Release Your Feelings

Holding onto feelings — good or bad — can negatively impact your wellbeing. Releasing your feelings can be cathartic.

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Without going into the current world situation — because I don’t feel like rehashing it — just about everyone I know is under emotional strain right now.

The collective consciousness that makes up our shared reality — particularly in the United States — is strained. The level of fear, uncertainty, and all the other emotions this brings out is so unusual that it’s straining many to the breaking point.

Because of lockdowns, social distancing, and necessary precautions — and those who refuse to practice them — emotions are building up. Tempers are short, frustration is high, and it builds up like a dam in a 500-year storm. Before you know it, there will be overflow or even a burst. That will do a lot of damage in its wake.

This is why you need to release your feelings. No matter if there are good or bad, you can’t just let them build-up — or the dam will burst and there will be consequences.

Releasing bad feelings

Feelings in general are super-uber-complicated. They are completely devoid of reason and logic. They often make no sense whatsoever and can be so intense that they…