When we allow ourselves to feel the sadness and flow with it, sadness is a wonderful feeling that guides us through what’s changing. Is “wonderful” the right word? I’m not sure if any word is perfect to describe flowing feelings after they’ve been stuck, but it’s close.
Like all the other emotions that we would have called ‘negative’ in the past, the only thing “wrong” with sadness is getting stuck in it and missing that wonderful expansiveness that comes with it as we find the “wholeness” in it.
There’s some underlying physical causes that can be involved in a never ending loop of sadness. So, even if you think you have good cause to be sad, if it’s been happening for a long time, then email me for a summary of those physical things that we’ve already talked about, that can add unnecessary pressure to sadness.
The diagram talks about the stuckness of sadness is what makes it feel so crappy. And of course, in our utterly normal everyday connection to others, is it all our sadness? Or is there something to know or do for or about someone else that is keeping us from creating what we care about? Whether it’s our sadness or someone else’s we’re picking up on, it’s guiding us through our change place.
Our photo: The photo of a wild koala in their back yard was taken by Sara Leitch down on the Mornington Peninsula of Victoria. The words on the photo “Sadness can be a wonderful emotion that guides us through what’s changing.” We can be perpetually sad about the koala’s dramatic decline to endangered species, or we can flow with that sadness and make a change to something that we care about. Ahhh you think koalas are one of those things that we can’t do anything about? If this is something you care about enough to be sad about, bring this to a live event one day and we’ll find out just how powerful we really are.
