03/19/2026
The moment we stop resisting our emotions and instead, turn towards them, then our stress response, tension and suffering can start to ease and we can begin to breathe a little easier again.
When we are brave enough to say to our emotions: “You are valid”, and then stretch a little further and say: “And you too are welcome”, and: “I know you have something to show or tell me, and to help me FEEL this particular feeling in this moment”, especially when they are the most uncomfortable emotions and the ones we like feeling the least and always resist; then we come into deeper integration.
It is always our resistance and pushing away of our feelings which causes the additional suffering beyond what the emotion is trying to help us feel.
So if instead, we can open our heart and arms and say, even through tears, or rage, or sadness, depression or anxiety and fear: “You are welcome and necessary. What have you come to show or tell me?” Then we can begin to soften towards ourselves and let in all the pent-up, stuck, heavy emotions we’ve kept at bay for so long.
Welcome them all into the warm embers in the hearth of your heart. Bring them in, like little children in need of understanding, validation, comfort and regulation.
And then watch how all on their own they start to settle down, decrease in intensity, and begin to move through and beyond, as they feel seen, validated and held, by you.
Angela Dunning
The Horse’s Truth
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