Denied Emotions And Personal Crises Emotional Expression And Unconditional Love

The opposite of love is fear but that which is all-encompassing has no opposite.nThe Course in MiraclesnnThe avoidance of fear will cause fear to persist and, the acceptance of fear will cause its release. Why?nFear is an emotion and emotions are our response to life. Life is a free-flowing process and if we interrupt the flow by avoiding and denying our emotions, our emotions do not disappear. Even unfelt, they still exist and will do whatever is necessary to overcome our avoidance and denial of their existence.nnInterior denial leads to exterior crises—continued denial leads to continual crisis.nAccepting and feeling our emotions will release them but denying and avoiding emotional response will cause those emotions to persist; and persistently denying those emotions will ultimately result in a crisis powerful enough to overcome our resistance. nnThis is why the acceptance of our emotional response is so important. If we deny emotional response by avoidance, our avoidance will result in a continuing and escalating series of crisis that will ultimately overcome our denial.nnThis is not the way we want to live life and is not the way life was meant to be lived. Buckminster Fuller said that life evolves by learning from mistakes, see http://www.flighttogenius.com/mm_ebook.pdf. We can correct our mistakes. While it may not be easy to now accept our denied emotions, it will be far easier than not doing so.nnLove is acceptance and unconditional acceptance of our emotions will return us to the natural state of unconditional love.nIt is now time to accept our emotions and the gifts that full emotional acceptance will bring us—love, abundance and joy. Allowing full emotional acceptance will uncork the cornucopia of life. Doing what we have not yet done will bring us what we do not yet have.nnWe are collectively entering a period of extreme crisis which will express itself in economic, ecological and spiritual terms. There is a way to navigate this crisis in a way that will bring release, not suffering; but to do so, we must first learn what the crisis is trying to teach us. This approach does not deny the power of positive thinking. Thoughts are very powerful but so is denial.n