When you cry, where does the ignition come from? Is it a thought in your mind? A memory trapped in your body? A physical sensation of pain?
Do you hold it back, or resist the urge? Do you get busy getting strong and impermeable? Do you transform your sadness or urge to cry into anger and a barrier of some sort…or do you let the tears flow?
Holding back tears is like trying to hold back a rainstorm. Holding back tears is like asking your body to eat food, hold onto it forever and never expel.
Tears
wash us clean
release internal pressure
creep into the cracks of our soul.
Tears
Allow us to grieve
Allow us to celebrate
wash the window of experience so we can see with fresh eyes
heal wounds that are deep and at times invisible.
Tears
are our first, most primal communication method
represent the spectrum of human emotion
are the strongest thing you can ever express
unite us all, if we let them.
When we are born we cry. In fact our cry is evaluated as a measure of our health, recovery and sustainability. When babies don’t cry, or don’t cry fiercely enough–intervention swoops in to restore. Crying is a measure of health.
Often when people return from being under general anesthetic, they awaken with a need to cry. The cry that comes from people at this time, is deep, soulful and moving. It’s almost as if you can hear an unrestrained release and rebirth. Again, we re-enter the world crying. Medical professionals often warn loved ones about this, and say “Don’t worry. Let their tears come. The body is responding to the experience it knows about, and the one it wasn’t conscious for, but experienced anyway. Crying is good.”
So, when your body just feels like crying, you don’t have to know why and you don’t have to hide it, or fade it. You don’t have to explain it, or apologize for it. When your body feels like crying–cry.
