I have talked about the importance of honoring what you are feeling. Faking it until you make it, not allowed. Feelings and emotions land within us for a reason, often we don’t know the reason right away or if at all. Tuning in to what we are feeling and naming the emotions allows space for them to be felt. When it is identified, fully expressed, and experienced it won’t come back for a repeat visit unless it has a new reason.
Who wants to feel anger and sadness? No one. Yet it is often vital.
Recently I had a client that came to the realization that he was very disappointed. Disappointed in himself, in others and in particular circumstances of his life. I offered a tool I have used on myself and with other clients—write it out—turn your feelings into art or set them on fire.
Following my instruction, he wrote out page after page of his disappointments. When he was finished, he not only was exhausted–he was free. Releasing his distress from his mind and body allowed him to see other thought patterns, choose life giving habits and be more liberated. No longer carrying disappointment in his heart he instead chose to be kind, create joy, love unconditionally and trust the unfolding of it all.
He chose to set his pages of disappointments on fire and built a bon-fire in his back yard. As he watched the words crackle, burn and disappear he created a powerful image that he now recalls instead of allowing others to disappoint him.
What do you want to get up and out of your body and set on fire? What you feel is valuable and equally valuable is to realize you are not your feelings. They come in teach a lesson and then to be released and often set to flame.
Cheers, Jenny
