier You Feel

Engage in introspection to recognize which healing block is hindering your growth. Consider the ones we mentioned previously: persistence or refusal to feel, suppression of emotions, pessimism, mistrust of the process, self-loathing, and shame.

If you find it difficult to recognize your emotional barriers, use prompts like “What am I afraid to feel?” or “Which emotions or thoughts am I holding that obstruct healing?”

Step 2 – Locate the Barrier in the Body

Tune into your body and focus on where the sensation lives somatically. Scan your body to identify where it lives. Ask yourself, “Where do I feel tension in my body?” and bring your attention to that area.

Step 3 – Describe the Energetic Texture

Focus on the area in your body where the emotional barrier is located and try to determine how it feels. Identify colors, textures, temperatures, etc. Don’t think too much, avoid reasoning and conceptualization, and focus on bodily sensations. 

Step 4 – Breathe and Stay With It

Keep your attention fixed in that location. Breathe deeply to anchor yourself. If thoughts or distractions arise, let them go and return to your breathing and focus of attention. 

Step 5 – Ask the Energy What It Needs

Ask that sensation: “What do you need?” and allow intuitive insights to arise. This way, you will receive your answer. 

Invite divine guidance or light into the space of the sensation, as a healing power. Be patient with subtler or more abstract sensations, respecting their natural rhythm—the answers may take longer to appear.

Step 6 – Let Healing Unfold Naturally

Emotions have a natural cycle, and when you allow them to unfold and observe them through the lens of conscious awareness, they will leave naturally. Let go of control, be patient, and release them when they finish their process. 

The felt sense method works by harnessing the power of love and understanding. When you bring these subconscious patterns to loving awareness, they often dissolve. 

Spiritual Tools to Support the Release of Emotional Barriers

Additionally, consider other spiritual practices and energetic tools to aid in the release of emotional barriers.

• Prayer and surrender

• Grounding and centering

• Visualization and light work

• Sound healing, crystal work, energy healing

• Journaling to channel emotions

• Spiritual reflection

Final Thoughts on Emotional Barriers and Spiritual Healing

Emotional barriers to healing are part of the human journey. When we acknowledge them and heal them, we evolve as souls. 

Here is where conscious healing is key. Its beauty lies in connecting us with our divine wisdom, our intrinsic power to heal ourselves. 

The path to healing may be challenging and require patience, but remember to trust the process. Whenever you need it, you can always return to your soul’s center. 

If you’re ready to move beyond merely surviving and embrace a life of alignment and peace, I invite you to book a complimentary spiritual consultation, where I’ll personally tune into your energy and guide you.