When is the last time you allowed yourself to have a good old cry? Have you too succumbed to the fallacy that crying is for babies? Know this, crying allows healing tears to course through your drought-stricken soul. It washes away the debris of suppressed feelings and waters the soul to reset. This allows new seedlings of love, hope, and faith to grow so that you will be ok. 

When we feel too overwhelmed to speak our tears speak for us loudly and clearly.  

You see, crying is the language of your heartsoul, when your mind cannot express in words what you are feeling. Your tears come from your heartsoul, not your mind. Crying is the organic response to release overwhelming emotions to prevent emotional imbalance. It is a welcome release for an overwrought soul as it speaks volumes when your pain mutes you.  

A good cry is healing as you will feel spent, somehow lighter, and more energised to get back and handle the vagaries of life successfully. Crying happens when your mind surrenders to your heartsoul overwhelming emotional anguish that it cannot compute. The mind also surrenders when it has carried your emotional burdens for too long without any respite with no resolution in sight. This surrender allows your pain to flow out of your heartsoul in great big sobs as your anguish gets released in gushes of snot and tears. Afterwards you feel a great calmness descend over you as your unburdened psyche resets. 

 Now you are ready to deal with the problem at hand having gained new insights and greater clarity. You no longer feel overwhelmed despite nothing having changed in the situation that brought you to your knees. It is as if all the mental gunk has been dissolved and washed away, allowing you to gain a deeper understanding of yourself and life. Crying brings emotional balance as it allows you to release overwhelming emotions such as anger, sadness, and despair that skewers your perception of what is. This allows for intuitive understanding to seep through and bring clarity. Just like everything looks fresher, cleaner, and brighter after rain you too will feel calmer and filled with restored trust and faith, that whatever your situation, you WILL be ok.  

Better out than in is so true for emotions, but it does not equate to allowing your emotions to rule you but instead to INFORM you of how people, situations, and things impact you on a heartsoul level. Feelings are the language your heartsoul use to communicate and guide you in accordance to what resonates with your highest good. Instead, explore your feelings and strive to make decisions from your heartsoul and mind. Being heart-centered does not mean excluding the knowledge that your mind holds but blending it so that you can live with your decisions without regret. So do not swallow your tears as suppression will drown your senses until you experience an emotional wipeout, that is, you will feel emotionally detached, hard of heart, even dead inside because of all your suppressed emotions.  

Tears are shed in ecstasy and agony. That is what makes it so paradoxical in that we can cry when flooded with happiness as well as despair. 

For too long crying has been stigmatised as a sign of weakness when vulnerability actually takes strength. Your crying IS your prerogative, as the healing tears will strengthen your wellbeing. Crying is an expression from your psyche and thus in sync with your body-mind and soul. Stiff upper lip and all does not serve you, as it is fake AF and not authentic. So do not let societal norms shame you into swallowing your tears. Recognise that the tears allow you to release whatever keeps you in misery. This in itself allows for you to reset yourself, armed with the new insights you gleaned from your situation. This gives you the strength to get back up and out and live your life wholeheartedly. 

Crying actually brings relief to a broken soul. It is a means of escape from the shackles that tie you to misery.  Tears allow for an emotional breakthrough to occur, which allows for deep understanding to blossom forth. The conundrum is that you cannot reach the healing light-bulb moment without crying. It is the crying that makes you realise it's not worth your tears and allows you to do the necessary to get on with life, no longer being held back by unshed misery.   

May these quotes be a source of inspiration to not suppress but instead allow yourself to shed healing tears when the occasion warrants it, knowing that in crying you are allowing a normal organic process to bring balance and harmony to your psyche. Go ahead, cry me a river, it is a good day to release old tears.  Exhale all the pain and then inhale gulps of hope to energise you enough to seize the day - you deserve sunshine, ice cream and sweet kisses. 

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul - Jewish Proverb 

Crying allows you to rid your psyche of overwhelming emotions that allow you to regain emotional balance. This gives you a deeper understanding of yourself and the situation as it washes away the emotional clog that caused you to equate the situation with the end of your world. This heartsoul reset gave you the necessary insight to understand that it is not an insurmountable obstacle and that you have got what it takes to surmount it and move on with your life.  

Tears are the silent language of grief - Voltaire 

When grief mutes you, your tears express your pain eloquently and act as a gateway for your anguish to exit your psyche. 

I wept not, so to stone within I grew - Dante Alighieri 

When you suppress your emotions, you cease to react genuinely and over time you stop feeling anything and everything as your heart hardens according to your will and you are no more than an automaton. Emotions are not the enemy. Control doesn't mean suppression, as regulating your emotions still allows you to feel but still stay in control. 

To weep is to make less the depth of grief - William Shakespeare 

Crying allows you to vent your anguish and this organic release of overwhelming anguish allows you to restore the emotional balance that allows you to resume life, no longer crippled by the depths of despair. 

The sorrow that has no vent in tears may make other organs weep - Henry Maudsley 

When you swallow your emotions, it does not disappear but merely gets transmuted into mental and, or physical illness, as your suppression has circumvented the psyche's normal and natural response to overwhelming emotions, causing you to become unbalanced emotionally. 

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears - John Vance Cheney 

Crying allows the psyche to express the anguish it feels which allows it to release the emotional pain which brings you back into emotional balance. The tears restore the soul by letting it release overwhelming feelings leaving you calm as the emotional storm has spent itself; washed away the debris ready for your soul to be restored just like the rainbow signals everything is going to be ok, after a rainstorm.