Repressed emotions

Cleanses the system of poisons accumulated from bad eating habits, a poor environment, and suppressed or repressed emotions... 

During the time of acute effect, about four or six hours, feelings of fear and anxiety lift. One feels that one can examine both one s motives and actions, and those of others, calmly and objectively, with acceptance and compassion. Affection and acceptance temporarily replace one s fears. The dominant experience is one of calm and understanding. Depending on the material contained in the unconscious, the patient will deal with any situation, from childhood traumas, to long-felt adult insecurities, to deeply repressed emotions. 

Esterling, B.A. et al., Emotional repression, stress diclosure responses, and Epstein-Barr viral capsid antigen titers, Psychosomat. Med., 52, 397, 1990. 

An important related problem is the degree to which a given percipient is at home in his own mind. If his Unconscious processes mainly represent repressed and unaccepted emotions as in ordinary kinds of psychopathology, the direct contact with those possible in some d-ASCs may not aid psi but instead be catastrophic. We should not expect to get more psi simply by putting people more directly in touch with their Unconscious minds. We also need to do some psychotherapy or growth work. 

Type A treatment relies on the effect of the overwhelming psychedelic experience. Dosage levels too low to induce the critical experience of surrender leave the individual trapped in his pretensions. Massive doses may release material too fast and too heavily charged with emotion for the subject to find symbols to encode the experience until so late in the session that much is forgotten and repressed again. Very heavy demands are placed on the therapist during the ses-... 

Many clinical observations indicate that neurogenic factors in some way influence the development and maintenance of essential hypertension. It has long been recognized that stressful situations may induce marked increases in both systolic and diastolic pressures which persist for varying periods of time (21, 38), and that hypertensives tend to have a characteristic type of personality (2, 99. Such individuals usually exhibit important components of repressed antagonism and anxiety. They do not find emotional outlets in overt acts, but rather their emotions are expressed through an increased activity of the sympatho-adrenal system with a consequent increase in blood pressure. Relief of psychic tension frequently produces salutary effects in these patients. Individuals who show hyperactive sympathetic vasomotor reflexes (as measured by the cold pressor test) are much more prone than the average individual to develop hypertension in later life (57). 

Finally, we should note that a great many things are stored in Memory but not available in the ordinary d-SoC. The emotional charge connected with those memories makes them unacceptable in the ordinary d SoC, and so defense mechanisms repress or distort our recall of such information, in various d-ASCs the nature of the defense mechanisms may change or their intensity of functioning may alter, allowing the memories to become more or less available. 

Being in a particular identity state also functions as limiting stabilization. The identity leads to selective perception to make perceptions congruent with the reigning identity state. Certain kinds of perceptions that might activate other identity states are repressed. The tortured child is perceived as an "enemy agent," not as a "child." This keeps emotional and attention/awareness energy out of empathic processes that, if activated, would undermine and disrupt the "soldier" identity. 

Historically, paradigm clashes have been characterized by bitter emotional antagonisms and total rejection of the opponent. Currently we see the same sort of process the respectable psychiatrist, who would not take any of those "psychotomimetic" drugs himself or experience that crazy meditation process, carries out research to show that drug-takers and those who practice meditation are escapists. The drug-taker or meditater views the same investigator as narrow-minded, prejudiced, and repressive, and as a result drops out of the university. Communication between the two factions is almost nil. 

Accessing the past Images of childhood may afford access to repressed memories and emotions. 

Immediate factors Mood Happy, calm, relaxed, or euphoric Depressed, overexcited, repressing significant emotions... 

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