How to deal with intense emotions?

[Someone here]

Especially negative emotions. To suppress or express them? 

For example.. If one is feeling like crying .. Should he let himself feel it to the fullest or suck it up? 

[Grateful Dead]

Feel it to the fullest and then let it go.

This is described in detail in David Hawkins' book Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

[Someone here]

@acidgoofy thanks for the recommend. Will look it up. 

[Grateful Dead]

@Someone here You are Welcome! There are some good youtube videos out there explaining the technique if you don't want to read the whole book

 

[Gianna]

Definitely do not suppress them. Be unconditionally present with your emotions in the way you would appreciate someone else's unconditional presence. Feel them as much as you can. Welcome them. Do nothing but be present with them. Accept them. Watch out for stories, narratives, beliefs that pull you away from feeling your emotions entirely. If you get distracted by thoughts, pull yourself back and regain your unconditional presence. 

[RickyFitts]

I've come to think, based on my observation of my own emotions, that the core issue often isn't so much the emotions themselves as the resistance we bulld up against them - it's this which keeps them frozen in place. I know in my own experience that I had to make this inner resistance conscious first and then allow it to fall away, and the energy of the underlying emotion could then start to move and release.

[Eternal Unity]

On 7.6.2021 at 9:16 AM, Someone here said:

To suppress or express them?  

Neither. Experience them and show to the outside environment your regular self, so no one knows what is happening inside of you. That is a spiritual training of the most high effectiveness. When you gain a certain degree of mastery, you'll know how to express them in a healthy way rather than in a destructive one - a thing which would happen if you express it with no training.

Greg

[Zigzag Idiot]

@Eternal Unity Well put!

On 6/7/2021 at 1:16 AM, Someone here said:

Especially negative emotions. To suppress or express them? 

For example.. If one is feeling like crying .. Should he let himself feel it to the fullest or suck it up? 

I see a distinction between crying and giving voice to a negative emotion.
I wouldn’t suppress crying but that just my opinion.

[tatsumaru]

On 6/7/2021 at 0:45 PM, Someone here said:

@acidgoofy thanks for the recommend. Will look it up. 

Definitely look it up - this is the solution. You will find out that letting go is neither suppressing, repressing or expressing. It's simply allowing them to unfold without resistance. You are like a pressure cooker, you simply remove the lid and allow the pressure to be released. It's a good book.

[Windappreciator]

One should definitely not take abilify and ssri to numb them down.

[Someone here]

9 hours ago, Windappreciator said:

One should definitely not take abilify and ssri to numb them down.

How do you know that i take abilify? 

Edited June 20, 2021 by Someone here