A Good Cry

Have you ever heard an inspiring speech, you get pulled in and before you know it, huge tears are running down your cheeks?

This was me on Saturday afternoon.  It was concerning a reference to 9/11.  A very turbulent time in my life while living in NYC. 

The words touched a nerve so sensitive it inspired emotion within, a buried memory, the emotion so raw, it forced those feelings to surface.  The crocodile tears streamed down my face without warning.  

This is a beautiful moment of feeling human.  

This is why we are alive!

How do we tap into these raw emotions regularly to heal, to remember who we are and where we came from?

Crying is one of the few ways we know something has touched us deeply.  

How else can we process our lives if we can't feel our life as it is happening?  There are times we go numb and feel nothing.  We choose to not feel life   We pretend to be strong and not care.  

When we choose to not process our emotions, we find ourselves pushing them deep into our conscience until something happens and they are triggered.  It could be a situation, it could be a song, a movie or someone's words. 

When something touches a soft spot to the point of tears, it feels liberating to process those emotions without fear of being weak or unphased.  

Crying is how we shed our pain and cleanse our souls.   Like a spa for our spirits.  

We have the ability to be human and present in those moments of clarity.  Those moments of pampering our hearts, and bathing our souls in our tears.  

I left that speech feeling better.  I left knowing my experiences during and after 9/11 were poignant in my life development.  My soul was moved.   

In the most inopportune moments we discover what once made us weak, has ultimately given us our foundation to be stronger through our tears.