How to express your emotions.
If you have a hose pipe with water flowing under high pressure that hose pipe will snake all over the garden until you pick up the hose pipe and direct that flow to the plants that need it.
Control is not suppression.
Control is direction.
Control is managing that water to where it is needed; managing that water to nourish your garden. Your emotions need to be recognized, named, acknowledged and expressed. Not suppressed.
Your pain, your anger, your happiness, your sadness, your disappointment needs to be expressed. They need to get out of the darkness of your mind and into your body, your awareness and then channeled into nourishing your life.
Expressing yourself does not mean running down the road with an axe. It does not mean harming others.
It means getting it out in nourishing ways so that it does not harm you.
Sometimes we may feel we don’t do emotions because they bring up uncomfortable feelings, but that’s just another way to push emotions aside and another form of emotional abuse, except we’re doing it to ourselves.
While researching this blog I came across this article:
https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-control-your-emotions#regulate
I especially like number 2 which speaks about emotional regulation.
See, its not so much about the control over our emotions but managing our emotions and finding ways to express not suppress them; we need to liberate our emotions in a way that nourishes us. We need to learn how to stop suppressing emotions, especially those emotions from childhood.
In my previous Blog and Vlog about harnessing both wolves to your sled
(https://mdtransformations.co.za/Blog-Living-with-your-Wolves.html)
I explored how its necessary for both your light and your darkness to have expression in constructive ways.
