Crying has been seen as a weak thing in many cultures but the society is changing now. At least in Canada, we are more open to see people crying without labelling them as weakness.
Should we let ourselves cry or not?
Neuroscientist Dr. William H. Frey II, author of Crying: The Mystery of Tears and founder and co-director of the Alzheimer’s Research Center at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, has spent over 20 years studying crying and tears. Dr. Frey said, “Crying is not only a human response to sorrow and frustration, it’s also a healthy one.” It is a natural way to reduce stress as stress will increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and other stress-related disorders. His study showed that 85 percent of women and 73 percent of men say they feel better after crying. We are removing chemicals that build up during stress. The results of his theory and research have appeared in numerous medical and psychological journals and papers, as well as in his book.
In my #1 bestseller book Unlocking Your Happiness Within: Living the Live You Choose with Chi Gong, I also wrote about how my tears came 40 years later as I did not understand that crying was the right thing to do when I first felt deep pain.
So, is it good to cry? Yes, if you feel like crying, if that’s what you feel, you cry. We do release emotions through the tears but excessive crying will be depleting too much energy. As a master of Chi Gong, I have designed a Heart Chi Gong to help ground the difficult feelings so crying and sadness can be decreased to the minimum. Send love to yourself when you are sad. When you love yourselves, you start to heal. Please read my book and practice special Heart Chi Gong explained in Unlocking Your Happiness Within.
If We are Open to Presence
Two hours after a virtual session with Master Teresa, I am blessed with tears that didn’t fall when my father died. Today I cry.
All summer, I have had severe, debilitating pain in my left ear and my throat felt like there was a knife in it. Several weeks ago, an Ear Nose and Throat doctor told me, my ear canals are inflamed, I have a cyst on my tonsil and, I will need surgery. He will take a biopsy and if there is still pain, he will put tubes in my ears.
I have had two healing sessions with Master Teresa and I have learned Qi Gong and practise daily. Today there is still some pain in my ear but my throat doesn’t hurt. It just feels full.
My father passed away one day before my birthday, on February 9th of this year. I didn’t cry then, but today I know my throat is full of the tears that never came when he died. In the session, Master Teresa told me to think of the ocean and I thought of the waves washing through me up onto the shore of an island. In my mind’s eye I saw Barbados, the birthplace of my father.
Sometimes we need to think outside of the box or outside of the body. Medical doctors and medicine work on the physical and sometimes emotional parts of us. Doctors are there for us, and are a necessary part of our lives. However, there are things we can do, in addition to medicine, to help ourselves heal. Things, such as Qi Gong. What we believe plays a part in the process of recovery – physically, emotionally and spiritually. What we believe can facilitate our healing journey.
I will have the necessary surgery the doctor has scheduled. But the calm that flows through me after today’s session with Master Teresa enables a grieving that I did not allow myself. It gives me a confidence in knowing that we all exist in a larger ocean of energy that can, and does heal, if we are open to its’ presence.
Thank you, Master Teresa.
With gratitude,
Michele Burnett