Emotional Release · “Die to Be Reborn”
Feeling the Feeling Fully
Fully allow and stay present with an emotion — especially fear or pain — letting it be felt completely until it is embraced and releases, instead of denying, fixing, or acting it out.
In one line: When a hard feeling comes, turn toward it, let it be felt fully and “unobstructed,” embrace it with faith (don’t deny it), own it and look at it — then let it go and return to love.
What it is
A central practice of Jayem’s The Way of Mastery, where “Feeling is everything” and “unbridled, unblocked, unobstructed feeling is the doorway” to awakening.
Rather than analyzing, suppressing, fixing, or acting out an emotion, you let yourself feel it completely — most pointedly the difficult ones (fear, grief, pain) — and you embrace the experience with faith instead of defending against it.
The teaching reverses the usual instinct: the feeling is not the enemy or an obstacle to bypass; it is the very material of healing, and what you fully feel and own can finally be released. It belongs to the emotional-release family — a present-moment, allow-and-embrace move rather than a cognitive one.
The Method
- Stop and turn toward it. When an emotion arises, don’t run, distract, or rationalize. Turn toward the feeling — the lesson is emphatic that feeling, not concept, opens the doorway.
- Let it be felt — fully. Allow the sensation completely, “unbridled, unblocked, unobstructed.” Drop the resistance and the urge to manage it. Feel where it lives in the body.
- Embrace it with faith, don’t deny it. The teaching frames healing as embracing experience with faith, not denial of the dream — you meet fear or pain with acceptance, trusting it is safe to feel, rather than hiding from it.
- Own it, look at it. Acknowledge it as yours — “own it, look upon it” — without judging yourself for having it. Honest ownership is part of the release.
- Then let it go. Having felt and owned it, “let it go” — you release the feeling rather than store, suppress, or act it out. Releasing follows from feeling, not from forcing.
- Return to love. With the charge discharged, the moment is freed for the choice for love (the companion practice). Repeat whenever feeling arises. (Sourcing note: faithful paraphrase with short identifying phrases quoted; no extended copyrighted text reproduced.)
Source & Lineage
From Jayem (Jon Marc Hammer), The Way of Mastery (the Christ Mind Trilogy), presented as lessons channeled from “Jeshua” beginning in 1987; the feeling-centered teaching is especially prominent in The Way of the Heart.
It is the experiential counter-weight to ACIM’s conceptual style — where the Course can be read as “rising above” feeling, the Way of Mastery makes feeling itself the doorway. Distinct in this library from Sedona’s welcoming/allowing (a structured release-question method), Keating’s Welcoming Prayer (a contemplative-Christian consent practice), and RAIN (a four-step mindfulness map): Jayem’s “embrace” is a faith-framed full-feeling-then-release move within the Christ-mind teaching.
Common refinements
Wallowing vs. feeling. Re-telling the story that generates the feeling is rumination, not the embrace; stay with the raw sensation, then release.
- Skipping the release. Feeling without ever letting go can become re-traumatizing looping — the practice is feel-own-then-let-go.
- Forcing intensity. “Fully” means without resistance, not cranking the feeling up; let it be as big as it honestly is.
- Acting it out. Discharging fear/anger onto others is not feeling it — keep the embrace internal.