According to many researchers, unprocessed emotional experiences end up trapped within our physical and energetic body. Many times this can lead to a plethora of unwanted symptoms, often unrecognized as being related to a previous undigested experience. Suppressed Emotion Detoxes help to identify these subconscious emotions and release them, without needing to know where the emotions or beliefs came from, why they are there, or talking about the experience. I like to think of energy clearings like talk therapy, but on fast forward - and without the talking.
During a SED, you get to choose whether you want to actively participate in the clearing process or simply relax and passively release things. Prior to identifying any of your subconscious beliefs or trapped emotions, you can choose whether you want the intention of the clearing to be around something specific (an event, feeling, specific part of the body, etc.) or if you prefer it to be a general clearing; you can choose to work with your present day self, parts of yourself (coming from Internal Family Systems), younger versions of yourself (inner child) or with inherited and generational things (be it from the collective or from your family).
I like to think of energy work like the layers of an onion. We have to start somewhere, and that’s the outermost layer of the onion. Once we are able to release whatever is within the first layer, more and more things will start to become ready to be released. With all energy work, only what the body is ready to release can be cleared; we can’t force anything to be cleared from our energy system - sometimes it’s only a handful of emotions or a single belief, sometimes it’s hundreds - even thousands of them. The body will tell us how much and what is ready to be released at any given time, and you should not expect to be able to clear out everything in a single session (remember, we’re an onion). Oftentimes the more consistent you are, the more ready different emotions and beliefs will be.
At the end of a session, most people feel noticeably lighter. Some people will experience an emotional release (crying) during or after a session, some people will feel extremely relaxed, some people may feel a little agitated for the remainder of the day; everyone is different and it’s impossible to know exactly how every person will feel. Because energy is subtle, the shifts you experience may also show up in a very subtle way, so don’t be disappointed if you don’t feel some huge smack-you-in-the-face shift; it’s still working whether you have an obvious experience or not.