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My name is Jeff Arthur with The Values Conversation here talking about how our emotions actually really are okay. What do I mean by that? Well, I can’t tell you, I lost track in the thousands, of how many clients I have worked with that begin to get emotional, start to cry. Their eyes well up with tears or they turn beet red or they whatever, whenever those emotions hit us. Then they will look at me and say, “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. I know I shouldn’t be crying. Oh my gosh, I know I shouldn’t.” I’m always sitting there going, “Why? It’s okay. It’s okay for you to cry.” “No. No, it’s not. I know I’m not supposed to cry.” It’s amazing how so many people, all of us I actually really believe, have this built-in belief system that says I’m not supposed to cry.
I want to stand here today and tell you it’s more than okay. It’s okay to have the emotion. Whenever we go to the basketball or football or baseball game and we’re screaming and yelling and throwing stuff and whatever, showing that emotion, nobody turns around and says, “Oh, I’m so sorry.”, to the other fans and says, “I know I’m screaming and yelling and I’m really excited. I apologize to everybody.” We don’t do that. It’s okay to have the “negative” emotion because they’re not negative. It’s just the emotion that we’re feeling to demonstrate what those emotions that are going on inside of us, and it’s okay for it to come out like that. It’s okay to cry.
My name is Jeff Arthur with The Values Conversation. You can find out more about us on Facebook at facebook.com/thevaluesconversation.