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Voice for Peace

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11. I still cry. When the tears come, I let them come, till they subside, then I carry on.
Sat Mar 23, 2013, 12:33 AM
Mar 2013

I leave them behind. Keep going forward.

Tears are good, they are part of the way our psyche
heals itself. with lots of breathing, & no analyzing
or explanation required.

Tears help remove the toxins we carry in our bodies and
subtle bodies, caused by emotions we never fully
processed at the time(s) of trauma. Old emotions
like anger and sorrow are stored up in our bodies.
I have often felt my very bones were full of sorrow.

But our bodies and psyches know how to release that
stuff, and tears is part of it. All the cleansing energies.
Maybe it takes a whole lifetime. It is for me.

I spent several years doing nothing but cry -- 40
years after the events. Slowly the events lost their
power, and the darkness in me dissipated. I discovered
I am an innocent. The original innocence, never lost.

All of us have that in us, at our very core. We are like
those Russian nesting dolls. The original baby remains
undamaged.

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