Summary

Emily Jennings advocates for "intermittent crying" as a therapeutic practice to process and release emotional toxins, akin to the physical detoxification from intermittent fasting.

Abstract

The article presents an emotional healing approach comparable to intermittent fasting's physical health benefits. Emily Jennings shares her personal journey of frequent crying over the past three months, emphasizing that crying has been a cathartic process for her. She suggests scheduling time to confront and feel emotions through tears, arguing that this practice helps to detoxify one's emotional energy field. Jennings notes that unaddressed strong emotions can accumulate and affect one's mental state for years, suggesting that immediate release through crying can prevent this emotional baggage. She also ties this practice to self-love and self-care, asserting that allowing oneself to feel is crucial for personal development. The article concludes that crying can break cycles of trauma, contribute to the healing of humanity's collective consciousness, and enable individuals to reach new levels of existence.

Opinions

Crying is portrayed as a healthy and necessary emotional release, similar to a physical detox.
The author believes that crying is not a sign of weakness but an act of self-love and courage.
It is suggested that society often stigmatizes crying, which can lead to emotional suppression and hinder personal growth.
The article posits that regularly confronting and expressing emotions can prevent them from lingering and causing long-term psychological effects.
Jennings implies that healing from emotional trauma can lead to more positive experiences and personal evolution.
The concept of "intermittent crying" is introduced as a deliberate emotional cleansing practice, with the author encouraging readers to actively schedule time for this purpose.

Intermittent Fasting? Try Intermittent Crying

Sometimes the most healing thing you can do is cry.

I won’t sugarcoat this. I’ve been losing my mind for the past three or so months and I don’t think there have been many days where I haven’t cried at least once.

This wasn’t normal life for me before. But somehow, emotions have been dialed up recently.

I’m not even crying about the same thing every time. Sometimes it’s how I’ve been treated by others, but sometimes it’s about the general state of humanity. Sometimes it’s because I am just so tired.

I’m exhausted from thinking and feeling. Sometimes I am just very low and depressed. Many times, it makes no sense, then I cry even more because I think I’m crazy. Sometimes it comes gushing out unexpectedly and sometimes it comes out slow and sustained.

After spending so many hours crying, I came to a conclusion: crying is very healing. I don’t cry to wallow in my despair. I cry to feel.

I’ve actually started realizing that I need to set aside time to cry. If something is weighing on me, I don’t push it away in my mind — I face it. I schedule it.

I move through my sadness and pain by crying.

Detoxing happens in many ways. You can try intermittent fasting to detox your physical body, but I recommend intermittent crying to move through toxins that have built up in your emotional energy field.

Release and Move On

What I’ve found is that strong emotions like sadness will get stored up and stay with you for years if you don’t release them right away through crying. Having years of trauma following you around isn’t ideal. It will bog you down and keep you feeling the triggers of those past feelings over and over until you finally have a release.

Often, when I cry and move through my feelings immediately, I find that I am able to recover quickly and enjoy the rest of my day.

So, why wait? Cry through it now.

Allow yourself to let it out.

Self-Love and Self-Care

Part of self-care is allowing yourself to feel. If you aren’t kind enough to yourself to acknowledge feelings, then you don’t develop as a person smoothly.

Well, let’s be honest: none of it is smooth. Healing isn’t smooth. But you know what I meant.

Sometimes we don’t allow ourselves to feel because we don’t think we deserve to feel. We don’t think we’re worthy of our own emotions.

I know that sometimes I am surprised that I had carried some intense sadness around with me for a long time until I cry about it years later and forgive myself. I hadn’t felt that the situation deserved my feelings. I had to be strong for myself or for someone else, so I didn’t allow myself to feel.

Sometimes, we are even shamed by others when we express emotion; I myself endured an abusive marriage where I wasn’t allowed to cry. Crying made me feel guilty. But since I escaped that situation, I give myself the luxury of an afternoon crying.

Crying is an expression of self-love.

Break Cycles

When we release our sadness, process our trauma, and move forward, we find things a little easier. We can face situations that come up with more courage and a clearer head, and we break cycles. The repeated traumatic events cease because the universe recognizes our healing, and stops presenting us with the same old stories to sort through. We’ve leveled up. We get new stories to face.

Our healing adds to the overall healing of the collective consciousness in humanity. We all start to move toward a better future.

Cry so that you can move to new heights in your existence.

Detox With Intermittent Crying

Try intermittent crying. Allow emotions to come out — and don’t wait for them. Force them out. Coax them out. Set up a time to lie in bed and cry and let it all out.

Crying is healthy. It allows the flow of your emotions so they aren’t stagnant. Emotions are like water, and water comes with tears. Tears will heal you.

Hi, I’m Emily. I write about consciousness, philosophy, and deep considerations of existence. For more about me, have a look at my website.

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