Do you ever wake up with the weight of the world on your chest? We wake up, rub our eyes, check our phones and scroll through endless news stories of terrorist attacks, a massive fire in a high rise, desperate parents throwing their children out the window hoping to save them, a police officer acquitted for shooting a black man during a traffic stop in front of his wife and child, when he reached for his wallet, a moslem teenager raped and murdered while leaving her mosque.
How can we possibly process all of this without falling into the depths of dispair or becoming angry at how unjust it all seems to be?
Some days it's all just too much.
Golden Tears by Gustavo Klimt
“Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer.”
{Kripalvanandji}
The Healing Power of a Good Cry
Sometimes it just hurts our hearts and we become overwhelmed with emotion.
Society tells us we have to be strong, don't let our emotions get the best of you and don't let anyone see you cry, especially if you're a man. Crying is weakness. Anyone ever told you that before?
I'm here to remind you that there is no greater release, than to allow yourself to feel and to grieve...yes even to cry.
Pain is not something to hide and be ashamed of and we don't have to simply get over it.
Feeling is a measure of our humanity. When we cry, we are allowing ourselves to recognize our pain and to move through it.
Why is this important? Because what lies beneath our pain is the most beautiful gift. It's truly a treasure.
Rumi says, "The wound is where the light enters you."
This healing that washes over you when you move through the process of pain and letting go is that feeling of grace. That place within us that reminds us that we're connected deeply to one another, to the elements, to our creator.
Do not suppress your emotions, don't ignore them..please I implore you, doing so is the root cause of all disease "dis-ease". Allow yourself to feel and to connect and move the processes of grief and healing. This is how we grow. Tears are not a sign of weakness. To feel deeply is a sign of great strength.
Thank you for hearing my thoughts this morning, it's what was on my heart to share.