What?!
How can it be a problem to feel too many emotions? I understand the point: we can't rely on our emotions when we are making critical decisions. Emotions can be highly volatile and capricious.
So tell us to make sure we know the source of our emotions and explore assumptions we may be making. That's fair. Don't tell us to shut our emotions off.
I talked to a friend today who got tears in her eyes telling me about her feelings regarding a certain situation. I actually think this was the first time I have seen this friend with tears in her eyes. She was beautiful in that moment, partly because I could see into her heart and partly because I could connect to it. That's what emotions do.
Emotions are not to be feared, even when they are making us scream and hit walls and cry for an hour. They are tools for communication. I will never understand why certain methods of communication are more highly favored than others. If we have to get a message across, we will most likely do it in the form that best fits the message to us in that moment. There needs to be much more space for relaying messages through emotion. We all need to become better interpreters of others' emotional messages.
Take what I say with a grain of salt. Obviously, there is a lot more to this issue than I want to delve into here. Let it suffice to say that I am a huge supporter of "overly emotional" women (and men, although that is rare).
Take some time to get in touch with how you are feeling right now. If you could express yourself with as much freedom as a three year old, what would you do? Giggle until you threw yourself into a coughing fit? Throw yourself on the floor and scream until you were red in the face? Explore the beauty of raw emotion and appreciate it in others. This is what separates us from computers. This is my challenge to you.
(Picture taken from http://fineartamerica.com/featured/emotional-woman-natalie-holland.html)
I was just talking to my friends about this! I told them lately I feel like a pregnant woman. (I'm not, by the way...) But I find it funny now that showing more emotions was linked in my own head to having "out of control" hormones! Maybe I should just focus on and embrace the fact that I'm becoming more in touch with things that move me.
ReplyDeleteOh, that "Out of Control" feeling.... it comes and goes - - it's what we learn and how we handle it that makes us seem grownup (to ourselves, anyway).. :) Less coffee, more sleep, and harder exercise - - LOL
DeleteI does seem 'emotions' swing - some day's I feel in control, other day's I feel the emotion in more in control and on those days I try to use my mind more to take over the situation.... :) doesn't always work.... LOL - Good Read!
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