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This week I want to talk about why sadness take courage, yet unleashes newfound strength.

As I shared last week, we each have an emotional spectrum as colorful and diverse as every shade in the rainbow.  Feeling sadness is as important as fear, anger and joy in allowing us to be the whole, emotionally expressed and fully functioning human beings we were born to be.  It is not an indulgent emotion to be felt only by the weak, the self-pitying and those not strong enough to “just get over it” and on with life!  Not at all.  Rather, as I wrote in Find Your Courage!:

“Sadness calls for courage; courage  to open our hearts to the rawness of life, to feel the extent of our loss and to become fully present to the depth of pain it brings forth.”
 
By having the courage to sit with our sadness we come to realize that it cannot swallow us whole, it cannot kill us and that we are stronger and more resilient than we had given ourselves credit for.  The fact is that feeling our sadness can be deeply healing and extra-ordinarily liberating. 

I challenge you to give some thought to the times in your life when you have felt sad. See if you can get present to the pain that sadness gave rise to and when you do, just allow yourself to sit with it.

Next week I will be talking about the difference between pain and suffering and why sadness does not infer suffering. Rather, feeling sadness can spare you from it.
 
So until then, live boldly, shine brightly, feel deeply!
Margie