Do Intense Emotions Mean More Than You Think?

or are they a sign that there is more happening than you know how to understand.

During my self care practices this week, I have been tapping into intense emotion. Namely, for me, grief. This is not the first time that I have had grief or fear move through me and release as I go about my movement, breathework, and meditation. This grief, though, is more. I know how to allow the soft release to move through me without attachment and without getting my mind involved. As I tap into it gently, I know this is a grief of lifetimes, a grief that I was born with, a grief that is written into my DNA. 

Deeply sensed emotional trauma is not just being felt by me over the past month or so. It is just that my own experience has gotten me thinking about a pattern I’ve been noticing and working with more and more. The pattern is in how emotions are experienced without an understanding of differentiating emotional content. Differentiating emotions gives us a tool to hear what emotions are trying to teach us about ourselves.