During these times of great transformation, we are being called to feel everything we haven’t allowed ourselves to feel before. We are being asked to feel the emotions that we have denied and shunned deep inside. And this is because feeling allows us to heal our emotional wounds.
You see, as we go through life, we tend to store painful emotions in the body. This pain remains lodged within, unable to be healed. In order to dislodge it, we must feel it in the healthiest way possible. When we do, pain moves through us and can be released. We become free of the wounds we have buried.
Empathy helps us with this. When we empathize with ourselves or another, we validate what is being felt. We accept emotions with love, and this enables us to feel them and then let them go. This is how we stop the madness of suffering.
And that is why the best way to support others is to allow them to learn the lessons they came here to experience. This means standing by someone as they endure their difficulties but not interfering, yet indeed holding their hand through life. We must give others the space and freedom to be human and to feel what they came here to feel. We must experience life deeply instead of avoiding, fixing, or judging all that we go through.
We are here to feel things that we can only experience while living a human life. We are meant to learn from our emotional adventures and assist one another in doing this. That is how we experience the growth that our souls’ earnestly desire.
Allow yourself to feel what life brings up in you so that you can fully experience it. You don’t have to react to these experiences or hold on to them – or let them rule you in any way. You simply have to feel them. And once you do, you can let them go because they’re no longer in the present moment. They don’t have to stick around and define beautiful you.
You are here to love, to cry, to laugh, and to feel moved with every fiber of your being, without having to judge any of it. You are here to feel all the nuances of experience, utterly and completely, and take this wisdom with you forever. This is what allows you to gain precious experience. This is how you allow your gorgeous soul to grow.
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Oh, this is so beautiful and so true. I’ve been experiencing just that Suzanne – the desire to allow myself to feel exactly what is, without needing to fix it, or move through it, or overcome it – even when it would normally live in the undesirable or feeling bad or sick category. There is so much freedom in allowing the feeling to just be. Acknowledging it. Letting it go when I’m ready. Thank you so much for this beautiful post.
Francoise, I love the way you describe “allowing the feeling to just be. Acknowledging it. Letting it go when I’m ready.” So much wisdom here, my amazing, wise friend!
Wow!! Suzy, I’ve just had a day spent literally shacking as old emotions, now given permission to “be”, surged their way into the light of my awareness as the true “I” looked on in [relatively] peaceful detachment.
Remember folks – a feeling has but one purpose..to be FELT!
How beautiful it is this is happening all over this amazing planet – we really are ascending aren’t we. Everyone has to come too, we must ascend as one as we are in truth!
Sublime words Suzy, as always. Gratitide o’erflows!
Love & Light
Spence
Hi Spence! Fantastic to read about your experience of peaceful detachment. Really inspiring. I love the way you articulate the purpose of feeling too.
I feel Ascension happening as well. The signs are sometimes delightfully obvious. More and more every day, tho gradual …
It’s an honor to have you here at this blog! With much gratitude : ) ~Suzy
Yeah Suzy, it is gradual isn’t it, and this can be seriously challenging; the awakening in myself has taken years and continues to evlove (happily ever more rapidly) and patterns are constantly discovered and discarded but recognizeed as a necessary steps on the path. Given time is a human concept I suposse it’s no wonder the process is gradual down here where we are bound by rigid investment in the absolute nature of time & space. Patience must be a true virtue. All Love. Spence
What a simply wonderful article, powerfully oozing wisdom and authenticity, sincere regards, Barry
Thanks so much!
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Old Emotions and Old Wounds are certainly a burden with which it is difficult to deal. It can be very challenging to “feel” One’s way through these experiences. Your subject is, as always, on Time and on Target.
Hawk! Awesome to have you here, wise one. Thank you for bringing up how challenging it can be – indeed, excruciating!
On my journey, I’ve found that after I face my pain (face the way I’ve really been feeling about myself!) I break through with revelations so profound, they are well worth all the pain. But getting there – ah – not easy at all, as you remind us so well. Thank you.
So true! “on Time and on Target” – just awesome.
Your article reminds me of the rock opera Tommy, experiencing feelings that had long been hidden burst out into the light of life…each one of us have those feelings…wanting to break out from the bondage we keep them in…life your life to its fullest! Let every feeling burst out and be what it is…some are rue joy, some are pure fear…some are pure love…yet others are your hidden talent, your unique way of being……in doing so we are that one step closer to the light.
You rock, James! Love the image. Thank you for reminding us to “Let every feeling burst out and be what it is.” : )
Lovely article. The problem with most is that they’re in the habit of ‘thinking’ instead of ‘feeling.’ Especially in this culture, we’re programmed to fill up space, no create it. If more of us learned to feel just as often as we think… imagine the possibility! Thank you.
Thank you for bringing up thinking instead of feeling. So true! I tend to do both excessively : ) Love your point about filling up space too. Isn’t it funny how we can’t just be silent and feel?
Great to have you here Alice. I encourage everyone to check out your amazing blogs: http://www.awakeningstartsnow.com/
Beautiful article. Our stillness brings wisdom and a way to do this is to listen and look – we have forgotten how to do this and how to be in the here and now and to be still.
Thank you for this poignant reminder. Really appreciate you sharing here! ~Suzy
Feel and deal is the only way to live. Suzy have you ever notice it’s not as bad as we are feeling? Our minds can make it much bigger than it really is. Our mind can be our friend or foe. It’s hard to feel depressed when you are thinking about something good. One reason I love God so much, is because of his grace, the freedom to choose. And with empathy we learn to give ourselves and others a break. We can stop judging others only when we stop judging ourselves. It’s a great feeling to be human! Thanks my friend for the great post.
Vernon, you have no idea how much I needed to hear these words today. Thank you from all of us on this blog!