[Tension & Renewal - XXXIII]
I have come to believe there are three areas of *revival* that we don’t see because we don’t have the eyes to see them.
The first area is a thorough experience of and ability to express our emotions. Our emotional landscape is our prelinguistic means of communication and consequently more deeply embedded in our experience of both our own bodies and the world within our immediate experience. There is no encounter with the world without an emotional encounter with the world. It is part of what makes us human. It is also essential to our encounter with the divine.
A clear sign of renewal is when we begin to cultivate the ability to fully feel our emotions (without numbing or denying them) and begin to develop skills to communicate our experience (in a way that is illuminating to us and nurturing to others).
For the masculine this often looks like softening, slowing down, and connecting words to sensations. For the feminine this often looks like a patient untangling of feelings.
