Welcoming Fear, Anger, Jealousy, Grief
Posted by otryba | Filed under Uncategorized
Notice how many cultures have a taboo around EXPERIENCING the texture of a whole panoply of experiences we are already EXPERIENCING. “Fear, anger, jealousy, rage,” these are the names we put on the dimensions of our experience which we so hurriedly, as if in a panic, learn to suppress (by pretending to be “spiritual” and thus “above” these low human emotions, and thus at perpetual “self-war”), repress (by stifling the feeling yet feeling profound shame & guilt for having even felt it momentarily and having to hold it at bay) or express (by generating pain and drama in the lives of those around us, especially the ones closest to us), but dare not simply FEEL, as many of us were taught not to feel these from our very first day.
Tags: Anger, Ant, Eagle, Expression, Fear, Feeling, Grief, Indigenous culture, Jealousy, Repression, Self-Alienation, Suppression, Warrior, Warriors Cry