Go With the Flow of Your Emotions
True courage is the willingness to feel every emotion. Consider this emotional courage — the only true courage. I misunderstood this for a long time.
Courage isn’t the absence of emotion, as I was taught as a little boy, a Marine, and an adult man.
The absence of emotion, or refusing to feel emotion, is pure hell and isolation. This is fear of feeling, not courage.
Yesterday, I woke up feeling powerful. Optimism flooded my body and mind, and my whole life was going to positively change in an instant according to my body and mind. This morning I woke up feeling a sense of dread. Catastrophe is imminent according to my body and mind.
I am neither of those states.
They are both temporary and likely untrue. If I truly want to stay stuck, I could allow those emotions to blindly run my life.
In order to truly grow and achieve I’ve needed to learn how to feel emotions, but also to ignore them as well. Being a victim of emotion, a slave to feelings, keeps us in the same pattern and in the same loop.
Feel the feeling, certainly, then move forward into and through the feeling anyway.
Do you allow emotions? Do you feel emotions willingly? Can you name the emotions you feel?
That is courage.
But most importantly, can you feel all emotions and move forward into the direction of your dreams regardless of what you feel?
That, my friends, is real growth.
Independent Contractor
4 年I think it's important to show people how to trust themselves to trust in their ability to withstand pain. I was a bit too emotional and fed into my feelings instead of allowing them to flow. Then, my daughter died and I taught myself, after a few years, to close off hard emotions because the pain from grief was ripping me apart. Now, my dog is dying and I haven't cried yet at all. This is not a sob story but an effort to point out that sometimes we teach ourselves protection from pain and have difficulty finding a happy medium. I'm happy in my life. I'm not too emotional anymore. I don't want to hide my emotions from myself but not sure how to get back. Maybe meditation? Journaling? The fear is real. It's fascinating really to say feeling your emotions is courage because it truly is the way to honor that we are the Divine in action. We're here to have a 3D experience. It is courageous. And it requires a lot of inner work. Thank you for this.
Truth Brother!