Embracing the emotional spectrum expands it.

Embracing the emotional spectrum expands it. So collect feelings over things. 

We’re all on this planet to live. Explore the full human experience whilst you’re here. Your mind and body have the capability to receive a range of emotions and sensations as wide as you’ll allow it. 

What a wonderful thing to sit still alone, feeling full. Of joy, of sorrow, of enlightenment, of melancholy, of love, of rage or peace. 

It’s all a wild ride. You can play on them all. 

There is no bad feelings. Feelings are your truth. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. 

Feel fully. Feel wholly. 

Be with your emotions. Sit with them. Tend to them. Talk to them. Explore them. Question them, but not too much. 

You don’t have to intellectualise feelings all the time. 

Sometimes overthinking an emotion can ruin the experience. 

Perhaps think about it later. 

Such as I am now. 

Feeling emotions at their full depth in the present moment allow you to release and appreciate them later. 

Feeling is a practice too, it gets easier with time as you build your capacity.

The deeper you feel the darkness inside, the greater space you expand for light to enter your soul.

It’s a spectrum. 

You can choose to stay in the middle, or stretch yourself beyond the limits of the spectrum. 

The spectrum is endless. How do you know a feeling exists until you find it? 

We don’t. 

How exciting. 

And terrifying, sure. 

Think of a moment in your life, prior to one of the happiest, most elated days of your life. The happiest you’ve ever been. 

You had no idea it was coming. 

What about prior to hearing your favourite song, food or new found friend?

You didn’t even know what bliss was ahead.

Carry that thought with you in life, through the mud, through the yuck and the hurt. 

Know the best is ALWAYS yet to come. 

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A disease

A delight

Dis Ease

Built my might

Within the freeze

I found my fight

Would you believe

It brought me light?

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- Anna Maria