004. Riding the Wave
Emotions. We all experience them. But are we allowing ourselves to ride the wave of the emotion? To be present with what’s present?
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This episode is about riding the wave of our emotions. Often, we learn growing up that our emotions are not welcome. We form habits of holding them back.
Emotion is energy in motion.
With whatever is presenting in our body, in our heart, we want to ride the wave. We want to be with it and let the circle complete itself. When we feel sad or angry and we suppress as opposed to just riding the wave. Riding the wave means allowing the emotion to come up and giving it whatever space it needs.
If it's sadness, it might be just giving yourself permission to have a good cry and not putting a time limit on it, just allowing your body to fully process whatever this energy in motion needs. You might be crying for a couple of minutes, it might take longer. When we ride the wave of our emotion, we create space in our bodies. We complete the loop. We are with what is present. So that it doesn't stay with us for longer than it needs to. The energy can move whatever it needs to move. And once it's complete, we can just move on from there. That's really all we need.
When emotions come up, we don't need to understand what they are about. We don't need to make meaning out of them. We just want our bodies to be able to process them, to notice when something arises in your body, to give it the space it needs and to let it complete itself.
Often in life, we get stuck or hung up on certain situations, on certain relationships because we don't allow the cycle to complete itself. It might be that we have a certain idea of what something has to be – the same way we feel about our emotions.
We might think, I don't want to experience sadness. I don't want to feel so low. By not allowing ourselves to express that, we actually carry that with us for longer than we need to. More often than not, emotions just need a couple of seconds, maybe a couple of minutes to move through our body. It is the same with a situations or a relationship. Can we really allow it to be whatever it needs to be?
I notice myself often having ideas what a certain relationship or career move needs to be. I can focus on the outcome. I can even miss what is truly present. It isn't about the outcome at all. It's about riding the wave. It's about the process. It's about being in the moment and in that allowing whatever is presenting, whatever emotion is coming up the space that it needs. So that it can be whatever it needs to be. In doing that, we actually create the space for even more possibility than we thought there was.
We open ourselves up to an entire new dimension of what's possible, because we're not holding on to what we think something needs to be.
My invitation to you when you are experiencing an intense emotion is to be present with them. Noticing where you feel the emotion your body. Bringing awareness to it. Giving it whatever space it needs. It might not even take more an a few minutes. Give the sadness, the anger, the joy what it needs. Make room for it in your body. Let the energy move through your body. Let it clear you up. Let it cleanse you.
And maybe you can take that same intention to a situation or a relationship or a plan you want to make. Can you let it be whatever it needs to be whatever it wants to be and not make it what you think it needs it to be?
take yourself out of the equation and watch what's possible.
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