feeling
feeling and the fear of feeling…
fear of emotion is a real thing. in a society that completely disregards emotion and sees it as something inconvenient that just ”happens to be there”, if you’re able to develop a healthy attitude towards your emotions you can consider yourself pretty lucky. most of us are used to shutting them down. sometimes we even shut down our happy emotions, because not even that feels safe to feel. we have emotions about our emotions. we might be scared to feel grief, or anxious to feel angry, or angry to feel fear. we don’t feel safe to feel what we feel. this is a generational trauma for most if not all humans. most of us are afraid to fully feel.
it is a practice to be with our emotions, one that will never really end, but once we truly see, hear and feel them, the fear melts. slowly. and if you are scared to feel, know that you are not alone. far from it. but you might want to stay with that fear first. in order to truly feel sometimes we have to acknowledge that we have a fear of feeling itself. it’s okay to be scared, and it’s completely understandable. but ultimately, there are no real sharks here, they only swim in the waters of our minds.