Truth

I was speaking yesterday to a dear, beautiful friend and I was saying how sharing my joy feels so different than sharing my pain. 

We started thinking that, perhaps, as children, when we showed joy, laughter, and happiness - our parents/caretakers were comfortable and content around us.  When we shared pain, tears, distraught - our parents/caretakers did not react, perhaps, as open and comfortable.

This would create a little human being to easily share their pleasure and, perhaps, want to hide their pain.  Getting uncomfortable feedback or worse would teach a child to keep it to themselves or have a bit of fear sharing same.

Just a thought. 

If this is a learned feeling/behavior, the good news is this can be changed.  We can support ourselves to feel it all and be okay and recognize they are all just emotions of being alive.  We can choose to just let them be.  Allow our feelings to surface; feel them and let them go.

Ah, what a gift to oneself.  What a gift to others if we would all stand in our truth and support one another's; no matter what it is as openly and as best as we can.

Feel it, maybe share it, let it go (all lovingly) and create anew and better.

May you support yourself in feeling what your body/mind/spirit so wants you to feel. 

My belief is that there is beauty, freedom and light in doing so.