Focus on the emotions

A friend of mine sent me this article yesterday. The idea behind it is that we must embrace our emotions - even the "dark ones" that make us feel icky crappy. I completely agree. Feel and process the emotions, relate them to your experience, and go about your day. Problems - big problems arise when we stuff those emotions thinking they'll eventually go away. Kind of like out-of-site, out-of-mind. I lived many years like that - in denial of my true feelings.

Thankfully, through the help of my medication of choice, I am better able to focus on my here and now and can process those emotions more accurately.

I can't think of one person in that I know that couldn't benefit from an occasional visit to a therapist: we all need to talk to someone sometimes - and if that someone isn't emotionally attached to our lives in some ways, they can provide much more objective suggestions to help with our struggles.

Part of being human is having feelings. Part of being alive is in allowing ourselves to fully express those feelings. Squelching them just messes up your mind, body, and spirit and can lead to long-term health issues.

I don't think it's an accident that my tonsils need to be removed. It's how my body as been effected by my years of not allowing myself to fee my emotions. Being of the mind set that our spiritual/mental/emotional energy affects our physical body, and accepting the pending surgery, I am grateful that a tonsillectomy is all I need because of it! I've gotten MUCH better at that - still need to work on it. Thanks to being among the medicated many, I'm better able to do that.