Speaking Volumes

I love books. I like to read them and devour them and be transported by their contents. I could hangout in a library all the live long day.

Humans are like walking, talking breathing libraries to me. Instead of books, we have many, many emotional experiences during our lifetimes. We accumulate painful and joyful experiences. Our internal shelves are filled with the wanted and unwanted.

We bask and bathe in our joyful and happy experiences and struggle and resist our painful ones. We all have our personal mixture of joy and sorrow. Our experiences and our responses to them make us.

We can consciously choose to edit our emotional libraries. Instead of clinging to wonderful experiences - allow them, learn from them and release them. Instead of avoiding or repressing painful experiences- allow them, learn from them and release them.

The key is not to resist our emotions but to allow and learn from the information they bring us. Understand the personal lessons our emotions afford us and let them go.

Acknowledge. Learn. Release.

Some of us disassociate from our emotions, some of us dwell in them. When we mindfully move our emotions through our body/being, we open up space for more rich experiences and well being. Keeping our emotions flowing through us gives us room to grow, thrive, and contribute - creating a beautiful library of our own stories.