How can I interrupt sadness?
Okay,
You don't interrupt sadness.
You feel it.
Think of your emotions as a wet rag and you're trying to avoid it.
You're trying not to feel it.
You're trying to numb out to it.
Well,
That wet rag is starting to get moldy.
It starts to stink.
It starts to grow mold of sadness and sorrow and pain.
But if you can instead be willing to feel sad,
Spend an afternoon.
This afternoon,
I'm just going to go into my bedroom and I'm going to curl up in a ball and I'm going to feel the sadness.
I'm going to squeeze out all this sadness and let myself feel it deeply and intensely.
Oh,
Won't I get lost there?
Won't it get worse?
No,
It will go away when you feel it and squeeze it out.
What you can feel,
You can heal.
And when you can consciously be uncomfortable,
Am I willing to be uncomfortable for an afternoon?
And then feel that feeling with intensity.
Talk to the part of you.
What part of you is sad?
Is it the party that broke up in a relationship 10 years ago?
Is it a part of you that was a child and got rejected by your best friend?
Get to know the part of you that's sad.
Bring love and compassion into it and feel it.
Squeeze out the feeling so that it's no longer inside of you.
And as you wring it out,
Then it can dry.
And all of a sudden,
The sadness is no longer there.
So you don't necessarily want to interrupt the sadness.
You want to own it,
Feel it,
Express it,
And release it.
That's how you move through the sadness.
So then it becomes a distant memory of having used to be sad.
But so many people do everything to avoid the feeling of sadness instead of saying it's human.
Grief is part of the human condition.
Loss,
Grief,
Sadness.
When you change,
And all of you are changing consciously,
When you let go of the past,
You no longer behave and act and function like you used to.
When you become more,
You often grieve and feel a sense of separation and loss of who you used to be.
It's okay.
Let go of the judgment of it,
And not try to interrupt it,
But be willing to go deeper into it,
And feel it,
And express it,
And be done with it.
That's what I would suggest.
