When All Emotions Are Welcome

Earlier this week,

I wrote about how there are no bad emotions.

I’ve been pondering this idea that a dear friend shared with me:

What if we normalized the idea that

feeling sad and crying

was just as valuable

as feeling happy and laughing?

Learning how to hold space for your pain,

to be truly present with it,

helps you to move through it

and toward the healing and growth

that can come from it.

✨ Our greatest spiritual teachers

are often the experiences that cause us the most pain.

But when we avoid emotional pain,

we stay stuck in discomfort for much longer

(sometimes our whole life).

When we’re having a hard time,

we often hide our emotions and avoid conversations

because we’re afraid that our difficult emotions

will make others so uncomfortable that they'll withdraw their love...

And along with it, our sense of belonging and acceptance.

This is actually an understandable response to living in a culture

that teaches us that unpleasant emotions aren’t welcome.

But if we didn’t feel the need to stifle or suppress uncomfortable feelings,

if it was more acceptable to just feel down sometimes,

then there would likely be a profound shift in our culture

toward authentic connection and improved emotional well-being.

If we could all let go of the need to mask emotions,

then we’d feel less repressed and more authentically ourselves.

So... what if the cultural norm of staying strong and stoic

was replaced by a culture of honest vulnerability ~

allowing people to feel seen, heard, held, and loved,

no matter how they're feeling?

If we love ourselves enough

to welcome all of our emotions,

and we learn to sit with ourselves (and each other) in our pain,

then we’ll know in our hearts

that we’re still just as loved and wanted 

when we’re sad.

We'll learn that we don’t need to be fixed

in times when we aren’t perfectly happy.

And that we’re worthy, just as we are.

When we truly allow all of our human emotions to belong,

we'll feel safe to be vulnerable — with ourselves and others.

"What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human." ~ Brené Brown

💕 A Loving Reflection:

Can you remember a time when someone simply sat with you in your pain —without trying to fix you?

If you don’t have a memory to pull from,

imagine if someone just held a compassionate space for your emotions.

Notice how that felt, or would feel, in your body.

This is the kind of presence we all deserve.

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Let’s rise together ~ in Love & Light,

Jaime

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