Throw Yourself an Epic Pity Party
I’d imagine if you’ve been on the planet a while, at some point when you were feeling sorry for yourself and you were lamenting about this to someone, you probably heard some variation of any of the following:
- “You think you have it bad, Joe Blow has blah blah blah.”
- “Welcome to my world.”
- “Stop feeling sorry for yourself and do something about it.”
- “Get off the pity pot.”
All of these serve to negate your feelings.
It doesn’t matter what Joe Blow or anyone else is going through, your experience is valid to you. I don’t care if you break a fingernail and it really hurts. That experience is valid to you.
We live in a world where we’ve learned to:
- Suck it up.
- Put on a brave face.
- Show them how strong you are.
- Big boys don’t cry. Big girls don’t cry either. (Apparently)
What this does to you is create more suppressed emotion and this leads to dis-ease, emotional melt downs, road rage and a myriad of other maladies.
I say throw yourself a pity party.
Allow yourself to lament about whatever it is your upset about. The caveat is to tap while you’re lamenting. Once you’ve done this, put on some sappy music, allow the woe is me to come to the surface and make sure you tap.
I think you’ll find that you feel liberated afterwards and you’ll find that you can move through these emotions a lot faster. Tapping will really help you to shift this and truly free yourself from the emotional bondage that suppress of emotions creates.
It certainly does more for you than telling yourself to “Get off the pity pot.” I find this just holds you captive to the emotions a lot longer and then they get stuck.
These emotions will come out at some point and it will likely be at the most inopportune time. This will leave you and anyone in your vicinity wondering what the hell just happened. You may end up feeling like there’s something wrong with you.
Try it on and see how goes for you. Throw yourself a pity party and remember to tap tap tap and then you can put on that music and have a good cry and free yourself from the emotional ties that can bind you.
Here’s to emotional freedom!!!!
Marti