Transparent Self; the Freedom to Feel

-Funny Photo Friday-

Imagine for a moment, that the whole world could hear your thoughts, and naturally, you could hear theirs. Seriously take time to form this image in your mind, and think about the consequences of such a collective state.

For many people, with this possibility comes tremendous fear; to the point where many would want to run and hide, and never face another human being again. Do you hide your emotional self from others, do you hide your emotional self from yourself? Do you often get mad because you experience certain emotions; getting down on yourself because you feel it shouldn’t be this way, so there must be something wrong with you? If so, well let me sincerely tell you something. You’re in good company.

There seems to be a stigma that suggests we must hide how we truly feel, whether it is in words or emotion. It is what we have created as a collective society; there is no one to blame, it is just what has been created. Did you ever stop to question why? Where is freedom, when one becomes embarrassed or ashamed over how they feel or think? Why is it so wrong for a man to cry, when in the moment he feels like crying? Teaching us the way things are, must be pushed away and avoided at all costs (ego’s control). Why is it that woman, must control their emotions when it hurts so bad to keep them? Teaching us that now, must be a battle.

Did we ever have the thought, that if a society, a person, was allowed to freely release at any moment that which is within them, we would not see the effects we see today, where people lose it mentally because of years of suppressed emotion? What would a society, or small community, or home, look like if others accepted fully the emotion that others felt? Maybe we mock and make fun of others who feel, because internally we ourselves are emotionally torn. When will the collective healing take place?

If all thought was known to all of man, we would discover how similar we all truly are. We would discover that we are all hiding, we are all hurting, and we are all wanting to feel. Enlightenment, or truth, or the ultimate understanding, is not to be able to sustain any one desired emotion, it is the ability to be free as you experience what it is you feel in the moment; and to do so without guilt, prejudice, or resentment towards yourself or anyone else. We are human, and with being human comes the experience of what humans experience, which include all that we are, as individuals and as a collective.

By learning to be transparent, to not have to lie to self, we begin to release all that we hold on to that creates our suffering. Learn to understand how anything other than complete acceptance for what is, keeps you in a state of illusion, where suffering is your best friend. Transparency will teach you more than you could imagine, when it comes to understanding the nature of self, and the nature of reality.

This Paw Daily Print is somewhat of an extension to yesterday’s Poetic Thursday titled “Surely I Will Cry.”

Did you find genuine value within this post? If you did, then most likely you know someone else who will as well. I invite you to share the goodness!
Namaste -Tigmonk