Have you ever wanted something, but actually not?
Have you ever been so vulnerable that you actually felt really brave?
Have you ever wanted to be adventurous, but not outside your comfort zone?
Humans can hold opposite emotions at once. Our paradoxical nature is as beautiful as it is confusing.
The more we can embrace our duality, the more integrated and powerful we become.
It’s not this OR that. It’s this AND that.
Music can capture that complexity so well…Echoes and Rhymes’ song For Love is a wonderful example.
Songwriter, Edith Lundahl, breaks it all down for us on the Self-Help Songwriter Podcast. We love breaking down break-up songs! This one is written in a way that doesn’t reveal too many details, but just describes a particular flavor of emotional torment and longing.
We discover that there is inherent strength in showing weakness. When you are able to be really honest about something you’re not proud of, it’s a bid for connection and an opportunity for healing. Not only that, it’s honoring yourself and honoring your true experience. Living honestly is one of the bravest things you can do.
There’s an energy of opening when you decide to be honest and vulnerable. Life can respond to the authentic you, which makes chances of happiness much greater. You’re able to receive what is meant for you. You’re motivated by love and its children (positive emotions). Not fear and its children (negative emotions). Fear is welcome aboard but it cannot steer the ship!
Although the two primary emotions, love and fear, seem opposite, they are two sides of the same coin. One cannot exist without the other.
It is our curse.
And our blessing. ;)
Because it’s only in the full expression of our human complexity that we feel most ALIVE! It allows us to feel what we know: that we exist in multiple dimensions at once.
Now go make a list- what songs allow you to feel two or more feelings at once? Share your answer with me in the comments or on my instagram. You can always take this a step further and journal about those emotions.
Some of mine are: Because by the Beatles (pretty much the whole Abbey Road album) and Kacey Musgraves’ Happy and Sad (DUH!)
If you want to take control and learn how to CREATE a song that combines your unique emotions, come to my Blooming Soul Song workshop on Monday March 21st!
