The Art of Allowing Your Emotions

The presence of an emotion within you is that emotion already on its way out…

Whether it’s positive, negative, or neutral, if you’re feeling it, it’s moving through and out of you.

Emotions are transient.

BUT… when we cling to the positive and resist the negative, we end up prolonging the negativity and shortening the positivity.

Think about it: when you feel really good, you think “I don’t want this to go away.” And that itself disturbs the nature of the positivity.

Like when you’re on vacation having an amazing time, but the entire time you’re thinking “ugh, I have to go back to reality in 3 days…”

You interfere with the purity of the positivity.

And when a negative emotion is present, you think “go away. I hate this. This shouldn’t be here. I shouldn’t be feeling this.”

And by doing so, you make the negativity WORSE.

But if you could remain neutral, passive, and open, you would allow both the positivity and the negativity to move through you seamlessly.

We are like rivers through which life flows. But because we cling to the positive and resist the negative, we create all this resistance.

We create blocks.

This causes more turmoil, and more tension.

The art is to allow.

Allow the positivity, and allow the negativity. Your emotions are on their own timeline.

Notice how you’re not in that super upbeat mood you were in 2 days ago… and similarly how you’re not still in that negative state you were in a week ago.

All flows.

The more you cling, and the more you resist, the more you disturb the positive emotions, and the more you prolong the negative emotions.

When you’re feeling like sh*t, rather than resisting it, fighting it, pushing it away and invalidating yourself, try to instead become curious.

Become inquisitive. Ask yourself: what is this emotion informing me of?

Our emotions are like messengers that are elucidating us to deeper things going on.

Your negative emotions aren’t errors, they’re informants.

Kinda like a headache: it’s there because of some other underlying cause.

If you just mask the headache to run away from it, you never find out why it was there in the first place.

And consequently, you usually end up continuing to do the things that are CAUSING the headache.

But when you develop the mindset of neutral curiosity, you’re able to become informed of what the emotions are trying to tell you.

Emotions can’t speak in words; they signal through feeling.

It’s your job as a sovereign being to troubleshoot and determine why it’s there, and what you can do to alleviate it (assuming it’s a negative emotion).

You’re not a victim of your emotions; you’re an active participant in understanding their nature, why they’re there, and what you can do to work with them.