Then, it hit me - like a feather swept past my cheek! The Sunday newsletter. See if it works. Use it to verify your emotions. 

Sure enough, within seconds of reading the email and identifying the emotion, I was free!  

What had been burdening me, weighing me down, making me feel stuck, moody and shitty - had now entirely lifted. 

I identified the feeling (to my surprise!!) as sadness.

I was surprised because there was a bunch of emotions and stories in the way that prevented me from understanding that I was feeling sad, but when I took the time to really ask myself - which emotion on the list was I feeling?

I was feeling SADNESS plain and simple.

From last week's email:

SADNESS

Shows you the depth of your feeling, the depth of your care for other and this world;

• are you willing to let this move through you?
  

• how do you express sadness - how can you release it or allow it move though you?
  
  

I thought for a few momenst about what I was actually sad about and I allowed myself to fully feel the sadness. Like picking up a bucket water of sadness, I let it just drench me.

Once I identified the negative emotion and read the questions, it was like I could take an album of photos titled “sadness” in my brain - see them as one big collection and then delete the folder in one swoop. 

*Big sigh of relief*

It was nice to understand myself. 

It was nice to soothe myself and listen to what I was really feeling.

It was awesome to feel free by moving though the sadness.

So let’s get back to me sitting pretty on a magic carpet this morning.