Why Crying is Important for Your Wellbeing

At a time like this, emotions are running high.

People are losing their jobs, selling their homes, grieving for their loved ones, and struggling with their finances. The world took an unexpected turn about two months ago and people weren’t ready. Now, that’s understandable. How can you really get “ready” for something like Covid-19? You cannot but you can be prepared – and by prepared, I mean mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Life is always going to be full of random turns and the sooner we accept that, the easier it’ll be for us to focus on lessons, solutions, and growth. However, even when you choose to have a positive perspective, you may still be feeling some ‘negative’ feelings that you want to release. That’s ok, release them. It’s healthy.

Life is a balance. Don’t forget that. Everything in this world is balanced; sun, moon; yin, yang; woman, man; young, old; dark, light; cold, hot; up, down; in, out; love, hate; awake, asleep, and you get the point. Therefore, it’s more than clear that we as humans are filled with both negative and positive energy and should be free to express both.

It’s funny, although crying and releasing pain from your body is a positive thing, the specific action of crying based on feeling sad or feeling any low vibrational emotion is negative. See the image below for The Emotional Guidance Scale.

However, again, crying is positive but only when you’re crying to spiral up the ladder and not further down. Crying can be extremely and beneficially therapeutic. It’s a way to release what you’ve been holding in and what’s been holding you back. Crying is so powerful that it can be used as a healing method because your tears shed stress toxins and stress hormones. Dr. William Frey, a Biochemist classified as the “tear expert” discovered that we have two different kinds of tears; emotional and reflex. Our reflex tears contain 98% water, but our emotional tears contain the stress toxins and hormones I mentioned earlier. Therefore, when you cry emotional tears, you release that emotional pollution fogging up your body.

The next time you’re thinking of holding back your tears, don’t. You’re only holding in the emotional pollution and that is why you’re probably feeling unwell. Cry until you feel an emotional release! If you haven’t already, watch the video above for a guided crying meditation.

Stay magical,

Brooke