Let’s stop associating sadness and crying. Yes there are moments in life when we’re going to feel the emotion of being sad and it’s going to trigger tears. It doesn’t make you look weak, it’s a sign your spirit has depth. Crying is a powerful tool in the human bag that gets pulled out once in a while as a mechanism to express a wide range of emotions we are feeling directly from the heart. I guess it’s a conventional mentality that grown adults can’t cry because it will make you look fragile. Every grown man or grown woman cries when nobody is around and when nobody is looking so let’s talk about the internal strength you have to move the water inside you.

Crying is so much bigger than being linked to feeling sad. The heart is the most dynamic source of power in the universe. You will cry in moments in life maybe watching a movie, listening to music, having a deep conversation, visualizing a sentimental memory, sensing extreme fear, feeling a great deal of physical pain, feeling intense pressure of the moment or you even might cry while being stimulated with a abundance of happiness. You’ll even see tough super star athletes cry when experiencing so much joy when they’ve won a championship. What’s the common link connecting all those scenarios together? The heart is more active, it’s operating at a higher amperage. It’s the difference of an engine sitting idle compared to the engine going faster and getting louder as you shift gears producing higher RPM’s. Energetically the heart is being thrust open in a spinning motion which instantly catapults a lighting like flash of light through the body sending water shooting outwards to release through your eyes like a overflowing riverbank.

Do I dare say it might actually feel good to cry? I’ll go a step further and say crying is actually healthy, the heart needs exercise and it’s okay to open it up on occasions so it can breathe. Aside from a cleansing or purification you feel in the eyes as fresh water lubricates them, I’ve noticed lately when a deep touching moment ignites in me, it’s really hard to describe but I feel a flash of warmth or tingling sensation inside of me and then comes the watery eyes. It’s very quick like a spark of light. This is what inspired me on this subject. When I’m at work once in while a memory dawns on me and I can hear my Dad’s voice inside my head. We worked together for many years, so working on the job site brings forth vivid memories which generates vibrations of emotion that fill the body like a flowing stream. It made me stop and think to say, “Hey wait a second.”

What exactly is crying all about? After crying you feel a shift, you feel movement, you feel a release. A rapid brush of gentle tingles flow through you. So I thought about it for many months with imagery and I see the heart spinning for a split second like it’s being accelerated on and the spinning motion is so strong it ripples the water inside of us only then to push the water outwards into the eyes. Just picture dropping a rock in water and the evenly flowing circular waves moving outwards. This happens because the heart sits directly in the center of the soul. The heart center is the source, it’s the engine of light that drives everything of our extraordinary multi layered bodies.

That’s my personal description, in medical terms doctors would outline the functionality of the sympathetic nervous system. Your sympathetic nervous system is a network of nerves that helps your body activate its “fight-or-flight” response. This system’s activity increases when you’re stressed, in danger or physically active. Your SNS is best known for its role in responding to dangerous or stressful situations. In these situations, your SNS activates to speed up your heart rate, deliver more blood to areas of your body that need more oxygen or other responses to help you get out of danger. Most of the signals that your SNS sends start in your spinal cord. The signals leave your spinal cord and activate structures called ganglia. Your sympathetic ganglia then send the necessary signals far and wide to different parts of your body. This could include your heart, lungs, arteries, sweat glands and digestive system.

Sometimes when I’m writing on a particular subject I’ll jump online and research it to see what information is out there just to compare notes. I’m always pleasantly surprised when I read articles from corporate medical journals. Doctors, researchers and journalists do extensive research and testing for many years so you absolutely have to respect and learn from it. The results that they conclude seem to always line up with my personal opinions. You would think that the bigger corporate machines and a “alternative” person like myself who believes in a simpler, more natural way of health would not see eye to eye. Well I’ve found that we do have so much in common, maybe it’s a difference of backgrounds, but overall we really are playing on the same team. The medical field works on the 3rd dimensional human body, healers work on the 5th dimensional energetic light body. Ironically we are on common ground and I think it’s important for me to highlight this.

I want to share a small excerpt from a Time magazine article about the “The Science of Crying” that I really liked:

“By some calculations, people have been speculating about where tears come from and why humans shed them since about 1,500 B.C. For centuries, people thought tears originated in the heart; the Old Testament describes tears as the by-product of when the heart’s material weakens and turns into water, says Vingerhoets. Later, in Hippocrates’ time, it was thought that the mind was the trigger for tears. A prevailing theory in the 1600s held that emotions — especially love — heated the heart, which generated water vapor in order to cool itself down. The heart vapor would then rise to the head, condense near the eyes and escape as tears.”

Now this is really interesting isn’t it? Going back to the 1600’s, look at the wording they used and comparing it to my “New Age Spiritual” assessment. They said “love heated the heart, which generated water vapor to cool itself down then rise to the head and escape as tears”. I had no idea about this article or what they theorized thousands of years ago. It’s compelling to compare my flash of light/waves of water imagery to they’re heart warmth and vapor rising description. Here I am again finding common ground with something so unexpectedly.

Here’s one more excerpt from scientific research that needs to be mentioned: “Scientists have also found some evidence that emotional tears are chemically different from the ones people shed while chopping onions—which may help explain why crying sends such a strong emotional signal to others. In addition to the enzymes, lipids, metabolites and electrolytes that make up any tears, emotional tears contain more protein. One hypothesis is that this higher protein content makes emotional tears more viscous, so they stick to the skin more strongly and run down the face more slowly, making them more likely to be seen by others.”

There’s a chemical difference between crying from a onion and crying from emotion. Crying from a onion is a reflex that the body goes into to protect the surface by washing away the irritant. Emotional crying has a whole different compound. I’m sure if you thought about it for a moment you would remember when a emotional tear comes down your face it has a stronger feel to it as it’s making contact to your skin. I don’t think we‘ve ever thought about it in this manner, but you can see the uncanny similarities uniting together between scientific medical research and philosophies of the spirit body. Pay close attention to the sensations you feel within you during the times when your heart activates on and generates moving water. Remember the famous quote Jim Valvano said in his final speech “If you laugh, you think, you cry, that’s a full day”.