it’s a quirk of our minds that not every
emotion we carry is fully acknowledged
understood or even truly felt there are
feelings that exist in an unprocessed
form within us a great many worries may
for example remain disavowed and
uninterpreted and manifest themselves as
powerful directionless anxiety under
their sway we may feel a compulsive need
to remain busy fear spending any time on
our own or cling to activities that
ensure we don’t meet what scares us
head-on these activities might include
internet pornography tracking the news
or exercising compulsively a similar
kind of disavowal can go on around hurt
someone may have abused our trust made
us doubt their kindness or violated our
self-esteem but we’re driven to flee a
frank recognition of an appalling degree
of exposure and vulnerability the hurt
is somewhere inside us but on the
surface we adopt a brittle good cheer
jolliness being sadness that doesn’t
know itself we know ourselves chemically
or else we adopt a carefully nonspecific
tone of cynicism which masks the very
specific wound that’s been inflicted on
us we pay dearly for our failure to
process our feelings our minds grow
unoriginal from a background fear about
their contents we grow depressed about
everything because we cannot be sad
about something we can no longer sleep
insomnia being the revenge of all the
many thoughts
we’ve omitted to process in the day we
need compassion for ourselves we avoid
processing emotions because what we feel
is so contrary to our self-image so
threatening to our society’s ideas of
normality and so at odds with who we
would really like to be an atmosphere
conducive to processing emotions would
be one in which the difficulties of
being human were warmly recognized and
charitably accepted we fail to know
ourselves not out of laziness or casual
processing emotions requires good
friends two deft therapists and ritual
moments like philosophical meditation in
which our normal defenses can safely be
put aside an unfamiliar material
ring-fenced for investigation the
outcome of processing our emotions is
always an alleviation in our general
mood but first we must pay for our
self-awareness with a period of mourning
in which we gradually acknowledge that
in some area or other life is simply a
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emotion we carry is fully acknowledged
understood or even truly felt there are
feelings that exist in an unprocessed
form within us a great many worries may
for example remain disavowed and
uninterpreted and manifest themselves as
powerful directionless anxiety under
their sway we may feel a compulsive need
to remain busy fear spending any time on
our own or cling to activities that
ensure we don’t meet what scares us
head-on these activities might include
internet pornography tracking the news
or exercising compulsively a similar
kind of disavowal can go on around hurt
someone may have abused our trust made
us doubt their kindness or violated our
self-esteem but we’re driven to flee a
frank recognition of an appalling degree
of exposure and vulnerability the hurt
is somewhere inside us but on the
surface we adopt a brittle good cheer
jolliness being sadness that doesn’t
know itself we know ourselves chemically
or else we adopt a carefully nonspecific
tone of cynicism which masks the very
specific wound that’s been inflicted on
us we pay dearly for our failure to
process our feelings our minds grow
unoriginal from a background fear about
their contents we grow depressed about
everything because we cannot be sad
about something we can no longer sleep
insomnia being the revenge of all the
many thoughts
we’ve omitted to process in the day we
need compassion for ourselves we avoid
processing emotions because what we feel
is so contrary to our self-image so
threatening to our society’s ideas of
normality and so at odds with who we
would really like to be an atmosphere
conducive to processing emotions would
be one in which the difficulties of
being human were warmly recognized and
charitably accepted we fail to know
ourselves not out of laziness or casual
processing emotions requires good
friends two deft therapists and ritual
moments like philosophical meditation in
which our normal defenses can safely be
put aside an unfamiliar material
ring-fenced for investigation the
outcome of processing our emotions is
always an alleviation in our general
mood but first we must pay for our
self-awareness with a period of mourning
in which we gradually acknowledge that
in some area or other life is simply a
we publish new thought-provoking films
every week be sure to subscribe to our
Channel and take a look at more of what
we have to offer at the link on your screen now
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