Feelings are okay

Despite your particular upbringing or the culture’s stigma surrounding feelings, especially if you’re a man, feelings are okay.

For the sake of having a healthier mind, body & culture for that matter, we’ve got to shift our mindset when it comes to our relationship with emotions & feelings.

In my work, I’ve noticed that feelings can either kill you or cure you, & that it’s up to you to determine which it’s going to be.

Uncommunicated feelings that linger for long periods of time, buried deep in the recesses of our minds & bodies, can wreak havoc on our mental & physical health & well-being.

These unresolved & unexpressed feelings carry a kind of energetic charge that the body needs to discharge …

… so it will innately, on its own, work to express itself in its own ways, even though those ways can often leave us in pain.

For example, symptoms like colds, headaches, & other physical pain are the body’s way of communicating that something is going on & it wants your attention drawn to it. Each body pain or symptom can clue you into a particular emotional state that needs to be addressed.

Conversely, by communicating feelings & emotions, especially deep shame & unhealed past trauma, the mind & body can release its grip from these conflicts.

By doing this, the body can begin to release itself from the associated shame & resistance held deep within ourselves, so that we can find a more optimal homeostasis with which to express from.