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Emotions are funny things. It’s possible to feel something so strongly that you can’t imagine its intensity will ever lessen. The feeling rolls over and over in your heart, demanding all of your attention. And it’s possible to feel nothing at all. Empty… void… blank… Amazingly, it’s also possible to feel opposites at the very same time!

Well-meaning people may try to convince you that only certain emotions have value. Sometimes they even label the way you feel as good or bad. And you may even do that to yourself. If you’re not alert to the danger of emotion-labeling, you may succumb to an illusion that tricks you into thinking you cannot identify or trust what you feel.

The Truth is that every emotion is absolutely valid and holds its own lesson. Being the amazing humans that we are, we can feel multiple and seemingly opposing feelings at the same time! How little sense that seems to make and how very confusing. But contained within simple acceptance is freedom.

You are free to feel exactly what you feel. There is no good or bad, no right or wrong. Feel what you feel. Express it by talking or writing or just sit in the mix of your feelings, whether exhilarating or debilitating or in between. Simply recognize emotions for what they are—teachers. In time you will learn their lessons. For now, there is no need to rush into understanding.

Just feel what you feel.

Nobody has ever measured,

not even poets,

how much the heart can hold

− Zelda Fitzgerald

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