Healing through Feeling

Sometimes we find ourselves suppressing or denying our feelings for fear others will not allow, understand, or accept them if they are voiced. Only through honoring and acknowledging what we really feel can we heal and move on. Many times we are discouraged from sharing, or even knowing, our true feelings.

In the face of such attitudes, it takes deep courage to allow ourselves to explore and express our true feelings. We can help ourselves resist the seductive Dragon of Denial by reminding ourselves frequently that we each have a right and a responsibility to experience our feelings.

Our physical bodies offer good examples of "healing through feeling." When we get the measles or chicken pox, for example, we feel sick for a while and then we become immune to that particular disease. Our bodies intuitively know that to move through the illness is to move toward healing.

Sharing to everyone that the same wisdom is valid for our emotional disease. As we move through our feelings, express them, learn from them, and allow them to heal, we become free of them.