big cheese on feeling an array of emotions

Hello MPS Voices readers!

The big cheese here. This upcoming week I am recording a show focusing on feeling some negative emotions. I have realized that overtime I do not do the greatest job of feeling a wide range of emotions. It’s already hard enough to decipher my feelings at all in the first place. But I recently became aware that I am pushing out and trying not to feel negative emotions in particular. Throughout the episode that I am recording for Cheesy Music Taste I am planning to play some different sad music and just try to ruminate in sadness.

I am not suggesting for any of us to to bathe for long periods of time in sadness. But I am merely suggesting to let the emotions of grief and sadness wash over you just the same as you would with happy emotions. How else will you be able to feel the wonderful emotions if you don’t allow yourself to feel the opposite? If you let in some of these more distressing emotions, it can make happiness and good emotions all the much more powerful. 

I was recently talking to a friend of mine and we discussed how there’s a little bit of sadness in everything that we do as humans. Time is so fleeting and the impermanence of everything can feel overwhelming and saddening. We only have so little time and we have to make the time that we have last. Something about this really leads to extreme happiness and sadness I believe based on how you see each different situation play out on a day to day basis. I think that every situation we are ever in has both happiness and sadness. In order to fully experience everything you need to experience all emotions. 

I think what really gets me is the sadness of the experiences that can just never be experienced. There are so many people who walk around me all day and I will never get to know their story or talk to them. I hold that sadness in my heart for the people that I have never met. Because there’s simply too little time to talk to everyone. Even though I know that I would love to hear their story and experiences. 

I am writing this blog post just as a way to fully embrace some of the deeper and somber feelings that I’m feeling. Perhaps it could be something to do with the weather. Perhaps it could be something to do with the craziness of the world. Or perhaps it’s a little bit of both and more.  Regardless, I hope that this post can help broaden your openness to range of emotions. 

If you’re feeling so inclined, I would totally recommend checking out this upcoming week’s episode of Cheesy Music Taste. The theme is sad indie folk music. We’ll just be play some lovely music and processing everything. If any of this sounds interesting to you, I recommend checking out the next episode that airs on Monday at 8 PM. 

Thank you so much for reading this and have a spectacular day, the big cheese 🧀 💓