Sadness Is the Healing Feeling
I often wonder why sadness has become taboo in our country. It didn’t use to be that way. The ancient native Americans had a wonderful proverb: “If the eyes had no tears, the soul would have no rainbow.” They understood the healing power of sadness and the need the human soul has to express and then release it’s sorrow. They knew it cleansed the soul and returned a rainbow of happiness to anyone who was willing to grieve their losses. Today, however, we are taught to almost be ashamed of feeling sad. As small children we are discouraged from crying. If we fall off our bike, adults hand us cookies and forcibly tell us “ DON ’T CRY! You’re OK. STOP crying!” Why can’t we adults simply allow a child who, has fallen and scraped his/her knee, to cry until they feel better? Why is it that we can’t bear the idea of anyone being sad? The feeling of sadness is as necessary to the healing of the soul as the element of rain is to the healing of parched earth. Yet we rarely want to face ...