Sadness and Happiness aren’t at odds. Sad things and happy things happen every day, simultaneously, the world keeps spinning and they don’t prevent each other from occurring. In the same way, our sadness does not prevent our happiness and our happiness can’t prevent our sadness
Sadness is not depression. It’s not a feeling of hopelessness. It’s not being broken or needing support. It’s just an acknowledgement of the unwanted, including things that we cannot do anything about.
If we try to drown out our sadness, it piles up and fuels all kinds of ticks, weighing heavy on us all the time. If we just feel it when it comes, and manage to hold on to our joy, and our appreciation, it flows through us and can actually enhance our joy.
Like anything else, learning to carry our joy and not let it float away with the tides of sadness that may come up is a muscle. We can generate it from focusing on the things that multiply it, the things we are thankful for, positive input of the 5 senses, or ideas or conversation.
Once we get used to generating joy or at least appreciation, we no longer feel the same level of scarcity and we can face sadness, and all the things that might bring up negative emotion, and it won’t phase us.
I often listen to songs that make my cry and they remind me of all I am thankful for. When I watch a movie with some tragic scenes or when one of my friends passed away recently, I didn’t become overcome with sorrow. I could easily feel the appreciation for caring about someone so much that I’d miss them like this.
Of course it’s sad. I can let myself be sad about it right now and a few times a week, I will! I invite the sadness, and I face it, and I let it flow right through me and it fills me with the power of appreciation.
It’s ok to let it tackle you sometimes too, so long as you know how to get back up. Sometimes it’s really too much and we can find ourselves brought to our knees.
If we know how to generate joy though this is not scary or anything to be avoided. Feeling our emotions fully allows us to become whole.
Not only sadness but anger and frustration too. The more we learn to feel them without letting them ruin our day, the more powerful we become, the more we are able to shape our own lives.
I wasn’t intending to write anything beautiful or complicated so I will leave it at that for today. Hope this can spark something inside you 🙏
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You wrote something really beautiful and inspiring why not intending to and it just feels like it's a message for me. I recently discovered my airpod has been missing. I hate losing my stuff especially the really pricey ones.
I checked the price online and saw that I could not afford it at the moment and this made me really mad, sad and every negative feeling I could think of.
At first I tried suppressing it but like you rightly said, that won't do any good. So I'm currently looking for alternatives and I feel better.
I write some things just to share ideas, and others to speak with the heart. This was just information that I thought could be helpful, so I'm glad if it was :-D
I hope to make something a bit more well written about the same topic at some point!! Maybe from there I'll make a video on it
You can still feel sad and mad and also feel good!!!! :-D
Looking forward to everything that you are dishing out on this topic. And it really did help me a lot... Moved past the sad emotion 😃
It is a fact that there are both joys and sorrows in life and if we all go into depression, it will harm our health, it should not be done in this way. Even then you will be able to live such a happy life.