Ever had an emotional bowel movement

   What is that you say

      It is simply feeling what you are feeling

When our emotions build up

   We need to let them go

      Let ourselves feel whatever we are feeling

It cleanses us of whatever is constipating our Being

   That heavy inner emotion is released

      We feel the lightness of letting go

But I have a hard time doing that we say

   I am afraid of what I may encounter

   I may not be able to stop feeling once I start

   It may be too painful

   I have come to find comfort in held onto emotions

   Someone I don’t want forgiven may be set free

Those are simply limiting thoughts

   They hold us back

   They keep us bound up with what has been

   They stop us from living in this moment

I want to be set free from this inner prison

   Where the walls are my feelings

   Where the guards are past messages of the way one has to feel

   Where my cell is filled with memories of unmet hurt and loss

But the door to freedom is always available   

   We are released through an emotional bowel movement 

      Free to feel what we are feeling

We may even find ourselves feeding on the inner dimensions of

   Peace

   Love

   Kindness

   Or whatever we define as a joyful feeling

Time for an emotional bowel movement?