Joy

Without pain there can be no joy. We would not know how to recognize joy without the capacity to feel and know all that there is besides joy itself.

In our New Age culture, we must be careful to stay authentic within ourselves; feeling our grief, our anger and sadness and our joy. There is a tendency to think if we are feeling pain, then we are doing something wrong. Our thoughts should be positive at all times and our emotions will follow. This philosophy is not only shallow in nature, but keeps us from experience the depth of life. All emotions give us the fullest experience of life and keep us present in each moment to savor the goodness and deal authentically with the challenges we are offered.

Emotional Sobriety does not mean we do not feel our emotions. On the contrary, emotional sobriety creates within us the capacity to feel our emotions fully and deeply. Through this experience, we allow our emotions to inform us of our connections to all aspects of our lives. In informing us of our connections, we can all consciously choose our responses to these connections. Our feelings and emotions are in service to our highest good.

As we become skilled at allowing our emotions to inform us, we develop a capacity for joy as well. The joy of detachment, clarity and choice.

Blessings on your journey to emotional sobriety,

Sally