Emotions can be wonderful — they add richness, depth, and color to our lives. They can also feel tricky, heavy, and sometimes challenging to release.

Often, emotions are easier to release when they’re tied to a single point of experience — a specific memory, relationship, or event. For example, you might release sadness about a breakup, or grief about a loss. Trying to release all sadness at once, although not impossible, is rare. That level of clearing usually happens during radical spiritual transformation experiences, when the soul opens fully to a new vibration of being.

The Role of the Subconscious and the Unconscious

For lasting release, emotions must be cleared out of the subconscious mind with cooperation from the unconscious mind.

The unconscious has two primary directives:

1. Keep you alive.

2. Keep you safe.

It does many other things as well, but these two are always at the top of the priority list. Because of this, the unconscious may hold onto layers of emotion, believing that it isn’t safe for you to let them go. This is why healing is often compared to peeling the layers of an onion — each layer comes up in its own time, when you are strong enough to release it.

But I think that is shifting. Humanity as a whole is moving through a huge awakening. The pace of healing and releasing is accelerating. People are letting go of old wounds faster than ever before. At the same time, more unresolved emotions, limiting beliefs, and old patterns are rising into awareness to be healed. I believe this is part of the collective transformation.

Celebrate Every Release

Whenever you release sadness — even just one moment of it — celebrate it! Acknowledge the courage it took, and thank your inner self for revealing what’s ready to be healed next.

And as you release more and more, you will feel lighter and lighter, happier, more clear, have greater access to your gifts, and be more aligned with your purpose.

Remember, not all emotions come from this lifetime. You may be carrying ancestral grief or sadness, passed down through your lineage, or echoes from past lives. These too are rising to be seen, loved, and released.

How to Support Emotional Release

There are many gentle and effective ways to assist your body-mind in letting go:

• Deep Breathing
  The diaphragm moves emotional energy with each deep breath. When you hold your breath, emotions get stored. When your breathing is shallow, it can even trigger anxiety. Slow, deep breathing helps emotions flow. (Try the Huna HA Breath here.)

• EFT Tapping with Breath
  Tapping on the EFT points while deep breathing helps move energy more effectively. Focus on the sadness as you breathe, then begin shifting into intention: let it go, let it go, let it go.

• Salt Water Baths
  Salt is deeply cleansing for the energy body. A bath with sea salt or Epsom salts can help clear lingering heaviness.

• Redirecting the Subconscious
  Acknowledge your emotions and your thoughts without judgment: “Yes, I know you’re there… but this is what I choose instead.” Then redirect your focus toward what you want to feel, create, or experience.

• Energy Healing
  Sometimes sadness is held so deeply that it feels difficult to release on your own. Energy healing modalities such as Reiki, Tao Healing Hands, or other forms of spiritual energy work can gently shift the energetic imprints of sadness stored in your field. Energy healing often brings a sense of lightness, peace, or relief, creating a safe space for emotions to rise and dissolve.

Healing is both personal and universal. As you release, you not only lighten your own heart, but also help lift the collective. Honor each step, celebrate each shift, and know that you are part of something much bigger than yourself.