And if you really, really need to do it on the bus - then you should.
On the whole, we're very bad at crying, and the fact that we're very bad at it, and persist in keeping 'a stiff upper lip', is very bad for us.
I mentioned a couple of days ago that everyone is a chemical factory - and that's true. The problem is that some of the chemicals people produce when they are over stressed, miserable and unhappy constitute the sort of garbage that a 'green' person would refuse to dump in landfill.
The ability to weep is a uniquely human emotional response. Only human beings of all living creatures are able to cry – and with good reason; the human body produces a great many chemicals in response to stressful situations, and some of them are very, very toxic indeed.
Tears produce protein, which helps rid the body of toxic chemical waste; they encourage the body to produce a natural painkiller called Enkaphalin - and they free pent-up emotions that might otherwise create physical problems.
Tears comfort and calm, cleanse the body, relieve pain and sorrow, get rid of tension and defuse stress.
If you feel the need to cry, then you should cry no matter where you are – and if you feel that you can’t cry immediately, then it’s very important to do it later on because if you don't you're going to be storing some very unpleasant garbage.
We all have to repress tears sometimes because it isn’t always possible or appropriate to cry when we want to, but letting tears out after the event is easy enough to manage; it's not hard to find a weepy movie - and, of course, writing about whatever it was that upset you earlier in the day will often make you cry, because the memory of it will make you shed the tears you felt like shedding at the time.
Better to cry later than not at all. And the method you use to make yourself cry is immaterial; the important thing is to cry, and go on crying until the crying stops of itself – which means, of course, no 'stiff upper lip', no admonitions to 'pull yourself together', and no smoking cigarettes to try to stop the flow.
Emily - http://www.therapypartnership.com/
On the whole, we're very bad at crying, and the fact that we're very bad at it, and persist in keeping 'a stiff upper lip', is very bad for us.
I mentioned a couple of days ago that everyone is a chemical factory - and that's true. The problem is that some of the chemicals people produce when they are over stressed, miserable and unhappy constitute the sort of garbage that a 'green' person would refuse to dump in landfill.
The ability to weep is a uniquely human emotional response. Only human beings of all living creatures are able to cry – and with good reason; the human body produces a great many chemicals in response to stressful situations, and some of them are very, very toxic indeed.
Tears produce protein, which helps rid the body of toxic chemical waste; they encourage the body to produce a natural painkiller called Enkaphalin - and they free pent-up emotions that might otherwise create physical problems.
Tears comfort and calm, cleanse the body, relieve pain and sorrow, get rid of tension and defuse stress.
If you feel the need to cry, then you should cry no matter where you are – and if you feel that you can’t cry immediately, then it’s very important to do it later on because if you don't you're going to be storing some very unpleasant garbage.
We all have to repress tears sometimes because it isn’t always possible or appropriate to cry when we want to, but letting tears out after the event is easy enough to manage; it's not hard to find a weepy movie - and, of course, writing about whatever it was that upset you earlier in the day will often make you cry, because the memory of it will make you shed the tears you felt like shedding at the time.
Better to cry later than not at all. And the method you use to make yourself cry is immaterial; the important thing is to cry, and go on crying until the crying stops of itself – which means, of course, no 'stiff upper lip', no admonitions to 'pull yourself together', and no smoking cigarettes to try to stop the flow.
Emily - http://www.therapypartnership.com/
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