What is your feeling forecast today? Have you looked up and around to see if there are clouds on the horizon? Or, do you see a startling blue ocean of endless sky? As we are moving through life, we are all faced with handling emotions that bubble up inside of us at a moment’s notice. Do you acknowledge what you are feeling as you hold it in your hand to observe it? Do you bring it close to your ear to hear it whisper its message to you? Do you try it on and really feel it on your skin while wearing it? Do you smell and taste it on your tongue, then breathe it in to experience it in all of your senses? And last but not least, do you let it go? Or do you push down, hold back, and bottle up undesirable feelings? If you do not acknowledge, accept and express that anger, sadness, pain, anxiety or fear inside of you, then it will settle inside of your body for a nice nap. While it is sleeping, it takes up space with its negative energy. If you listen carefully, you can hear its soft, grumbling snores. Although it is sleeping, it will grow in size and weight as it develops a hyper-sensitivity to anything that might trigger it. When it awakens, it will roar in discomfort at being contained in such a small space and attempt to get out again. Now, you have another chance to acknowledge, accept and express it so it can leave you and evolve into what it was intended to be. If you stuff it down again by singing it back to sleep, you will be carrying a heavy stone in the pit of your stomach, or perhaps elsewhere in your body. If you don’t eventually set it free, it will attempt to free itself, quite possibly in the form of an illness. When you are walking on the path of your life, bravely facing the weather that greets you, lift your eyes toward the sky and walk through that storm. See the dark clouds overhead and let yourself feel the rain of tears washing over your body. You don’t have to stop and stand directly under the storm cloud forever. Square your shoulders and keep walking through it. Before you know it…around the next bend, the dazzling sun will burst forth and brighten your day. When you master the art of being fully present in the moment no matter what it brings while feeling your way through life with an open heart, you will have a deep understanding and complete experience of what it means to truly live.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 12:31:15 +0000
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