More on Emotions...

While we're on the subject of gushing emotions, I was chatting with a dear friend on the phone yesterday. She told me about working on her professional website, adding a ton of heartfelt information (she's a professional counselor who works mainly with children) and then losing it all in an instant. Anyone else have a story like this? I have a few...that sinking feeling in your gut, the sense of denial. She walked around in a daze for a while, mumbling words of unbelief and pounding on soft objects. We all need a little bit of therapy to work out these kind of emotions. I laughed with her a knowing laugh.

And I loved it...totally. I loved the emotion and the realness and how it grips us and how we learn to feel it and move through it. I have not met a person who cannot relate in someway.

It's easy to let emotions overwhelm us. There was a time when mine ruled supreme. Time and growth teach us that we need equanimity. Emotions are wonderful and natural and legitimate, even necessary, to the human experience. We can't deny them, we can only learn from them and let them change us and motivate us.

Next time you feel a strong emotion, take the time be present. Feel it, be mindful of it, try moving through it with grace. It takes practice...lots of practice. Positive emotions can be wonderful. Negative emotions can be motivating. They both are filled with energy that can fuel change.