Magical Intention: Crying IS good for your health!

It's been two months since I last sent out a blog! Just when I thought I would do this in a timely manner, time just "flew!" I apologize to all my readers. So here's one on crying. No, it's not going to be sad.... I'm just being me and sharing my thoughts. We all learn from each other.

Now - on to the subject at hand - Crying IS good for your health.

Do you ever get tired of all the motivational speakers being so UP! Always positive? Always seeming to have the perfect life?

Well, I am a motivational person and I will gladly admit my life is not always smooth nor easy. As a Life Coach and Speaker and Director of a large women's organization, I feel that I always have to be positive. I do love to be positive but even I have moments of solid sadness. So I'm sharing this with you.

I just choose to be real about everything.

In my mid-month newsletter (no promos included in that one) I talked about crying. Yes, crying.

I have a lot to be thankful for - and I am - but I too get sad and depressed. I'm human and I like being normal. I don't mind admitting that sometimes I'm really, really sad.

There are things that have happened in my life that make me think it could have gone one way or the other.

When I review it sometimes and I am amazed at what all has happened. Having been born after a War II and raised for four years in an orphanage - I'm so blessed the way it turned out.

But then something will remind me of the losses I've had and "gains" I've had. I think we are simply programmed to re-evaluate our lives from time through life's little (or big) triggers.

The day I was writing my mid-month intention newsletter was a sad day for me. I wrote about crying and how it can be very healthy for me, you and anyone (as long as it's not an ongoing thing).

I started thinking about the loss of my first adopted father after only knowing him for a very short time. He was my knight in shining armor. He loved and accepted me even though I didn't speak his language, even though I was almost impossible to handle, even though I was curious about my new life.... he accepted me. And he gave me the greatest gift ever - UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

Then fate intervened and he died suddenly. There was no closure and no opportunity to say "I love you."

So the tears were about my loss but also my gains - I learned to accept and give love because of him. I could have wound up in the streets of Germany, which was being rebuilt - instead the Universe had other plans.

So the tears are sadness for my loss of a great father and joy or the opportunity to simply know who he was.

The past is over, as I speak about it in my book - Magic of Intention. Intellectually I know this but sometimes - who wants to be so darned intellectual?

My life is very good now because I've always felt that there must have been a reason for my very existence. And it's that thought that has given me the strength and courage to move forward.

By the way, I also cry at happy endings! Yep - I'm one of those people who sit and sob in a theater if the ending is happy or the book turns out great!

What crying does is help release whatever needs to be released. Another chance to let go of something that is a block. Since I don't cry often, I seldom need to indulge myself in a good ole fashioned crying session.

But when I do - heaven knows the flood gates are opened wide.

When it's over, I feel so much better.

How about you? Do you allow yourself to be that emotional? Do you allow yourself the time and space to cry?

Remember - crying is good for your health!

Take care and hopefully it won't take so long for me to write.

Have a great day, month, year!

Cheers, Karin
http://www.karinjanin.com
http://www.orphanconnect.com