Spend time in your emotions

Spend time in your emotions,

Be curious, and want to know them intimately.

Form deep relationships and deeper understanding.

Our emotions visit to help us make meaning.

They are beautiful guides

to communicate how we feel about something,

when perhaps we were not sure.

and while they needn't storm ahead, and lead our every move,

we can thank them for the valuable information they provide

to guide our direction, and help forge our path forward.

In our hurry to push them away,

we deny the innermost parts of self,

a mirror to our internal world.

Make space for these companions.

get to know them, gently.

those that bring warmth, and those that bring rain.

our messengers, our whispers from within

an offering of insight where we may not have words.

moving us toward what we hold close,

what we fear,

and what we need.