Emotion is moving energy. As long as there is no blockage along the designed highways then each feeling is a specific journey of release and regaining clarity and center. It is when the blocking takes place through education, programming, pressure, etc. that “pain begins to develop. And it is this pain that so many people become afraid of feeling. The irony here is that the “pain” is the actual remedy in progress.
So, information, understanding, and new experience are necessary to start to replace the existing paradigm of flaws, limitations, and that’s just the way it is syndromes. One heals by going inward.
As we start to remember and reclaim our deeper knowing of personal power we start to entee the rooms we have locked and barred for so long to find that they are nothing like we fearfully imagined. The release of strong emotion is but a process of a limited duration, certainly not something that will consume us to a life of horror. Knowing this will give us the courage and willingness to enter that room and start the healing.
Sadness and grief are heart and lung based. They involve air and water, both fluid substances that cannot be contained. To put a finger in the dike is to invite a build up of pressure and an eventual explosion. The salve that heals both of these emotions is a combination of breath and tears. Transcending any personal messages regarding the act of releasing tears is necessary to give us back our capacity to clear ourselves. Lijke so many of these emotions it is truly just taking the first step out of the old paradigm that releases the strangle hold the old paradigm has. That first step in the new direction, that first tear, immediately initiates a new process and a host of external and internal energetic support. That first tear send signals throughout the bodies that the release has begun. The cells and systems align to support the movement of the old…finally
Cry and cry and cry and then cry some more. That is the remedy for sadness. Nurturing self care is a beautiful companion to the tears as well. Do that and you will support yourself in entering the sacred kingdom that reveals a deeper you, just on the other side of the resistance.
Depression is a process of rediscovering a greater truth of who we are to reveal a more whole, more mature love based being with active compassion, empathy, and gratitude/grace muscles. The phases of the journey must be given their acknowledgement, their due, their time. Denial is necessary to gather the energies to enter the next phase. With renewed resources one can face the amorphous fears that arise in the loss and see them for what they are. This gives permission for the explosion of the anger to project outward, which then leads to the tender places where the sadness cradles the heart, where the memories of life before the loss are relived and blessed and laid down to rest, where we begin to discern the value of the loss and find a greater sense of self, where we rise up to allow the love wash to seed the joy that peppers the horizon…
The seasons always change. The sun rises every morning. The bird sings eventually. The one who allows the process immersing the whole self into every nook and cranny of feeling and memory will see the new dawn eventually. And in this morning light they will rediscover a deeper truth of their being that was always there, and like the seed that needs the destruction of the fire before sprouting forth, this precious one will become the precious Me That I Am more than ever before, glorious in expression. It comes down to trusting the design and being the willing participant in a procession of recovery that is as perfect as it gets….