[What did I learn today? Lessons on the Journey to Unconditional Self Love] Feel

“grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.” ― Nayyirah Waheed

One of my favorite lessons is "feel my feelings." Feel them. When you bury
them alive they don't die. You bury them and they fester, they manifest in dis-ease, in anger, in
fear, in lashing out and poor decisions. Feel them and let them go. I was taught to suck it up, to be strong, to have on big girl panties. And
I know this was taught to me by my grandma because she had to do that to
survive, showing feelings in her day was a sign of weakness which would
result in a beating, a whipping or some sort of punishment

I resisted this lesson for a very long time. Feel the feelings? Are you
kidding me? I will not be able to function, I will just fix and put them
aside. And so my approach was to forget it, put it out of my mind and fix it. Until the proverbial shit hit the fan. Then I realized that I could not fix everything and in particular there was
nothing "wrong" with me that needed fixing. I decided to feel, and boy oh boy, it was through the fire, I felt, I
burnt, I laughed, I cried, I howled, I bawled, I stayed in my PJ's for 2
days, I released I learnt that the process was to feel.deal.heal and the process begins with feel not fix not be busy not judge not criticize not complain not hide not blame not eat copious amounts of chocolate Feel Feel it, deal with it and it will be healed. Heal it Peace

-- Posted By Blogger to What did I learn today? Lessons on the Journey to
Unconditional Self Love on 5/23/2016 12:57:00 pm