Understanding Truth Amongst Your Own Emotions
This can be a really tough area for a lot of people to come up with in an honest format. People who have spent a lot of time on autopilot start to view their emotions as a burden or something to always fix, rather than embracing them for what they are.
If we understand the simple truth, that the emotions within our body are created from converting energy based off of our experience, then they really are a form of creation within ourselves of the energy that we’re putting out into the world and holding within ourselves.
If we looked at some of the self-soothing statements around that like “I’m too emotional to deal with that” and we really thought about it for a moment, we would realize that no, you’re emotional because you are dealing with that.
When did society make emotions a bad thing? Or worse yet why do we agree to perpetuate that lie?
If we understand that emotions are simply the conversion of one energy to another, then what is the purpose? Well, the simple answer is that they are the colors that exist in the painting that we call our life. Most people understand that being numb and traveling through life is excruciating for a multitude of reasons. For some reason though, we look at the entitlement that we should only ever have to feel the good emotions and that’s simply not true. Many of our life events or many of our lessons within life are rooted in struggle and difficulties and the truth is, with those two things will come negative emotions as well.
I don’t want to over focus in this case on just the negative. Nowadays I even see people struggling with the positive emotions, the moment they seem happy or they’re able to relax or feel content there’s an inherent need to blow it up or self-sabotage, and I believe this all comes back down to the fundamental belief that it’s not okay to be emotional.
I want to be very clear when I say this, YOU and EVERYBODY that you’ve ever connected with is an emotional creature! That in itself is a very beautiful thing!
It is okay to feel but there is a space between the event and the emotions that allow you to change the reaction and choose the emotion, if you’re willing to do the work to be present enough to see the space.