Emotional turmoil
Sometimes it feels like you’ve already done this ( This, again?!) Keep riding and keep turning on the light. There can be many layers and sometimes it can feel like they are endless. Like our phyical muscles, our emotional muscles must be strengthened through repeated overloading. Sometimes these emotions can pop up at the seemingly most inopportune times. Love yourself while you ride the emotional waves and turn on the lights. See the shadows for what they are: mere illusions. Like the shadows in the dark, when you turn on the light and look at them, you will see that the scary shadow no longer exists. By pushing them away, they only become more scary. My dearest friend, know that you are far more resilient than your feelings. Have faith that others have survived the wave.
That is precisely when we most need to keep riding, because like the wave it then crashes. It will rise up in a crest, and that’s when we most feel like we cannot handle it. Holding and loving ourselves mentally and even physically as we would love a child who has a scraped knee while we feel our feelings quells the pain of the emotions. Breathing, crying, trembling, as we’re feeling what we’re feeling – and feeling it fully – is walking through the shadow of death. The truth is that by sitting with what we’re feeling makes us stronger. This gives away our power to what we are feeling, and we then become slaves to our emotions. As children we are taught to fear our emotions, to push them down, aside, away… anywhere but here, maybe we’ll deal with this later, we were taught. Overcoming emotional turmoil is about knowing that we are stronger than our emotions.